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WELCOME TO THE 2020 AUTUMN CATALOGUE We are very pleased to present to you the Oxbow Books Autumn 2020 catalogue. The first half of the catalogue contains books on archaeology, ancient history, and the middle ages from our own imprints and our partner publishers. The second half, beginning on p. 60, contains books on wider themes including arts and culture, film and cinema, philosophy, politics, and social sciences.

With so much packed into this catalogue, we’re confident that there will be something to interest you. Trade ordering information can be found inside the back cover.

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ARCHAEOLOGY, ANCIENT HISTORY & MIDDLE AGES

HUMANITIES, ARTS & CULTURE

PREHISTORY

ART & PHOTOGRAPHY

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ARCHITECTURE

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GREECE & THE HELLENISTIC WORLD

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MUSIC, THEATRE & PERFORMANCE

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ROME & THE ROMAN PROVINCES

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TELEVISION, FILM & CINEMA

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LATE ANTIQUE & BYZANTINE ARCHAEOLOGY

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BIOGRAPHY & MEMOIR

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MEDIEVAL ARCHAEOLOGY

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AMERICAN HISTORY

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POST-MEDIEVAL ARCHAEOLOGY

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CONTEMPORARY THEOLOGY

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BRITISH ARCHAEOLOGY

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EDUCATION

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WORLD HISTORY

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ENVIRONMENTAL & EARTH SCIENCE

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ARCHAEOLOGICAL METHOD & THEORY

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LANGUAGE & LITERATURE

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ART & ARCHAEOLOGY

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LITERARY CRITICISM

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TEXTILES

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MEDICINE & DISEASE

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NUMISMATICS: COINS & MEDALS

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MILITARY HISTORY

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THEOLOGY: TEXTS & STUDIES

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PHILOSOPHY

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POLITICS, ECONOMICS & LAW

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HISTORY & PHILISOPHY OF SCIENCE

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SOCIAL SCIENCES

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SPORT

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FICTION & POETRY

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Animating the Dead Bronze Age Burial Practices in Orkney Edited by Jane Downes

Brings together the results of the Orkney Barrows Project.

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280 x 216mm • 416 pages December 2020 • £40.00

About the editor: Jane Downes is Director of the Archaeological Institute of the University of the Highlands and Islands, Scotland. She has a PhD in the study of Bronze Age burial practices in Orkney from Sheffield University. Her research interests are in burial archaeology, particularly cremation, and in prehistoric and landscape archaeology.

This book brings together the results of the Orkney Barrows Project, initiated and directed by Jane Downes and funded by Historic Environment Scotland. The barrows sites detailed and discussed in the volume are Linga Fiold, a barrow cemetery in West Mainland which was comprehensively excavated and which provides extraordinary evidence of pyre sites and cremation practices; Gitterpitten, a barrow cemetery in Rendall, of which three barrows were excavated partially; and Varme Dale also in Rendall, of which two barrows were excavated. The Vestra Fiold, Sandwick barrow site which was surveyed and excavated to a limited extent is also reported upon. Eight Bronze Age cist burials excavated under ‘rescue’ conditions by a range of other individuals are also included within this volume.

The evidence is used to compare and contrast the rites and practices of cremation and inhumation.

Discussion of chronology and typology of the burials is placed in the context of the other burial evidence from Orkney, and the other aspects of the Bronze Age represented by settlement, burnt mounds, etc. As such the book forms an update to M. Hedges’ contribution ‘The Second Millennium and After’ in C. Renfrew Prehistory of Orkney (1985).

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The Early Neolithic of the Eastern Fertile Crescent The Early Neolithic of the Eastern Fertile Crescent

The Early Neolithic of the Eastern Fertile Crescent Excavations at Bestansur and Shimshara, Iraqi Kurdistan Central Zagros Archaeological Project, Volume 2

Excavations at Bestansur and Shimshara, Iraqi Kurdistan Edited by Roger Matthews, Wendy Matthews, Kamal Rasheed Raheem and Amy Richardson Series: Central Zagros Archaeological Project

R. Matthews, W. Matthews, K.Rasheed Raheem & Amy Richardson

Analysis of the transition to sedentary farming and establishment of Neolithic culture in Iraq.

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Roger Matthews, Wendy Matthews, Kamal Rasheed Raheem & Amy Richardson

The Eastern Fertile Crescent region of western Iran and eastern Iraq hosted major developments in the transition from hunter-forager to farmer-herder lifestyles through the Early Neolithic period, 10,000–7000 BC. This volume includes final reports by a large-scale interdisciplinary team on all aspects of the results from excavations at Bestansur and Shimshara, through application of state-of-the-art scientific techniques, methods and analyses.

Oxbow Books • 9781789255263 • Hardback b/w and colour illus. • 297 x 210mm • 688 pages • July 2020 • £65.00

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The Economy of a Norse Settlement in the Outer Hebrides Excavations at Mounds 2 and 2A Bornais, South Uist Edited by Niall Sharples Series: Bornais

Explores the economic evidence for the settlement at Bornais on South Uist.

Explores the economic evidence for the settlement at Bornais on South Uist, reporting in detail the large assemblages of material found during the excavations at mounds 2 and 2A. The information derived from the artefact assemblages is complemented by that provided by the ecofactual material.

The evidence produced by these excavations is exceptional and provides an unparalleled opportunity to explore medieval life in the Scandinavian kingdoms of Western Britain.

Oxbow Books • 9781789255386 • Hardback • b/w and colour illus.

297 x 210mm • 608 pages • November 2020 • £35.00

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Prehistoric Ukraine

PREHISTORIC UKR AINE From the First Hunters to the First Farmers

Edited by Malcolm C. Lillie and Inna D. Potekhina

From the First Hunters to the First Farmers Edited by Malcolm C. Lillie and Inna D. Potekhina

Covers the prehistory of Ukraine from the Lower Palaeolithic through to the end of the Neolithic periods.

The first comprehensive synthesis of Ukrainian Prehistory from earliest times through to the Neolithic Period, undertaken by researchers who are currently investigating the Prehistory of Ukraine. The chapters provide up-to-date overviews of all aspects of prehistoric culture development in Ukraine and present details of the key sites and finds for the periods studied. It will be an invaluable resource for students of prehistory throughout Europe in providing an English-language text written by active researchers.

Oxbow Books • 9781789254587 • Hardback • b/w illus.

280 x 216mm • 384 pages • July 2020 • £55.00

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Towards a Social Bioarchaeology of the Mycenaean Period Bones, Mortuary Practice, and Ideological Shifts in the Late Bronze Age Cemetery of Voudeni in Achaea, Greece

By Ioanna Moutafi Series: Studies in Funerary Archaeology

Investigates the complex relationship between funerary treatment and wider social dynamics.

This book investigates the complex relationship between funerary treatment and wider social dynamics through a contextual analysis of human skeletal remains and associated mortuary data from Voudeni, an important Mycenaean (1400–1050 BC) chamber tomb cemetery in Achaea, Greece.

Oxbow Books • 9781789254822 • Paperback • b/w and colour illus.

280 x 216mm • 304 pages • September 2020 • £40.00

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Current Approaches to Tells in the Prehistoric Old World A Cross-cultural Comparison From Early Neolithic to the Iron Age Edited by Antonio Blanco-González and Tobias L. Kienlin

Examines the tell phenomenon across Europe and the Near East from the Neolithic to Iron Age. This volume tackles tells and tell-like sites as a transversal phenomenon whose commonalities and divergences are poorly understood yet may benefit from cross-cultural comparison. It intends to assemble a representative range of ongoing theory- and science-based fieldwork projects targeting these kinds of sites. With the aim of encompassing a variety of social and material dynamics, its scope is diachronic – from the Earliest Neolithic up to the Iron Age – and covers a large region, from Iberia in western Europe to Syria in the Middle East.

Oxbow Books • 9781789254860 • Paperback • b/w and colour illus.

216 x 280mm • 240 pages • October 2020 • £38.00

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Weapons and Tools in Rock Art A World Perspective Edited by Ana M.S. Bettencourt, Manuel Santos-Estévez and Hugo Aluai Sampaio

Analysis of the subjective and metaphorical value of weapons and tools in rock art.

Weapons and tools are frequently found depicted in rock art in many parts of the globe, in different periods and in varying social contexts. This collection of papers examines the subjective and metaphorical value of weapons and tools in art, the actions that created them and their contexts. Divided into regional sections which, for once, do not focus on Scandinavia, chapters deal with the representations of weapons and certain kinds of tools in different prehistoric, protohistoric and traditional community contexts.

Oxbow Books • 9781789254907 • Hardback • b/w and colour illus.

280 x 216mm • 236 pages • October 2020 • £50.00

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Monumentalizing Life in Neolithic Europe Narratives of Continuity and Change

Edited by Anne Birgitte Gebaer, Lasse Sørensen, Anne Teather and António Carlos de Valera

Discusses why monumental architecture became an integral part of early farming societies.

Explores different theories about the relationship between monumentality and the Neolithic way of life, encompassing a wide range of types of monuments over vast areas of Europe and beyond. The latest evidence on the economic and palaeoenvironmental context, carbon 14 dates as well as analytical methods are employed. Studies cover Great Britain, Denmark, Sweden, Poland, Germany, the Dutch wetlands, Portugal, and Malta, and involve a range of monuments from long barrows and megalithic tombs to roundels and enclosures.

Oxbow Books • 9781789254945 • Hardback • b/w and colour illus.

280 x 216mm • 304 pages • October 2020 • £50.00

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Collapse and Transformation The Late Bronze Age to Early Iron Age in the Aegean Edited by Guy D. Middleton

Essential reading for students and scholars of the Aegean and eastern Mediterranean regions.

Introductory chapters discuss notions of collapse and provide an overview the Mycenaean collapse. Chapters review the evidence from the major regions of the Aegean, including the Argolid, Messenia, and Boeotia, Crete, and the Aegean islands. Key themes are also addressed, including the economy, funerary practices, the Mycenaean pottery of the mainland and the wider Aegean, religion, and the extent to which later Greek myth can be drawn upon as evidence or taken to reflect any historical reality.

Oxbow Books • 9781789254259 • Hardback • b/w illus.

280 x 216mm • 272 pages • Available Now • £55.00

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The Pitted Ware Culture on Djursland Supra-regional Significance and Contacts in the Middle Neolithic of Southern Scandinavia Edited by Lutz Klassen

Papers examining evidence for Pitted Ware culture in Djursland, Denmark.

Between c. 3000 and 2800 BC, the Pitted Ware Culture of north-eastern European descent spread to the north-eastern parts of Denmark, where the best archaeological evidence is known from the Djursland peninsula in eastern Jutland. This volume presents 12 individual papers that present the available finds from the key site of Kainsbakke as well as a number of other excavated and unexcavated sites. Besides artefacts, the faunal and botanical remains are also dealt with in a comprehensive matter.

Aarhus University Press • 9788771847826 • Hardback 297 x 210mm • 489 pages • Available Now • £58.00

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Problems in Palaeolithic and Mesolithic Research

By Mikkel Sørensen and Kristoffer Buck Pedersen Series: Arkæologiske studier

Fourteen contributions examine current approaches and problems in Palaeolithic and Mesolithic studies.

The purpose of this volume is to present current problems and approaches in Palaeolithic and Mesolithic archaeology and to provide ideas for future studies and debates. Fourteen contributions are divided into four sections: Palaeolithic and Mesolithic methodology; choices and restraints in field archaeology; dynamic perspectives on the Stone Age hunter-gatherer record; and rituals and their artefacts in the Mesolithic world.

Aarhus University Press • 9788789500270 • Hardback 297 x 210mm • 274 pages • Available Now • £25.00

The Snettisham Hoard Edited by Jody Joy and Julia Farley Series: British Museum Research Publications

A comprehensive examination of the Snettisham Treasure in its wider context.

This book is the first comprehensive account of the discoveries and excavations at Snettisham and presents a full catalogue of the finds. The majority are in the British Museum, with a significant collection also held by Norwich Castle Museum.

The book also presents the results of extensive scientific analysis, revealing new and exciting details about how torcs were manufactured. The final section places Snettisham in its wider social and landscape context.

British Museum Press • 9780861592258 • Paperback xmm • 350 pages • November 2020 • £40.00

The Oss-Noord Project The Second Decade of Excavations at Oss 1986-1996 10 years of settlement archaeology at Oss.

By Harry Fokkens, Stijn van As and Richard Jansen After the first decade of large-scale settlement research at Oss-Ussen (1974–1984), a second and a third decade followed (1986–2008). The present book is a report on the second decade of settlement excavations, all carried out under supervision of the first author. Started with a focus on the Bronze Age, the project developed into a large-scale research of Iron Age and Roman Period settlements and cemeteries over a total area of about 13 ha.

Sidestone Press • 9789088907494 • Paperback • colour illus.

265 x 210mm • 420 pages • Available Now • £90.00

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Archaeology in the Žitava Valley I The LBK and Želiezovce Settlement Site of Vráble Edited by Martin Furholt, Ivan Cheben, Johannes Müller, Alena Bistáková and Maria Wunderlich Series: Scales of Transformation

First volume on an exceptional early Neolithic site in south-west Slovakia.

The early Neolithic site of Vráble (5250–4950 cal BCE) is among the largest LBK settlement agglomerations in Central Europe. This volume presents the first part of the results of an international research project that was started in 2012 and aims to explore the social implications of settlement concentration in the context of early farming communities, on the background of subsistence patterns and landscape use.

Sidestone Press • 9789088908972 • Paperback • b/w and colour illus.

280 x 210mm • 350 pages • September 2020 • £65.00

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Interdisciplinary Analysis of the Cemetery Kudachurt 14 Evaluating Indicators of Social Inequality, Demography, Oral Health and Diet During the Bronze Age Key Period 2200–1650 BCE in the Northern Caucasus

By Katharina Fuchs Series: Scales of Transformation

Insights into social inequality, oral health and dietary strategies of a Bronze Age population.

This volume delivers the first comprehensive data collection and investigation of the cemetery Kudachurt 14 that combines burial, osteological, palaeopathological, and stable isotope information, and achieves a connection between the living and the dead in this time and place.

Sidestone Press • 9789088909030 • Paperback • b/w and colour illus.

280 x 210mm • 440 pages • September 2020 • £80.00

ALSO AVAILABLE IN HARDBACK 9789088909047 • £245.00

A Human Environment Studies in Honour of 20 years Analecta Editorship by Prof. Dr. Corrie Bakels Edited by Victor Klinkenberg, Roos van Oosten and Carol van Driel-Murray Series: Analecta Praehistorica Leidensia

Examines the interdependent relationship between humans and the environment.

How do environmental constraints and opportunities influence human behaviour and what is the human impact on the ecology and appearance of the landscape? And what can archaeological knowledge contribute to the current discussions about the use, arrangement and depletion of our (local) environment?

Sidestone Press • 9789088909061 • Paperback • b/w and colour illus.

265 x 210mm • 196 pages • Available Now • £40.00

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Past Societies Human Development in Landscapes Edited by Johannes Müller and Andrea Ricci

Selected case studies examine human development within specific landscapes.

This book examines human development within specific landscapes, from the North Atlantic to the Persian Gulf and from Peru to the Near East. Events, processes and structures are described on local, regional and global scales as well as methodological developments on ecological and societal archives.

Sidestone Press • 9789088909245 • Paperback • 17 b/w and 37 colour illus. • 254 x 178mm • 200 pages • May 2020 • £40.00

ALSO AVAILABLE IN HARDBACK 9789088909252 • 120.00

The Masons' Marks of Minoan Knossos

By Sinclair Hood and Edited by Lisa Bendall Series: BSA Supplementary Volume

Catalogues and discusses 1600 masons’ marks in the Palace of Knossos and surrounding buildings.

The signs known as ‘masons’ marks’ were carved on blocks of stone in Bronze Age Crete over a period of some 500 years from around 2000 BC until the middle of the 15th century BC. The greatest number of these signs occurs at Knossos, making this site of unique importance for their study and interpretation. These two volumes catalogue, record, and examine the typology, chronology and distribution of these marks and their meanings.

British School at Athens • 9780904887716 • Hardback • 310 illus.

304 x 203mm • 650 pages • Available now • £130.00

Stonehenge for the Ancestors Part 2: Synthesis

By Mike Parker Pearson, Joshua Pollard, Colin Richards, Julian Thomas and Kate Welham Series: The Stonehenge Riverside Project

Examines results of the long-term fieldwork project at Stonehenge.

The Stonehenge Riverside Project (2003–2009) aimed to investigate the purpose of this unique prehistoric monument by considering it within its wider archaeological context. This is the second of four volumes which present the results of that campaign. It includes studies of the lithics, both from topsoil sampling and from excavated features, as well as of the petrography of the famous bluestones.

Sidestone Press • 9789088907494 • Paperback • colour illus.

265 x 210mm • 420 pages • Available Now • £90.00

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Göltepe Excavations

By Kutlu Aslıhan Yener Series: Prehistory Monographs

Archaeometallurgy survey and excavation of an Early Bronze Age miners’ village and its associated tin mine.

This volume presents over fifteen years (1981–1996) of archaeometallurgy surveys and excavations of an Early Bronze Age miners’ village, Göltepe, and its associated tin mine, Kestel. The results of the surface surveys, test pit operations, profile trenches and excavation finds demonstrate that processing of cassiteriterich ore was the primary function of activities at Göltepe. This site represents the unique example of the highland production model – the industrial tier 1 of the extraction and processing of raw materials for the production of metal artefacts.

INSTAP Academic Press (Institute for Aegean Prehistory) • 9781931534277 Hardback • 280 x 210mm • 600 pages • November 2020 • £55.00

Kleronomia: Legacy and Inheritance Studies on the Aegean Bronze Age in Honor of Jeffrey S. Soles Edited by Joanne M.A. Murphy and Jerolyn E. Morrison Series: Prehistory Monographs

Twenty-seven papers touching on themes Jeffrey Soles has influenced during his illustrious career.

The 27 papers presented in this volume, organised chronologically, harken to the wide range of themes that Jeffrey Soles has addressed and influenced during his illustrious career: ancestry, burial customs, religion, trade, jewellery, the development of Mochlos, and the rise and fall of Minoan Crete.

INSTAP Academic Press (Institute for Aegean Prehistory) • 9781931534284 Hardback • 280 x 210mm • 310 pages • July 2020 • £55.00

The Minoan Shipwreck at Pseira, Crete

By Elpida Hadjidaki-Marder Series: Prehistory Monographs

Describes the excavation of a Minoan shipwreck dated to 1725/1700 BC. This volume describes the discovery in 2003 and excavation between 2004 and 2009 of a Minoan ship that sunk near the island of Pseira around 1725/1700 BC. The recovered cargo constitutes the largest known corpus of complete and almost complete clay vessels from a single Middle Minoan IIB deposit in several categories. The activity of each season is described, followed by a catalogue with extensive discussion of the pottery, a petrographic analysis and catalogues of weights and stone tools.

