I.B.TAURIS FOREIGN RIGHTS GUIDE LBF 2018
Contents Current Affairs, International Relations, Politics The World According to Xi by Kerry Brown Triple Axis by Dina Esfandiary & Ariane Tabatabai Europe and the Refugee Crisis by Frances Trix A Question of Inequality by Christopher Steed Drones and Terrorism by Nicholas Grossman South Sudan by Hilde F. Johnson Mugabe by Stephen Chan The Shadows of Myanmar by Poppy McPherson Cold Rush by Martin Breum Counter-Shock by D. Basosi, G. Garavini & M. Trentin Dark Shadows by Joanna Lillis
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Asia & the Middle East Islamism and Intelligence in South Asia by Prem Mahadevan Women and TV Culture in Pakistan by Munira Cheema The Women’s Movement in Pakistan by Ayesha Khan Terrorism in Pakistan by N. Elahi Wahhabism and the Rise of the New Salafists by Namira Nahouza The Media in Lebanon by Nabil Dajani The Peshmerga by Fazel Hawramy Iran and Turkey by Marianna Charountaki Faith and Fashion in Turkey by Nazli Alimen Conspiracy Theory in Turkey by Julian de Medeiros Secret Nation by Avedis Hadjian The Passion by Patrick Keddie Women and Public Space in Turkey by Selda Tuncer A Muslim Minority in Turkey by Lejla Voloder Kemalism by N. Clayer, F. Giorni, E. Szurek Fragile Nation, Shattered Land by James A. Reilly The Eastern Frontier by Robert Haug
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History The Flame of Miletus by John Freely Cicero in Drama by Gesine Manuwald The History of Central Asia by Christoph Baumer The History of Central Asia series Ships of the Silk Road by Angus Forsyth Dragon Lords by Eleanor Parker A Short History of the Mongols by George Lane A Short History of the Reformation by Helen L. Parish Short History series
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Gardens for Gloriana by Jane Whitaker House of Secrets by Allison Levy Ashes to Light by Nelly Ben-Or Historians at the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial by Mathew Turner The Phoney Victory by Peter Hitchens Franco by Enrique Moradiellos Franco and the Condor Legion by Michael Alpert Soviet Americana by Sergei Zhuk Nomads and the Soviet Rule by Alun Thomas Kosovo, A Documentary History by R. Elsie & B. Destani
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Travel, Biography & Literature Teffi by Edythe Haber The Man Who Wasn’t There by Richard Bradford Conan Doyle’s Wide World by Andrew Lycett Barcelona by Mike Gonzales Madrid by Jules Stewart Literary Guides
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Popular Culture, Media & Visual Culture Girls Like This, Boys Like That by Victoria Cann Unimaginable by Graham Ward The Gypsy Woman by Jodie Matthews Fashion in Multiple Chinas by W. Ling & S. Segre Reinach Hitchcock and the Spy Film by James Chapman Gendering History on Screen by Julia Erhart Chinese Revolutionary War by Jessica Ka Yee Chan Classic French Noir by Deborah Walker-Morrison The Origins of the Film Star System by Andrew Shail Dark Star by Alan Strachan Ageing Femininity on Screen by Niall Richardson Harrison Ford by Virginia Lúzon Aguado Once Upon a Time Lord by Joanne Turney
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The World According to Xi Everything You Need to Know About the New China Kerry Brown
March 2018 160 pages Approx. 40,000 words => Current Affairs, IR, China Rights Sold: Germany, Italy
Kerry Brown is the Director of the Lau China Institute at King’s College London and Associate for Chinese Affairs at Chatham House. With 30 years experience of life in China, he has worked in education, business and government, including a term as First Secretary at the British Embassy in Beijing. He writes regularly for the Times Literary Supplement, The Observer, The Diplomat and Foreign Affairs, as well as for many international and Chinese media outlets. He is the bestselling author of China’s World, CEO China and The New Emperors.
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What the world’s most powerful man thinks about you
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Author is one of the few western academics who has met and worked with the leadership in China, and he speaks and reads fluent Mandarin
China is now the most powerful country on earth - its manufacturing underpins the world’s economy; its military is growing at the fastest rate of any nation and its leader - Xi Jinping - is now to set the pace and tone of world affairs for decades. Last month Xi Jinping became part of the constitution – an honour not seen since Chairman Mao, the founder of Modern China. This means he will rule China for decades, and what he does and what he thinks will shape all our futures. Here, in an accessible and readable style, China expert Kerry Brown guides us through The World According to Xi: his plans to make China the most powerful country on earth, to eradicate poverty and even solve climate change. We find out his belief system, what he really thinks about the communist China he leads, and how far he is willing to go to defend it.
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CEO, China The Rise of Xi Jinping
China’s World What does China Want? 3
Triple Axis Iran's Relations with Russia and China Dina Esfandiary & Ariane Tabatabai
July 2018 272 pages Approx. 70,000 words => International Relations & Politics World Rights Ariane Tabatabai is the director of curriculum and assistant teaching professor of security studies in the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service and a senior associate in the Proliferation Prevention Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). She has written for International Security and The Journal of Strategic Studies, as well as in The New York Times, The Financial Times, and Foreign Affairs. Dina Esfandiary is a CSSS Fellow in the War Studies Department at King’s College London and an Adjunct Fellow in the Middle East Program at the CSIS. Her work has appeared in Foreign Affairs, The Atlantic, The Guardian, The Washington Post and International Affairs. She is the co-author of Living on the Edge: Iran and the Practice of Nuclear Hedging. 4
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Emergence of the new superpowers
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Vital for understanding contemporary security challenges
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Essential overview of the new international order
The most significant challenge to the post-Cold War international order is the growing power of ambitious states opposed to the West. Iran, Russia and China each view the global structure through the prism of historical experience. Rejecting the universality of Western liberal values, these states and their governments each consider the relative decline of Western economic hegemony as an opportunity. Yet cooperation between them remains fragmentary. The end of Western sanctions and the Iranian nuclear deal; the Syrian conflict; new institutions in Central and East Asia: in all these areas and beyond, the potential for unity or divergence is striking. In this new and comprehensive study, Ariane Tabatabai and Dina Esfandiary address the substance of this ‘triple axis’ in the realms of energy, trade, and military security. In particular they scrutinise Iran-Russia and the often overlooked field of Iran-China relations. Their argument – that interactions between the three will shape the world stage for decades to come – will be of interest to anyone looking to understand the contemporary international security puzzle.
Europe and the Refugee Crisis Local Responses to Migrants Frances Trix
September 2018 240 pages Approx. 90,000 words => Politics & International Relations World Rights
Frances Trix is Professor Emerita of Anthropology at Indiana University and Distinguished Senior Scholar at the Center for the Study of the Middle East. She has been the recipient of a number of distinguished grants and was a Fulbright Research Fellow in Istanbul, a Woodrow Wilson Fellow at the Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C and received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Albanian American National Association. In the winter of 2015–16, she spent time working in refugee transit camps on the Macedonian border and is the author of numerous books, including Urban Muslim Migrants in Istanbul (2016) with I.B.Tauris.
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Based on extensive interviews and firsthand experience
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The first volume to focus on the ways that refugees have been welcomed by local communities across Europe
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Shows positive examples, where the media has focused on the negatives
Since 2014, more than 60 million people have been displaced from their homes across the Middle East and Africa. The European Refugee Crisis, as it has come to be known, is now the largest such crisis since the aftermath of World War II. How have local communities reacted to the influx of asylum seekers? And what can we learn from their responses? Frances Trix here offers a wide-ranging ethnographical and anthropological study of local, individual responses to refugees, from Macedonia to Germany. Based on extensive interviews and field work in Europe, Trix focuses for the first time on the ways that refugees have been welcomed – or not, as the case may be – by various individuals and communities. Her work ranges from Macedonians who established an NGO and lobbied to allow the refugees to use the train, to the police charged with border management; from a German organic food store owner who by her actions set the positive tone in her village, a retired IT manager who coordinates refugee volunteers for his entire town, to the district work organisation director who deems refugees unsuitable for multiple reasons. This book is essential reading for all those working on the refugee crisis and the prospects – both local and global – for the future.
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A Question of Inequality The Rich, the Poor and the Inbetween Christopher Steed Praise for A Question of Worth: 'A genuinely essential book ... Deploying social science, psychology, ethics and theology together, Chris Steed gives us cause for hope as well as anxiety.' Rowan Williams, Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge, former Archbishop of Canterbury ‘A deeply thoughtful and challenging book’, Matthew Taylor, Chief Executive, RSA, former Chief Adviser on Strategy to Prime Minister Tony Blair
June 2018 240 pages Approx. 90,000 words => Economics, Society & Sociology World Rights Christopher Steed is a Research Fellow at Southampton University. He spent twelve years in Whitehall, where he worked on trade policy towards South Africa during the Thatcher years and deindustrialisation. He has twenty years experience as a parish priest and currently works for the Diocese of Winchester. A qualified psychotherapist and counsellor, he holds doctorates in sociology and education, and in theology and history from Trinity College. He has worked in education and in senior management roles in not-for-profit organisations.
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A Question of Worth: Economy, Society and the Quantification of Human Value 6
Inequality is widening. The gap between those who have more and those who have less is growing: 1 per cent of the world owns as much as the other 99 per cent. Should we be worried? Christopher Steed, author of the acclaimed A Question of Worth, argues that inequality does indeed matter: that economic fairness is one of the defining issues of our time. In a world conditioned by social media, where intensified social comparison can leave millions feeling they cannot compete or keep up, the anxieties and effects of contemporary inequality are a cause for huge concern. Most studies of inequality have concentrated on its quantitative aspects. In A Question of Inequality Christopher Steed is concerned with exploring why inequality matters, what it means for those who find themselves victims of it, and what can be done about it. He probes what it means to experience inequality, drawing out case studies on the effects of poverty. In proposing a theory of social relativity, the author provides new insights into the effects and meaning of inequality and makes an original and important contribution to a key issue facing the world today.
Drones and Terrorism Asymmetric Warfare and the Threat to Global Security Nicholas Grossman •
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September 2018 240 pages Approx. 71,000 words => Drones, Robotics, Terrorism Studies World Rights Nicholas Grossman is Assistant Teaching Professor of International Relations at the University of Illinois and Editor-at-Large of Arc Digital. He is an expert on robotics, drones, terrorism, insurgency, and US foreign policy, and his writing has appeared in Arc, National Review, CNBC Opinion and elsewhere.
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The Rage: The Vicious Circle of Islamist and Far-Right Extremism
A shocking, revealing journey through the new world of remote controlled weapons & what they mean for the fight against terrorism Author is one of the few experts on robotics drone technology who can write for a wider audience
The new weapons and In warzones, ordinary commercially-available drones are used for extraordinary reconnaissance and information gathering. They can also be used for bombings – a drone carrying an explosive charge is potentially a powerful weapon. At the same time asymmetric warfare has become the norm – with large states increasingly fighting marginal terrorist groups in the Middle East and elsewhere. Here, Nicholas Grossman shows how we are entering the age of the drone terrorist - groups such as Hezbollah are already using them in the Middle East. Grossman will analyse the ways in which the United States, Israel and other advanced militaries use aerial drones and groundbased robots to fight non-state actors (e.g. ISIS, al Qaeda, the Iraqi and Afghan insurgencies, Hezbollah, Hamas, etc.) and how these groups, as well as individual terrorists, are utilizing less advanced commercially-available drones to fight powerful state opponents. Robotics has huge implications for the future of security, terrorism and international relations and this will be essential reading on the subject of terrorism and drone warfare.
Under the Black Flag: An Exclusive Insight into the Inner Workings of ISIS
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South Sudan The Untold Story from Independence to Civil War Hilde F. Johnson with a foreword by Archbishop Desmond Tutu
April 2018 400 pages Approx. 120,000 words => Politics, UN, History, Africa World Rights
Hilde F. Johnson was the Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Mission in the Republic of South Sudan (2011-2014). She has since served as a Member of the UN Secretary General’s High Level Panel for the Review of UN Peace Operations. From She was Deputy Executive Director of UNICEF, where she was in charge of the organisation’s humanitarian operations, crisis response and security issues. She is currently a Senior Visiting Fellow at Norwegian Institute for International Affairs (NUPI). She is the author of Waging Peace in Sudan: The Inside Story of the Negotiations That Ended Africa's Longest Civil War.