INSTAP Academic Press (Institute for Aegean Prehistory) • 9781931534291 Hardback • 280 x 210mm • 150 pages • September 2020 • £55.00

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Making One's Way in the World

The Bell Beaker Transition in Europe

Art in the Eurasian Iron Age

By Martin Bell

Edited by Laure Salanova and Maria Pilar Prieto Martínez

Edited by Courtney Nimura, Helen Chittock, Peter Hommel and Chris Gosden

Addresses the topic of how to identify and interpret patterns of movement in prehistory.

Oxbow Books • 9781789254020 Hardback • 320 pages Available Now • £50.00

New perspectives on the Bell Beaker transition across Europe.

Explores Iron Age art at a Eurasian scale.

Houses of the Dead?

Growing up in the Ice Age

The Social Context of Technology

Edited by Alistair Barclay, David Field and Jim Leary

By April Nowell

By Sophia Adams, Joanna Brück and Leo Webley

Prehistoric Society Research Papers

Oxbow Books • 9781789253948 Hardback • 256 pages Available Now • £48.00

Neolithic Studies Group Seminar Papers

Oxbow Books • 9781789253849 New in Paperback • 224 pages July 2020 • £35.00

Explores the interface between the Neolithic structure of the living and the dead.

Examines the economic, social and political roles of Palaeolithic children.

Oxbow Books • 9781789254105 Paperback • 216 pages Available Now • £40.00

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Archaeological evidence for non-ferrous metalworking in the Bronze and Iron Ages of Britain and Ireland.

Oxbow Books • 9781789251760 Hardback • 288 pages June 2020 • £35.00

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Scales of Transformation

Wessex Archaeology Monography A Prehistoric Burial Mound and Anglo-Saxon Cemetery at Barrow Clump, Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire

Megalithic Monuments and Social Structures

Magical, Mundane or Marginal?

Edited by Philippa Bradley

By Maria Wunderlich

Excavations on the site of a large, partly extant Early Bronze Age burial mound.

An exploration of megalith building activities, supported by rich and varied case studies.

Papers on Early Neolithic depositional practices and what they can tell us about society, belief, and world views.

Wessex Archaeology 9781911137122 • Hardback 284 pages • Available Now £25.00

Sidestone Press • 9789088907869 Paperback • 450 pages Available Now • £90.00

Sidestone Press • 9789088908613 Paperback • 250 pages Available Now • £45.00

The Last HunterGatherers

By Nicholas J. Conard and ClauJoachim Kind

By Kurt Felix Hillgruber

Kerns Verlag • 9783935751339 Hardback • 192 pages October 2020 • £46.00

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Explores the first large-scale southwestern Syrian Palaeolithic survey and excavation project.

Kerns Verlag • 9783935751261 Hardback • 290 pages Available Now • £37.00

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Tübingen Publications in Prehistory

The Beginnings of Art and Music

Engl ish t ra nsl a tio n o f a n important work examining finds from Prehistoric Germany.

Edited by Daniela Hofman

Ice Age Archaeology

By Nicholas J. Conard, Michael Bolus, Ewa Dutkiewicz and Sibylle Wolf Examines the current states of research in remarkable archaeological landscapes.

Kerns Verlag • 9783935751322 Paperback • 276 pages October 2020 • £18.00

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The Exodus An Egyptian Story

By Peter Feinman

A real-world approach to understanding the Exodus using archaeological evidence.

Did the Exodus occur? This question has been asked in biblical scholarship since its origin as a modern science. The desire to scientifically resolve this question was a key component in the funding of archaeological excavations in the 19th century.

Egyptian archaeologists routinely equated sites with their presumed biblical counterpart. Initially, it was taken for granted that the Exodus had occurred. It was simply a matter of finding the archaeological data to prove it. So far, those results have been for naught.

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Oxbow Books • 9781789254747 Paperback • b/w illus. • 240 x 170mm 192 pages • October 2020 • £30.00

About the author: Peter Feinman is the founder of the Institute of History, Archaeology, and Education. He advocates for the importance of local history in education and citizenship. Ever since he was a child he has wanted to know how Moses did what he did.

This book takes a very real-world approach to understanding the Exodus. It is not a story of cosmic spectaculars that miraculously or coincidentally occurred when a people prepared to leave Egypt.

Instead, it tells the story of Exodus without reference to the Bible – as if the Bible did not even exist.

It is told based on the archaeological record in Egypt and in nearby areas such as Canaan, the land of promise. Biblical passages are not quoted. Although when the archaeological data is put together it is done so with the Exodus in mind. The story isexamined from an Egyptian perspective.

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The Oasis Papers 8 Pleistocene Research in the Western Desert of Egypt Edited by Maxine K. Kleindienst Series: Dakhleh Oasis Papers

Geoarchaeological and palaeo-environmental analyses from the Western Desert of Egypt.

This is the only volume to present significant results of research into the Pleistocene of the Western Desert of Egypt. The papers are focused on geoarchaeological and palaeo-environmental data, reporting on different aspects of the off-site fieldwork conducted in the oases. This volume will be a major contribution to the publication of the results of several decades of work in a region where fieldwork is now increasingly difficult.

Oxbow Books • 9781789255713 • Paperback • b/w illus.

297 x 210mm • 240 pages • November 2020 • £45.00

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The People of the Cobra Province in Egypt A Local History, 4500 to 1500 BC

By Wolfram Grajetzki

A social history of the working population of the ancient province of Cobra, Egypt.

Delivers a history from below for the first half of Egyptian history covering the earliest settlements, state formation and the pyramid age. The focus is on the Wadjet province, about 350 km south of modern Cairo in Upper Egypt. Here, archaeological records provide an especially rich dataset for the material culture of farmers. The book investigates the life of people far from the centres of power and examines the interaction between farmers and the ruling classes.

Oxbow Books • 9781789254211 • Hardback • b/w illus.

240 x 170mm • 288 pages • Available Now • £55.00

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Lisa in Egypt About a Ten-year-old Girl who went to an Archaeological Excavation in Egypt

By Lisa Seldenthuis

A story of a girl who goes to an excavation in Egypt, for ages 10–14.

Designed for children aged 10–14 and their teachers, this beautifully illustrated book tells the story of a ten-year-old girl who went to an archaeological excavation in Egypt. A learning tool for the home or the classroom, it explores key topics in archaeology, tells the tale of archaeologists excavating the desert, and the finds they come across.

Blikvelduitgevers Publishers • 9789492940148 • Paperback • colour illus.

210 x 150mm • 100 pages • September 2020 • £17.00

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A Stranger in the House – The Crossroads III Proceedings of an International Conference on Foreigners in Ancient Egyptian and Near Eastern Societies of the Bronze Age held in Prague, September 10–13, 2018 Edited by Jana Mynářová, Marwan Kilani and Sergio Alivernini

Proceedings of an international conference on Foreigners in Ancient Egyptian and Near Eastern Societies.

Interdisciplinary contributions from a conference which aimed to enhance the understanding of 'foreignness' in ancient societies between the end of the Chalcolithic period and the end of the Late Bronze Age. Some contributions approach the discussion from a theoretical perspective or explore theoretical frameworks to study ‘foreignness’. Others examine the sociocultural dimension involved in the presence of foreigners or their interactions with local communities.

Czech Institute of Egyptology • 9788073089283 • Hardback 265 x 210mm • 435 pages • Available Now • £66.80

Created for Eternity The Greatest Discoveries of Czech Egyptology

By Miroslav Bárta, Ladislav Bareš and Jaromír Krajčí Series: BSA Supplementary Volume

The activities of Czech Egyptologists and their most important discoveries.

In 2019 the Czech Institute of Egyptology celebrated the 100th birthday of Czech Egyptology. It was an important centenary for archaeology globally. For many years now Czech Egyptologists have been among world leaders in the field, making major breakthroughs (most recently the discovery of the tomb of the priest Kaires), and helping to set new international research trends. This book presents the most important discoveries of Czech Egyptologists and the range and variety of their activities.

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The Persistence of Memory in Kush Pianchy and His Temple

By Anthony Spalinger

A report on the military reliefs in the Great Temple at Gebel Barkal in Nubia.

This report is concerned with military reliefs in the Great Temple at Gebel Barkal in Nubia, the present Sudan. It includes important battle scenes in the Great Temple’s inner hall (B 502), as well as the outer hall (B 501).

Czech Institute of Egyptology • 9788073089160 • Hardback 295 x 215mm • 192 pages • Available Now • £71.00

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Être et paraître, Statues royales et privées de la fin du Moyen Empire et de la Deuxième Période intermédiaire (1850–1550 av. J.-C.)

By Simon Connor Series: Middle Kingdom Studies

An evaluation of late Middle Kingom and Second Intermediate Period (c. 1850 to 1550 BC) sculpture.

This volume presents an evaluation of late Middle Kingdom and Second Intermediate Period (c. 1850 to 1550 BC) sculpture. It touches on several aspects, including style, material, and dating. The book is well-illustrated, with over 100 black and white plates, and includes a catalogue of all statues of the period.

Golden House Publications • 9781906137663 • Hardback • c. 500 illus.

297 x 210mm • 500 pages • Available Now • £75.00

‘Is there not one among you who understands Egyptian?’

The Late Egyptian Language: Structure of its Grammar

By Helmut Satzinger

An in-depth account of the grammar and structure of Late Egyptian.

Late Egyptian – the vernacular idiom of the time of the Ramesside pharaohs (14th through 12th century BCE) – is a distinct episode in the history of the Egyptian-Coptic language. It has new vocabulary, pronunciation, and spelling, and follows new grammatical rules. This account of its structure covers phonetics, spelling, morphology, and syntax.

Golden House Publications • 9781906137670 • Paperback 250 x 165mm • 170 pages • Available Now • £35.00

The Architecture of Mastaba Tombs in the Unas Cemetery

By Ashley Cooke Series: The Munro Archive Project. Studies on the Unas Cemetery in Saqqara

Explores tomb architecture in the late Old Kingdom by examining mastabas in the Unas Cemetery, Saqqara.

Until comparatively recently, there has been little attempt to produce a detailed study of the architectural make-up of multi-roomed mastaba tombs and the implications of these observations for understanding the ways in which this type of tomb was really used. This book considers the architectural components of tomb design that made an ideal burial and explores different aspects of the design and construction of mastabas in the late Old Kingdom (c. 2375–2181 BC).

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The Many Histories of Naqada Edited by Alice Stevenson and Joris van Wetering Series: GHP Egptology

Argues that the Naqada region is worthy of renewed critical attention.

This edited volume presents a series of reviews, overviews and unpublished archives from several historic expeditions in the Naqada region of Upper Egypt. This includes 19th-century fieldwork led by Gaston Maspero, Jacques de Morgan and Flinders Petrie, through to surveys conducted in the 20th century and new initiatives in the region in the 2010s.

It encompasses not just the better-known Predynastic finds, but also later Pharaonic era material as well as Coptic heritage.

Golden House Publications • 9781906137694 • Paperback 100 illus. • 297 x 210mm • 300 pages • May 2020 • £60.00

A Mesopotamian Miscellany

By Karen Polinger Foster and Benjamin R. Foster Series: Gorgias Studies in the Ancient Near East

A collection of readings highlighting the diversity of Mesopotamian literature.

Drawn from Akkadian and Sumerian tablets in the Yale Babylonian Collection, many of them previously unpublished, this collection of readings brings to life the vibrancy of ancient Mesopotamian literature, beyond its better-known myths and epics. The book’s unique thematic structure presents a wide range of timeless subjects, while the individual selections open new perspectives, thanks to their vivid details. The texts include letters, poems, prayers, humorous sketches, dialogues, and proverbs.

Gorgias Press • 9781463240523 • Hardback • 229 x 152mm 174 pages • December 2020 • £52.00

Rest in Mesopotamian and Israelite Literature

By Daniel Kim Series: Perspectives on Hebrew Scriptures and its Contexts

Studies the concept of rest in the Hebrew Bible and ancient Near Eastern literature.

This volume studies the concept of rest in the Hebrew Bible and ancient Near Eastern literature. Through close examination of Mesopotamian texts and selections from the Deuteronomistic History and Chronicles, Kim delineates a concept of rest for each body of literature and employs a comparative approach to illuminate the rest motif in the Hebrew Bible in light of Mesopotamian literature.

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Middle Kingdom Studies

Dakhleh Oasis Papers

Ancient Textiles Series

Wool Economy in the Ancient Near East and the Aegean

The Oasis Papers 9

New Horizons

Edited by Colin A. Hope and Gillian E. Bowen

By Aaron M. de Souza

Edited by Catherine Breniquet and Cécile Michel

A synthesis of the current state of our knowledge of Dakhleh Oasis.

Explores key themes around wool in the Ancient Near East.

A study of the Pan-Grave ceramics found in Egypt and Nubia.

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Stelae of the Middle Kingdom and the Second Intermediate Period

Amarna: Life Under the Sun

Hair and Death in Ancient Egypt

An ideal learning tool, with stories and hands-on activities for children 7–11 about Egyptian life.

By Maria Rosa Valdesogo

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By Helmut Satzinger and Danijela Stefanovic

Examines the relationship between hair and death in Ancient Egypt.

A catalogue of the Middle Kingdom.

Golden House Publications 9781906137632 • Paperback 181 pages • Available Now £75.00

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Affective Relations and Personal Bonds in Hellenistic Antiquity Studies in honor of Elizabeth D. Carney Edited by Monica D'Agostini, Edward M. Anson and Frances Pownall

Discusses the intra- and extra-familial network ruling the Mediterranean world at the time of Philip and Alexander.

Building on the methodological approach and theoretical framework engendered by Elizabeth Carney’s research, this book explores the complex web of personal relations governing Alexander the Great’s world. Inspired by Carney’s seminal work on Ancient Macedonia, the volume moves beyond the traditionally rationalist and positivist approaches towards Hellenistic antiquity, into a new area of humanistic scholarship, by considering the dynastic bloodlines as well as the affective relations.

Oxbow Books • 9781789254983 • Hardback • b/w illus.

240 x 170mm • 352 pages • October 2020 • £55.00

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Karia and the Dodekanese Volume I Cultural Interrelations in the Southeast Aegean: I Late Classical to Early Hellenistic Edited by Birte Poulsen, Poul Pedersen and John Lund

Regional and interregional relations in western Asia Minor.

These papers focus on regional developments and interregional relations in western Asia Minor and the Dodekanese during the Late Classical and Early Hellenistic period. They explore the area which, throughout antiquity, was a dynamic meeting place for eastern and western civilisations where cultural achievements of exceptional and everlasting importance, including significant creations of ancient Greek literature, philosophy, art and architecture, originated.

Oxbow Books • 9781789255102 • Hardback • b/w and colour illus.

280 x 216mm • 264 pages • December 2020 • £48.00

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Karia and the Dodekanese Volume II Cultural Interrelations in the Southeast Aegean: II Early Hellenistic to Early Byzantine Edited by Birte Poulsen, Poul Pedersen and John Lund

Highlights cultural interrelations and connectivity in the Southeast Aegean and western Asia Minor.

It is clear that close relations existed between the Dodekanese and western Asia Minor during the Classical period but this volume explores their development under the shifting political influences of Hellenistic kings, the Roman Empire and the cosmopolitan late antique period. It examines urbanism, architectural form and embellishment, sculpture, pottery and epigraphy.

Oxbow Books • 9781789255140 • Hardback • b/w and colour illus.

280 x 216mm • 336 pages • December 2020 • £50.00

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The Kyrenia Ship Final Excavation Report, Volume I History of the Excavation, Amphoras, Pottery and Coins as Evidence for Dating Edited by Susan W. Katsev and Laina W. Swiney Series: The Kyrenia Ship Final Excavation Report

Examines the best preserved and dated example of a Greek merchantman.

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About the editors: Susan W. Katzev trained as a sculptor. She worked as an artist on Roman and Early Byzantine shipwrecks at Yassi Ada, Turkey and then served as draughtsperson photographer, and director and writer for a film documenting the Kyrenia Ship excavations of Michael L. Katzev. Since Michael’s death in 2001 she has been working to complete the series of publications on the Kyrenia Ship.

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The Kyrenia ship, a Greek merchantman built around 315 BC and sunk off the north coast of Cyprus 294–291 BC, was excavated between 1967 and 1972 under the direction of Michael Katzev. The importance of this ship lies in the extraordinary state of preservation of the hull, allowing great insights into ancient shipbuilding, and into the cargo it was carrying. Its hold was full of Rhodian transport amphoras and its cabin pottery was also mostly made on Rhodes, which was probably its home port. Its trade route ran between Rhodes, Cyprus, the Levant, and possibly Egypt.

This first of a planned multi-volume publication includes a detailed history of the excavation of the ship, as well as the most important objects for determining the date of its sinking. These include the primary cargo, transport amphorae, with four different types from Rhodes; fewer examples from Samos and the Cyclades (Paros), and possibly northern Greece, Cyprus and the Levant. The Rhodian amphora stamps date the shipwreck to between 294 and 291 BC. The second most helpful dating material comprises vessels and utensils (cups and saucers, cooking pots and grills, serving bowls and spoons, water jars and pitchers) used by the crew. For most categories, four examples were found, suggesting a crew of four. Scientific analyses show that the majority were again made in Rhodes. Seven bronze coins were recovered, five of which were minted in the name of Alexander the Great and one in the name of Ptolemy I in Cyprus. Together, these objects document not only the date of the sinking but also give evidence of the probable Rhodian home port and trade route of the Kyrenia ship’s final voyage.

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Ottoman Athens Archaeology, Topography, History Edited by Maria Georgopoulou and Konstantinos Thanasakis

The first volume to focus on the Ottoman presence in Athens.

This collection of 12 essays explores the architecture, antiquities, cartography and documentary sources from Greece’s most famous city during Ottoman rule.

Topics include the Parthenon mosque; the neighborhood of Karykes and the fountain of the Exechoron; the restoration of the Benizelos Mansion; Ottomanperiod baths in Athens; topographic maps of Athens during the Ottoman period; the Vienna Anonymous and the Bassano drawing; Ottoman-period pottery found in the Athenian Agora; and travellers' accounts of the hammams of Athens.

American School of Classical Studies at Athens • 9789609994545 Paperback • 279 x 203mm • 290 pages • Available Now • £24.95

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On the Edge of a Roman Port Excavations at Koutsongila, Kenchreai, 2007–2014 Edited by Elena Korka and Joseph L. Rife Series: Hesperia Supplement

Finds from Early Roman to Early Byzantine buildings and burials at Kenchreai.

Between 2007 and 2014, a Greek-American team investigated an impressive array of Early Roman to Early Byzantine buildings and burials on the Koutsongila Ridge at Kenchreai. This volume presents the project’s final results, revealing abundant evidence not only for the history of activity in a transitional urban/suburban landscape, but also for the society, economy and religion of local residents.

American School of Classical Studies at Athens • 9780876615546 Paperback • 279 x 203mm • 1240 pages • November 2020 • £130.00

Hellenistic Architecture and Human Action A Case of Reciprocal Influence Edited by Annette Haug and Asja Müller Series: Scales of Transformation

Examines the mutual influence of architecture and human action during the Hellenistic age.