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Based on first-hand interviews and previously unseen material
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Insider account of South Sudan from independence to Civil War
In July 2011, South Sudan was granted independence and became the world’s newest country. Yet just twoand-a-half years after this momentous decision, the country was in the grips of renewed civil war and political strife. Hilde F. Johnson served as Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Mission in the Republic of South Sudan from July 2011 until July 2014 and, as such, she was witness to the many challenges which the country faced as it struggled to adjust to its new autonomous state. In this book, she provides an unparalleled insider’s account of South Sudan’s descent from the ecstatic celebrations of July 2011 to the outbreak of the disastrous conflict in December 2013 and the early, bloody phase of the fighting. Johnson’s frequent personal and private contacts at the highest levels of government, accompanied by her deep knowledge of the country and its history, make this a unique eyewitness account of the turbulent first three years of the world’s newest – and yet most fragile – country. ‘From the West, we observe countries of civil war, famine, and institutional degradation with a bewildered, hopeless eye. Hilde Johnson takes us inside one of the world's sketchiest countries. South Sudan. It's challenges, collapses, proxy interventions, and the courage of its hope. She's been at the center of it, and has candidly written an eye-opening exploration of its history, political maneuvering, and its brave people's journey forward.’ – Sean Penn
Mugabe A Life of Power and Violence Stephen Chan
September 2018 288 pages Approx. 90,000 words => International relations & Politics, Current Affairs, Africa Rights Sold: US&C
Stephen Chan is Professor of International Relations at SOAS, University of London and Honorary Professor of Humanities at University of Johannesburg. He received an OBE in 2010 for services to Africa and Higher Education. He has also received the International Studies Association’s Eminent Shcolar in Global Development award.
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Acclaimed biography of Mugabe – now updated to his resignation
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One of Africa’s longest-serving leaders – in power for 37 years
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Essential for understand Zimbabwe’s postindependence history
"Only God, who appointed me, will remove me - not the MDC, not the British. Only God will remove me!" Robert Mugabe On 21st November 2017 Robert Mugabe resigned as President of Zimbabwe after 37 years in power. A week earlier the military had seized control of the country and forced him to step down as leader of the ruling Zanu-PF party. In this revised and updated edition of his classic biography, Stephen Chan seeks to explain and interpret Mugabe in his role as a key player in the politics of Southern Africa. In this masterly portrait of one of Africa’s longest-serving leaders, Mugabe’s character unfolds with the ebb and flow of triumph and crisis. Mugabe’s story is Zimbabwe’s – from the postindependence hopes of idealism and reconciliation to electoral victory, the successful intervention in the international politics of Southern Africa and the resistance to South Africa’s policy of apartheid. But a darker picture emerged early with the savage crushing of the Matabeleland rising, the elimination of political opponents, growing corruption and disastrous intervention in the Congo war, all worsened by drought and the HIV/AIDS crisis. This highly revealing biography, based on close personal knowledge of Zimbabwe, depicts the emergence and eventual downfall of a ruthless and single-minded despot amassing and tightly clinging to political power. 9
The Shadows of Myanmar Aung San Suu Kyi and the Persecution of the Rohingya Poppy McPherson => A subject which will be increasingly in the international spotlight, as Ang Suu Kyi is stripped off many of her international accolades and has been publicly accused of enabling a genocide by the UN and many international governments, including the UK
October 2018 256 pages Approx. 75,000 words => Current Affairs, Asia, IR & Politics World Rights
Poppy McPherson is a journalist based in Myanmar. She writes regularly on Asia for The Guardian, Foreign Policy, the Economist, the Independent, the New Statesman and TIME magazine amongst others. She has extensive radio experience and has appeared on NPR’s All Things Considered, the BBC World Service, Vice News and Channel News Asia. Her profile of Thailand’s ruler, Reign of the Silent King, first published by The Atlantic, won the Society of Publishers in Asia award for best article in 2015.
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Aung San Suu Kyi was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991 while under house arrest. Eloquent, educated in the West and clothed in white, there was worldwide adulation and celebration in 2015 when Kyi became the president of Myanmar as the military junta surprisingly stepped aside. But the real story was just beginning. While the international community focused on her appearances on the world-stage, framed as an icon of democracy and human rights, the persecution of the Rohingya – a minority Islamic community of almost a million in Myanmar – began to worsen. In 2017, as journalist Poppy McPherson travelled through the West of the country, she began to document an unprecedented increase in violence, extra-judicial killings and deportations. The UN have now declared the situation to be a genocide. The true story - of villages burnt to the ground, torture and the murder of Rohingya men and their families - is only now coming to light. Featuring harrowing frontline reporting from the Bangladesh border and Rakhine State - where most of the violence has taken place - this is a moving and powerful book about horror, devastation and the displacement of hope.
Cold Rush The Astonishing True Story of the New Quest for the Polar North Martin Breum
June 2018 288 pages Approx. 82,000 words => Current Affairs, Arctic, Politics Rights Sold: US&C Martin Breum is a journalist and renowned Arctic expert. His first book ‘When the Ice Disappears’ was awarded the Danish Authors Association's award for the best non-fiction work in 2014. He is lead correspondent for the prestigious Arctic Journal and a journalist for the Danish Broadcasting Association. His writing on the Polar region has been published in the New York Times amongst others.
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International Politics in the Arctic: Contested Borders, Natural Resources and Russian Foreign Policy
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The Arctic is going to become a key issue in global politics
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Thrillingly written, this should receive good review courage
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Author the world expert on this story
The Arctic is heating up. While China, the US and Russia are militarizing the North pole – sending submarines and ice-breakers - the ice itself continues to recede creating new trade routes and new opportunities for mining gas and oil. What is quietly unfolding in the polar north is a ‘great game’ for territory and for resources, all against the biggest backdrop of all: the destruction of the Arctic caused by climate change. And then last year things took a strange turn. The Kingdom of Denmark, through its colonial claim on Greenland, declared ownership of the entire European hemisphere of the Arctic. Its claims on a territory larger than Scandinavia overlap over 500 sq. km with Russia’s, who have planted a flag on the ocean floor underneath the North Pole. Investigative journalist Martin Breum has been at the front-line for a decade, and brings this secret story to life. He reports on researchers discovering Russian submarines beneath the ice, spy plane pilots flying over environmental research boats and uncovers the stories of the inhabitants of sleepy Greenland who are waking up to their new place in the universe – between the great aggressive military powers of the world. Thrillingly written, Cold Rush reveals a secret world in which the future of our planet is being decided. 11
Counter-Shock The Oil Counter-Revolution of the 1980s Duccio Basosi, Giuliano Garavini & Massimiliano Trentin
April 2018 352 pages Approx. 124,000 words => International Relations & Politics, Oil Industry, History World Rights
Duccio Basosi is Assistant Professor of History of International Relations at the Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. Giuliano Garavini is Senior Braudel Fellow at the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence and Visiting Senior Research Fellow in the Humanities at NYU Abu Dhabi. He is the author of After Empires: European Integration, Decolonization and the Challenge from the Global South, 19571986. Massimiliano Trentin is Assistant Professor of History and International relations of the Middle East at the Department of Political and Social Sciences, University of Bologna. He is the author of Engineers of Modern Development: East German Experts in Ba’thist Syria, 1965-1972. 12
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Based on wide-ranging primary research and interviews
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First volume to put the oil price ‘countershock’ of the mid-1980s into historical perspective
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Relevance for ongoing debates about the future of fossil fuels
The oil price collapse of 1985-86 had momentous consequences globally: the non-fossil fuel alternatives simply turned uncompetitive while huge new markets opened up for fossil fuels, particularly in China and India. In international relations, the previous talk of an OPEC ‘imperium’ was turned upside-down. The fall in oil prices and the consequences for different nations have traditionally been seen simply as the result of the marketplace finally making its way into the energy realm after years of ‘politicised’ conflicts. The contributors show that the ‘counter-shock’ was the result of a set of processes that had developed over the previous ten years in a number of fields: from pricing mechanisms to intra-OPEC discipline; from Saudi Arabia's policies as a producer to America’s policies as a consumer; from expectations nurtured by politicians across the globe to ideas about development and environment; from relations between the National Oil Companies and their respective governments to international financial relations. This book highlights the crucial interaction between the oil counter-shock and the political ‘counter-revolution’ against state intrusion in economic management put forward by Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher in the same period.
Dark Shadows Inside the Secret World of Kazakhstan Joanna Lillis
October 2018 280 pages Approx. 87,000 words => Current Affairs, Central Asia World Rights
Joanna Lillis is a freelance journalist based in Kazakhstan. She writes regularly on the country for The Atlantic, The Guardian (for whom she is their de facto Central Asia correspondent), The Diplomat, EurasiaNet, Politico and The National. She previously worked for nearly four years for the BBC in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, and is considered one of the best journalists working on the ground in Central Asia today.
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A new approach to a hidden world, which looks at the reality of life there.
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Covers a crucial paradigm shift in Central Asia
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China's strategy in Central Asia will make understanding this country a must
Money is flooding into Kazakhstan. The country is home to vast gas and oil deposits, and its staggering level of international investment is increasing year by year. And yet, Kazakhstan effectively looks and feels like a Cold War state. Its president for the last 26 years, Nazarbayev, is a ruthless dictator who believes in telepathy (visitors to national monuments can place their hands on a golden handprint and send him telepathic messages) and recently constructed a 56metre glass pyramid in which 100 Kazakhstani religious leaders will meet to discuss the future of the world. This book teases out the strange and fascinating conditions of present-day Kazakhstan – a state haunted by disappearances, buried Uranium mines, corruption, and gangsterdom at the highest levels of power. Joanna Lillis is a compelling storyteller and a shrewd social critic; her study evokes a country simultaneously lost in its complex past and poised to move into the foreground of world affairs.
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Islamism and Intelligence in South Asia Militancy, Politics and Security Prem Mahadevan
April 2018 320 pages Approx. 97,800 words => Islamic Studies, History, Diplomacy, Asian Studies World Rights
Prem Mahadevan is a senior researcher with the Global Security Team at the Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zürich. He specializes in the study of intelligence and sub-state conflict, and is responsible at the CSS for tracking jihadist terrorism and geopolitical trends in the Indo-Pacific and Western-Central Europe. He has advised Indian government agencies on counterterrorist operational management, provided political risk assessments to the private sector, and been consulted by the Czech government, EUROPOL and NATO Headquarters on emerging security challenges. He is the author of The Politics of Counterterrorism in India (IBT).
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A new analysis on a flashpoint of security studies and current affairs
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An original contribution to the history of modern Pakistan
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Contains new primary source material from Pakistan
State sponsorship of terrorism is a complex and important topic in today’s international affairs – and especially pertinent in the regional politics of the Middle East and South Asia, where Pakistan has long been a flashpoint of Islamist politics and terrorism. This book demonstrates how over several decades, radical Islamists, sometimes with the tacit support of parts of the military establishment, have weakened democratic governance in Pakistan and acquired progressively larger influence over policy-making. Mahadevan traces this history back to the anticolonial Deobandi movement, which was born out of the post-partition political atmosphere and a rediscovery of the thinking of Ibn Taymiyyah, and partially ennobled the idea of ‘jihad’ in South Asia as a righteous war against foreign oppression. Envisioned by the country’s intelligence community as a solution to chronic governance failures, these narratives called for a re-orientation away from South Asia and towards the Middle East. In the process, Pakistan has become a sanctuary for Arab jihadist groups, such as Al-Qaeda, who had no previous ethnic or linguistic connection with South Asia. Most alarmingly, official discourse on terrorism has been partly silenced by the military-intelligence complex. The result is a slow drift towards extremism and possible legitimation of internationally proscribed terrorist organizations in Pakistan’s electoral politics. 15
Women and TV Culture in Pakistan Gender, Modernity and the Urban Experience Munira Cheema •
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July 2018 256 pages Approx. 80,000 words => South Asian Studies World Rights
Munira Cheema is a Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Sussex. She previously taught at Roehampton University and the University of Arts, London. She is a contributor to Television for Women: New Directions and Women in Media and Politics: Perspectives from Nations in Transition. She completed her AHRC-funded PhD at the University of Sussex.
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Contributes to debates about the role of media in the democratization of Muslim societies An in-depth analysis of TV culture in Pakistan since the liberalisation of the media Contributes to literature on gender-based crimes and women’s rights in the Islamic World
The television broadcasting culture of Pakistan was changed dramatically in 2002. The President, General Pervez Musharraf, introduced a policy of liberalisation that enabled controversial issues such as honour killings, adultery, stoning to death, domestic violence, marriage after divorce and homosexuality to be increasingly depicted on screen. Women and TV Culture in Pakistan is the first in-depth analysis of this change in television content. Munira Cheema focuses on how ‘gender issues’ are dealt with on TV and examines the impact this has on female viewers. In Pakistan, television is often the only way in which women can access the public sphere (except through male guardians) and this book evaluates how TV content allows them to navigate their intersecting identities as Muslims, women and Pakistanis. At a time when religious conservatism is on the rise in the country, this book investigates why producers choose to focus on gender-based issues and the extent to which religion dictates social behaviour and broadcasting choices. Based on interviews with women viewers in Karachi as well as industry professionals including writers, directors and ratings experts, the research is a much-needed and original contribution to global television studies and gender studies.