This volume assembles contributions focusing on Hellenistic architecture as an action context, perceived in movement through built space. Sanctuaries, as a particularly coherent kind of built space featuring well-defined sets of architecture combined with ritual action, were chosen as the general frame for the analyses. The reciprocity between this sacred architecture and (religious) human action is traced through several layers starting from three specific case studies.

Sidestone Press • 9789088909092 • Paperback • 38 b/w and colour illus.

280 x 210mm • 212 pages • September 2020 • £40.00

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Continuity and Rupture in Roman Mediterranean Gaul An Archaeology of Colonial Transformations at Ancient Lattara

By Benjamin P. Luley

Examines the impact of Roman rule on the city of Lattara, Gaul 500-200 BCE. With the decline in popularity of the term 'Romanization' as a way of analysing the changes in the archaeological record visible throughout the conquered provinces of the Roman Empire, scholars have increasingly turned to the important concept of 'identity'. This volume provides a detailed study of the ways in which the Celtic-speaking peoples of the ancient settlement of Lattara in Roman Mediterranean Gaul fashioned their lives under two centuries of Roman rule.

Oxbow Books • 9781789255669 • Hardback • b/w and colour illus.

240 x 170mm • 304 pages • October 2020 • £50.00

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Britannia Romana Roman Inscriptions and Roman Britain

By R.S.O. Tomlin

Presentation, translation and interpretation of all known, major inscriptions from Roman Britain.

This book collects 487 inscriptions (mostly on stone, but also on metal, wood, tile and ceramic), the majority from Britain but many from other Roman provinces and Italy, to illustrate the history and character of Roman Britain (AD 43–410). Each inscription is presented in the original (in Latin, except for eight in Greek), followed by a translation and informal commentary; they are linked by the narrative which they illustrate, and 236 are accompanied by photographs.

Oxbow Books • 9781789255485 • New in Paperback 240 x 170mm • 464 pages • September 2020 • £29.95

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Life in the Limes Studies of the People and Objects of the Roman Frontiers Edited by Rob Collins and Frances McIntosh

A collection of papers exploring diverse themes focused on the Roman frontiers.

Lindsay Allason-Jones has been at the forefront of small finds and Roman frontier research for 40 years in a career focused on, but not exclusive to, the north of Britain, encompassing an enormous range of object types and subject areas. Divided into thematic sections, the contributions presented here celebrate the many achievements of Lindsay Allason-Jones, all representing at least one aspect of Lindsay’s research interests.

Oxbow Books • 9781789253856 • New in Paperback • b/w and colour illus.

280 x 216mm • 264 pages • July 2020 • £38.00

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Julius Caesar's Battle for Gaul

Glass of the Roman World

Army of the Roman Emperors

Edited by Andrew P. Fitzpatrick and Colin Haselgrove

Edited by Justine Bayley, Ian Freestone and Caroline Jackson

By Thomas Fischer and translated by M.C. Bishop

The latest archaeological research on the Battle for Gaul and its aftermath.

Eighteen papers on how glass was produced, traded and used in the Roman world.

A major overview of the imperial Roman army.

Oxbow Books • 9781789250503 Paperback • 336 pages Available Now • £38.00

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The Roman Villa at Maasbracht

The Maryport Roman Settlement Project

Edited by W.K. Vos, Corrie Bakels and T.A. Goossens

By John Zant

A Bath House, Settlement and Industry on Roman Southwark's North Island

A beautifully illustrated analysis of the famous Roman Villa at Maasbracht.

Sidestone Press • 9789088908569 Paperback • 204 pages Available Now • £45.00

Examines the primarily Roman evidence from excavations at Maryport.

By Victoria Ridgeway, Joanna Taylor and Edward Biddulph

Oxford Archaeology North 9781907686337 • Paperback 188 pages • Available Now £25.00

Pre-Construct Archaeology 9780995663626 • Hardback 518 pages • Available Now £30.00

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Imagining the Divine Art in Religions of Late Antiquity Across Eurasia Edited by Jaś Elsner and Rachel Wood Series: British Museum Research Publications

An innovative approach to the study of the place of art in ancient religion.

This groundbreaking volume brings together scholars of the art and archaeology of Late Antiquity across cultures and regions reaching from India to Iberia, to discuss how objects can inform our understanding of religions. Despite recent steps to incorporate objects into such studies, much academic discourse remains stubbornly textual. This volume seeks to explore the ramifications of placing objects first and foremost in the comparative study of religions in Late Antiquity.

British Museum Press • 9780861592340 • Paperback xmm • 200 pages • November 2020 • £40.00

A Globalised Visual Culture?

Towards a Geography of Late Antique Art Edited by Fabio Guidetti and Katharina Meinecke

Investigates the seemingly globalised visual culture that spread across the late antique world.

Late antique artefacts, and the images they carry, attest to a highly connected visual culture from c. 300 to 800 CE. This volume explores the reasons behind this seemingly globalised visual culture, both within the borders of the (former) Roman and (later) Byzantine Empire and beyond. The wide range of case studies from different geographical and cultural contexts exemplifies the scale of the phenomenon and demonstrates the benefit of utilising a combination of different theoretical approaches.

Oxbow Books • 9781789254464 • Hardback • colour illus.

240 x 170mm • 376 pages • June 2020 • £50.00

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Butrint 7 Beyond Butrint: Kalivo, Çuka e Aitoit and their surroundings: Surveys and Excavations by the Italian Archaeological Mission, the Albanian Institute of Archaeology and the Butrint Foundation, 1928–2015 Edited by Richard Hodges Series: Butrint Archaeological Monographs

Unpublished archive reports and new fieldwork reports on Butrint, Albania.

A collection of reports and essays pertaining to the Butrint Foundation project at Butrint, Albania. It includes unpublished archive reports discovered in Rome and Tirana, commentaries on their methodology and history, as well as several new fieldwork reports arising from research made or supported by the Butrint Foundation.

Oxbow Books • 9781789254334 • Hardback • b/w and colour illus.

297 x 210mm • 224 pages • September 2020 • £45.00

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Ancient Arms Race: Antiquity's Largest Fortresses and Sasanian Military Networks of Northern Iran A Joint Fieldwork Project by the Iranian Cultural Heritage, Handcraft and Tourism Organisation and the Universities of Edinburgh and Durham (2014–2016) Edited by Eberhard Sauer, Jebrael Nokandeh and Hamid Omrani Rekavandi

Explores the role of the Iranian fortresses on the Romano-Persian frontier in the late antique period.

Which ancient army boasted the largest fortifications, and how did the competitive build-up of military capabilities shape world history? This book explores Sasanian fortresses, which few realise dwarfed the fortresses of Imperial Rome. Using recent excavations and surveys, it discusses the dates of these fortresses and sheds new light on frontier life.

Oxbow Books • 9781789254624 • Hardback • b/w and colour illus.

297 x 210mm • 864 pages • December 2020 • £80.00

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The Last Empire of Iran

By Michael R. Jackson Series: Gorgias Handbooks

A clear, thorough, and accessible presentation of the history of Iran in Late Antiquity.

This handbook is a history of the Sasanian dynasty: the rulers of the last Iranian empire before the Arab conquests in the 7th century which was the foremost power between Rome and the nomadic world of Inner Asia in Late Antiquity.

The book covers the main features of Sasanian political and military history in the form of a narrative formed from the primary sources and the best modern scholarship. It also brings together archaeological and recent sigillographic evidence.

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City Walls in Late Antiquity An Empire-wide Perspective Edited by Emanuele Intagliata, Christopher Courault and Simon J. Barker

The first comprehensive study of late Roman and late antique city walls.

The construction of urban defences was one of the hallmarks of the late Roman and late antique periods (AD 300–600) throughout the western and eastern empire. To date, research on city walls in the two halves of the empire has highlighted chronological and regional variations, enabling scholars to rethink how and why urban circuits were built and functioned in Late Antiquity. This book seeks to provide a broader understanding of the phenomenon.

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My Life as a Replica St John’s Cross, Iona

By Sally Foster with Sian Jones

An interdisciplinary composite cultural biography of the St John’s Cross on Iona and its copies.

In 1970 a concrete replica of the St John’s Cross arrived in Iona sitting incongruously on the deck of a puffer delivering the island’s annual supply of coal. What is the story behind this intriguing replica? How does it relate to the world’s first ringed ‘Celtic’ cross, an artistic and technical masterpiece, which has been at the heart of the Iona experience since the eighth century? What does it tell us about the authenticity and value of replicas?

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About the authors: Sally Foster is Senior Lecturer in Heritage and Conservation at the University of Stirling and former Principal Inspector of Ancient Monuments at Historic Scotland.

Siân Jones is Professor of Environmental History and Heritage at the University of Stirling.

In this fascinating book, Foster and Jones draw on extensive interdisciplinary research to reveal the composite biography of the St John’s Cross, its concrete replica, and its many other scale copies.

They show that replicas can acquire rich forms of authenticity and value, informed by social relations, craft practices, creativity, place and materiality. Thus, the book challenges traditional precepts that seek authenticity in qualities intrinsic to original historic objects. Replicas are shown to be important objects in their own right, with their own creative, human histories – biographies that people can connect with.

The story of the St John’s Cross celebrates how replicas can ‘work’ for us if we let them, particularly if clues are available about their makers’ passion, creativity and craft.

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Re-imagining Periphery Archaeology and Text in Northern Europe from Iron Age to Viking and Early Medieval Periods Edited by Charlotta Hillerdal and Kristin Ilves

A collective summary of our current understandings of Iron Age and early medieval northern Europe.

Delves into the current state of Iron Age and early medieval research in northern europe. Over the last two decades of archaeological explorations, theoretical vanguards and new methodological strategies, together with a growing amount of multidisciplinary critical studies in archaeology, have dramatically changed our understanding of northern Iron Age societies. This book provides a collective summary of our understanding and facilitates a renewed interaction between academia and the ever-growing field of infrastructural archaeology.

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Everyday Life in Viking-Age Towns Social Approaches to Towns in England and Ireland, c. 800–1100 Edited by Letty ten Harkel and D.M. Hadley

Explores everyday life in Viking-Age towns from both sides of the Irish Sea. The study of early medieval towns has frequently concentrated on urban beginnings, the search for broadly applicable definitions of urban characteristics and the chronological development of towns. This book focuses instead on everyday life in and around these emerging settlements. What was it really like to grow up, live and die in these towns? What did people eat, what did they wear and how did they make a living for themselves?

Oxbow Books • 9781789255461 • New in Paperback 242 x 170mm • 272 pages • July 2020 • £29.95

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Exploring Celtic Origins New Ways Forward in Archaeology, Linguistics, and Genetics Edited by Barry Cunliffe and John T. Koch

Explores the background of Celts and speakers of Celtic languages.

The fruit of collaborative work by researchers in archaeology, historical linguistics and archaeogenetics over the past ten years, this book aims to improve understanding of the background in the Bronze Age and Beaker Period of the people who emerge as Celts and speakers of Celtic languages documented in the Iron Age and later times. Contributors present multidisciplinary chapters in a lively user-friendly style, aimed at accessibility for workers in the other fields, as well as general readers.

Oxbow Books • 9781789255508 • New in Paperback 246 x 189mm • 224 pages • November 2020 • £32.00

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Medieval Rural Settlement Britain and Ireland, AD 800–1600

By Neil Christie and Paul Stamper This book offers a comprehensive analysis of early to late medieval settlement, land use, economics and population, bringing together evidence drawn from archaeological excavations and surveys, historical geographical analysis and documentary and place-name study. Extensively illustrated in colour and black and white, and written by expert contributors, the volume includes a comprehensive, integrated bibliography and an index. It will be essential reading for everyone researching and interested in medieval settlements and the medieval rural landscape.

Windgather Press • 9781911188674 • New in Paperback 246 x 185mm • 304 pages • October 2020 • £25.00

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Horse and Rider in the Late Viking Age Edited by Merete Schifter Bagge and Anne Pedersen

Places a rich equestrian burial from the 10th century in a wider context.

In 2017 an exceptionally rich equestrian burial from the 10th century was discovered at Fregerslev near Skanderborg, Denmark, which contained a high-status horseman, buried with valuable grave goods. This volume seeks to place the burial in a wider context and to determine whether the burial was an expression of a new powerful elite, of new religious symbolism, funerary rituals, or new cultural impulses and changing values.

Aarhus University Press • 9788771849981 • Hardback 297 x 210mm • 280 pages • October 2020 • £35.00

Pecsaetna People of the Anglo-Saxon Peak District

By Phil Sidebottom

Recent research into the ‘lost’ Anglo-Saxon Pecsaetna people.

This book is intended to pull together our current knowledge of the ‘lost’ group of people called the Pecsaetna (literally, meaning the ‘Peak Sitters’) by synthesising more recent historical and archaeological research towards a better understanding of their activities, territory and identity. This group of people is shrouded in the mists of the so-called ‘Dark Ages’ and are only known to us by the chance survival of less than a handful of documents.

Windgather Press • 9781911188681 • Paperback • b/w illus.

246 x 185mm • 144 pages • August 2020 • £29.99

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The Glass Vessels of Anglo-Saxon England c. AD 650–1100

The Wealth of England

By Susan Rose

The Cosmatesque Mosaics of Westminster Abbey

The first comprehensive work examining early medieval glass.

A fascinating exposition on the role of the wool trade in the economy and political history of medieval England.

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Interpreting Medieval Effigies

The Anglo-Saxon Princely Burial at Prittlewell, Southend-on-Sea

Settlement Change across Medieval Europe

By Rose Broadley

By Brian Gittos and Moira Gittos A detailed examination of more than 200 examples of surviving monumental effigies.

By Sue Hirst and Christopher Scull

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Describes and illustrates years of study of the Prittlewell princely burial.

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By War wick Rodwell and David S. Neal A holistic study of an oustanding group of momnuments.

Edited by Niall Brady and Claudia Theune Examines how changes in the past affected landscapes and society.

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"And So the Tomb Remained" Exploring Archaeology and Forensic Science within Connecticut's Historical Family Mausolea

By Nick Bellantoni Series: Studies in Funerary Archaeology

Tells the stories of the Connecticut State Archaeologist’s investigations into five 18th-/19thcentury family tombs.

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Stone and brick tombs were repositories for the physical remains of many of Connecticut’s wealthiest and influential families. The desire was to be interred within burial vaults rather than have their wooden coffins laid into the earth in direct contact with crushing soil burden led many prominent families to construct large above-ground and semi-subterranean tombs, usually burrowed into the sides of hills as places of interment for their dead.

And The Tomb Remains tells the stories of the Connecticut State Archaeologist’s investigations into five 18th-/19th-century family tombs: the sepulchers of Squire Elisha Pitkin, Center Cemetery, East Hartford; Gershom Bulkeley, Ancient Burying Ground, Colchester; Samuel and Martha Huntington, Norwichtown Cemetery, Norwich; Henry Chauncey, Indian Hill Cemetery, Middletown; and Edwin D. Morgan, Cedar Hill Cemetery, Hartford. In all of these cases, the state archaeologist assisted in identifying and restoring human skeletal remains to their original burial placements when vandalized through occult rituals or contributed to the identification of unrecorded burials during restoration projects.

Each investigative delves into family histories and genealogies, as well as archaeological and forensic sciences that helped identify the entombed and is told in a personal, story-telling approach. Written in essay form, each investigation highlights differing aspects of research in mortuary architecture and cemetery landscaping, public health, restoration efforts, crime scene investigations, and occult activities.

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Landscapes Revealed Remote Sensing Across the Heart of Neolithic Orkney World Heritage Site

By Amanda Brend, Nick Card, Jane Downes, Mark Edmonds and James Moore

Results of geophysical survey of c. 285 ha on Orkney.

This book documents the results of a programme of geophysical and related survey across an area of c. 285 ha between Skara Brae and Maeshowe, Orkney.

It aims to synthesise the data from different forms of survey and to document the changing character and development of this landscape over time. The genuinely remarkable results are presented in an accessible manner, with an array of images which fully document and interpret the evidence.

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280 x 216mm • 288 pages • September 2020 • £35.00

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Brothers Minor: Lancashire's Lost Fransciscans Investigations at Preston Friary 1991 and 2007

By Jeremy Bradley and Stephen Rowland Series: Lancaster Imprints

Details of excavations and post-excavation analysis close to Preston’s historic centre.

In 1991 and 2007, development-led excavations close to Preston’s historic centre revealed significant medieval remains. These included the foundations of a substantial stone building with cobbled footings and corner buttresses. Several east/west-aligned burials, some with oak coffins, lay inside and around the structure. Dating of the human remains and organic materials suggested that burial took place between the 13th and 16th centuries, matching the occupation of the Franciscan friary of St Clare.

Oxford Archaeology North • 9781907686351 • Paperback 297 x 210mm • 108 pages • Available Now • £12.00

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Cutacre Excavating a prehistoric, medieval, and post-medieval landscape

By Richard Gregory Series: Greater Manchester's Past Revealed

Insights into the history of the landscape at Cutacre, Greater Manchester.

Cutacre, near Bolton in Greater Manchester, was once a rural landscape, which was settled and developed during the prehistoric and historic periods, with largescale coal mining becoming a notable feature of the19th-century landscape.

This booklet offers an excellent insight into the use of the ancient landscape, and provides rare details relating to Bronze Age settlement and medieval iron production, together with the different types of rural houses that existed in the 17th century.

Oxford Archaeology North • 9781907686434 • Paperback 210 x 200mm • 60 pages • Available Now • £5.00

EAA 170: Rectory Farm, Godmanchester, Cambridgeshire Excavations 1988–95, Neolithic Monument to Roman Villa Farm

By Alice Lyons Series: East Anglian Archaeology Monograph

Reports on results of excavations at Rectory Farm, Godmanchester.

Excavations at Rectory Farm, Godmanchester revealed a complex multi-period landscape containing archaeological remains of considerable importance.

Activity stretched from a large Early to Middle Neolithic trapezoidal enclosure, a Middle to Late Neolithic ‘cursus’, Bronze Age and Roman burials and, a Roman villa, with settlement ceasing in the 5th century. This publication examines the evidence for all these phases of publication.

East Anglian Archaeology • 9781907588129 • Hardback • 246 illus.

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Berryfields Iron Age Settlement and a Roman Bridge, Field System and Settlement Along Akeman Street Near Fleet Marston, Buckinghamshire

By Edward Biddulph, Kate Brady, Andrew Simmonds and Stuart Foreman Series: Oxford Archaeology Monograph

Results of excavations by Oxford Archaeology at Berryfields, Buckinghamshire.

Excavations uncovered the remains of a middle Iron Age settlement and the agricultural hinterland of the nucleated Roman settlement of Fleet Marston, situated on the major Roman road of Akeman Street. This volume describes the results of the fieldwork and analysis of an exceptional range of the artefactual and environmental evidence.

Oxford Archaeology • 9780904220858 • Paperback • 83 illus.

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Elite Residence to Manufacturing Centre Excavations on the Site of the Archbishop of York’s Palace and the Battersea Enamelling Works, at the Former Price’s Candle Factory, Regent and Grove Wharves and Bridges Wharf, Battersea

By Alistair Douglas, Berni Sudds, Marit Gaimster and Frank Meddens Series: Thameslink Monograph Series

Details the results of excavations at three sites along the riverfront in Wandsworth.

Excavations in Wandsworth along the riverfront to the east of the Thames (which here trends roughly south to north), have revealed details of the diverse history of this part of the borough and its fluctuating fortunes. This monograph details the results of excavations at three sites along that stretch of riverfront at Price’s Candle Factory, Regent and Groves Wharves and Bridges Wharf.

Pre-Construct Archaeology • 9781999615536 • Paperback 300 x 215mm • 175 pages • Available Now • £20.00

The Waithe Valley Through Time 1. The Archaeology of the Valley and Excavation and Survey in the Hatcliffe Area

By Steven Willis Series: The Central Lincolnshire Wolds Research Project

Examines the archaeology of the Waithe Valley as it passes through the central Lincolnshire Wolds.

This book examines the archaeology of the Waithe Valley as it passes through the central Lincolnshire Wolds. It concentrates on fieldwork and finds from the eastern edge of the Wolds and was undertaken as part of the Central Lincolnshire Wolds Research Project. It documents the development of human presence in and use of the valley from prehistory to recent times, reporting on geophysical survey, fieldwalking and excavations.

Pre-Construct Archaeology • 9781999615543 • Paperback • 169 illus.

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Worcester Moments River, Religion and Royalty

By Andrew Reekes

An exploration of the history of Worcester and its people.

For 1,400 years Worcester in the English Midlands has played a unique part in the history of our Island and the world beyond. At a vital bridging point over the River Severn and watched over by its beautiful cathedral, Worcester has witnessed the comings and goings of monarchs and regicides: saints and sinners; scholars and charlatans as well as warriors and composers. This book explores its enthralling story through 20 episodes in the vibrant life of the city and its people.

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In the Northern Cemetery of Roman London Excavations at Spitalfields Market, London E1, 1991–2007

By Malcolm McKenzie, Christopher Thomas, Natasha Powers and Angela Wardle Series: MOLA Monograph

Reports on excavations at London’s Spitalfields Market.

London’s Spitalfields Market was the location of one of the city’s largest archaeological excavations, carried out by MOLA between 1991 and 2007. This book presents the archaeological and bioarchaeological evidence for Roman activity here, to the north-east of the urban settlement and the site of a series of burial grounds on the east side of Ermine Street.

MOLA (Museum of London Archaeology • 9781907586514 • Hardback 162 illus. • 297 x 210mm • 236 pages • Available Now • £30.00

A Medieval Punishment Cemetery at Weyhill Road, Andover, Hampshire

By Karen E. Walker, Sharon Clough and Jeremy Clutterbuck Series: Cotswold Archaeology Monograph

Examination of a medieval ‘execution’ cemetery between Andover and Weyhill, Hampshire.

In 2016, at a site between Andover and Weyhill, Hampshire remains of some 124 individuals, mostly male and adult were discovered, with much additional disarticulated bone. Many had clearly been buried with their hands tied behind their backs or had been interred face-down, and some had been decapitated.

The significance of the site lies in its long continuity, providing evidence at a local level for the organisation of judicial power from Saxon times well into the Middle Ages.

Cotswold Archaeology • 9780993454561 • Hardback 300 x 210mm • 207 pages • Available Now • £19.95

The Ancient Ways of Wessex Travel and Communications in an Early Medieval Landscape

By Alexander Langlands

Accessible and detailed account of Wessex's early medieval landscape through its pathways.

Tells the story of Wessex’s roads in the early medieval period, at the point at which they first emerge in the historical record. This is the age of the AngloSaxons and an era that witnessed the rise of a kingdom that was taken to the very brink of defeat by the Viking invasions of the 9th century. It is a period that goes on to become one within which we can trace the beginnings of the political entity we have come to know today as England.

Windgather Press • 9781911188513 • Paperback • b/w and colour illus.

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Early Christianity in South-West Britain

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R o m a n a n d M e d i ev a l Carlisle: The Nor thern Lanes, Excavations 1978–82

By John Zant and Christine Howard-Davis

A new assessment of early Christianity in south-west Britain from the 4th–10th centuries.

A detailed archaeological survey of a small but important island from the Neolithic to the 16th century.

Windgather Press • 9781911188551 Paperback • 304 pages Available Now • £34.99

Oxford University School of Archaeology • 9781905905461 Hardback • 280 pages Available Now • £40.00

Sets out the evidence for Roman occupation within the Northern Lanes, Carlisle.

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Torre Abbey, Devon

Bath Quays Waterside

By Cai Mason

By John Zant and Adam Parsons

By Deirdre Ford, Julian Munby and Ian R. Scott

Provides a better understanding of the lives of a community through their changing burial traditions.

This fully illustrated publication brings to a close the 30-year investigation of Torre Abbey, Devon.

Oxford Archaeology North 9781907686313 • Paperback 170 pages • Available Now £20.00

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Explores the development of Bath Quays Waterside from the early 18th century onwards.

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Silk Roads From Local Realities to Global Narratives Edited by Jeffrey D. Lerner and Yaohua Shi

Emphasises exchange and transformation along the Silk Roads.

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About the editors: Jeffrey D. Lerner is a Professor of Ancient History at Wake Forest University. His main research interest concerns Central Asia in antiquity with special emphasis on the Hellenistic Period.

Yaohua Shi is an Associate Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures at Wake Forest University. His research interests include premodern Chinese vernacular fiction and East– West cultural relations.

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In recent decades, there has been a new surge of interest in the history and legacies of the Silk Roads both within academic and public discourses. A field of Silk Roads Studies has come into its own. Consciously mirroring the temperament of its subject, the field has moved out of the narrow niches of particular disciplines to become a truly interdisciplinary endeavor. New research findings about the historical operations of the Silk Roads and interpretations of their legacies for the modern and contemporary world have broken down geographical and temporal divides that once demarcated the Silk Roads as primarily pre-modern and Old World-centered conduits of globalization. In light of these developments, the time is ripe to begin formulating a new definition of the contour of Silk Roads Studies and laying a new foundation for further work in this field.

Silk Roads: From Local Realities to Global Narratives brings together leading scholars in multiple disciplines related to Silk Roads studies. It highlights the multiplicity of networks that constituted the Silk Roads, including land and maritime routes, and approaches the Silk Roads from Antiquity to China’s One Belt One Road Initiative from Afro-Eurasia to the Americas. This holistic approach to understanding ancient globalization, exchanges, transformations, and movements – and their continued relevance to the present – is in line with contemporary academic trends toward interdisciplinarity. Indeed, the Silk Roads is such an expansive topic that many approaches to its study must be included to represent accurately its many facets.

The volume emphasises exchange and transformation along the Silk Roads – moments of acculturation or hybridization that contributed to novel syncretic forms. It highlights the multiplicity of networks that constituted the Silk Roads, including land and maritime routes, and approaches to the Silk Roads from Antiquity to China’s One Belt One Road Initiative from Afro-Eurasia to the Americas.

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Caribbean Figure Pendants: Style and Subject Matter Anthropomorphic Figure Pendants of the Late Ceramic Age in the Greater Antilles

By Vernon James Knight Series: Taboui

The first major study of indigenous Caribbean figure pendants.

This work synthesises art-historical and anthropological methods in the analysis of a large corpus of indigenous figure pendants, commonly called 'amulets', from the Greater Antilles and Bahamas. Figure pendants are small carvings of spirit beings perforated for suspension against the body. The data are drawn from new photographs, measurements and observations of 535 specimens compiled by the author during 2011–2018 in research visits to 34 museums and private collections in the Caribbean, the United States, and Europe.

Sidestone Press • 9789088908705 • Paperback • b/w and colour illus.

254 x 178mm • 240 pages • May 2020 • £40.00

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Hispaniola–Hell or Home?

Decolonizing Grand Narratives about Intercultural Interactions at Concepción de la Vega (1494–1564)

By Pauline Kulstad-González

A Decolonial approach to Caribbean colonial site.

This work attempts to examine the lifeways at the archaeological site of Concepción de la Vega during its occupation from 1494 through 1564, using a Decolonial approach. Situated in present-day Dominican Republic (Hispaniola island), this site was one of the earliest and most affluent in Caribbean colonial history. The Decolonial approach used here critically analyses and reinterprets primary data about Concepción from the point of view of those colonized, particularly non-elite, Indigenous peoples, and those of African descent.

Sidestone Press • 9789088908538 • Paperback • b/w and colour illus.

254 x 178mm • 250 pages • May 2020 • £45.00

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Ci, Gender and Social Change among the Asmat of Papua, Indonesia

By Onesius O. Daeli Ci is the Asmat word for dugout canoe. The ci is an integral part of the everyday life of the Asmat – an ethnic group residing in eastern Indonesia in Papua province (formerly Irian Jaya). This book uses a very simple piece of material culture, the ci, to introduce readers to the Asmat people and inform them how the Asmat people live. The ci becomes the focal point to understand gender power relations among the Asmat, particularly through social, economic and spiritual dimensions.

Sidestone Press • 9789088909290 • Paperback • b/w and colour illus.

254 x 178mm • 185 pages • August 2020 • £35.00

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Robert Codrington's Ethnographic Collections from Melanesia

By Nick Stanley Series: British Museum Research Publications

A closer look at the collections of one of the founding scholars of Pacific anthropology.

Robert Codrington (1830–1922) trained to be a priest at Oxford University and then worked in Nelson, New Zealand. He took a lively interest in Melanesian material culture as a collector, later donating objects to a number of museums.

This book provides a comprehensive understanding of how Codrington formed his collection, through the study of his written anthropological works, correspondence with other collectors and scholars, private correspondence with his brother, and his five journals.

British Museum Press • 9780861592357 • Paperback xmm • 90 pages • November 2020 • £25.00

Australia’s Ancient Aboriginal Past A Global Perspective

By Murray Johnson

Places the Aboriginal occupation of Australia within a broad framework of human evolution and habitation.

This book reveals the extraordinary achievements of Australian Aborigines in all their complexity, and re-examines the evidence surrounding the identity of Australia’s first occupants. It discusses pioneering studies that delve into the mists of antiquity, and engages with current controversies, including the extinction of megafauna, land management practices and social development over many millennia.

Australian Scholarly Publishing • 9781925003710 • Paperback xmm • 290 pages • Available Now • £30.00

Building the Countryside Rural Architecture and Settlement in Tripolitania during the Roman and Late Antique Periods

By Nichole Sheldrick

An up-to-date synthesis and summary of rural surveys in the Tripolitanian countryside.

This volume brings together data collected from both previously published surveys and new data collected using satellite imagery on the architecture and construction of over 2,400 rural structures in nine different regions of Tripolitania and dating between the 1st century BC and the 7th century AD. The first part contextualises the material within its wider context. The second part presents quantitative and qualitative analyses of the physical characteristics of Roman military structures and unfortified and fortified farm buildings.

Society for Libyan Studies • 9781900971775 • Paperback • 100 illus.

297 x 210mm • 250 pages • September 2020 • £40.00

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Hindu Kingship Rituals Power Relation and Historical Evolution

By Nawaraj Chaulagain Series: Harvard Oriental Series – Opera Minora

Explores myths and rituals connected with the Śāh kings of Nepal.

This study deals with the religious lives of the Śāh kings of Nepal, concentrating on such major rituals as the 'coronation' (rājyābhiṣeka) and the autumnal navarātri (Goddess-centered) festival. It unravels how religion and politics were deeply intertwined in the ritual activities, and how the rituals, in their traditional deeply religious and devotional settings, exerted a maximum of socio-political powers for the king and his institutions.

Gorgias Press • 9781463240479 • Hardback 254 x 178mm • 408 pages • Available Now • £188.00

Cuban Studies 49 Edited by Alejandro de la Fuente Series: Cuban Studies

The preeminent journal for scholarly work on Cuba.

Cuban Studies is the preeminent journal for scholarly work on Cuba. Each volume includes articles in English and Spanish and a large book review section.

In publication since 1970, and under Alejandro de la Fuente’s editorial leadership since 2013, this interdisciplinary journal covers all aspects of Cuban history, politics, culture, diaspora, and more.

University of Pittsburgh Press • 9780822945871 • Hardback 229 x 152mm • 432 pages • Available Now • £50.00

Cuban Studies 50 Edited by Alejandro de la Fuente Series: Cuban Studies

The preeminent journal for scholarly work on Cuba.

Each volume includes articles in English and Spanish and a large book review section. In publication since 1970, and under Alejandro de la Fuente’s editorial leadership since 2013, this interdisciplinary journal covers all aspects of Cuban history, politics, culture, diaspora, and more.

University of Pittsburgh Press • 9780822946229 • Hardback 229 x 152mm • 368 pages • December 2021 • £50.00

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The Bukharan Crisis A Connected History of 18th-Century Central Asia

By Scott C. Levi Series: Central Eurasia in Context

A broad, revisionist account of Central Asian history (1500–1800).

In the first half of the 18th century, Central Asia’s Bukharan Khanate descended into a crisis from which it would not recover. Bukharans suffered failed harvests and famine, a severe fiscal downturn, invasions from the north and the south, rebellion, and then revolution. This book brings the history of 18thcentury Bukharan emirate into dialogue with major recent debates in the historiography of early modern Eurasia.

University of Pittsburgh Press • 9780822945970 • Hardback • b/w illus.

229 x 152mm • 192 pages • May 2020 • £25.00

Fearful Vassals Urban Elite Loyalty in the Viceroyalty of Rio de la Plata, 1776–1810

By Peter Blanchard Series: Pitt Latin American Series

A social history of elite Spanish loyalists and the groups that challenged them.

Following the creation of the viceroyalty of Río de la Plata in 1776, the elites of Buenos Aires, Córdoba, and Montevideo turned time and again to the Spanish crown for intercession, mediation, and support to maintain their privileged position during the tumultuous years before the May Revolution of 1810. This book explores the history of these elites and their loyalties.

University of Pittsburgh Press • 9780822946199 • Hardback • 1 b/w illus.

229 x 152mm • 280 pages • November 2020 • £35.00

Faḍā'il-i Balkh, or The Merits of Balkh Annotated Translation with Commentary and Introduction of the Oldest surviving History of Balkh in Afghanistan Edited by Ali Mir-Ansari and translated by Arezou Azad and Edmund Herzig

First annotated English translation of the 13th-century local history of Balkh (Afghanistan).

This is a critical edition and translation of the medieval local history of Balkh, known as Faḍāʾil-i Balkh ('The Merits of Balkh'), which was completed in 610 Hijrī (1214 CE) in Arabic by Shaykh al-Islām Abū Bakr ʿAbd Allāh al-Wāʿiẓ and translated into Persian by ʿAbd Allāh al-Ḥusaynī in 676 Hijri (1278 CE). It is the Persian version which survives today and forms the source text for this book.

Gibb Memorial Trust • 9781913604004 • Hardback • b/w illus.

240 x 170mm • 464 pages • October 2020 • £110.00

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An Archaeological History of Montserrat in the West Indies Edited by John F. Cherry and Krysta Ryzewski

A History of Romania

From Albania to Arran

By Nicolae Iorga

Edited by Robert G. Hoyland

A new edition of the 1925 classic Romanian history.

The first ever study in English dedicated to late antique and medieval Albanial.

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Gorgias Press • 9781463239886 Hardback • 400 pages Available Now • £76.00

Traces the 5,000-year history and heritage of the Caribbean island of Montserrat.

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A historical and archaeological study of the saltpans in the Venezuelan Carribean.

Pre-Colonial and PostContact Archaeology in Barbados Edited by Maaike S. De Waal, Niall Finneran and Matthew C. Reilly Collected papers on the history, heritage and archaeology of Barbados.

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By Konrad A. Antczak

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Current Research in Nubian Archaeology Edited by Gemma Tully and Samantha Tipper A compliation of the latest scientific and archaeological research carried out in Sudan.

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The Sacred Body Materializing the Divine through Human Remains in Antiquity Edited by Nicola Laneri Series: Materiality and Religion in Antiquity Investigates regional roles of body parts in mortuary rituals and as relics.

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About the editor: Nicola Laneri teaches Archaeology and Art History of the Ancient Near East at the University of Catania. He is currently director of the School of Religious Studies (Florence) and the Archaeological Museum of the University of Catania. Since 2003, he has been the director of the Hirbemerdon Tepe Archaeological Project (southeastern Turkey) and is currently co-director of the Ganja Region Kurgan Archaeological Project in western Azerbaijan.

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The human body represents the perfect element for relating communities of the living with the divine.

This is clearly evident in the mythological stories that recount the creation of humans by deities among ancient and contemporaneous societies across a very broad geographical environment. Thus, parts of selected human body parts or skeletal elements can then become an ideal proxy for connecting with the supernatural, as demonstrated by the cult of the human skulls among Neolithic communities in the Near East as well as the cult of the relics of Christian saints.

The aim of this volume is to undertake a cross-cultural investigation of the role played in antiquity by humans and human remains in creating forms of relationality with the divine. Such an approach will highlight how the human body can be envisioned as part of a broader materialisation of religious beliefs that is based on connecting different realms of materiality in perceiving the supernatural by the community of the living. Case studies on ritual aspects of funerary practices is presented, emphasising the varied roles of body parts in mortuary rituals and as relics. Other papers take a wider look at regional practices in various time periods and cultural contexts to explore the central role of the corpse in the negotiation of death in human culture.

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Disease and the Ancient World Proceedings of an International Symposium held at Green Templeton College, University of Oxford, on 21–23 September 2017 Interdisciplinary methodologies for investigating diseases and their effects and outcomes in the ancient world Edited by Robert Arnott and Rupert Breitwieser This book is aimed at understanding the role of disease and epidemics in the ancient world and brings together ancient historians, classicists, archaeologists, archaeological scientists and many others who are interested in the subject. It also explores the creation of interdisciplinary methodologies that will help to understand the complexities of disease transmission and explain the long-term effects on health and social change. Papers range from earliest prehistory to the late antique and include the latest work from early pandemics to occupational Oxbow Books • 9781789255300 • Hardback • b/w illus.

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Themes in Old World Zooarchaeology From the Mediterranean to the Atlantic Edited by Umberto Albarella, Cleia Detry, Sónia Gabriel, Catarina Ginja and Ana Elisabete Pires

An overview of cutting-edge research in Old World zooarchaeology.

This new collection of papers from leading experts provides an overview of cutting-edge research in Old World zooarchaeology. The research spans various areas across Europe, Western Asia and North Africa – from the Mediterranean to the Atlantic. Thematically, the book covers many of the research areas where zooarchaeology can provide a significant contribution.

These include animal domestication, bone modifications, fishing, fowling, economic and social status, as well as adaptation and improvement.

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280 x 216mm • 208 pages • August 2020 • £60.00

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Grave Disturbances The Archaeology of Post-depositional Interactions with the Dead Edited by Edeltraud Aspöck, Alison Klevnäs and Nils Müller-Scheeßel Series: Studies in Funerary Archaeology

Examines post-depositional interactions of past humans and their approaches to graves and human remains.