The Women’s Movement in Pakistan Activism, Islam and Democracy Ayesha Khan
August 2018 304 pages Approx. 141,000 words => South Asian Studies, Gender Studies World Rights
Ayesha Khan is Senior Researcher at the Collective for Social Sciences Research in Karachi. She has been a journalist in international radio, local television and for newspapers and has also worked at various NGOs. Her contributions have appeared in Feminism, Empowerment and Development, Thinking International Relations Differently and Interrogating Imperialism.
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Women and Violence in India: Gender, Oppression and the Politics of Neoliberalism
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A history of the modern women’s movement in Pakistan
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Contributes to the growing body of literature about women’s movementbuilding internationally
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Explains the political and historical background to the women’s movement in Pakistan
The military rule of General Zia ul-Haq, former President of Pakistan, had significant political repercussions for the country. Islamization policies were far more pronounced and control over women became the key marker of the state’s adherence to religious norms. Women’s rights activists mobilized as a result, campaigning to reverse oppressive policies and redefine the relationship between state, society and Islam. Their calls for a liberal democracy led them to be targeted and suppressed. This book is a history of the modern women’s movement in Pakistan. The research is based on documents from the Women’s Action Forum archives, court judgments on relevant cases, as well as interviews with activists, lawyers and judges and analysis of newspapers and magazines. The book outlines the discriminatory laws and policies that triggered domestic and international outcry, landmark cases of sexual violence that rallied women activists together and the important breakthroughs that enhanced women’s rights. At a time when the women’s movement in Pakistan is in danger of shrinking, this book highlights its historic significance and its continued relevance today.
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Terrorism in Pakistan The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and the Challenge to Security N. Elahi
September 2018 304 pages Approx. 88,200 words => Current Affairs, Central Asia World Rights
N. Elahi is Honorary Director of the Centre for Peace and Security Studies at the University of the Punjab. He holds a PhD from the University of the Punjab and an MA in Intelligence and National Security from King’s College London.
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Frontier of Fear: Confronting the Taliban on Pakistan's Border
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Complete perspective on TTP
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Overview of challenges of terrorism in Pakistan
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Based on first-hand research and new sources
Since the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979, Pakistan has faced the threat of terrorism in different forms and shapes. Yet in recent years the threat has taken on a new dimension. After 9/11 the US campaign against Osama bin Laden, al-Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan led to a surge in unrest and violence in Pakistan. Al-Qaeda gained a foothold in tribal regions of Pakistan via their local supporters, the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), currently led by Mullah Fazlullah, who unleashed a new wave of terror across Pakistan. Since then, more than 60,000 Pakistanis have been killed as the result of TTPorchestrated insurgency and terrorist attacks and Pakistan’s society, economy and its international image have suffered at the hands of TTP and its affiliated groups. As a result of several military operations many TTP leaders have taken refuge in Afghanistan where they have joined hands with the terrorist group ISIS, the so-called Islamic State, or Daesh by its local name. Pakistan’s nascent democratic set-up, in the form of the government of Nawaz Sharif, is struggling to curb this menace. This is the first book to cover all aspects of terrorism in Pakistan and to reveal the composition, ideology, approaches and strengths of TTP and its affiliates.
Wahhabism and the Rise of the New Salafists
Theology, Power and Sunni Islam Namira Nahouza
April 2018 256 pages Approx. 75,000 words => Religious Studies, Modern Middle East Studies World Rights
Namira Nahouza is Research Fellow at the Cambridge Muslim College. She also teaches Arabic and Religious Studies in Birmingham. She completed her PhD in Arab and Islamic Studies at the University of Exeter and has an MA in European Studies, jointly awarded by the University of Exeter and the Institute of Political Sciences, Rennes. She is the recipient of the Entente Cordiale Scholarship delivered by the British Council of Paris and the Prince Al-Waleed Al-Saud Furthering Understanding Scholarship.
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The Mission and the Kingdom: Wahhabi Power Behind the Saudi Throne
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A new and original treatment of Islamic radicalism
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Explores the current reshaping of Sunnism and presents the contours of Sunni theological debate
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Sheds light on the rationale behind the Wahhabi movement
Wahhabism is one of the most conservative branches of Islam and its fundamentalist approach is often regarded as fuelling jihadist extremism. But what is the theological basis of Wahhabism? How do Wahhabi beliefs and doctrine differ from other branches of Sunni Islam? While previous scholarship has examined Wahhabism as a political phenomenon, this book turns attention to the complex religious issues that are central to its understanding. Tracing its roots in the 18th century up until the present day, Namira Nahouza shows why the Wahhabi movement has opposed traditional Islamic scholarship on the interpretation of the Qur’an and hadith. Of key importance, Nahouza shows, are the differing beliefs about the oneness of God and God’s names and attributes, issues on which both Wahhabi and other Salafi groups are united. Based on extensive research into classical and contemporary Arabic religious sources, Nahouza presents the contours of Sunni theological debate and reveals how the Wahhabi movement became the predecessor to the Salafism we see today. In highlighting the far-reaching consequences of these theological divisions - both for Muslim communities and the world at large -the book fills a significant gap in existing research and is essential reading for scholars researching Islamic Theology, Islamic History, Security Studies and Islamic Radicalism. 19
The Media in Lebanon Fragmentation and Conflict in the Middle East Nabil Dajani •
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Nabil Dajani is Professor of Media Studies at the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the American University of Beirut.
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Looks at the media within its political and historical context, vital for researchers of Middle East history and media studies With its media/communication studies angle it has cross-over into multiple subject areas Lebanon and its civil war is a widely researched case study in Middle East politics
Lebanese society is famously, and even notoriously, fragmented, along both class and sectarian lines. Here, Nabil Dajani looks at how this societal division impacts on the nature of the mass media in Lebanon. Implementing the wider theory that the structure and content of mass media is unique to the society within which it operates, he looks at how Lebanese media have often helped to sustain the sectarian divisions within Lebanese society. Dealing with newspapers, radio and television as well as new and emerging forms of communication, such as the internet, social media websites and blogs, he examines how the media both reflect societal realties as well as the ways they influence social consciousness. Beginning with an analysis of the socio-political context of modern-day Lebanon, Dajani critically examines the historical and current realities of the media in this country.
The Peshmerga On the Frontline in the Middle East Fazel Hawramy
December 2018 256 pages Approx. 73,000 words => Middle East, Current Affairs, History World Rights
Fazel Hawramy obtained his MSc in Middle East Politics at SOAS and is a journalist based in Erbil. He reports from all the front lines across Iraqi Kurdistan and has interviewed many of the peshmerga leaders, gaining first-hand experience of many of the events described in this book. His dispatches are published in the Guardian, Al-Monitor and Hawlati, an independent daily in Iraqi Kurdistan, among others.
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Essential reading for those interested and involved in current events in Syria and Iraq
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Author is an authority on the subject with unprecedented access to all the key figures and access to the frontlines
In the year since Islamic State tore through Iraq and proclaimed a caliphate straddling the border with Syria, the Kurds have emerged as a lead actor in the global war against the extremist group and an important partner in the campaign to “degrade and destroy” it. However, the story of the Kurdish fighters known as peshmerga -- literally “those who confront death” -- is yet to be told. This book seeks to establish who these men are, and what has motivated them to lay down their lives in one abortive revolt after another over the past century. It will trace the peshmerga’s ongoing and far from complete evolution from a rag-tag guerrilla force into a regular army. From their early beginnings in the short-lived Kurdish Republic of Mahabad to the current standoff with Islamic State, the peshmerga have come to embody the Kurdish nationalist struggle in Iraq and beyond.
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Frontline Turkey: The Conflict at the Heart of the Middle East 21
Iran and Turkey International and Regional Engagement in the Middle East Marianna Charountaki
March 2018 368 pages Approx. 110,822 words => Middle East, International Relations World Rights
Marianna Charountaki is a lecturer in Kurdish Politics and International Relations in the School of History, Politics and International Relations at the University of Leicester. She is also the Director of the Kurdistan International Studies Unit. Her research interests range from foreign policy analysis to the international relations of the broader Middle East. She has published The Kurds and US Foreign Policy: International Relations in the Middle East since 1945 (2011) as well as articles in Harvard International Review, Journal of American Foreign Policy Interests, Third World Quarterly, Perceptions: Journal of International Affairs and Journal of Arabian Studies. 22
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Reveals the main factors influencing Iranian and Turkish foreign policies since 1979
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Pioneers a new theory to help understand the different factors that can influence foreign policies, including the interplay between state and non-state actors
The foreign policies of Turkey and Iran seem increasingly to dictate the course of events in the Middle East. Since 1979, with the rise of Iran as an Islamic State and with Turkey’s developing secularism, the spotlight has turned to these countries’ dynamic re-entry onto the political stage, revealing them as key regional players with an international role in efforts towards stability in the Middle East. This book traces the evolution of Turkish-Iranian relations and their subsequent impact on regional events and policies. Based on an examination of the countries’ political histories since 1979 and using material gathered from interviews with leading political figures from Turkey, Iran and the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, Marianna Charountaki offers fresh insights into how we understand the contemporary global order. Of particular importance, this book shows, is the interaction between state and non-state actors, a relationship which has so far been neglected by existing theories of International Relations. Redressing this gap in the scholarship, Marianna Charountaki places the case studies of Iran and Turkey in a theoretical framework and pioneers a new conceptual map that shows how the interaction between state and non-state actors impact on foreign policy.
Faith and Fashion in Turkey Consumption, Politics and Islamic Identities Nazlı Alimen
March 2018 304 pages Approx. 95,700 words => Middle East, Religion, Politics, Society World Rights
Nazli Alimen is a research fellow at Helsinki University. She holds a PhD in Cultural Studies and Marketing from University of the Arts London. Her research interests include visual and material cultures, particularly fashion and dress, consumer culture, and fashion marketing. She has published in a variety of journals as well as writing a chapter for The Routledge International Handbook of Veils and Veiling Practices.
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Explores both men and women’s fashion and dress
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Sheds new light on the different types of Islamic fashion and related consumption practices in Turkey
Turkey has witnessed remarkable sociocultural change under the regime of Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Justice and Development Party (AKP), particularly regarding its religious communities. As individuals with pious identities have increasingly gained access to state power and accumulated economic influence, so religious appearances and practices have become more visible in Turkey’s ‘secular’ public spaces. More than this, consumption practises have changed and new Islamic and Islamist identities have emerged. This book investigates three of the most widespread faith-inspired communities in Turkey: the Gülenists, Süleymanlı and the Menzil. Nazli Alimen compares these communities, looking at their diverse interpretations of Islamic rules related to the body and dress, and how these different groups compete for power and control in Turkey. In tracing what motivates consumption practices, the book adds to the growing interest in the commercial aspects of modest and Islamic fashion but also highlights the importance of clothing and bodily rituals (such as veiling, grooming and food choices) for the formation of community identities. Based on ethnographic research and in-depth individual interviews, Alimen analyses the relationship between the marketplace and religion and shows how different communities interact with each other. 23
Conspiracy Theory in Turkey Politics and Protest in the Age of ‘PostTruth’ Julian de Medeiros
April 2018 216 pages Approx. 76,700 words => Middle East World Rights Julian de Medeiros is Assistant Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Kent, from where he holds a PhD. He previously worked as a research assistant at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Freiburg.
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The New Sultan: Erdogan an d the Crisis of Modern Turkey
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Authoritarian Politics in Turkey: Elections, Resistance and the AKP
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Presents the very first critical account of the Turkish model of a ‘post-truth politics’
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Up-to-date analysis of recent uprisings
Turkey is witnessing an era of political upheaval. From the Gezi protests in 2013 to the attempted military coup of 2016, the concept of ‘post-truth’ plays a significant role in Turkish politics today. In the chaos of conspiracy theories, hidden enemies and post-coup purges, the unreal merges with the real, fuelling political repression and anti-government sentiment alike. Julian de Medeiros here analyses the many unfolding challenges of Erdogan’s New Turkey, and shows how a fixedly Turkish-style of ‘post-truth’ has taken root. Examining the relationship between conspiracy theory and ‘post-truth’, this book sheds light on the strategies of political paranoia that threaten to undermine the success of Turkey’s democratic model. De Medeiros argues that both the Gezi protests and the failed coup attempt need to be considered alongside the emerging anti-democratic and conspiratorial tendencies of an increasingly authoritarian Turkish government. As Turkish democracy continues to evolve with breath-taking speed and unpredictable outcomes, de Medeiros shows how the rise of paranoid politics in Turkey constitutes part of a global trend towards post-truth narratives.
Secret Nation The Hidden Armenians of Turkey Avedis Hadjian
April 2018 560 pages Approx. 260,000 words => Armenian Studies, History, Middle East, Turkey World Rights
Avedis Hadjian is a freelance journalist. He has appeared on CNN and his writing has appeared in Los Angeles Times, Bloomberg News and Le Monde Diplomatique, amongst many other major international news outlets, and he has written books and articles on the Caucasus in both English and Spanish. His work as a correspondent has taken him to Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, China, the Caucasus, Turkey and Latin America.
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Eyewitness account into the lives of ‘Hidden Armenians’ by someone who can communicate and speak the language
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Would interest wide Armenian diaspora (most of whom are of Western Armenian descent)
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Crossover appeal to historians of Modern Turkey and Genocide Studies
A nation within a nation that has remained secret for a century. It has long been assumed that no Armenian presence remained in eastern Turkey after the 1915 massacres. As a result of what has come to be called the Armenian Genocide, those who survived in Anatolia were assimilated as Muslims, with most losing all traces of their Christian identity. Some did survive and managed during the last century to conceal their origins. Many of these survivors were orphans, adopted by Turks, only discovering their ‘true’ identity late into their adult lives. In recent years, a growing number of ‘secret Armenians’ have begun to emerge from the shadows. Spurred by the bold voices of journalists like Hrant Dink, the Armenian newspaper editor murdered in Istanbul in 2007, the pull towards freedom of speech and soulsearching are taking hold across the region. Avedis Hadjian has travelled to the towns and villages once densely populated by Armenians, recording stories of survival and discovery from those who remain in a region that is deemed unsafe for the people who once lived there. This book takes the reader to the heart of these hidden communities for the first time, unearthing their unique heritage and identity and revealing the lives of a peoples that have been trapped in a history of denial for more than a century.
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The Passion Football and the History of Modern Turkey Patrick Keddie
April 2018 322 pages Approx. 106,500 words => Turkey, History World Rights
Patrick Keddie is a journalist and essayist based in Istanbul. A reporter for Al Jazeera, his writing has also appeared in VICE, The Guardian, The Huffington Post, The Irish Times, The LA Review of Books, Middle East Eye and The Sunday Herald among others.
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The first book to bring the colourful world of Turkish football to a Western audience
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New insight into a crucial Middle Eastern nation
Turkey is a nation obsessed with football. From the glowing red and blue flares which cover the pitch with multi-coloured smoke and often brings play to a halt, to the ‘conductors’ - ultras who lead the ‘walls of sound’ at matches, Turkish football has always been an awesome spectacle. And yet, in this most political of countries, caught between the Middle East and the West, football has also always been something more. From the fan groups accused of attempting to assassinate the president, to the World-Cup players fighting corruption, football in Turkey is a encompasses politics, anger and resistance Journalist and football obsessive Patrick Keddie takes us on a wild journey through of the world’s most popular game. He travels from the streets of Istanbul, where simit sellers compete with water cannons for the attentions of the fans, to the deserts of Anatolia, where Islamic teams show their devotion through soccer. He meets gay referees facing death threats, women fighting for the right to wear shorts on the pitch and Kurdish teams playing for the human rights. In doing so he lifts the lid on a new side to the story of modern Turkey. Blood and Martyrs also tells the story of the biggest recent scandal in European football, the fixing of the Turkish first division, and sketches the scandals murky connections to the country’s leadership.
Women and Public Space in Turkey Gender, Modernity and the Urban Experience Selda Tuncer
May 2018 336 pages Approx. 108,300 words => Turkey, Gender Studies, Middle East World Rights
Selda Tuncer is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Yuzuncu Yil University, Van, Turkey, and teaches courses on gender and sociological theory. She has worked at the Middle East Technical University, Ankara, where she also completed her PhD. She has recently been a researcher on a project to improve the conditions of asylum-seeker women and children in Van, and she has published in both Turkish and English on issues relating to gender and space relations, urban culture, women’s history and everyday life in the Turkish context.
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Draws on a rich set of qualitative data, including both visual and oral narratives
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Turkey’s process of ‘modernization’ developed rapidly during the second half of the twentieth century. New social and legal reforms were institutionalized and political and economic changes located the country as a more liberated, ‘Western-style’ society. Public Space and Gender in Turkey provides a historical understanding of women’s experiences of this modernization between 1950 and 1980, a vital period in which their participation in urban public life expanded through higher education and employment. Selda Tuncer examines the precise conditions that enabled women to leave the home and reveals how they perceived and experienced urban public space and social relations.
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Women and Cultural Citizenship in Turkey: Mass Media and ‘Woman’s Voice’ Television 27
A Muslim Minority in Turkey Migration, Ethnicity and Religion in a Bosniak Community Lejla Voloder
May 2018 216 pages Approx. 70,000 words => Middle East, Religion, History World Rights
Lejla Voloder is a teaching fellow, School of Social Sciences, Monash University, Australia. She has been visiting research fellow, Department of Sociology, Bogazici University, Istanbul, and is the author of A Muslim Diaspora in Australia (I.B.Tauris) and co-editor (with L. Kirpitchenko) of Insider research on Migration and Mobility: International Perspectives on Researcher Positioning.
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First book based on fieldwork to detail the lives and practices of the Bosnian and Bosniak diaspora in Turkey
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Unique contribution to the study of Muslim minority groups in Turkey and the Middle East
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Challenges prevailing treatment of Islam as the basis for political identification
How does one live as a Bosniak, a Turkish citizen, a mother, a family member and as one guided by Islam? Although Turkey is a secular state, it is often characterised as a Muslim country. In her latest book, Lejla Voloder provides an engaging and revealing study of a Bosniak community in Turkey, one of the Muslim minorities actually recognised by the state in Turkey. Under what circumstances have they resettled to Turkey? How do they embrace Islam? How does one live as a Bosniak, a Turkish citizen, a mother, a father, a member of a household, and as one guided by Islam? The first book based on fieldwork to detail the lives of members of the Bosnian and Bosniak diaspora in Turkey, A Muslim Minority in Turkey makes a unique contribution to the study of Muslim minority groups in Turkey and the Middle East.
Kemalism Transnational Politics in the Post Ottoman World Nathalie Clayer, Fabio Giorni, Emmanuel Szurek
September 2018 356 pages Approx. 112,000 words => Turkey, Ottoman Studies World Rights
Nathalie Clayer is a Senior Researcher at the Centre for Turkish, Ottoman, Balkan and Central Asian Studies at EHESS, Paris. She is also a historian of religion and nationalism in the Ottoman and post-Ottoman eras and the author of many book chapters and articles in English and in French. Fabio Giomi completed his PhD in Islamic history at the University of Bologna and is the author of A Brief History of Islam in the Balkans published in Italian.
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Ottoman Balkans a key area of historical study
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A new angle and original thesis which will be a must have in this area
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Fully supported by the EHESS in Paris – one of the world’s leading research bodies
The founder of modern Turkey, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, came to power in 1923 with a radical and wide-ranging programme of reforms, known collectively as Kemalism. This philosophy – which included adopting a western alphabet and securing a secular state apparatus - has since the early 1930s, when the Turkish state endeavoured to impose a monolithic definition of the term, been connected to the development of the personality cult of Mustafa Kemal himself. This book argues that in fact Kemalism can only be fully understood from a transnational perspective. Each chapter examines the different ways in which national borders refracted and transformed Kemalist ideology. Across the Balkans and the Middle East Kemalism influenced the development of language and the alphabet, the life of women, the law, and everyday dress. A particular focus on the interwar period in Turkey, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Albania, Yugoslavia, and Egypt reveals how, as a practical tool, Kemalism must be relocated as a global movement, whose influence is still felt today.
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Fragile Nation, Shattered Land The Modern History of Syria James A. Reilly
September 2018 288 pages Approx. 100,000 words => Middle East, History Rights Sold: US&C James A. Reilly is Professor of History at the University of Toronto and specialises in the social history of Syrian cities. He travelled widely in Syria between 1974 and 2010, living there on two separate occasions, and is the author of A Small Town in Syria and The Ottoman Cities of the Lebanon (I.B.Tauris).
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Aleppo: The Rise and Fall of Syria's Great Merchant City
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The first history of Syria to begin in the Ottoman period
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Offers a deep historical context for understanding the forces that bind Syrians together as well as those that drive them apart
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A new perspective on the roots of modern instability
The Syrian state is less than 100 years old, born from the wreckage of World War I. Today it stands in ruins, shattered by brutal civil war. How did this happen? How did the lands that are today Syria survive incorporation with the Ottoman Empire in the sixteenth century and the trials and vicissitudes of the Sultan’s rule for four centuries, only to collapse into civil war in recent years? Arguably it was the Ottoman period that laid the fragile foundations of a state that had to endure a turbulent twentieth century under French rule, tentative independence, a brutal and corrupt dictatorship and eventual disintegration in the twentyfirst. Across a diverse cast of individuals, rich and poor, James Reilly explores these fractious and formative periods of Ottoman, Egyptian and French rule, and the ways that these contributed to the contradictions and failings of the rule of the Assad family; and to a civil war which produced the so-called Islamic State. Reilly demonstrates the myriad historical, cultural, social, economic and political factors that bind Syrians together, as well as those that have torn them apart. Based on primary sources, recent historiography in English, French and Arabic and more than 30 years’ experience living and working in the region, this is the essential book for understanding modern Syria and the Middle East.
The Eastern Frontier Limits of Empire in Late Antique and Early Medieval Central Asia Robert Haug
January 2019 352 pages Approx. 130,000 words => Middle East, History World Rights
Robert Haug is Assistant Professor of History at the McMicken College of Arts and Sciences, University of Cincinnati, where he also runs the Middle East Studies programme. He received his PhD from the University of Michigan and has published in peer-reviewed journals and edited collections on medieval frontier regions.
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Draws on an extensive range of primary sources – from numismatics to local histories to archaeological data
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Focus on the region – what is today Central Asia, broadly speaking – in locally specific terms, rather than as part of grander narratives on the various empires
Transoxania, Khurāsān, and Ṭukhāristān – which comprise large parts of today’s Central Asia – have long been an important frontier zone. In the late antique and early medieval periods, the region was both an eastern political boundary for Persian and Islamic empires and a cultural border separating communities of sedentary farmers from pastoralnomads. Given its peripheral location, the history of the ‘eastern frontier’ in this period has often been shown through the lens of expanding empires. However, in this book, Robert Haug argues for a pre-modern Central Asia with a discrete identity, a region that is not just a transitory space or the far-flung corner of empires, but its own historical entity. From this locally specific perspective, the book takes the reader on a 900-year tour of the area, from Sasanian control, through the Umayyads and Abbasids, to the quasiindependent dynasties of the Tahirids and the Samanids. Drawing on an impressive array of literary, numismatic and archaeological sources, Haug reveals the unique and varied challenges the eastern frontier presented to imperial powers that strove to integrate the area into their greater systems. This is essential reading for all scholars working on early Islamic, Iranian and Central Asian history, as well as those with an interest in the dynamics of frontier regions. 31
The Flame of Miletus The Birth of Science in Ancient Greece (and How it Changed the World) John Freely
May 2018 256 pages Approx. 90,000 words => History, Science Rights Sold: Turkey
John Freely (1926-2017) was one of the most widely respected writers of travel books, histories and guides about Greece and Turkey. He is the author of The Grand Turk, Storm on Horseback, Children of Achilles, The Cyclades, The Ionian Islands, The Western Shores of Turkey, Strolling through Athens, Strolling through Venice and the bestselling Strolling through Istanbul (all I.B.Tauris).
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John Freely: a bestselling, universallyrenowned historian and trade author
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A riveting account, essential reading for all history buffs
Miletus: one of the wealthiest and most important towns in ancient Greece. It was here, on the Aegean coast of Asia Minor, in the 6th century BC, that the great traditions of Greek science and philosophy sparked into life, setting in motion a chain of knowledge that would change the world, forever. The Flame of Miletus travels through history and from East to West, brilliantly revealing how ancient Greek thought inspired the dawn of science that began in Renaissance Europe.
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The Twin Horse Gods: The Dioskouroi in Mythologies of the Ancient World
A Travel Guide to Homer: On the Trail of Odysseus through Turkey and the Mediterranean
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Cicero in Drama From the Ancient World to the Early Modern Stage Gesine Manuwald
September 2018 288 pages Approx. 90,000 words => Classical studies, Drama, Literary Studies World Rights
Gesine Manuwald is Professor of Latin at University College London. She is the author of Roman Drama: A Reader, Roman Republican Theatre and Cicero (for the Understanding Classics series, I.B.Tauris).