Archaeologists excavating burials often find that they are not the first to disturb the remains of the dead. Graves from many periods frequently show signs that others have been digging and have moved or taken away parts of the original funerary assemblage. This book explores past human interactions with mortuary deposits, delving into the different ways graves and human remains were approached by people in the past and the reasons that led to such encounters.

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170 x 240mm • 248 pages • July 2020 • £55.00

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Scientific Dating in Archaeology Edited by Seren Griffiths Series: Studying Scientific Archaeology

Methods, applications and challenges of different scientific dating techniques.

The Studying Scientific Archaeology series from Oxbow Books produces books on a wide variety of scientific topics in archaeology aimed at students at all levels. These examine the methods, procedures and reasoning behind various scientific approaches to archaeological data and present case studies or extended examples to demonstrate how data is used and interpretations are arrived at. In particular we aim that they should demonstrate how scientific analyses contribute to our wider understanding of past human behaviour, technology and economy.

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About the editor: Seren Griffiths is a lecturer in the School of Forensic and Applied Sciences in the University of Central Lancaster. She specialises in the application of archaeological science techniques. She chiefly specialises in Mesolithic, Neolithic and early Bronze Age archaeology of Europe. She has interests in scientific dating, stable isotopes, environmental archaeology, three dimensional modelling and geophysics.

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This volume will provide a timely review of the methods, applications and challenges of applying different scientific dating techniques to archaeological sites and material culture, as well as an introduction to Bayesian modelling, and highlight a series of considerations in the application of scientific dating techniques.

A variety of techniques have been developed to provide scientific chronologies of archaeological sites and material culture. These chronologies underpin the narratives that are generated for prehistoric and other periods. The application of Bayesian statistical analysis to scientific chronologies has been hailed as ‘a revolution in understanding’, and has brought renewed emphasis onto how we generate scientific chronological data, how these data are applied into wider narratives, and the epistemological importance of these data.

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The Social and Cultural Contexts of Historic Writing Practices Edited by Philip J. Boyes, Philippa M. Steele and Natalia Elvira Astoreca Series: Contexts of and Relations Between Early Writing Systems

New ways of approaching the study of writing and integrating it into wider debates.

Writing is not just a set of systems for transcribing language and communicating meaning, but an important element of human practice fundamentally interconnected with all other aspects of human life. This book explores these relationships in a number of different cultural contexts and from a range of disciplinary perspectives, including archaeological, anthropological and linguistic. It offers new ways to approach the study of writing and integrating it into wider debates and discussions about culture, history and archaeology.

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Crossing Continents Between India and the Aegean, from Prehistory to Alexander the Great

By Robert Arnott

Examines trade between India and the Aegean.

The first contacts between Greece, the Aegean and India are generally thought to have occurred at the beginning of the 6th century BC. There is now, however, growing evidence of much earlier but indirect connections, reaching back into prehistory. This study views the Aegean as part of a greater trade network and attempts to both evaluate and re-evaluate what evidence and speculation there are for such contacts.

Oxbow Books • 9781789255546 • Paperback • b/w illus.

240 x 170mm • 128 pages • September 2020 • £28.00

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Returning to Gokstad The Art and Science of the Archaeological Revisit Edited by Jan Bill and Hege S. Gjerde

Explores the context, process and progress of the Gokstad Revitalised project.

This book is the first of three planned volumes from the project ‘Gokstad Revitalised’, which is an archaeological revisit at the famous Viking Age ship grave originally excavated in 1880. It collects experiences from other archaeological revisits from the past decades, reports on the research history of the Gokstad find, and discusses the paradox of planning a multi-year, frontrunner project in a field where methodological development is rapid and uncertainty abounds.

Aarhus University Press • 9788771243598 • Hardback 297 x 210mm • 260 pages • November 2020 • £35.00

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Determining Prehistoric Skin Processing Technologies The Macro and Microscopic Characteristics of Experimental Samples

By Theresa Emmerich Kamper Series: Central Eurasia in Context

Outlines the development of a systematic, non-destructive method for identifying prehistoric tanning technologies.

The importance of skin processing technologies in the history and expansion of humankind cannot be overstated, yet these technologies can be difficult to identify in the archaeological record. This research outlines the development of a systematic, non-destructive method for identifying the tanning technologies used to produce prehistoric skin artefacts. The approach combines extensive archaeological research and over 25 years of the author’s personal tanning experience.

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280 x 210mm • 206 pages • June 2020 • £45.00

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Cultures of Stone An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Materiality of Stone

By Gabriel Cooney and Edited by Bernard Gilhooly, Niamh Kelly and Sol Mallía-Guest

Establishes a rich cross-disciplinary dialogue about the significance of stone in society across time and space.

The material properties of stone have ensured its continuing importance; however, it is its materiality which has mediated the relations between the individual, society and stone. Bound up with the physical properties of stone are ideas on identity, value and understanding, and its enduring character creates a link through generations to both people and place. This volume brings together a collection of 17 papers to explore these themes which draw on a range of diverse disciplines and approaches.

Sidestone Press • 9789088908910 • Paperback • b/w and colour illus.

254 x 178mm • 298 pages • May 2020 • £45.00

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Cleaning and Value Interdisciplinary Investigations Edited by Isabel Bredenbröker, Christina Hanzen and Felix Kotzur

Contributions on the relation between values and cleaning processes in different places, cultures and times.

This volume combines scholarly contributions on the relation between values and cleaning processes in different places, cultures and times. The core disciplines are archaeology and anthropology with interdisciplinary additions from sinology, classic philology, philosophy, sociology and fine arts. Aspects of materiality, social organisation, creation and conservation of value, devaluation as well as destruction come into play.

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The Art of Siege Warfare and Military Architecture from the Classical World to the Middle Ages

Art in the Archaeological Imagination

Death and Changing Rituals

Edited by Dragos Gheorghiu

Explores how funerary rituals changed and the meaning behind these changes.

Edited by J. Rasmus Brandt, Håkon Roland and Marina Prusac

Edited by Michael Eisenberg and Rabei Khamisy

Explores the archaeological imagination as a type of artistic creation.

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Ceramics, Cuisine and Culture

Dying to Eat

Animo Decipiendi?

Edited by Candi K. Cann

Edited by Michela Spataro and Alexandra Villings

First interdisciplinary book to explore the role of food in death, bereavement, and the afterlife.

Edited by Antonio Guzmán and Javier Martínez

Studies on technological and socio-economic aspects of ceramic kitchen ware, cuisine and cooking.

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Peopling Insular Art Practice, Performance, Perception Edited by Cynthia Thickpenny, Katherine Forsyth, Jane Geddes and Kate Matthis

Focuses on early medieval illuminators, pattern-makers, rubricators, carvers, and casters.

These papers interpret the theme of those in early medieval Ireland and Britain who commissioned, created, and engaged with Insular art objects, and how they conceptualised, fashioned, and experienced them. They demonstrate the intellectual vibrancy of Insular art studies, its international outlook, its interdisciplinarity, and its openness to innovative technologies and approaches, while at the same time demonstrating the strength and enduring value of established methodologies and research practices.

Oxbow Books • 9781789254549 • Paperback • b/w and colour illus.

280 x 216mm • 224 pages • July 2020 • £38.00

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'A Pencil Will Do, Thank You’ 25 Years of Archaeological Reconstructions

By Martin Hense

Martin Hense’s detailed and colorful reconstructions and archaeological drawings.

Martin Hense has been travelling to North Africa and West Asia to excavate and draw for more than 25 years. This book presents his reconstructions and archaeological drawings from various excavations with full colour illustrations.

Reconstructing ancient ruins, with detailed knowledge of ancient architecture and building technology, he has become an expert over the years.

Blikvelduitgevers Publishers • 9789080774407 • Paperback • colour illus.

200 x 170mm • 64 pages • June 2020 • £17.00

The Gilgamesh Epos in Pictures

By Hugo de Reede

A pictorial re-telling of the account of Gilgamesh by archaeological illustrator Hugo de Reede.

Hugo de Reede (1929–2019), artist and archaeological illustrator, worked in Syria for many years. Gripped by the Gilgamesh Epos and the philosophy narrated in the epic, he created a pictorial book, retelling the account of Gilgamesh and the eternal mystery of death.

The style of drawing in the book suits the regional art in a remarkable manner and with a humorous touch that is fitting for the region’s storytelling tradition.

Blikvelduitgevers Publishers • 9789492940155 • Hardback • colour illus.

170 x 240mm • 124 pages • October 2020 • £32.00

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The Competition of Fibres Early Textile Production in Western Asia, South-east and Central Europe (10,000–500 BC) Edited by Wolfram Schier and Susan Pollock Series: Ancient Textiles Series

A collections of papers on the study of wool and other fibres in ancient textile production.

The central issues discussed in this new collected work in the highly successful Ancient Textiles Series are the relationships between fibre resources and availability on the one hand and the ways those resources were exploited to produce textiles on the other. Technological and economic practices – for example, the strategies by which raw materials were acquired and prepared – in the production of textiles play a major role in the papers collected here.

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About the editors: Wolfram Schier is Professor of Prehistoric Archaeology at Freie Universität Berlin. Prior to that he held positions as Assistant Professor at Heidelberg University and as Professor at the universities of Bamberg and Würzburg.

Susan Pollock is professor at the Institut für Vorderasiatische Archäologie at the Freie Universität Berlin. Prior to that she was Professor in the Department of Anthropology, Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY.

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Contributions investigate the beginnings of wool use in western Asia and south-eastern Europe. The importance of wool in considerations of early textiles is due to at least two factors. First, both wild as well as some domesticated sheep are characterised by a hairy rather than a woolly coat. This raises the question of when and where woolly sheep emerged, a question that has not up until now been resolvable by genetic or other biological analyses. Second, wool as a fibre has played a major role both economically and socially in both western Asian and European societies from as early as the 3rd millennium BC in Mesopotamia, and it continues to do so, in different ways, up to the modern day. Despite the importance of wool as a fibre resource, contributors demonstrate clearly that its development and use can only be properly addressed in the context of a consideration of other fibres, both plant and animal.

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Iconic Costumes Scandinavian Late Iron Age Costume Iconography

By Ulla Mannering Series: Ancient Textiles Series

A study of iconographic material from the Scandinavian Late Iron Age depicting clothed human figures.

This richly illustrated book presents a selection of the rich and varied iconographic material from the Scandinavian Late Iron Age (AD 400–1050) depicting clothed human figures, from an archaeological textile and clothing perspective. The source material consists of five object categories: gold foils, gold bracteates, helmet plaques, jewellery, and textile. The book contributes with new information on social, regional and chronological differences in clothing traditions from c.

AD 400 to the Viking Age. Oxbow Books • 9781789255478 • New in Paperback 280 x 216mm • 288 pages • August 2020 • £27.50

The Dyer's Handbook Memoirs of an 18th-Century Master Colourist

By Dominique Cardon Series: Ancient Textiles Series

Translation and facsimile reproduction of an 18th-century French manuscript on producing textile dyes.

The Dyer's Handbook concerns a unique manuscript from the 18th century: a dyer’s memoirs from Languedoc, containing recipes for dyes with corresponding colour samples. It is an exceptional document, hugely rare and of great significance not only to textile historians but dyers and colourists today, as thanks to the information in the manuscript the colours can be reproduced exactly, with the same ingredients or reproduced using modern techniques by matching the colour samples.

Oxbow Books • 9781789255492 • New in Paperback 297 x 210mm • 160 pages • October 2020 • £29.95

Silk Trade and Exchange along the Silk Roads between Rome and China in Antiquity Edited by Berit Hildebrandt Series: Ancient Textiles Series

Multi-disciplinary approaches to the manufacture, trade and status of silk along the Silk Roads.

These papers bring together historical, philological and archaeological research to highlight the use, circulation and meaning of silk as a commodity, gift, tribute, booty and status symbol in varying cultural and chronological contexts between East and West, including technological aspects of silk production.

Oxbow Books • 9781789255515 • New in Paperback 240 x 170mm • 224 pages • December 2020 • £29.95

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The Nablus 1968 Hoard A Study of Monetary Circulation in the Late Fourth an Early Third Centuries BC: Southern Levant

By Haim Gitler and Oren Tal Series: Numismatic Notes and Monographs

Detailed catalogue and discussion of the Nablus 1968 Hoard.

The Nablus 1968 Hoard is the largest late Persian/early Hellenistic period coin and jewellery hoard recorded from the southern Levant. It provides a detailed catalogue, discussion of the hoard and its context, its burial date, a synopsis of the history and archaeology of the Persian period province of Samaria, and a discussion on the hoard’s various coins. There are also two appendices, one presenting a method for determining dies links and the second offering a glossary of relevant terms.

American Numismatic Society • 9780897223607 • Hardback illus. • 229 x 152mm • 209 pages • Available Now • £60.00

Connections, Communities, and Coinage The System of Coin Production in Southern Asia Minor, AD 218–276

By George C. Watson Series: Numismatic Studies

Addresses the systems of coin production in Pamphylia, Pisidia and Cilicia during the 3rd century AD. This book aims to address coin production in the regions of Pamphylia, Pisidia and Cilicia during the 3rd century AD, where cities produced their own bronze coinage with some collaboration. Following Konrad Kraft’s Das System der kaiserzeitlichen Münzprägung in Kleinasien, the most comprehensive study of these phenomena to date, it examines these questions in an area unexplored

by Kraft, as well as reappraising his conclusions and opening up new avenues of investigation.

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Jacques Wiener's Most Remarkable Edifices of Europe The Man, Monuments, and Medals

By Michael Ross Series: Studies in Medallic Art

Examines the 19th-century medal series The Most Remarkable Edifices of Europe and its author.

The 19th-century medal series The Greatest Edifices of Europe by Belgian engravermedalist Jacques Wiener is examined in detail in this book. It begins by providing a biographical background for Wiener, integrating two primary, existing sources, supplemented by information from Wiener's family descendants. The overall medal series is then addressed, starting with its inception as defined in Wiener’s original 1853 prospectus through its quietly incomplete conclusion.

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Imperial Legitimation The Iconography of the Golden Age Myth on Roman Imperial Coinage of the Third Century AD

By Graham Barker, Richard Abdy and Sam Moorhead

Explores the iconography of the Golden Age Myth on Roman Imperial coinage of the 3rd Century AD. This fascinating study of the iconography of the Golden Age Myth on Roman Imperial coinage of the 3rd Century AD also includes all Roman coins that have the Saecular Games types, down to AD 300. The first study of its kind, it also gives a reconstruction of the Games and appendices with texts from well-known classical authors.

Spink Books • 9781912667475 • Hardback • 152 x 240mm 160 pages • September 2020 • £30.00

The Coins of Scotland, Ireland and the Islands Edited by Emma Howard

A new and updated edition of a standard reference catalogue.

The fourth edition of this standard reference catalogue has been fully updated, with a revised section on the AngloGallic coinage – namely those coins struck in France by the kings and princes of England between 1154 and 1453 – with new information and current prices throughout. It is the essential guide for any collector in this fascinating area of British coinage.

Spink Books • 9781912667482 • Hardback 216 x 138mm • 304 pages • September 2020 • £45.00

English Silver Coinage

By Maurice Bull

A new 7th edition of the standard work on English silver coinage.

This indispensable guide to English silver coinage is truly the essential handbook for any collector of English silver coinage. It is a record of the major and many minor recognised types and die-varieties of English silver coins. This new 7th edition offers an update to the previous volume, with new varieties, corrections and current prices. The arrangement is by monarch rather than denomination, and all Bull reference numbers are cross-referenced to the 5th edition.

Spink Books • 9781912667499 • Hardback 216 x 138mm • 672 pages • August 2020 • £45.00

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English Gold Coinage

By Maurice Bull

A brand new comprehensive guide covering every type of English gold coin.

This new guide – the first of its kind on English gold coinage – covers every type of English gold coin and includes many new varieties, along with current prices.

The arrangement is by monarch, with accompanying Bull reference numbers cross-referenced to the Standard Catalogue of British Coins. It is a record of the major and many minor recognised types and die-varieties of English gold coins and is truly the essential handbook for any collector of English gold coinage.

Spink Books • 9781912667505 • Hardback • 138 x 216mm 672 pages • October 2020 • £50.00

Coins of England & the United Kingdom Pre-Decimal Issues Edited by Emma Howard

An essential reference work on the pre-decimal coinage of Britain.

This historic reference work for British coins is still the only catalogue to feature every major coin type from Celtic to the Decimal coinage of Queen Elizabeth II, arranged in chronological order and divided into metals under each reign, then into coinages, denominations and varieties. All decimal coinage since 1968 is listed in a separate volume, available as an independent publication. It includes up-to-date values, a beginner’s guide to coin collecting, numismatic terms explained and historical information about each coin.

Spink Books • 9781912667512 • Hardback • 138 x 216mm 576 pages • November 2020 • £30.00

Coins of England & the United Kingdom Decimal Issues Edited by Emma Howard

An essential reference work on the decimal coinage of Britain.

The Coins of England and the United Kingdom Pre-Decimal and Decimal volumes together comprise the Standard Catalogue of British Coins, with the predecimal issues under Elizabeth II (and all previous coinage) listed in a separate volume. This volume of Decimal issues under Elizabeth II gives a comprehensive overview of all individual coins and sets issued by the Royal Mint since 1971 (and in circulation since 1968), offering an authoritative catalogue of modern British coins.

Spink Books • 9781912667529 • Paperback 216 x 138mm • 336 pages • November 2020 • £30.00

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The Masorah of the Former Prophets in the Leningrad Codex

The Masorah of the Former Prophets in the Leningrad Codex

The Masorah of the Former Prophets in the Leningrad Codex

Volume 4: 2 Samuel

By David Marcus

Volume 5: 1 Kings

By David Marcus

Volume 6: 2 Kings

By David Marcus

The first publication with an English translation and commentary.

The first publication with an English translation and commentary.

The first publication with an English translation and commentary.

Gorgias Press • 9781463206024 Hardback • 254 x 178mm 400 pages • December 2020 £145.00

Gorgias Press • 9781463206031 Hardback • 254 x 178mm 400 pages • December 2020 £145.00

Gorgias Press • 9781463206048 Hardback • 254 x 178mm 400 pages • December 2020 £145.00

The Syriac and Arabic Lexicon of Hasan Bar Bahlul (Olaph-Dolath)

The Syriac and Arabic Lexicon of Hasan Bar Bahlul (He-Mim)

The Syriac and Arabic Lexicon of Hasan Bar Bahlul (Nun-Taw)

Edited by Mario Kozah, George Kiraz, Haya Thani, Abdulrahim Abu-Husayn and Saif Al-Murikhi

Edited by Mario Kozah, George Kiraz, Haya Thani, Abdulrahim Abu-Husayn and Saif Al-Murikhi

Edited by Mario Kozah, George Kiraz, Haya Thani, Abdulrahim Abu-Husayn and Saif Al-Murikhi

A reissue of a facsimile edition of the first volume.

A reissue of a facsimile edition of the first volume.

A reissue of a facsimile edition of the first volume.