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First book expertly to address the subject of Cicero in drama
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The influence of Cicero is everywhere to be found. His rhetorical writings have, over many centuries, made an inescapable impact on the history of Western culture. He impressed figures as diverse as Augustine, Jerome, Petrarch, Erasmus, Luther, Locke, Hume, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson. The significant debt owed by Barack Obama to Roman oratory was apparent during both terms of his presidency. Cicero’s wide appeal means that of late he has become a popular subject also in classical reception studies. But there is a gap: no book has yet offered a history of the multiple ways in which the great orator shaped later dramatic art, especially during the early modern period. This volume is the first to discuss every instance in which Cicero has been the protagonist in a play, from Ben Jonson (1611) and Voltaire to Richard Cumberland and Henry Bliss (1847). The author places each oeuvre in the context of its first production while discussing the plot in relation to ancient sources. Her study will be read by scholars of classics and literary studies as well as historians of ideas and of the early modern age.
The History of Central Asia The Age of Decline and Revival Christoph Baumer
April 2018 384 pages 181 colour illustrations Approx. 175,000 words => Medieval & Modern History World Rights
Christoph Baumer – a leading explorer and historian of Central Asia, Tibet and China – has written several well-received books in the fields of history, religion, archaeology and travel. These include The Church of the East: An Illustrated History of Assyrian Christianity, Traces in the Desert: Journeys of Discovery across Central Asia and China’s Holy Mountain: An Illustrated Journey into the Heart of Buddhism, all published by I.B.Tauris. He is President of the Society for the Exploration of EurAsia and is a member of the Explorers’ Club, New York, and of the Royal Asiatic Society, the Royal Geographical Society and the Royal Society for Asian Affairs, London. Dr Baumer was the recipient in 2015 of the prestigious Sir Percy Sykes Medal, awarded to him by the Royal Society for Asian Affairs.
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Sumptuously illustrated history of one of the most compelling and mysterious regions on earth
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Unique travelogue and resource by a latterday Richard Burton: required reading for years to come
For more than a hundred years, Central Asia was the heartland of the mightiest military power on the planet. But after the fragmentation of the allconquering Mongol polity, the region began a steep decline which rendered this former domain of horse lords peripheral to world affairs. The process of deterioration reached its nadir in the second half of the nineteenth century, when the former territories and sweeping steppes of the great khans were overrun by Tsarist Russia. In the concluding volume of his acclaimed Central Asia quartet, Christoph Baumer shows how China in the east, and Russia in the northwest, succeeded in throwing off the Mongol yoke to become the masters of their own previous rulers. He suggests that, as traditional transcontinental trade routes declined in importance, it was the ‘Great Game’ – or cold war between Imperial Russia and Great Britain – which finally brought Central Asia back into play as a region of strategic importance. This epic history concludes with an assessment of the transition to modern independence of the Central Asian states and their struggle to contain radical Islamism.
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The History of Central Asia The ambitious four-volume study of Central Asia Christoph Baumer is a leading explorer and historian of Central Asia, Tibet and China. He has written several well-received books in the fields of history, religion, archaeology and travel, including The Church of the East: An Illustrated History of Assyrian Christianity, Traces in the Desert: Journeys of Discovery across Central Asia and China’s Holy Mountain: An Illustrated Journey into the Heart of Buddhism, all published by I.B.Tauris.
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The Age of the Steppe Warriors 384 pages 262 colour illustrations
The Age of the Silk Roads 408 pages 266 colour illustrations
The Age of Islam and the Mongols 392 pages 266 colour illustrations, 11 maps
The Age of Decline and Revival 384 pages 181 colour illustrations
Ships of the Silk Road The Bactrian Camel in Chinese Jade Angus Forsyth
September 2018 304 pages Approx. 100,000 words => Ceramic Art, Antiques & Collectibles, Art History, Archaeology World Rights Angus Forsyth is an internationally respected collector of and authority on Chinese jade and a former president of the Oriental Ceramics Society of Hong Kong. He has given long and dedicated study to ancient jades, with special attention to the Neolithic period, publishing widely on the topic. His publications include Chinese Jade and Jades from China (co-authored with Brian McElney).
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The Silk Road: Central Asia, Afghanistan and Iran
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An informed and beautifully illustrated new history of the Silk Road camel in Chinese jade
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Many of the pieces illustrated and discussed here have not been seen or published before
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The author is a celebrated authority and savant on Chinese jade objects and artefacts
For hundreds of years the Bactrian camel ploughed a lonely furrow across the vast wilderness of Asia. This bizarre-looking, temperamental yet hardy creature here came into its own as the core goods vehicle, resolutely and reliably transporting to China – over huge and unforgiving distances – fine things from the West while taking treasures out of the Middle Kingdom in return. Where the chariot, wagon and other wheeled conveyances proved useless amidst the shifting desert dunes, the surefooted progress of the camel – archetypal ‘ship of the Silk Road’ – now reigned supreme. The Bactrian camel was a subject that appealed particularly to Chinese artists because of its association with the exotic trade to mysterious Western lands. In his lavishly illustrated volume, Angus Forsyth explores diverse jade pieces depicting this iconic beast of burden. Almost one hundred separate objects are included, many of which have not been seen in print before. At the same time the author offers the full historical background to his subject. The book will have a strong appeal to collectors and art historians alike.
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Dragon Lords The History and Legends of Viking England Eleanor Parker
April 2018 288 pages Approx. 77,500 words => History, Folklore, Literary Studies, Archaeology World Rights
Eleanor Parker is a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH) in the University of Oxford and also a member of Worcester College, Oxford. Her DPhil, obtained in 2013 from the same university, addressed the subject of Anglo-Scandinavian Literature in the Post-Conquest Period. Dr Parker writes an acclaimed blog in her guise as A Clerk of Oxford, called ‘an orchard of golden apples’ by the Daily Telegraph. In 2015 her blog won the Longman-History Today Award for Digital History, and she now writes a regular column for History Today.
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First book to explore in-depth the meanings and history of Viking legend in England
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Author rapidly acquiring a large following as celebrated blogger the ‘Clerk of Oxford’
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Wide appeal: religion, folklore & myth, & fans of Netflix series The Last Kingdom
Why did the Vikings sail to England? Were they indiscriminate raiders, motivated solely by bloodlust and plunder? One narrative, the stereotypical one, might have it so. But locked away in the buried history of the British Isles are other, far richer and more nuanced, stories; and these hidden tales paint a picture very different from the ferocious pillagers of popular repute. Eleanor Parker here unlocks secrets that point to more complex motivations within the marauding army that in the late ninth century voyaged to the shores of eastern England in its sleek, dragon-prowed longships. Exploring legends from forgotten medieval texts, and across the varied AngloSaxon regions, she depicts Vikings who came not just to raid but also to settle personal feuds, intervene in English politics and find a place to call home. Native tales reveal the links to famous Vikings like Ragnar Lothbrok and his sons; Cnut; and Havelok the Dane. Each myth shows how the legacy of the newcomers can still be traced in landscape, place-names and local history. This book uncovers the remarkable degree to which England is Viking to its core.
A Short History of the Mongols George Lane
July 2017 256 pages Approx. 81,000 words => Medieval History, Asian History, Religion Rights Sold: Russia, Turkey
George Lane is Senior Teaching Fellow in the History of the Middle East and Central Asia at SOAS in the University of London. His previous books are Early Mongol Rule in Thirteenth-Century Iran, Genghiz Khan and Mongol Rule, Daily Life in the Mongol Empire and Silk Roads and Steppe Empires.
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Fantastic topic of immense general interest, here given a powerful new revisionist treatment
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A bold new history of the Mongols from the rise of the Great Khan to the destruction of the empire by the Ming Dynasty
The Mongol Empire was the mightiest land empire the world has ever seen. At its height it was twice the size of its Roman equivalent. For a remarkable century and a half it commanded a population of 100 million people, while the rule of Chinggis (Genghis) Khan marched undefeated from the Pacific Ocean to the Caspian Sea. George Lane argues that the Mongols were not only subjugators who swept all before them but one of the great organising forces of world history. His book traces the rise of the Great Khan in 1206 to the dissolution of the empire in 1368 by the Ming Dynasty. He discusses the unification of the TurkoMongol tribes under Chinggis’ leadership; the establishment of a vigorous imperium whose Pax Mongolica held mastery over the Central Asian steppes; imaginative policies of religious pluralism; and the rich legacy of the Toluid Empire of Yuan China and Ilkhanate Iran. Offering a bold and sympathetic understanding of Mongol history, the author shows that commercial expansion, cultural assimilation and dynamic political growth were as crucial to Mongol success as desire for conquest.
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A Short History of the Reformation Helen L. Parish
August 2018 256 pages Approx. 71,700 words => History Rights Sold: Russia
Helen L. Parish is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Reading. Her previous books include Monks, Miracles and Magic: Reformation Representations of the Medieval Church and Clerical Marriage and the English Reformation: Precedent, Policy and Practice.
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When, in October 1517, Martin Luther pinned his Ninety-Five Theses to the door of All Saints’ Church in Wittenberg he shattered the foundations of western Christendom. The Reformation of doctrine and practice that followed Luther’s seismic action, and protest against the sale of indulgences, fragmented the Church and overturned previously accepted certainties and priorities. But it did more, challenging the relationship between spiritual and secular authority, perceptions of the supernatural, the interpretation of the past, the role of women in society and church, and clerical attitudes towards marriage and sex. Drawing on the most recent historiography, Helen L Parish locates the Protestant Reformation in its many cultural, social and political contexts. She assesses the Reformers’ impact on art and architecture; on notions of authority, scripture and tradition; and – reflecting on the extent to which the printing press helped spread Reformation ideas – on oral, print and written culture.
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Gardens for Gloriana Wealth, Splendour and Design in Elizabethan Gardens Jane Whitaker
January 2019 224 pages Approx. 70,000 words => Social & Cultural History, Garden History, History of Art World Rights
Jane Whitaker is a writer, lecturer and consultant on garden history. She has a PhD in garden history from the University of Bristol. She is the co-author (with Timothy Mowl) of The Historic Gardens of Hampshire.
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First comprehensive account of the leading gardens of Elizabethan England
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Gardens were owned by many of the key political figures of the day
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The formal gardens of Elizabethan England were among the glories of their age. Complementing the great houses of the day, they reflected the aspirations of their owners, whose greatest desire was to achieve success at Court and to delight the Queen. No leading courtier would be without his great house, and no great house was complete without its garden. These magnificent gardens were places of display, of pleasure, of playful surprise and sensory delight. Water gardens, fountains, grottoes and mazes, vied with exotic new plants from overseas, scented arbours, intricate knot gardens and fruit-filled orchards to delight the senses of the Queen and visitors alike. In this richly illustrated work, Jane Whitaker explores these formal gardens of Elizabethan England. Focussing on the gardens of the Queen, and those of her leading courtiers the author draws on the cultural and horticultural sources of the day, as well as evidence surviving on the ground, to recreate these lost Elizabethan gardens. The result is evocation of one of the most opulent reigns in English history and an entertaining and informative study of one of the most interesting periods of garden history.
House of Secrets The Many Lives of a Florentine Palazzo Allison Levy
January 2019 256 pages Approx. 80,000 words => History, Architecture, Trade, Literature World Rights
Allison Levy is an art historian who specializes in the Italian Renaissance with a focus on the art and architecture of Florence. She began her academic career as an assistant professor of Italian Renaissance art at Wheaton College in Massachusetts. During that tenure (2001–2006), she published two books, Widowhood and Visual Culture in Early Modern Europe and Remembering Masculinity: Widowed Bodies, Mourning and Portraiture. Her other titles include Sex Acts in Early Modern Italy: Practice, Performance, Perversion, Punishment and Playthings in Early Modernity: Party Games, Word Games, Mind Games. Allison has lectured widely on Italian art and culture, from the Renaissance to today, throughout the U.S. and Europe.
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The history of Palazzo Rucellai, as told through the lives of its most colorful residents over half a millennium
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Contains a secondary narrative, a subtext on history, identity, and desire
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Far from another architectural history, for countless tomes have been published on building and architect, House of Secrets provides the reader with a characterdriven historical narrative of Palazzo Rucellai, the first of its kind. The palace has witnessed endless drama, from its early days, as it is built piecemeal by Giovanni Rucellai, the 3rd richest man in Florence in the mid15th century, and Leon Battista Alberti, the celebrated architect responsible for putting a strong public face on Rucellai’s emotional labyrinth; to the butchering of its interior in the 16th century by Bernardo, the house’s first heir; to the 18th century, when a Rucellai daughter and the specter of the house is rumored to have hurled herself into the courtyard on the eve of her wedding; to the champagne-fueled orgies and tango teas held in the palace on the eve of World War I by Lysina Rucellai, a twice-widowed Cossack countess with fascist leanings; to 1997, when Alvise di Robilant, an aristocratic art dealer, is bludgeoned to death on the third floor. Behind each story of this façade, there is a theme: origin and identity; ambition and arrogance; manners and deception; selective memory and purposeful forgetting; otherness; and doubleness. Running throughout this portrait of place, as well, are larger questions: how we project our own ideals and fantasies onto buildings; and how buildings, in turn, both do and do not comply. 43
Ashes to Light A Holocaust Childhood to a Life in Music Nelly Ben-Or
January 2018 240 pages Approx. 57,400 words => Memoir, History, Holocaust World Rights Nelly Ben-Or is a distinguished pianist who teaches at London’s Guildhall School of Music and Drama. She has broadcast frequent recitals for the BBC, performed at major concert venues in the UK and in many countries overseas. In 1963 she qualified as a teacher of the Alexander Technique – the first professional pianist to do so. She is now internationally-recognised as a leading exponent of the technique.