Gorgias Press • 9781463241018 Hardback • 254 x 178mm 396 pages • Available Now £43.00

Gorgias Press • 9781463241032 Hardback • 254 x 178mm 307 pages • Available Now £27.00

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S U R AT H KT H O B S E R I E S F R O M G O R G I A S P R E S S The Antioch Bible Series provides both the text of the Syriac Bible (called the “Peshitta”) and an up-to-date English translation. The Syriac is fully vocalized and pointed so that readers at any level will be able to work with it – from beginners who are just starting to learn the language to experienced scholars who want to work with a vocalized text.

On each facing page, an English translation has been prepared by a member of an international (and inter-faith) team of scholars, so that both the Syriac and English can be studied together.

Genesis According to the Syriac Peshitta Version with English Translation Edited by Craig E. Morrison, George Kiraz and Joseph Bali Gorgias Press • 9781463207410 • Hardback • 254 x 178mm • 360 pages • Available Now • £120.00

1 & 2 Chronicles According to the Syriac Peshitta Version with English Translation Translated by Robert P. Gordon and Edited by George A. Kiraz Gorgias Press • 9781463207410 • Hardback • 254 x 178mm • 360 pages • Available Now • £120.00

The Book of Women According to the Syriac Peshitta Version with English Translation Edited by Donald M. Walter, Gillian Greenberg, Eric Tully, George Kiraz and Joseph Bali Gorgias Press • 9781463205898 • Hardback • 254 x 178mm • 300 pages • Available Now • £120.00

Proverbs, Qoheleth and Song of Songs According to the Syriac Peshitta Version with English Translation Edited by Robert Owens, George Kiraz and Joseph Bali Gorgias Press • 9781463239114 • Hardback • 254 x 178mm • 340 pages • August 2020 • £120.00

1 Maccabees According to the Syriac Peshitta Version with English Translation Edited by Michela Spataro and Alexandra Villings Gorgias Press • 9781463205850 • Hardback • 254 x 178mm • 300 pages • December 2020 • £120.00

2 Maccabees According to the Syriac Peshitta Version with English Translation

By Philip Forness and Edited by George Kiraz and Joseph Bali Gorgias Press • 9781463205874 • Hardback • 254 x 178mm • 240 pages • December 2020 • £120.00

3–4 Maccabees According to the Syriac Peshitta Version with English Translation

By Philip Forness and Edited by George Kiraz and Joseph Bali Gorgias Press • 9781463205881 • Hardback • 254 x 178mm • 300 pages • December 2020 • £120.00

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George, Bishop of the Arabs on Myron Homily on the Consecration of Myron

By Baby Varghese

A metrical homily of one of the last scholarly Syrian Orthodox bishops of the early Islamic period.

George was one of the last scholarly Syrian Orthodox bishops to live in the early Islamic period. His metrical homily, probably composed to be sung during the consecration of the Myron, is presented here with the vocalised Syriac text and English translation on facing pages.

Gorgias Press • 9781463207311 • Paperback 229 x 152mm • 200 pages • December 2020 • £36.00

The Law Code of Simeon, Bishop of Rev-Ardashir Edited by Amir Harrak Series: Texts from Christian Late Antiquity

A translation of The Law Code of Simeon of Rev-Ardashir.

The Law Code of Simeon of Rev-Ardashir, originally written in Persian, was translated into Syriac by a monk of Bēṭ-Qatrāyē. The Code's author, possibly to be identified with a rebellious metropolitan mentioned in the letters of Patriarch Īšoʿ-yahb III, aims to clarify theoretical scriptural law, and to address specific cases of inheritance law.

Gorgias Press • 9781463241346 • Paperback 229 x 152mm • 104 pages • Available Now • £30.00

Journal of the Canadian Society for Syriac Studies 19 Edited by Amir Harrak

A refereed journal published annually by the Canadian Society for Syriac Studies.

JCSSS focuses on the vast Syriac literature, which is rooted in the same soil from which the ancient Mesopotamian and biblical literatures sprung; on Syriac art that bears Near Eastern characteristics as well as Byzantine and Islamic influences; and on archaeology, unearthing in the Middle East and the rest of Asia and China the history of the Syriac-speaking people: Assyrians, Chaldeans, Maronites and Catholic and Orthodox Syriacs.

Gorgias Press • 9781463241117 • Paperback 273 x 210mm • 88 pages • Available Now • £61.00

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Historiography and Hierotopy Palestinian Hagiography in the Sixth Century A.D.

By Rod Stearn Series: Gorgias Studies in Classical and Late Antiquity

Sets Judean hagiographies in wider socio-economic contexts.

Judean hagiographies are unusual. Some surprise in their structure, resembling historical chronicles more than 'traditional' hagiographies. Others offer unexpected content, running counter to the stylisations of their time. The peculiarities of these works have often been examined on literary and theological grounds, but this work explores the unmined implications of their socio-economic context. The local and imperial connections of the saints, the networks they constructed, and the institutional realities of the monasteries they founded shine new light on Judean texts.

Gorgias Press • 9781463239817 • Hardback 254 x 152mm • 250 pages • August 2020 • £76.00

Jehoiachin and his Oracle A Jeremianic Scribal Framework for the End of the Deuteronomistic History

By Melvin Sensenig Series: Perspectives on Hebrew Scriptures and its Contexts

Examines the conflict surrounding King Jehoiachin following a drastic oracle from Jeremiah.

King Jehoiachin, the last Judahite king exiled to Babylon, became the focus of conflicting hopes and fears about a revived Davidic kingship after the exile.

As this book demonstrates, this conflict stemmed from a drastic oracle from Jeremiah that seemed to categorically reject Jehoiachin, while the canon records that he not only survived but thrived in exile.

Gorgias Press • 9781463240431 • Hardback 229 x 152mm • 250 pages • Available Now • £76.00

Syntactic Studies in Targum Aramaic A Text-Linguistic Reading of 1 Samuel

By Vasile Condrea Series: Gorgias Biblical Studies

Explores the role of the narrator in Targum 1 Samuel.

How can one distinguish between narrative, which records a sequence of events, and a narrator’s comment on these events, in the form of notes, clarifications, and retellings? This book applies the insights of Functional Sentence Perspective and Text Linguistics to Targum 1 Samuel. Through this analysis, Condrea answers key questions about Aramaic syntax and recovers the voice and contributions of the text’s narrator.

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Jewish Cultural Elements in the Ethiopian Orthodox Täwaḥədo Church Homily on the Consecration of Myron

By Baby Varghese Series: Gorgias Eastern Christian Studies

Investigates the formation of the Jewish cultural profile of the Ethiopian Orthodox Täwaḥədo Church.

This monograph traces how ‘Jewish’ elements were introduced into and disseminated throughout the Ethiopian Orthodox Täwaḥədo Church through a series of multi-layered, socio-politico-cultural processes. Drawing on historical and literary evidence, Afework tracks the incorporation of Jewish features into the Ethiopian Orthodox Church from pre-Aksumite Christianity, before the 4th century, through the 16th century.

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Through the Prism of Wisdom Elijah the Prophet as a Bearer of Wisdom in Rabbinic Literature

By Hilla N. Alouf-Aboody Series: Judaism in Context

Explores the nature of the Elijah traditions in rabbinic literature and their connection to the wisdom tradition.

Elijah the prophet's role in rabbinic literature is a variegated one that encompasses both his role in the messianic era as well as his non-messianic appearances in rabbinic legends. In this work these different roles are explored through the prism of the wisdom tradition. The three stands of wisdom – the Torah-Centered wisdom tradition, the ApocalypticCentered wisdom tradition, and the Spirit-Centered wisdom tradition, serve as a guide in understanding the complex nature of wisdom and its influence on the Elijah legends.

Gorgias Press • 9781463207427 • Hardback 254 x 178mm • 580 pages • August 2020 • £126.00

Hexateuch from the Syro-Hexapla Edited by Juan Pedro Monferrer-Sala Series: Biblical and Apocryphal Christian Arabic Texts

Contains the edition of the Hexateuch preserved in Codex Sinai Arabic 3.

The biblical material translated into Arabic during the Middle Ages included texts from the Hexateuch contained in Codex Sinai Arabic 3, the first in the Christian Arabic Texts series now being published. This set of six texts (Pentateuch + Joshua) is of enormous interest, for what it tells us not only about translating into Arabic, and about the techniques and strategies adopted by the translators, but also about the revisions and reworkings to which the original translations were subjected.

Gorgias Press • 9781463240585 • Hardback 254 x 178mm • 357 pages • Available Now • £100.00

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Jacob of Sarug’s Homilies on the Six Days of Creation: The Fifth Day Edited and by Edward G. Mathews Jr. Series: Texts from Christian Late Antiquity

Jacob comments on the events of the fifth day of Creation.

In this fifth instalment of the long Homily 71, On the Six Days of Creation, Jacob comments on the events of the fifth day, the creation from the waters of the various species of fish and reptiles, as well as the assorted types of birds and other winged creatures. Jacob highlights the fact that the creation of these animals on the fifth day to inhabit the land and water separated on the third day is a symbol of the Resurrection of Christ.

Gorgias Press • 9781463241179 • Paperback 229 x 152mm • 68 pages • Available Now • £25.00

The History of John the Son of Zebedee

By Jacob A. Loller Series: Texts from Christian Late Antiquity

Examines the stories of John the son of Zebedee from the perspective of Syriac Christians.

Many stories and legends about John the son of Zebedee have survived from antiquity. The present volume brings together all of the known Syriac witnesses to the History of John with a new translation and includes, for the first time, a critical discussion of the history, provenance, and importance of this text for the study of Syriac Christianity and Christian Apocrypha more generally.

Gorgias Press • 9781463240752 • Hardback 229 x 152mm • 300 pages • August 2020 • £110.00

Gender in Jewish Studies Proceedings of the Sherman Conversations 2017 Edited by Daniel Langton Series: Melilah: Manchester Journal of Jewish Studies

An interdisciplinary journal concerned with Jewish law, history, literature, religion, culture and thought.

Volume 13 of Melilah, an interdisciplinary electronic journal concerned with Jewish law, history, literature, religion, culture and thought in the ancient, medieval and modern eras. This issue focuses on the theme of gender in Jewish studies.

Gorgias Press • 9781463240561 • Paperback • 178 x 254mm 164 pages • Available Now • £47.00

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Second Slayings The Binding of Isaac and the Formation of Jewish Cultural Memory

By David N. Gottlieb Series: Judaism in Context

Analyses the Akedah as a metonym for cultural reorientation.

This work is a study of Jewish cultural memory as exemplified by rabbinic midrash of the Amoraic period, the 2nd through 5th centuries of the Common Era, and especially midrash on the Akedah, the Binding of Isaac (Gen. 22:1–19). The Akedah is proposed and analysed as a model for submission to the divine will through the act of interpretation.

Gorgias Press • 9781463240264 • Hardback • 152 x 229mm 251 pages • Available Now • £74.00

Islamic Origins, Arabian Custom, and the Documents of the Prophet

By Sarah Z. Mirza Series: Islamic History and Thought

Demonstrates the functions of the Prophet Muhammad's pragmatic documents in social relations in late antique Arabia.

Along with the Qurʾān and ḥadīth, pragmatic documents negotiating land, taxes, and tribal relations are attributed to the Prophet Muḥammad (c. 570–632 CE) in early Islamic historiography. These are often viewed as relics reflecting the Prophet’s religio-political mission, or as anachronistic texts spuriously ascribed to him. Challenging both conclusions, this book argues that an indigenous Arabian legal and documentary tradition, distinct from classical Islamic law, can be traced in these documents.

Gorgias Press • 9781463206444 • Hardback 229 x 152mm • 300 pages • December 2020 • £140.00

Against “Irenaean” Theodicy A Refutation of John Hick's Use of Irenaeus

By David Hionides Series: Gorgias Studies in Early Christianity and Patristics

Serves to correct the now accepted understanding of Irenaeus’s theodicy.

Entrenched in scholarship on the problem of evil, John Hick’s Irenaean theodicy seemingly stands as a contemporary solution linked to the past. This book examines Hick’s connection of his work to the 2nd-century bishop of Lyon, proposing that the connection ought to be severed. Considering the context and works of both theologians on the problem of evil, it establishes that Irenaeus’s solution contrasts with Hick’s and allows the two theologians’ distinct resolutions of the problem of evil to stand on their own.

Gorgias Press • 9781463240714 • Hardback 229 x 152mm • 213 pages • Available Now • £120.00

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History of Eastern Christianity

By Aziz S. Atiya Series: Texts from Christian Late Antiquity

Portrays the history of the faith of non-Chalcedonian Churches.

This book is a classic in the history of the Oriental Churches. Written by a Copt, it portrays the history of the faith of these non-Chalcedonian Churches with firsthand knowledge of their traditions. The author covers Alexandrine Christianity (the Copts and the Ethiopians), the Church of Antioch (Syriac Orthodox), the 'Nestorian' Church of the East, the Armenian Church, the St. Thomas Christians of South India, the Maronite Church, as well as the Vanished Churches of Carthage, Pentapolis, and Nubia.

Gorgias Press • 9781463241155 • Paperback 229 x 152mm • 512 pages • Available Now • £85.00

An Early Christian Reaction to Islam Išū‘yahb III and the Muslim Arabs

By Iskandar Bcheiry Series: Gorgias Eastern Christian Studies

Discusses Išū‘yahb’s view of and attitudes toward Muslim Arabs.

The year 652 marked a fundamental political change in the Middle East and the surrounding region. On this date the Sasanid Empire collapsed and the major part of the Byzantine dominion in the East was lost to the hands of Muslim Arabs.

An important and contemporary source of the state of the Christian Church at this time is the correspondence of Išū‘yahb III (649–659). This book examines unanswered questions about his attitudes towards the Muslim Arabs.

Gorgias Press • 9781463240981 • Hardback 229 x 152mm • 205 pages • Available Now • £100.00

Rewriting Islamic Law The Opinions of the 'Ulamā' Towards Codification of Personal Status Law in Egypt

By Tarek Elgawhary Series: The Modern Muslim World

Explores the codification of Egyptian personal status laws through the eyes of the ‘ulamā’.

The codification process of personal status laws in Egypt began in the mid1800s, continuing until the abolition of the Sharī‘a courts in 1955. To understand the significance of the process of codification, this book examines the attitudes of the ‘ulamā’ regarding its place within the edifice of Islamic law. Furthermore, since the ‘ulamā’ themselves are a diverse group, it also explores various approaches adopted to the process of codification to show its significance on the re-formatting and re-writing of Islamic law.

Gorgias Press • 9781463239084 • Hardback 229 x 152mm • 241 pages • Available Now • £74.00

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Peter Brandes: Meridian of Art

By Ettore Rocca

The first monograph on the art of significant Danish artist Peter Brandes.

Peter Brandes is one of the most significant Danish visual artists alive today, represented in the collections of leading museums worldwide, including the Louvre, and is featured in the most important Danish museums. This is the first monograph on the art of Peter Brandes, pursuing a series of central themes that cut across Brandes’ artistic production, connecting and traversing these with lines that the book’s author, Ettore Rocca, calls the “meridian of art.”

Aarhus University Press • 9788772190815 • Hardback 260 pages • April 2020 • £42.00

Leaping the Dragon Gate The Sir Michael Butler Collection of 17th-Century Chinese Porcelain

By Teresa Canepa and Katharine Butler

Celebrates the most important collection of 17th-century Chinese porcelain in the world.

The most important collection of 17th-century Chinese porcelain in the world was assembled by the distinguished British diplomat Sir Michael Butler. This lavish and comprehensive collection covers most of the types of porcelain produced at Jingdezhen, in Jiangxi province, during the 17th century, illustrated by the variety of the pieces in this collection. An introduction by Katharine Butler also reveals the fascinating story of the circumstances that encouraged her father to acquire, collect and passionately study Chinese porcelain of the 17th century.

Ad Ilissum • 9781912168163 • Hardback • 600 illus.

300 x 245mm • 384 pages • November 2020 • £155.00

Living with Architecture as Art The Peter May Collection of Architectural Drawings, Models and Artefacts

By Peter May, Maureen Cassidy-Geiger, Charles Hind, Basile Baudez and Wells Matthew

Introduces readers to one of the largest private collections of architectural drawings in the world.

This stunning two-volume publication introduces readers to one of the largest private collections of architectural drawings in the world, assembled over 30 years by investor and philanthropist Peter May. Showcasing drawings and related models and artefacts dating from 1691 to the mid-20th century, this lavish tome includes both a catalogue and new texts by leading authorities and provides a fascinating look at these often very beautiful by-products of architectural training and practice.

Ad Ilissum • 9781912168194 • Hardback • 800 illus.

360 x 310mm • 704 pages • May 2020 • £260.00

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Design is Power The Dark Side of Design

By Francesco Galli

Examines the economic, political and social aspects of design.

We are used to thinking of design in terms of both quality and the beauty of the tangible or intangible artefacts that are generated by an industrialised system. The main difference between craftsmanship and design stays in the replicability and scalability of the proposed solution measured against an existent market and its hierarchical dynamics. This book looks closer to show that all design production involves a carefully controlled balance driven by economic, political and social interests.

Mimesis International • 9788869773006 • Paperback 210 x 210mm • 290 pages • September 2020 • £23.99

The City as Photographic Text Urban Documentary Photography of Sao Paulo Edited by David William Foster

The first comprehensive presentation of photography on São Paulo.

This collection of photography of São Paulo is more than just a study of one city’s photographic legacy—it is a manual for how to understand and talk about Latin American photography in general. Focusing on major figures and referencing widely available books of their work, David William Foster offers a unique analysis of how photographers have contributed to our understanding of the megalopolis São Paulo has become.

University of Pittsburgh Press • 9780822946236 • Hardback 57 b/w illus. • 280 x 203mm • 232 pages • August 2020 • £35.00

Magnetic Woman Toyen and the Surrealist Erotic

By Karla Huebner

Examines the life and work of the artist Toyen (Marie Čermínová, 1902–80).

Part art book and part biography, Magnetic Woman examines the life and work of the artist Toyen (Marie Čermínová, 1902–80), a founding member of the Prague surrealist group, and focuses on her construction of gender and eroticism. Using primary sources gathered from disparate disciplines and studies of the artist’s own work, the book is organised both chronologically and thematically, moving through Toyen’s career with attention to specific historical circumstances and intellectual developments approximately as they entered her life.

University of Pittsburgh Press • 9780822946472 • Hardback 191 b/w and colour illus. • 280 x 229mm • 450 pages • October 2020 • £80.00

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Thorvaldsen's Plaster Casts from the Antique and 1400-1800

Great Art Critics (17502000)

Hartford Seen

By Jesús Pedro Lorente

By Jan Zahle

Pays homage to the most influential art critics in different cultural contexts.

The first modern-day ar t photography book to focus on Connecticut’s capital.

A complete mapping and reevaluation of Thorvaldsens Museum’s cast collection.