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Born into a Jewish family in Lvov, Poland in the early1930s, Nelly Ben-Or was to experience, at a very young age, the trauma of the Holocaust. This narrative of her life’s journey describes the survival of Nelly, her mother and her older sister. With help from family and friends, Nelly and her mother were smuggled out of the Ghetto in Lvov and escaped to Warsaw with false identity papers where they were under constant threat of discovery. Miraculously, they survived being taken on a train to Auschwitz, deported not, in fact, because they were Jews, but as citizens of Warsaw following the Warsaw Uprising against the Nazis. After the end of the war, Nelly’s musical talent was free to flourish, at first in Poland and then in the recently-created State of Israel, where Nelly completed her musical studies as a scholarship student at the Music Academy in Jerusalem. Following her move to England she carried out a full concert career and also discovered the Alexander Technique for piano playing, which had a profound influence on her.
Scattered Ghosts: One Family's Survival through War, Holocaust and Revolution
Historians at the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial Their Role as Expert Witnesses Mathew Turner
July 2018 288 pages Approx. 78,000 words World Rights => History, Holocaust, Legal History, World War II
Mathew Turner is a Lecturer in History at Deakin University, Australia, from where he gained his PhD. He has been a Guest Scholar at the Jena Center for Twentieth Century History in Germany.
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The Frankfurt Auschwitz trial was a milestone event in West German history. Between 1963 and 1965, twenty-two former Auschwitz personnel were tried in Frankfurt am Main. It was a trial that saw the engagement of four of the nation’s leading historians as expert witnesses – Martin Broszat, Hans Buchheim, Helmut Krausnick, and Hans-Adolf Jacobsen – appointed by the prosecution to give evidence pertaining to the historical and organisational context of the Holocaust. Following the trial, the reports of these historians were published in a bestselling book, Anatomie des SS-Staates (Anatomy of the SS State) and Mathew Turner here investigates the relationship between the trial and this publication. In recent years, more attention has been paid to the intersection between history and law that accompanies historians’ entry into the courtroom. Very little, however, has been written about this intersection with a focus on a single case study. Based on original research in several German archives and first-hand interviews, Turner addresses these connections through a study of West Germany’s most famous trial, and the monumental work of history produced from the engagement of historical expertise in court.
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The Phoney Victory The World War II Delusion Peter Hitchens
August 2018 256 pages Approx. 82,500 words => History, Politics, World War II World Rights
Peter Hitchens is a journalist and commentator. He has a weekly column in the Mail on Sunday and is the author of several books, including The Abolition of Britain; The Cameron Delusion; The Rage Against God and The War We Never Fought.
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New Perspectives on several World War II myths by leading columnist Peter Hitchens
Was World War II really the ‘Good War’? In the years since the declaration of peace in 1945 many myths have sprung up around the conflict in the victorious nations. In this book, Peter Hitchens deconstructs the many fables which have become associated with the narrative of the ‘Good War’. Whilst not criticising or doubting the need for war against Nazi Germany at some stage, Hitchens does query whether September 1939 was the right moment, or the independence of Poland the right issue. He points out that in the summer of 1939 Britain and France were wholly unprepared for a major European war and that this quickly became apparent in the conflict that ensued. He also rejects the retroactive claim that Britain went to war in 1939 to save the Jewish population of Europe. On the contrary, the beginning and intensification of war made it easier for Germany to begin the policy of mass murder in secret as well as closing most escape routes. In a provocative, but deeply-researched book, Hitchens questions the most common assumptions surrounding World War II, turning on its head the myth of Britain’s role in a ‘Good War’.
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Enrique Moradeillos is Professor of Modern Spanish and European History at the University of Extremadura, Spain. He has previously taught at Queen Mary, University of London and Complutense University, Madrid and is the author of ten books on twentieth-century Spain, published in Spanish.
A major new portrait of Franco as dictator and man Puts Franco in the context of his regime by examining the dictatorship as well as the dictator Three-dimensional reassessment of one of the key figures in twentieth-century European history
On 20th November 1975, General Francisco Franco died in Madrid, just before his 83rd birthday. At the time of his death he had been the head of a dictatorial regime with the title of 'Caudillo' for almost 40 years. In this book, Enrique Moradiellos redraws Franco in three dimensions - Franco, the man; Franco, the Caudillo and Franco's Spain. In so doing, he offers a reappraisal of Franco's personality, his leadership style and the nature of the regime that he established and led until his death. As a dictator who established his power prior to World War II and maintained it well into the 1970s, Franco was one of the most central figures of twentiethcentury European history. In Spain today, he is a spectre from a regrettable recent past, uncomfortable yet still very real and significant. Although a realtively minor dictator in comparison with Mussolini, Hitler or Stalin, Franco was more fortunate than them in terms of survival, long-lasting influence and public image. A study of his regime and its historical evolution sheds new light on fundamental questions of European history, including the social and cultural bases for totalitarian or authoritarian challenges to democracy and sources of political legitimacy grounded in the charisma of a leader.
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Franco and the Condor Legion The Spanish Civil War in the Air Michael Alpert
October 2018 288 pages Approx. 80,000 words => History, Spanish Civil War, Aviation History World Rights
Michael Alpert is Emeritus Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at the University of Westminster. He is the author of A New International History of the Spanish Civil War and The Republican Army in the Spanish Civil War.
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The Spanish Civil War was fought on land and at sea but also in an age of great interest in air warfare and the rapid development of warplanes. The war in Spain came a turning point in the development of military aircraft and was the arena in which new techniques of air war were rehearsed including high-speed dogfights, attacks on ships, bombing of civilian areas and tactical air-ground cooperation. At the heart of the air war were the Condor Legion, a unit composed of military personnel from Hitler’s Germany who fought for Franco’s Nationalists in Spain. In this book, Michael Alpert provides the first study in English of the Spanish Civil War in the air. He describes and analyses the intervention of German, Italian and Soviet aircraft in the Spanish conflict, as well as the supply of aircraft in general and the role of volunteer and mercenary airmen. His book provides new perspectives on the air war in Spain, the precedents set for World War II and the possible lessons learnt.
Soviet Americana The Cultural History of Russian and Ukrainian Americanists Sergei Zhuk
January 2018 342 pages Approx. 120,000 words => History, IR & Politics World Rights
Sergei Zhuk is a professor of Russian and eastern European history at Ball State University and has just finished a visiting professorship at Columbia University. He received his first PhD (in US history) from the Institute of World History in Moscow and his second (in Russian history) from Johns Hopkins University. Zhuk is the author of the acclaimed Rock and Roll in the Rocket City, Popular Culture, Identity and Soviet Youth in Dniepropetrovsk, 1959–1984 and Russia’s Lost Reformation, as well as numerous books in Russian.
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In 1991 there were more than 1,000 ‘Americanists’ – experts in US history and politics – working in the Soviet Union. The Americanist community played a vital role in the Cold War, as well as in large part directing the cultural consumption of Soviet society and shaping perceptions of the US. To shed light onto this important, yet under-studied, academic community, Sergei Zhuk here explores the personal histories of prominent Soviet Americanists, considering the myriad cultural influences – from John Wayne’s bravado in the film Stagecoach to Miles Davis – that shaped their identities, careers and academic interests. Zhuk’s compelling account draws on a wide range of understudied archival documents, periodicals, letters and diaries as well as more than 100 exclusive interviews with prominent Americanists to take the reader from the post-war origins of American studies, via the extremes of the Cold War, thaw and perestroika, to Putin’s Russia. Soviet Americana is a comprehensive insight into shifting attitudes towards the US throughout the twentieth century and an essential resource for all Soviet and Cold War historians.
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Nomads And Soviet Rule Central Asia under Lenin and Stalin Alun Thomas
May 2017 288 pages Approx. 97,000 words => History, International Relations & Politics World Rights
Alun Thomas is Lecturer in Modern History at Staffordshire University. He received his PhD from the University of Sheffield and has written in peer-reviewed journals and delivered papers internationally on the complex relationship between the nomadic communities of Central Asia and the nascent Soviet state.
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The nomads of Central Asia were already well accustomed to life under the power of a distant capital when the Bolsheviks fomented revolution on the streets of Petrograd. Yet after the fall of the Tsar, the nature, ambition and potency of that power would change dramatically, ultimately resulting in the near eradication of Central Asian nomadism. Based on extensive primary source work in Almaty, Bishkek and Moscow, Nomads and Soviet Rule charts the development of this volatile and brutal relationship and challenges the often repeated view that events followed a linear path of gradually escalating violence. Rather than the sedentarisation campaign being an inevitability born of deep-rooted Marxist hatred of the nomadic lifestyle, the author demonstrates the Soviet state’s treatment of nomads to be far more complex and pragmatic. He shows how Soviet policy was informed by both an anti-colonial spirit and an imperialist impulse, by nationalism as well as communism, and above all by a lethal selfconfidence in the Communist Party’s ability to transform the lives of nomads and harness the agricultural potential of their landscape. This is the first book to look closely at the period between the revolution and the collectivisation drive, and offers fresh insight into a little-known aspect of early Soviet history.
Kosovo, a Documentary History From the Balkan Wars to World War II Robert Elsie & Bejtullah Destani (Eds)
April 2018 432 pages Approx. 196,000 words => History, IR & Politics World Rights Robert Elsie (1950–2017) was an expert in the field of Albanian studies. He has authored of over ninety books, including Albanian Literature: A Short History and A Biographical Dictionary of Albanian History and Enver Hoxha (all published by I.B.Tauris and the Centre for Albanian Studies). Blendi Fevziu is a journalist, based in Tirana. He was the co-founder of the RD (Democratic Renaissance) newspaper and presents the popular TV talk show Opinion. He has written several books in Albanian.
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The question of Kosovan sovereignty and independence has a history which stretches far back beyond the outbreak of war in 1998. This volume is a compilation of key documents on Kosovo from the first half of the twentieth century. These texts, including numerous diplomatic despatches from the British Foreign Office, deal initially with the Albanian uprising against Ottoman rule in the spring of 1912 and, in particular, with the period of the Serbian invasion of Kosovo in late 1912 and the repercussions of the conquest for the Albanian population. The documents from 1918 to the early 1920s focus mainly on endeavours by Albanian leaders, including those of the so-called Kosovo Committee in exile, to bring the plight of their people to the attention of the outside world, endeavours which largely failed. Further documents reflect the situation in Kosovo up to the outbreak of World War II. This collection provides new perspectives on the Kosovo question and includes many documents which have been largely unavailable up to now. It sheds new light on many of the major and minor episodes that channelled and determined subsequent events, including the Kosovo War of 1998 –1999 and the declaration of independence in February 2008.
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Teffi A Life of Letters and of Laughter Edythe Haber
September 2018 320 pages Approx. 112,000 words => Literature, Biography, History World Rights
Edythe Haber is Professor Emerita at the University of Massachusetts Boston and a Center Associate at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University. She is the author of an acclaimed book on Mikhail Bulgakov’s early years and of many publications on Bulgakov, Teffi and Nabokov. She wrote the introduction to Teffi’s Memories: From Moscow to the Black Sea, which was awarded 2017’s Pushkin House Prize ‘Special Award for Best Book in Translation’, and has been researching and enjoying Teffi’s work for more than 40 years.
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Written by the world’s foremost authority on Teffi
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Heightened interest in Teffi – spate of translations in UK and US and good coverage in media
Teffi was one of 20th century Russia’s most celebrated authors. Born Nadezhda Lokhvitskaya in 1872, she came to be admired by an impressive range of people, from Tsar Nicholas II to Lenin, and her popularity was such that sweets and perfume were named after her. She visited Tolstoy when she was 13 to haggle with him about the ending of War and Peace and Rasputin tried (and utterly failed) to seduce her. After the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 she was exiled and lived out her days in the lively Russian émigré community of Paris, where she continued writing – and enjoying comparable fame – until her death in 1952. Teffi’s best stories effortlessly shift from light humour and satire to pathos and even tragedy – ever more so when depicting the daunting hardships she and her fellow émigrés suffered in exile. In the first biography of her in any language, Edythe Haber here brings Teffi to life. Teffi’s life and works afford a unique panoramic view of the cultural world of early 20th century Russia, from the debauchery of the Silver Age to the terror and euphoria of revolution, and of interwar Russian emigration. But they also offer fresh insights into the seismic events – from the 1905 Russian Revolution and World War II to life as a refugee – that she experienced first-hand and recreated in her vivid, penetrating, moving and witty writing. 53
The Man Who Wasn’t There A Life of Ernest Hemingway Richard Bradford
October 2018 315 pages Approx. 123,000 words => Biography, Literature World Rights
Richard Bradford is Research Professor in English at University of Ulster and Visiting Professor at the University of Avignon. He has published over 20 acclaimed books, including a biography of Philip Larkin, which was an Independent Book of the Year, a biography of Alan Sillitoe, which was shortlisted for the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. He regularly writes for The Spectator and has been interviewed on his work for various BBC Radio Arts Programmes, as well as appearing on the Channel 4 Series ‘Writers in their Own Words’, talking mainly on Martin Amis and the post-1960s generation of British novelists.
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Ernest Hemingway was an involuntary chameleon, who would shift seamlessly from a self-cultivated image of hero, aesthetic radical, and existential nonconformist to a figure made up at various points of selfishness, hypocrisy, self-delusion, narcissism and arbitrary vindictiveness. Richard Bradford shows that Hemingway’s work is by parts erratic and unique because it was tied into these unpredictable, bizarre features of his personality. Impressionism and subjectivity always play some part in the making of literary works. Some authors try to subdue them while others treat them as the essentials of creativity but they endure as a ubiquitous element of all literature. They are the writer’s private signature, their authorial fingerprint. In this ground-breaking and intensely revealing biography, which includes a complete reassessment of Hemingway’s oeuvre Hemingway’s unfixed personality is shown to be the index to why and how he wrote as he did.
Conan Doyle’s Wide World The Travels that Inspired Sherlock Holmes Andrew Lycett
January 2019 256 pages Approx. 86,000 words => Travel, Memoir, Literature World Rights
Andrew Lycett is a writer and broadcaster who has written acclaimed biographies of Ian Fleming, Rudyard Kipling, Dylan Thomas, Wilkie Collins and Conan Doyle. The last of these was described by the Sunday Telegraph as 'hugely enjoyable' and 'impeccably researched', while the Sunday Times dubbed it 'undoubtedly the best account of Doyle'. As a journalist, Lycett has contributed regularly to The Times, Sunday Times and many other newspapers and magazines. He is a Fellow of both the Royal Literary Society and the Royal Geographical Society.
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Arthur Conan Doyle was not simply the creator of the world’s greatest detective; he was also an intrepid traveller – and extraordinary travel writer. His descriptions of his journeys and adventures - which took him to the Arctic and the Alps, throughout Africa, Australia and North America, and across every ocean in between - are full of insight, humour and exceptional evocations of place. Until now, these captivating travelogues have never been gathered together. In this ground-breaking book, Andrew Lycett, Conan Doyle’s celebrated biographer, collects and annotates the best of his writings from around the world, which illuminate not just the places he visited, but the man himself.
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Barcelona A Literary Guide for Travellers Mike Gonzales
October 2018 288 pages Approx. 77,000 words => Travel, Literary History World Rights
Mike Gonzalez, a historian and literary critic, is Emeritus Professor of Latin American Studies at the University of Glasgow. He writes extensively on Latin America and is the author of The Gathering of Voices: The Twentieth Century Poetry of Latin America, Che Guevara and the Cuban Revolution, Tango: Sex and Rhythm of the City and A Rebel’s Guide to Marx.
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“Barcelona is a fountain of courtesy, shelter of strangers…land of the valiant, avenger of the offended, reciprocator of firm friendship, a city unique in its location and beauty.” - Don Quixote City of outlandish cathedrals, eccentric parks, elegant plaças and atmospheric barrios, Barcelona is ‘haunted by history’, yet alive with the ghosts of those it has inspired, from Cervantes, Zafon and Montalbán, Gaudí, Miró and Dalí to Jean Genet, George Sand, Auden and Orwell. Perhaps more than any other Spanish city, Barcelona is synonymous with literature, art and creativity; it is the distilled essence of Catalonia - a region that has always marched to the beat of its own drum. Barcelona: A Literary Guide for Travellers takes the reader on a dynamic journey into the imaginations of over 50 iconic writers and the heart of one of the most alluring cities in the world.
Madrid A Literary Guide for Travellers Jules Stewart
October 2018 288 pages Approx. 87,000 words => Travel, Literary History World Rights
Jules Stewart is a journalist, historian and author. He was born in New York and worked there in various guises – including a yellow cab driver – over the years. His books include Madrid: The History; Albert: A Life; The Kaiser’s Mission to Kabul; On Afghanistan’s Plains: The Story of Britain’s Afghan Wars and Gotham Rising: New York in the 1930s (all published by I.B.Tauris); Crimson Snow: Britain’s First Disaster in Afghanistan; The Savage Border: The Story of the North-West Frontier; Spying for the Raj: The Pundits and the Mapping of the Himalaya and The Khyber Rifles: From the British Raj to Al Qaeda.
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Hemingway called Madrid “the most Spanish of all cities” and the “centre of the world”; it was a place that drew him back again and again. But he wasn’t the only writer to have been inspired by this proud city which fizzes with energy and is so infused with art and literature. From the Café Gijón, favourite hang-out of Lorca, Dalí and Buñuel, and the Bar Chicote, Hemingway’s preferred watering hole and a popular haunt for bohemian Madrid during the Civil War, to the Hotel Florida where John Dos Passos and Antoine de Saint Exupéry used to stay, to the grave of Lope de Vega and the house in which Cervantes took his last breath, this unique guide takes the reader on a colourful journey that spans four centuries and brings to life the people and places that make Madrid the heart of literary Spain.
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“Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.” – Kerouac Sometimes, reading about a place can be as good as being there yourself. I.B.Tauris Literary Guides for Travellers celebrate the spirit of place through the experiences of some of history’s greatest writers, artists and travellers.Travel the world through their eyes: from Hemingway’s Paris and Cervantes’ Andalucia to Patrick Leigh Fermor’s Greece, Christopher Isherwood’s Berlin and Ezra Pound’s Sicily. GREECE
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Girls Like This, Boys Like That The Reproduction of Gender in Contemporary Youth Cultures Victoria Cann
June 2018 224 pages Approx. 56,000 words => Gender Studies, Popular Culture World Rights Victoria Cann is a Lecturer in Humanities at the University of East Anglia. Her research is concerned with the processes through which identity is reproduced, and feminist politics more broadly. Victoria has published on the topic of gendered audiences, identity politics and the politics of representation. She teaches courses in Media and Cultural Politics and she undertakes a range of feminist engagement work in the community.
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Brand new research uniting gender and taste studies to explore the pop cultural preferences of young people
What role does taste play in contemporary youth culture? How do young people reproduce, or alternatively, reject gender norms? Using new research and the work of renowned theorists such as Judith Butler and Pierre Bourdieu, Victoria Cann argues that popular culture affects young people’s experiences of masculinity and femininity and forces them to navigate a social minefield in which they are pressured to display tastes deemed appropriate for their gender. Combining her own unique empirical research with a strong theoretical framework, Cann widens and links the fields of gender and taste studies to show the everyday reality of twenty-first-century youth and their apprehensions – especially those of young boys- about participating in activities, or embracing pop-cultural preferences that have traditionally only been associated with the opposite sex.
Unimaginable What We Imagine and What We Can't Graham Ward
August 2018 256 pages Approx. 90,000 words => Cultural Studies, Theology World Rights
Graham Ward is Regius Professor of Divinity in the University of Oxford and a Canon of Christ Church, Oxford. A former editor of the journal Literature and Theology, he has written numerous books which explore varied topics in religion, theology, literature and literary and cultural theory. These include Barth, Derrida and the Language of Theology, Theology and Contemporary Critical Theory, Radical Orthodoxy: A New Theology (edited with John Milbank and Catherine Pickstock, The Certeau Reader, True Religion, Cultural Transformation and Religious Practice and Unbelievable: Why We Believe and Why We Don’t (I.B.Tauris).
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What we imagine can crush us or create us, destroy us or heal us; it can pitch us into battles with demons or set us among the songs of angels. It has roots beneath consciousness and is expressed in moods, rhythms, tones and textures of experience that are as much mental as physiological. In his new book, a sequel to the earlier Unbelievable, one of Britain’s most exciting writers on religion here presents a nuanced and many-dimensional portrait of the mystery and creativity of the human imagination. Traversing landscapes that are both physical and emotional, palpable and intangible, the author enlists the company of fellow-travellers William Wordsworth, William Turner, Samuel Palmer and Ralph Vaughan Williams – alongside many other creative artists – to try to get to the bottom of the true meanings of originality and memory. Drawing the while on his own rich and varied encounters with belief, he asks why it is that the imagination is so fundamental to who and what we are. Using metaphor and story to unpeel the hidden motivations and architecture of the mind, and show what might lie beneath, Graham Ward grapples here with profound questions of ultimacy and transcendence. He reveals that, in understanding what it really means to be human, what cannot be imagined invariably means as much as what can. 61
The Gypsy Woman Representations in Literature and Visual Culture Jodie Matthews
August 2018 288 pages Approx. 96,300 words => Visual Culture, Literature World Rights
Jodie Matthews is a lecturer in English Literature at the University of Huddersfield. Her research focuses on the ways in which groups who travelled around Britain were represented in the past, particularly the nineteenth century, and the ways in which these stereotypes and prejudice persist. She is also an editorial co-ordinator for Identity Papers: A Journal of British and Irish Studies.
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Highlight and discuss recurrent aspects of the stereotype of Gypsy women in relation to intersecting discourses such as race, exoticism, the domestic and faith in the mystical
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Examines how nineteenth-century stereotypes of the Gypsy woman still influence contemporary popular culture
The exotic and dangerous stereotype of the Gypsy woman formed in nineteenth-century literature and visual culture remains alive today. These contemporary clichés about Gypsy culture - both negative and romanticised - have a long history. In The Gypsy Woman, Jodie Matthews analyses why the representation of female Gypsy figures in print, painting, television series such as Big Fat Gypsy Weddings and social media sites like Instagram matters so much. Some of these images have been so damaging that they require legal regulation, but Matthews claims that supposedly positive portrayals are just as detrimental by reiterating the same story about Gypsies that have been told since the nineteenth century. Her study makes this book a highly relevant resource for students, teachers and researchers working in literary, cultural, gender and Romani studies.
Fashion in Multiple Chinas Chinese Styles in the Transglobal Landscape Wessie Ling & Simona Segre Reinach
April 2018 272 pages Approx. 8,000 words => Fashion Studies World Rights Wessie Ling is Reader in Fashion at Northumbria University and a practising visual artist. She is the author of Fusionable Cheongsam and has written on Chinese fashion for the Encyclopedia of East Asian Design. She is on the Editorial Board of Catwalk: The Journal of Fashion, Beauty and Style. Simona Segre Reinach is Professor of Fashion Studies at Bologna University. She is a contributor to the Berg Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion and The Fashion History Reader and has written for seceral journals. In 2013, she curated the exhibit 80’s-90’s Facing Beauties: Italian Fashion and Japanese Fashion at a Glance at the Museo della città di Rimini.
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How modern Chinese fashion operates in multiple ways across the world
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China has the biggest fashion industry in the world
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Up to date coverage of young designers, modern re-branding
Much has been written about the transformation of China from being a clothing-manufacturing site to a fast-rate fashion consuming society. Less, however, has been written on the making of Chinese fashion. The expert contributors to Fashion in Multiple Chinas explore how the many Chinese fashions operate across the widespread, fragmented and diffused, Chinese diaspora. They demonstrate how the making of Chinese fashion is composed of numerous layers, often involving a web of global entanglements between manufacturing and circulation, retailing and branding. They cover the mechanics of the PRC fashion industry, the creative economy of Chinese fashion, its retail and branding, and the cultural identity of Chinese fashion from the diasporas comprising the transglobal landscape of fashion production.
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Hitchcock and the Spy Film James Champan
January 2018 335 pages Approx. 100,000 words => Visual Culture, Film Studies World Rights
James Chapman is Professor of Film Studies at the University of Leicester. His previous books for I. B. Tauris include bestsellers Licence To Thrill: A Cultural History of the James Bond Films and Inside the Tardis: The Worlds of 'Doctor Who' - A Cultural History, as well as (with Nicholas J. Cull) Projecting Empire: Imperialism and Popular Cinema and Projecting Tomorrow: Science Fiction and Popular Cinema. He is editor of the Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television.
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Hitchcock expert writes first book on Hitchcock’s spy thrillers using new sources
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Hitchcock has huge general film following & is required subject in Film Studies
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Close encounters with the films including Hitch’s unmade spy thriller
Film historian James Chapman has mined Hitchcock’s own papers to investigate fully for the first time the spy thrillers of the world’s most famous filmmaker. Hitchcock made his name as director of the spy movie. He returned repeatedly to the genre from the British classics of the 1930s, including The 39 Steps and The Lady Vanishes, through wartime Hollywood films Foreign Correspondent and Saboteur to the Cold War tracts North by Northwest, Torn Curtain and his unmade film The Short Night. Chapman’s close reading of these films demonstrates the development of Hitchcock's own style as well as how the spy genre as a whole responded to changing political and cultural contexts from the threat of Nazism in the 1930s and 40s to the atom spies and double agents of the post-war world.