By Pablo Delano

Aarhus University Press 9788771843590 • Hardback 652 pages • May 2020 £84.00

Mimesis International 9788869772566 • Paperback 192 pages • March 2020 £17.99

Wesleyan University Press 9780819579256 • Paperback 160 pages • April 2020 £21.50

Manet to Bracquemond: Unknown Letters to an Artist and a Friend

Governing by Design

Colonialism and Modern Architecture in Germany

By Jean-Paul BouillonA catalogue of the Middle Kingdom.

Examines the influence of politics, culture, economics and globalisation in the role of architectural history.

By Itohan Osayimwese

University of Pittsburgh Press 9780822961789 • Paperback 300 pages • April 2012 £29.50

University of Pittsburgh Press 9780822945086 • Hardback 352 pages • June 2017 £49.95

Publishes the letters from Édouard Manet (1832–1883) to artist Félix Bracquemond (1833–1914).

Ad Ilissum • 9781912168170 Paperback • 136 pages September 2020 • £35.00

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Neoliberalism on the Ground Architecture and Transformation from the 1960s to the Present Edited by Kenny Cupers, Catharina Gabrielsson and Helena Mattsson

Reframes accepted narratives of neoliberalism and postmodernism through an architectural lens.

Architecture and urbanism have contributed to one of the most sweeping transformations of our times. Over the past four decades, neoliberalism has been not only a dominant paradigm in politics but a process of bricks and mortar in everyday life. Rather than ask what a neoliberal architecture looks like, or how architecture represents neoliberalism, this volume examines the multivalent role of architecture and urbanism in geographically variable yet interconnected processes of neoliberal transformation across the world.

University of Pittsburgh Press • 9780822946014 • Hardback • 90 b/w illus.

254 x 178mm • 448 pages • February 2019 • £50.00

Architecture of Good Behavior Psychology and Modern Institutional Design in Postwar America

By Joy Knoblauch Explores psychological functionalism as a political tool.

Inspired by the rise of environmental psychology and increasing support for behavioural research after the Second World War, new initiatives in America at the federal, state, and local levels looked to influence the human psyche through form, or elicit desired behaviours with environmental incentives.

This book explores psychological functionalism as a political tool and the architectural projects funded by a post-war nation in its efforts to govern, exert control over, and ultimately pacify its patients, prisoners, and residents.

University of Pittsburgh Press • 9780822945734 • Hardback • 85 b/w illus.

254 x 178mm • 320 pages • April 2020 • £42.00

Race and Modern Architecture A Critical History from the Enlightenment to the Present Edited by Irene Cheng, Charles L. Davis and Mabel O. Wilson

Constructions of race and their impact on architecture and theory.

Although race has played a critical role in the development of modern architectural discourse and practice since the Enlightenment, its influence on the discipline remains largely underexplored. This volume offers a welcome and long-awaited intervention for the field by shining a spotlight on constructions of race and their impact on architecture and theory in Europe and North America and across various global contexts since the eighteenth century.

University of Pittsburgh Press • 9780822946052 • Hardback • 96 b/w illus.

254 x 178mm • 424 pages • April 2020 • £45.00

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Trad Nation Gender, Sexuality, and Race in Irish Traditional Music

By Tes Slominski

A nuanced exploration of nationalism in traditional Irish music.

Just how “Irish” is traditional Irish music? This study combines ethnography, oral history, and archival research to challenge the longstanding practice of using ethnic nationalism as a framework for understanding vernacular music traditions. It discusses early-twentieth century women whose musical lives were shaped by Ireland’s struggles to become a nation; follows the career of Julia Clifford, a fiddler who lived much of her life in England, and explores the experiences of women, LGBTQ+ musicians, and musicians of colour in the earlytwenty-first century.

Wesleyan University Press • 9780819579287 • Paperback • 12 illus.

279 x 216mm • 244 pages • July 2020 • £20.95

ALSO AVAILABLE IN HARDBACK 9780819579270 • £62.50

Parameters and Peripheries of Culture Interpreting Maroon Music and Dance in Paramaribo, Suriname

By Corinna Campbell

A vital contribution to knowledge about the cultural map of the African diaspora.

How do people in an intensely multicultural city live alongside one another while maintaining clear boundaries? This question is at the core of this book, which illustrates how the Maroons (descendants of escaped slaves) of Suriname, on the northern coast of South America, have used culture-representational performance to sustain their communities within Paramaribo, the capital.

Wesleyan University Press • 9780819579553 • Paperback • 25 illus., 15 tables and graphs • 203 x 152mm • 250 pages • July 2020 • £22.50

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Resounding Spaces Approaching Musical Atmospheres Edited by Federica Scassillo

A collection of papers examining music and atmospheres.

This book is the result of an international conference that took place in Rome on September 13th-14th 2019, entitled “Resounding Spaces: Music and Atmospheres”.

The main topic was the relationship between music(s) and concepts like resonance, atmosphere, and mood. Talking about “music(s)” and not “music” (in singular) reflects the academic backgrounds of its authors: philosophers, musicologists, ethnomusicologists, aestheticians of music, composers, all of whom enrich the volume with contributions from their own perspective.

Mimesis International • 9788869773020 • Paperback 210 x 140mm • 190 pages • October 2020 • £16.99

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To view and download all of our catalogues online, visit https://bit.ly/oxbcatalogues Moving Pictures, Living Machines Automation, Animation and the Imitation of Life in Cinema and Media Edited by Greta Plaitano, Simone Venturini and Paolo Villa

New research on film and media.

“History of Cinema Without Names” is an editorial project which gathers research papers presented at Gorizia Conference, Italy. It promotes a new research perspective on the notions of film authorship, style, and genre, with the aim of re-articulating their theoretical definition.

Mimesis International • 9788869772764 • Paperback 270 x 200mm • 270 pages • July 2020 • £33.99

CINÉMA&CIE,INTERNATIONAL FILM STUDIES JOURNAL, VOL. XIX, no. 33, FALL 2019 "Avant-garde and Popular Forms Between Music and Visual Media.

Transhistorical and Intermedial Investigations" Edited by Simone Dotto, François Mouillot and Maria Teresa Soldani

Discusses relationships between avant-garde arts and popular culture.

This book explores avant-garde arts and popular culture far beyond traditional scholarship on the topic, stressing the concept of cultural history more than the specificity of film, media and music histories. By adopting a global perspective, the authors elaborate useful analytical and theoretical tools to re-assess the “avantpop connection” as a dynamics of two-way exchanges across several artistic and media domains and different geographical and historical contexts.

Mimesis International • 9788869772962 • Paperback 170 x 240mm • 160 pages • July 2020 • £12.00

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What Price Hollywood?

Gender and Sex in the Films of George Cukor

By Elyce Rae Helford

Biography and critical analysis of a once-in-a-generation director.

Director George Cukor earned a reputation as a ‘women’s director’, was fired from Gone with the Wind for giving Vivien Leigh more screen time than Clark Gable, and almost ended his career with a failed drag film, after which he swore to work within Hollywood’s constraints. Nevertheless, this book finds that he continued to explore gender and sexuality on-screen. Drawing on a broad array of theoretical lenses, it examines how Cukor’s films engage Hollywood masculinity and gender performativity through camp, drag, and mixed genres.

University Press of Kentucky • 9780813179292 • Hardback • 26 b/w illus.

229 x 152mm • 206 pages • May 2020 • £37.50

Picturing Peter Bogdanovich My Conversations with the New Hollywood Director

By Peter Tonguette Series: Screen Classics

A uniquely intimate portrait of one of Hollywood’s most underappreciated directors.

In Picturing Peter Bogdanovich: My Conversations with the New Hollywood Director, journalist and critic Peter Tonguette offers a film-by-film analysis of the director’s life and work. Drawing on interviews conducted over sixteen years, Tonguette pairs his analysis with an extensive, previously unpublished series of Q&As with Bogdanovich. These exclusive interviews reveal behind-the-scenes details about the director’s life, work, and future plans.

University Press of Kentucky • 9780813147314 • Hardback • 20 b/w illus.

229 x 152mm • 204 pages • June 2020 • £26.50

Small Screen, Big Feels Television and Cultural Anxiety in the Twenty-First Century

By Melissa Ames

Explores how TV’s role in cultivating shared memories of emotionally charged events since 9/11.

In this book, Melissa Ames analyses specific shows and genres to illustrate the ways in which cultural fears are embedded into our entertainment in series such as The Walking Dead and Lost or critiqued through programs like The Daily Show. She also analyses live tweets from How to Get Away with Murder; The Bachelor and The Bachelorette, and political coverage of the 2016 Presidential Debates.

University Press of Kentucky • 9780813180069 • Hardback • b/w illus., 22 figs & tables • 229 x 152mm • 300 pages • December 2020 • £37.50

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Harry Dean Stanton

By Jeremy Hicks

An unprecedented look at the beloved figure of actor Harry Dean Stanton (1926-2017).

By Joseph B. Atkins

A pioneering study of early Soviet contributions to the public awareness of the horrors of Nazi rule.

University of Pittsburgh Press 9780822962243 • Paperback 312 pages • November 2012 £25.50

University Press of Kentucky 9780813180106 • Hardback 256 pages • November 2020 £26.50

By James Bawden and Ron Miller Provocative and entertaining interviews with important figures from TV's first fifty years.

University Press of Kentucky 9780813177649 • Hardback 360 pages • August 2019 £28.00

The first history of stuntwomen in the film industry from the silent era to the twenty-first century.

Edited by Diego Cavallotti, Simone Dotto and Andrea Mariani Sheds light on the meaningful interrelations between moving images, media and arts.

Mimesis International 9788869772306 • Paperback 516 pages • January 2020 £31.00

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By Mollie Gregory

Exposing the Moving Image

University Press of Kentucky 9780813175836 • Paperback 360 pages • August 2018 £15.00

Conversations with Legendary Television Stars

Udine/Gorizia Conference Proceedings

Screen Classics

Stuntwomen

Screen Classics

Screen Classics

Russian and East European Studies

First Films of the Holocaust

C I N É M A & C I E , INTERNATIONAL FILM STUDIES JOURNAL, VOL. XX, no. 32, SPRING 2019 Edited by Elena Gipponi and Joshua Yumibe Addresses colour film from the 1930s to the 1960s.

Mimesis International 9788869772450 • Paperback 146 pages • February 2020 £12.00

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Correpondence of John Tyndall Vol. 8 The Correspondence June 1863-January 1865 Edited by Piers J. Hale, Elizabeth Neswald, Nathan N. Kapoor and Michael D. Barton Series: The Correspondence of John Tyndall

Collected correspondence of John Tyndall.

The 318 letters in this volume reveal a great deal about prominent 19th-century Irish physicist John Tyndall’s personality, the development of his career, and his role in attempting to better establish science as a respectable and professional enterprise. Letters in this volume include dramatic accounts of his cousin’s exploits in the American Civil War, details of Tyndall’s mountaineering adventures, and correspondence regarding his joint acquisition of the Reader.

University of Pittsburgh Press • 9780822945772 • Hardback 229 x 152mm • 448 pages • December 2020 • £115.00

The Correspondence of John Tyndall, Volume 9 The Correspondence, November 1865–March 1868 Edited by Iwan Rhys Morus, Geoffrey Belknap and James C. Ungureanu Series: The Correspondence of John Tyndall

Collected correspondence of John Tyndall.

The letters in this volume continue to explore the life and work of prominent 19th-century Irish physicist John Tyndall.

Tyndall’s correspondents read like a who’s who of international science, including Michael Faraday, Charles Darwin, Thomas Huxley, Joseph Henry, Rudolf Clausius, and Louis Pasteur. An intense study of his correspondence illuminates themes that individually and collectively played fundamental roles in the development of modern science: the relationship between science and religion, the popularisation and professionalisation of science, and advances in physics, glaciology, climatology, and the germ theory.

University of Pittsburgh Press • 9780822946083 • Hardback 229 x 152mm • 448 pages • June 2020 • £115.50

Václav Havel A Biography

By David Barton Series: Russian & East European Studies

An intimate portrayal of Václav Havel, the Czech writer, dissident, statesman, and first president of the Czech Republic.

Václav Havel (1936-2011), the famous Czech dissident, intellectual, and playwright, was also the first president of the Czech Republic. He was sometimes misunderstood and not always popular, but by the time of his death in 2011, the world recognized Havel as one of the most prominent figures of the twentieth century. This biography is the story of Havel’s inward journey in his underground years and thus the story of how Havel, the outsider, became the ultimate insider as president of the nation.

University of Pittsburgh Press • 9780822946069 • Hardback • 25 b/w illus.

229 x 152mm • 336 pages • April 2020 • £25.00

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Overtaken by the Night One Russian's Journey through Peace, War, Revolution, and Terror

By Richard G. Robbins Series: Russian & East European Studies

A gripping biography that examines the inner workings of Russian politics at its highest levels.

Vladimir Fedorovich Dzhunkovsky was a witness to his country’s unfolding tragedy—the decay of the tsarist autocracy, world war, revolution, the rise of a new regime, and its descent into terror. But Dzhunkovsky was not just a passive observer, he was an active participant in the troubled and turbulent events of his time, often struggling against the tide. This book paints a fascinating picture of Dzhunkovsky’s incredible life that reveals much about a long and crucial period in Russian history.

University of Pittsburgh Press • 9780822966173 • Paperback 20 b/w illus. • 229 x 152mm • 584 pages • November 2019 • £20.00

A Pioneer of Connection Recovering the Life and Work of Oliver Lodge Edited by James Mussell and Graeme Gooday Series: Science and Culture in the Nineteenth Century

Explores the life and work of a scientific figure greatly cherished by many of his contemporaries.

Sir Oliver Lodge was a polymathic scientific figure who linked the Victorian Age with the Second World War. A physicist and spiritualist, inventor and educator, author and authority, he was one of the most famous public figures of British science in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This volume uncovers the many aspects of his life and career, and the changing dynamics of scientific authority in an era of specialisation to examine his role in contemporary science and culture.

University of Pittsburgh Press • 9780822945956 • Hardback 9 b/w illus. • 229 x 152mm • 336 pages • May 2020 • £40.00

The Life and Legend of James Watt Collaboration, Natural Philosophy, and the Improvement of the Steam Engine

By David Philip Miller Series: Science and Culture in the Nineteenth Century

Offers a deeper understanding of the work and character of the great eighteenth-century engineer.

A skilled and creative engineer, James Watt was also a compulsive experimentalist drawn to natural philosophical inquiry, and a chemistry of heat underlay much of his work, including his steam engineering. Stripping away layers of legend built over generations, this book uncovers behind the heroic engineer a conflicted man often diffident about his achievements but also ruthless in protecting his inventions and ideas and determined in pursuit of money and fame.

University of Pittsburgh Press • 9780822966111 • Paperback 203 x 152mm • 440 pages • Available now • £27.00

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Adolphe Quetelet Social Physics and the Average Men of Science, 1796-1874

By Kevin Donnelly Series: Science and Culture in the Nineteenth Century

The first scholarly biography of Adolphe Quetelet.

Adolphe Quetelet was an influential astronomer and statistician whose controversial work inspired heated debate in intellectual circles. In creating a science designed to explain the “average man,” he helped contribute to the idea of normal, most enduringly in his creation of the Quetelet Index, which came to be known as the Body Mass Index. This is the first scholarly biography of Quetelet, exploring his contribution to quantitative reasoning, his place in nineteenth-century intellectual history, and his profound influence on the modern idea of average.

University of Pittsburgh Press • 9780822966081 • Paperback 229 x 152mm • 232 pages • Available now • £27.00

The Firebird The Elusive Fate of Russian Democracy

By Andrei Kozyrev Series: Russian and East European Studies

Andrei Kozyrev’s account of challenges he faced as Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation.

Andrei Kozyrev was foreign minister of Russia under President Boris Yeltsin from August 1991 to January 1996, whose pro-Western stance made him an increasingly unpopular figure in Russia as the economy spiralled and ideas of democracy and capitalism soured. In this book, Kozyrev provides a startling eyewitness account of the collapse of the Soviet Union, the struggle to create a democratic Russia in its place, and how the promise of a better future led to the tragic outcome that changed our world forever.

University of Pittsburgh Press • 9780822966517 • Paperback 10 b/w illus. • 229 x 152mm • 350 pages • October 2020 • £16.99

Changing the Game My Career in Collegiate Sports Marketing

By Jim Host and Other Eric A. Moyen

A behind-the- scenes look at the growth of big-time athletics in America.

Many Kentuckians and fans of intercollegiate athletics are familiar with the name Jim Host, founder and CEO of Host Communications, and pioneer in college sports marketing. Host’s most lasting innovation in collegiate sports was the concept of bundled licensing, which encouraged corporate partners to become official sponsors of athletic programs across media formats. But few know his full story. This is the first complete account of the entrepreneur’s professional life, detailing his achievements, his work, and his foray into politics.

University Press of Kentucky • 9780813179551 • Hardback • 70 b/w illus.

229 x 152mm • 296 pages • February 2020 • £26.50

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Katherine Jackson French Kentucky's Forgotten Ballad Collector

By Elizabeth DiSavino

A fascinating exploration of a pivotal scholar and Kentucky native.

The second woman to earn a PhD from Columbia University, Kentucky native Katherine Jackson French broke boundaries. Her research kick-started the resurgence of Appalachian music that continues to this day. Drawing on neverbefore-seen artefacts from French’s granddaughter, this book reclaims the life and legacy of this pivotal scholar by emphasising ways her work shaped and could reshape our conceptions about Appalachia today.

University Press of Kentucky • 9780813178523 • Hardback • 35 b/w illus., 1 map, 6 tables • 229 x 152mm • 266 pages • April 2020 • £37.50

Hans Christian Andersen – A Cultural Icon

By Anne Klara Bom

Explores Hans Christian Andersen as an international icon.

Hans Christian Andersen is a cultural icon. But what is an icon exactly? And how did Hans Christian Andersen become one, both in Denmark and abroad? This book looks into the different meanings and uses of the word icon and into the making of the cultural icon that is Hans Christian Andersen, in branding of businesses, as cultural heritage, and in the ability to transcend cultures.

Aarhus University Press • 9788772190174 • Hardback • colour illus.

240 x 160mm • 300 pages • July 2020 • £42.00

Son of Spinoza Georg Brandes and Modern Jewish Cosmopolitanism

By Søren Blka Hjortshøj

New insights into Brandes’ oeuvre and life.

The Danish scholar and critic Georg Brandes (1842-1927) is still recognized for his work today and seen by many as the theorist behind the so-called Modern Breakthrough in Scandinavia. Although born into a Jewish family, he was rarely seen by others as Jewish. This book presents a nuanced view on Brandes and Judaism, investigating the Jewishness of his authorship, and how it changed throughout his life.

Aarhus University Press • 9788772190181 • Hardback • colour illus.

240 x 170mm • 280 pages • August 2020 • £30.00

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Bound in the Bond of Life Pittsburgh Writers Reflect on the Tree of Life Tragedy Edited by Eric Slidji and Beth Kissileff

A collective story of city shaken to its very core.

On October 27, 2018, three congregations were holding their morning Shabbat services at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh’s Squirrel Hill neighbourhood when a lone gunman entered the building and opened fire. He killed eleven people and injured six more in the deadliest anti-Semitic attack in American history. The essays in this anthology tell the collective story of the city shaken to its very core, but determined that love will ultimately win.