Gendering History on Screen Women Filmmakers and Historical Films Julia Erhart
April 2018 240 pages Approx. 70,000 words => Film & Cultural Studies, Gender Studies World Rights
Julia Erhart is Associate Professor in the School of Humanities and Creative Arts at Flinders University. She researches in the areas of contemporary women filmmakers and feminist and LGBT representations in film and television and is the recipient of a grant from the Australian Academy of the Humanities, a Citation for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning from the Australian Office for Learning and Teaching, and a fellowship from Fulbright.
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Analysis of how women directors explore the past from the perspective of the present
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References broad geographical range of directors and films
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Author has strong academic track record and used to work in films
Movies about significant historical personalities or landmark events like war seem to be governed by a set of unspoken rules for the expression of gender. Films by female directors featuring female protagonists appear to receive particularly harsh treatment and are often criticised for being too ‘emotional’ and incapable of expressing ‘real’ history. Through her examination of films from the United States, Europe, Australia and elsewhere, Julia Erhart makes powerful connections between the representational strategies of women directors such as Kathryn Bigelow, Ruth Ozeki and Alexandra von Grote and their concerns with exploring the past through the prism of the present. She also compellingly explores how historiographical concepts like valour, memory, and resistance are uniquely reenvisioned within sub-genres including biopics, historical documentaries, Holocaust movies, and movies about the ‘War on Terror’. Gendering History on Screen will make an invaluable contribution to scholarship on historical film and women’s cinema.
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Chinese Revolutionary Cinema Propaganda, Aesthetics and Internationalism 1949-1966 Jessica Ka Yee Chan
August 2018 224 pages Approx. 84,000 words => Chinese Cinema , East Asian Studies World Rights
Jessica Ka Yee Chan is Assistant Professor of Chinese Studies at the University of Richmond, USA. She teaches courses on Chinese cinema, the action genre in East Asian cinema and myths and parables in Chinese literature and film, amongst other specialisms and her research has appeared in journals such as Modern Chinese Literature and Culture and East Asian Journal of Popular Culture. She received her PhD on Asian Literatures, Cultures and Media from the University of Minnesota in 2012.
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A historic study of the innovative aesthetic experiment that was post-war, preCultural Revolution, socialist revolutionary cinema in China
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Includes wide-ranging archival analysis of the screenwriting, revolutionary stars, cinematography styles and critical reception
Engaging with key films from the decade and a half between 1949 and ’66, this book explores the aesthetic experiment of socialist cinema in China. In the years succeeding the Communist Revolution, the state produced a diversity of genres that functioned as propaganda for the newly established People’s Republic. Breaking from past forms, revolutionary cinema adapted and revised Chinese literature for the screen, incorporated aspects of Hollywood narration and appropriated Soviet montage theory for its own means, as well as orchestrating a new, glamorous, socialist star culture. Chinese film periodicals were quick to project and disseminate the country’s redefined self-image to both domestic and international domains as they helped to create an alternative vision of modernity and internationalism. The author of this study analyses these important aspects of cinematic culture, prior to the creatively oppressive onset of the Cultural Revolution, to enrich our understanding of the internationalist agenda and attraction of Chinese revolutionary cinema and its heroic storylines. Revealing the historical contingency and mutability of the term ‘propaganda,’ Chan uncovers the visual, aural, kinaesthetic, sexual and political appeal that lies at the heart of the efficacy of propaganda as a persuasive form of pedagogy and entertainment.
Classic French Noir Gender and the Cinema of Fatal Desire Deborah Walker-Morrison
August 2018 240 pages Approx. 83,500 words => Film Studies, French Popular Culture World Rights
Deborah Walker-Morrison is Associate Professor of French at the University of Auckland. She has published widely on French cinema and is co-author (with Alistair Rolls) of French and American Noir: Dark Crossings.
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Assessment of fatal femme and fatal homme character types
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A biocultural study of the cut-throat world of French noir
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Re-examines a wide range of film productions by influential directors such as Henri Georges-Clouzot, Jacques Becker and Jules Dassin
French film noir has long been seen as a phenomenon distinct from its Hollywood counterpart. This book – an innovative departure from conventional noir scholarship – now adopts a biocultural approach to exploring the French genre through the years 19411959. Chapters reveal noir as a product of the social and cultural factors at play in occupied, liberated and post-war France: marked by malaise at military defeat, Nazi collaboration and the impact of industrialisation. Furthermore, the book uncovers the evolutionary mechanisms of sexuality and reproduction beneath the national context that drive gendered behaviour on screen. During this period, for example, the emerging urgent demand for population growth, coupled with the severe shortage of eligible males, rendered the mating game particularly perilous for traditional women beginning to enter the workplace. This explains the cynical yet seductive behaviour of the femme fatale. Deborah Walker-Morrison focuses on the dangerous, often deadly, desires of an array of male and female character-types: moving past the celebrated, fatal ‘femme’ to tragic heroines, psychopathic narcissists, fatal ‘hommes’ and gangster anti-heroes.
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The Origins of the Film Star System Persona, Publicity and Economics in Early Cinema Andrew Shail
September 2018 336 pages Approx. 140,000 words => Film & Star Studies World Rights
Andrew Shail is Senior Lecturer in Film at Newcastle University. He is the author of The Cinema and the Origins of Literary Modernism and Back to the Future; and editor of Reading the Cinematograph, Neurology and Modernity, and Menstruation: A Cultural History. His articles have appeared in Film History, the Journal of British Cinema and Television, The Senses & Society, Body & Society, Critical Quarterly, and André Gaudreault et al’s Companion to Early Cinema. He is also the co-editor, with Joe Kember, of the journal Early Popular Visual Culture.
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A highly original book on the emergence of the western ‘star system’ in the film industry
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A revisionary social and cultural history
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Includes clear and insightful analysis on the cultural economy of stars based on new archival evidence
Film stars are central to today’s celebrity-obsessed culture. Yet, in the early decades of cinema, the industry faced disincentives to using the identities of performers for publicity. For over 12 years after the invention of the projector, the major production centres of the world made fiction films without the use of constructed star personas. Explaining then the reasons why and how film companies in North America and Europe created ‘stars,’ in the years 19091911, Andrew Shail here responds to Richard deCordova’s comprehensive and landmark account, which argued that the development of the Hollywood star system was indebted to precise collaboration between the American press and movie industry. Assembling evidence from a multitude of unused and little-used archives, Shail reveals how this major aspect of show business actually originated in France and reassesses this key period of early cinema history to explore character-based series films. Writing with clarity on complex new revelations, this revisionary cultural history is an invaluable addition to the study of stardom at the start of the 20 th century and a vital tool to understanding the use of star personas through time.
Dark Star The Untold Story of Vivien Leigh Alan Strachan
October 2018 336 pages Approx. 141,859 words => Biography, Film, Theatre World Rights
Alan Strachan is a theatre director. In the West End he has directed over twenty-five productions, and overseas he has worked in Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Dublin and New York. He has directed such actors as Alec Guinness, Michael Redgrave, Michael Gambon, Jeremy Irons, Penelope Keith, Maureen Lipman, Dorothy Tutin and Pauline Collins; and plays by authors ranging from Shakespeare, Shaw and Tennessee Williams to Alan Ayckbourn and Tom Stoppard. He is the author of Secret Dreams: A biography of Michael Redgrave and Putting it On: The West End Theatre of Michael Codron.
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Major new biography of the most iconic actress of the twentieth century
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New details on Leigh’s relationship with Laurence Olivier
Vivien Leigh was perhaps the most iconic actress of the twentieth-century. As Scarlett O’Hara and Blanche Du Bois she took on some of the most pivotal roles in cinema history. Yet she was also a talented theatre actress with West End and Broadway plaudits to her name. In this ground-breaking new biography, Alan Strachan provides a completely new full-life portrait of Leigh, covering both her professional and personal life. Using previously-unseen sources from her archive, recently acquired by the V&A, he sheds new light on her fractious relationship with Laurence Olivier, based on their letters and diaries, as well as on the bipolar disorder which so affected her later life and work. Revealing new aspects of her early life as well as providing glimpses behind-the-scenes of the filming of Gone with the Wind and A Streetcar Named Desire, this book provides the essential and comprehensive life-story of one of the twentieth century’s greatest actresses.
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Ageing Femininity on Screen The Older Woman in Contemporary Cinema Niall Richardson
December 2018 256 pages Approx. 80,000 words => Film Studies, Gender Studies, Cultural Studies World Rights
Niall Richardson is Senior Lecturer and convenor of the MA in Gender and Media at the University of Sussex. He is an expert on body image in film, queer politics and the representation of gender and ageing in popular culture. His numerous publications include the co-edited collection Film and Gender and The Queer Cinema of Derek Jarman: Critical and Cultural Readings (I.B. Tauris).
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Examines both British and American films
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A range of films from the 1980s to the present day
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Unpacks stereotypes that are omnipresent in popular culture
What can queer theory, media studies and feminism bring to our understanding of cinema’s Lavender Ladies? Addressing the groundswell of scholarly interest in age and its representation, Ageing Femininity on Film explores character tropes for old women in recent film. Alongside a proliferation of negative stereotypes, like the grotesque hag or the dotty old fool, this book illuminates gentility as a key alternative. Across classics of British and American cinema since the 1980s, including Driving Miss Daisy and The Queen, aging females are empowered by genteel manners. They are amateur sleuths, retired political figures, and everyday women who refuse to be ignored. Studying examples beyond the “politics of pity,” this important book unpacks the multi-faceted relationship between gentility and feminine strength.
Harrison Ford Masculinity and Stardom in Hollywood Virginia Lúzon Aguado
December 2018 304 pages Approx. 95,000 words => Film Studies, Cultural & Media Studies World Rights
Virginia Luzón-Aguado is a senior lecturer in the Department of English Studies at the University of Zaragoza, Spain. She has previously published on gender, genre and film stardom in a variety of journals and edited anthologies, in addition to researching Harrison Ford’s contribution to cinema for over a decade.
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Examines the production and reception of Harrison Ford’s stardom in Hollywood
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Explores how Ford’s masculinity has been shaped by but also has utilised changing attitudes towards and ideas about men over time
Harrison Ford is known for such iconic roles as Hans Solo, Indiana Jones and Rick Deckard – but his career of fifty years (and counting) encompasses a plethora of other thought-provoking roles. His off-screen persona has been no less intriguing. Covering a wide timespan, this book assesses Harrison Ford as ‘star’ from the difficult Hollywood studio years where he began, his blockbusters of the 1980s, through to the impact of ageist culture on his artistry of recent years. The author argues that Ford has generally been seen as a potent, irresistible combination of tradition and modernity. He is an actor who both reflects and utilises changing ideas about American masculinity in the context of Hollywood film production: particular male types are revealed as much in his trademark trustworthy hero act as in his more fallible, less conservative and therefore commercially riskier characters. Luzon Aguado explores these particular star identities and every fluctuation in between. Going beyond standard accounts of Ford’s production and pinpointing overlooked aspects of his work, and the creation of the star through cultural artefacts like magazine interviews and advertising campaigns, this book reveals the depth and dimensions of the enduring American screen legend that is Harrison Ford. 71
Once Upon A Time Lord The Myths and Stories of Doctor Who Ivan Phillips
September 2018 256 pages Approx. 102,000 words => Doctor Who Fans, Media Studies World Rights
Ivan Phillips is an Associate Dean in the School of Creative Arts at the University of Hertfordshire. He has published widely on popular culture, science fiction and horror, reviewing regularly for Critical Studies in Television. He is a contributor to Fan Phenomena: Doctor Who.
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Shows how Doctor Who tells stories & uses myths
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New take on Doctor Who as hero
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Accessibly Doctor Who fan and student friendly in style & content
“We’re all stories in the end”, said the Doctor in ‘The Big Bang’. Stories are, fundamentally, what Doctor Who is all about. Ivan Phillips presents a lively and richly varied analysis of the accumulated tales that constitute this popular modern mythology. Concerned equally with ‘classic’ and ‘new Who’, Phillips traces the expansion of the Time Lord’s story from the television into ever more intricate patterns of transmedia production. He discusses Doctor Who as a mythology that has drawn on its own past in often complex ways, at the same time reworking elements from many other sources, whether literary, cinematic, televisual or historical. The book offers an original take on this popular hero’s journey, reading the unsettled enigma of the Doctor in relation to the characters, narratives and locations that he has encountered across more than half a century.
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