University of Pittsburgh Press • 9780822946519 • Hardback 229 x 152mm • 224 pages • October 2020 • £20.00

Wealth, Waste, and Alienation Growth and Decline in the Connellsville Coke Industry

By Kenneth Warren

Explains the birth, growth, decline and death of the Connellsville coke industry.

The southwestern Pennsylvania town of Connellsville lay in the middle of a massive reserve of high-quality coal, and the region became a major source of coke, a vital material in steel manufacture. Here, Kenneth Warren draws from primary source material, including the minutes and letters of the Carnegie Steel Company, the United States Steel Corporation, and the archives of Henry Clay Frick, to explain the birth, phenomenal growth, decline and death of the Connellsville coke industry.

University of Pittsburgh Press • 9780822966210 • Paperback 229 x 152mm • 320 pages • March 2020 • £25.00

Appalachia in Regional Context Place Matters Edited by Dwight B. Billings, Ann E. Kingsolver and Other Barbara Ellen Smith, John Pickles and John Gaventa Series: Place Matters: New Directions in Appalachian Studies

New perspectives on one of America's most compelling and misunderstood regions.

In an increasingly globalised world, place matters more than ever. This concept especially holds true in Appalachian studies - a field that brings scholars, activists, artists, and citizens together around the region to contest misappropriations of resources and power and to combat stereotypes of isolation and intolerance.

University Press of Kentucky • 9780813179131 • Paperback • 14 b/w illus., 1 map 229 x 152mm • 264 pages • February 2020 • £22.50

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Making Bourbon A Geographical History of Distilling in Nineteenth-Century Kentucky

By Karl Raitz

A nuanced discussion of bourbon’s evolution in Kentucky.

While other industries chase after the new and improved, bourbon makers celebrate traditions that hearken back to an authentic frontier craft. Kentucky’s unique geography shaped the whiskeys its settlers produced, and for more than two centuries, distilling bourbon fundamentally altered every aspect of Kentucky’s landscape and culture. This book illuminates how the specific geography, culture, and ecology of the Bluegrass converged and gave birth to Kentucky’s favourite barrel-aged whiskey.

University Press of Kentucky • 9780813178752 • Hardback • 25 b/w illus., 33 maps • 254 x 178mm • 656 pages • February 2020 • £45.00

Confederate Citadel Richmond and Its People at War

By Mary A. DeCredico Series: New Directions in Southern History

Examines the human elements of the economic rise and fall of Richmond, Virginia.

Richmond, Virginia: pride of the founding fathers, doomed capital of the Confederate States of America. Unlike other Southern cities, Richmond boasted a vibrant, urban industrial complex capable of producing crucial ammunition and military supplies. This book offers a detailed portrait of life’s daily hardships in the rebel capital during the Civil War.

University Press of Kentucky • 9780813179254 • Hardback 9 b/w illus., 3 maps • 229 x 152mm • 224 pages • April 2020 • £37.50

Paved Roads & Public Money Connecticut Transportation in the Age of Internal Combustion

By Richard DeLuca Series: Driftless Connecticut

A well-illustrated examination of how land, law and technology have shaped Connecticut.

Drawing on a wide array of primary material, this bok examines how land, law, and technology have shaped Connecticut and its transportation systems, including aviation, roads, bridges, ferries, steamboats, canals, railroads, electric trolleys, and water ports. It focuses on key events in the development of transportation technology and legislation. It is arranged chronologically, highlighting themes from each period, showing the implications of state’s transportation history on the ongoing debates around infrastructure and funding.

Wesleyan University Press • 9780819573032 • Hardback • 50 illus., 1 table 229 x 152mm • 245 pages • July 2020 • £28.95

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Murder on the Ohio Belle

By Stuart W. Sanders

The dark story of a grisly 1856 murder on the Mississippi River.

In March 1856, a dead body washed onto the shore of the Mississippi River with its arms and legs tied to a chair. The body was that of a man who had been a passenger on the luxurious steamboat known as the Ohio Belle, the son of a southern planter. Drawing on eyewitness accounts, Murder on the Ohio Belle uncovers the mysterious circumstances behind the bloodshed, uncovering a story of double murders, secret identities, and hasty getaways.

University Press of Kentucky • 9780813178714 • Hardback • 23 b/w illus.

216 x 140mm • 160 pages • January 2020 • £19.00

Liberty Brought Us Here The True Story of American Slaves Who Migrated to Liberia

By Susan E. Lindsey

The story of the black Americans who migrated to start new lives in Liberia, Africa.

Drawing on extensive research and fifteen years’ worth of surviving letters, author Susan E. Lindsey illuminates the trials and triumphs of building a new life in Liberia, where settlers were free, but struggled to acclimate in an unfamiliar land, coexist with indigenous groups, and overcome disease and other dangers.

The book explores the motives and attitudes of colonisation supporters and those who lived in the colony, offering perspectives beyond the standard narrative that colonisation was solely about racism or forced exile.

University Press of Kentucky • 9780813179339 • Hardback • 21 b/w illus., 3 maps, 3 charts • 229 x 152mm • 238 pages • June 2020 • £34.00

Faith in Black Power Religion, Race, and Resistance in Cairo, Illinois

By Kerry Pimblott Series: Civil Rights and the Struggle for Black Equality in the Twentieth Century

A vital reassessment of the impact of religion on the black power movement.

In 1969, nineteen-year-old Robert Hunt was found dead in the Cairo, Illinois, police station. Though the death was ruled a suicide, the African American community believed he had been murdered, and rebellions and protests sparked across the city. Based on extensive primary research, this ground-breaking examination contributes to and complicates the history of the black freedom struggle in America.

University Press of Kentucky • 9780813178479 • Paperback • 12 b/w illus.

229 x 152mm • 334 pages • September 2019 • £22.50

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On the Tree of the Cross Georges Florovsky and the Patristic Doctrine of Atonement Edited by Matthew Baker, Seraphim Danckaert and Nicholas Marinides

Offers incisive and informed neo-patristic voices to any contemporary discussion of atonement.

Atonement is a contested but inescapable term in contemporary Englishlanguage theological discussion. The doctrine of atonement has received little attention in Orthodox Christian circles since the work of Fr Georges Florovsky.

This book comprises a collection of papers on atonement by contemporary scholars from a patristic symposium in honor of Florovsky, and a collection of writings on atonement by Florovsky himself, including previously unpublished manuscripts and other works otherwise hard to access.

Holy Trinity Seminary Press • 9781942699286 • Paperback 1 b/w illus.

229 x 153m • 166 pages • January 2020 • £16.99

Islam Context and Complexity

By Paul Stenhouse

Explores the background to tragic events linked to Islam.

Islam is not homogeneous. Its complexity, however, is bewildering for nonMuslims, most of whom know little or nothing of Islam, and generally – like Pope Francis – see it as a peace-loving religion. Others find this claim difficult to accept in the light of the violence and cruelty perpetrated in the name of Allah by Muslim fighters. This book offers some light on the background to these tragic events unfolding across the world.

Australian Scholarly Publishing • 9781925801897 • Paperback 196 pages • January • 2020 • £30.00

The Pope in Poland The Pilgrimages of John Paul II, 1979-1991

By James Felak Series: Russian and East European Studies

Examines Pope John Paul II's visits to Poland in the late Communist and immediate post-Communist period.

This ground-breaking book examines the Pope John Paul II’s first four visits to his homeland in the late Communist and immediate post-Communist period. Careful analysis of speeches, press coverage, and documents from the Communist Party, government, and police show how the Pope and the Communist authorities engaged one another. It recreates and explicates the dramatic visits that played a major role in the collapse of Communism in Poland as well as laid out a papal vision for Poland’s post-Communist future.

University of Pittsburgh Press • 9780822945987 • Hardback • 25 b/w illus.

229 x 152mm • 304 pages • October 2020 • £23.00

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2021 Holy Trinity Orthodox Russian Calendar (Russian-language) Троицкий Православный Русский Календарь на 2021 г.

By Holy Trinity Monastery

A Russian-language Orthodox Russian Calendar with details of feasts and Lenten days.

This liturgical guide offers detailed rubrics for every Sunday and major feast of the year, as well as certain lesser feasts and lenten days. The calendar also provides a list of commemorated saints and appointed scripture readings for each day of the year. Text in Russian.

Printshop of St Job of Pochaev • 9780884654445 • Spiralbound 229 x 153mm • 448 pages • January 2020 • £23.00

Living According to God’s Will

By Philaret (Voznesensky)

A thoughtful treatise for both private reading and group study.

In this short but incisive treatise the reader is guided on a spiritual journey that begins with the awakening of conscience and the realisation of the presence of both sin and virtue in the world, culminating in a union with God: that is “a living, personal relationship with the one we love.” In following the path of this ascent, the author delineates many of its markers and stresses that these have both personal and societal aspects.

Printshop of St Job of Pochaev • 9780884654438 • Paperback 178 x 127mm • 160 pages • October 2020 • £12.99

The Order of the Moleben and the Panikhida

By Holy Trinity Monastery

Contains the order of the General Moleben (or Service of Intercession).

This booklet contains the order of the General Moleben (or Service of Intercession), which may be served in any occasion to invoke the aid of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Mother of God, or the saints; as well as the unique order of the Paschal Moleben, served during Bright Week. Also presented is the order of the Pannikhida (or Memorial Service) in which Orthodox Christians pray for the blessed repose and salvation of the departed.

Printshop of St Job of Pochaev • 9780884654384 • Hardback 153 x 96mm • 96 pages • October 2020 • £9.00

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Literacy as Conversation Learning Networks in Philadelphia and Arkansas

By David A. Joliffe and David A. Goldblatt Series: Composition, Literacy, and Culture

Stories of successful literacy learning outside of schools and inside communities.

This book tells stories of successful literacy learning outside of schools and inside communities, both within urban neighbourhoods of Philadelphia and rural and semi-rural towns of Arkansas. They define literacy not as a basic skill but as a rich, broadly interactive human behaviour: the ability to engage in a conversation carried on, framed by, or enriched through written symbols.

University of Pittsburgh Press • 9780822946243 • Hardback 229 x 152mm • 208 pages • August 2020 • £38.00

Wendell Berry and Higher Education Cultivating Virtues of Place

By Jack R. Baker, Jeffrey Bilbro and Wendell Berry Series: Culture of the Land

An examination of Wendell Berry’s commentary on education.

Prominent author and cultural critic Wendell Berry is well known for his contributions to agrarianism and environmentalism, but his commentary on education has received comparatively little attention. Drawing on Berry's essays, fiction, and poetry, this book illuminates the influential thinker's vision for higher education in this ground-breaking study. Each chapter begins with an examination of one of Berry's fictional narratives and then goes on to consider how the passage inspires new ways of thinking about the university's mission.

University Press of Kentucky • 9780813179148 • Paperback 229 x 152mm • 268 pages • January 2020 • £22.50

Autodidactic Self-Taught

By James W. Parkinson and V. Manuel Perez

Encourages learning in order to change people’s lives for the better.

The idea that America is a literate country is a misconception. There are more than thirty million adults in the United States today who cannot read, and spectator mentality and an obsession with instant gratification prevent many from retaining a true commitment to literacy. Here, Parkinson shares his personal discoveries about how to take charge of one's own learning, weaving together practical wisdom and historical statements issued by some of the world's most remarkable leaders.

University Press of Kentucky • 9781585714254 • Paperback 2 b/w illus. • 216 x 140mm • 112 pages • January 2020 • £10.00

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City of Lake and Prairie Chicago's Environmental History Edited by William C. Barnett, Ann Durkin Keating and Kathleen Brosnan Series: History of the Urban Environment

A compelling, innovative, and deeply researched environmental history of Chicago.

Known as the Windy City and the Hog Butcher to the World, Chicago has earned a more apt sobriquet - City of Lake and Prairie - with this compelling, innovative, and deeply researched environmental history. Drawing on its contributors’ interdisciplinary talents, this volume reveals a rich but often troubled landscape shaped by communities of colour, workers, and activists as well as complex human relations with industry, waterways, animals, and disease.

University of Pittsburgh Press • 9780822946311 • Hardback • 36 b/w and colour illus.

229 x 152mm • 360 pages • August 2020 • £38.00

Coastal Metropolis Environmental Histories of Modern New York City Edited by Carl A. Zimring and Steven H. Corey Series: History of the Urban Environment

New insight into how New York transformed its air, land, and water as it grew.

Any consideration of sustainable urbanism requires understanding how cities have developed the systems that support modern life and the challenges posed by such a concentrated population. As the largest city in the United States, New York City is an excellent site to investigate these concerns. Featuring an array of the most distinguished and innovative urban environmental historians in the field, this book offers new insight into how the modern city transformed its air, land, and water as it grew.

University of Pittsburgh Press • 9780822946526 • Hardback 32 b/w illus. • 229 x 152mm • 264 pages • August 2020 • £35.00

A Monastery for the Ibex Conservation, State, and the Conflict of the Gran Paradiso, 1919-1949

By Wilko Graf von Hardenberg

A multifaceted narrative about Italy's oldest National Park.

Gran Paradiso National Park is Italy’s oldest, and was instrumental in preventing the extinction of the Alpine ibex between World War I and just after World War II. Wilko Graf von Hardenberg merges the history of conservation with the area’s social history and Italy’s larger political history to produce a multifaceted narrative about the park as an institution, the conflicts it triggered, and practices adopted to manage the ibex despite hurdles placed by the fascist regime.

University of Pittsburgh Press • 9780822946359 • Hardback 24 b/w illus. • 229 x 152mm • 216 pages • December 2021 • £38.00

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A Mighty Capital Under Threat The Environmental History of London, 1800-2000 Edited by Bill Luckin and Peter Thorsheim Series: History of the Urban Environment Demographically, nineteenth-century London, or what Victorians called the “new Rome,” first equalled, then superseded its ancient ancestor. By the mideighteenth century, the British capital had already developed into a global city. Sustained by its enormous empire, between 1800 and the First World War London ballooned in population and land area. This book investigates the environmental history of one of the world’s global cities and the largest city in the United Kingdom.

University of Pittsburgh Press • 9780822946106 • Hardback 10 maps • 229 x 152mm • 480 pages • March 2020 • £40.00

Gone to Ground A History of Environment and Infrastructure in Dar es Salaam

By Emily Brownell Series: Intersections

The story of Dar es Salaam's environment and infrastructure.

An investigation into the material and political forces that transformed the cityscape of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania in the 1970s and early 1980s. It is both the story of a particular city and the history of a global moment of massive urban transformation from the perspective of those at the centre of this shift. It is built around an archive of newspapers, oral history interviews, planning documents, and a broad compendium of development reports.

University of Pittsburgh Press • 9780822946113 • Hardback 32 b/w illus. • 229 x 152mm • 256 pages • March 2020 • £35.00

Krakow An Ecobiography

By Adam Izdebski Series: Russian and East European Studies Demonstrates a valuable environmental perspective to Poland's history.

Like most cities, Poland's Krakow developed around and because of its favorable geography. It has functioned as a cultural centre, an industrial centre, and a centre of learning. Behind all of this lies the city's environment: its fauna and plant life, the Vistula River, the surrounding countryside rich with resources, and manmade change that has allowed the city to flourish. In Krakow: An Ecobiography, the contributors use the city as a lens to focus these social and natural intricacies to shed new light on one of Europe's urban treasures.

University of Pittsburgh Press • 9780822946137 • Hardback 229 x 152mm • 300 pages • September 2020 • £27.00

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The Extraction State A History of Natural Gas in the United States

By Charles Blanchard

Explains how the New Deal regulatory compact came together in the 1920s and fell apart in the 1970s.

The history of the United States of America is also the history of the energy sector.

Beginning in the 1880s, this book explains how the New Deal regulatory compact came together in the 1920s, even before the Great Depression, and how it fell apart in the 1970s. From there, the book dissects the policies that affect us today, and explores where we might be headed in the near future.

University of Pittsburgh Press • 9780822946366 • Hardback • 57 b/w illus.

229 x 152mm • 416 pages • November 2020 • £38.00

Germany's Urban Frontiers Nature and History on the Edge of the Nineteenth-Century City

By Kristin Poling Series: History of the Urban Environment

Case studies examining the history of frontier landscapes in Germany.

In an era of transatlantic migration, Germans were fascinated by the myth of the frontier. Yet, for many, they were most likely to encounter frontier landscapes of new settlement and the taming of nature not in far-flung landscapes abroad, but on the edges of Germany’s many growing cities. This is the first book to examine how nineteenth-century notions of progress, community, and nature shaped the changing spaces of German urban peripheries as the walls and boundaries that had long defined central European cities disappeared.

University of Pittsburgh Press • 9780822946410 • Hardback 18 b/w illus. • 229 x 152mm • 256 pages • September 2020 • £38.00

Motor City Green A Century of Landscapes and Environmentalism in Detroit

By Joseph Stanhope Cialdella Series: History of the Urban Environment

The history of Detroit through an environmental lens.

This is a history of green spaces in metropolitan Detroit from the late nineteenthto early twenty-first century, focusing primarily on the history of gardens and parks in the city of Detroit and its suburbs in southeast Michigan. The book looks to the past to demonstrate how today’s urban gardens in Detroit evolved from, but are also distinct from, other urban gardens and green spaces in the city’s past.

University of Pittsburgh Press • 9780822945727 • Hardback • 43 b/w illus.

229 x 152mm • 246 pages • March 2020 • £27.00

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Environment and Urbanization in Modern Italy

By Federico Paolini Series: History of the Urban Environment

The first English-language examination of the impact of Italian postwar reconstruction on the environment.

From the second half of the 1940s, various aspects of post-war reconstruction in Italy were notable driving forces of environmental change. This book presents a series of essays ranging from the use of natural resources, to environmental problems caused by means of transport, to issues concerning environmental politics and the dynamics of the environment movement. It concludes with a forecast about the environmental problems that will emerge in the public debate of the twenty-first century.

University of Pittsburgh Press • 9780822945932 • Hardback 64 b/w illus. • 229 x 152mm • 224 pages • March 2020 • £35.00

Cultural Landscapes in India Imagined, Enacted, and Reclaimed

By Amita Sinha

Makes the case for rethinking conventional approaches to conservation.

Most people view cultural heritage sites as static places, frozen in time. This book subverts the idea of heritage as static and examines the ways that landscapes influence culture and that culture influences landscapes. The book centres around imagining, enacting, and reclaiming landscapes as subjects and settings of living cultural heritage. Drawing on case studies from different regions of India, Sinha offers new interpretations of links between land and culture using different ways of seeing—transcendental, romantic, and utilitarian.

University of Pittsburgh Press • 9780822946427 • Hardback 50 color illus. • 254 x 178mm • 216 pages • June 2020 • £38.00

Inevitably Toxic Historical Perspectives on Contamination, Exposure, and Expertise Edited by Brinda Sarathy, Vivian Hamilton and Janet Farrell Brodie

Asks us to confront the toxic landscapes that pervade modern life.

Series: History of the Urban Environment Not a day goes by that humans aren’t exposed to toxins in our environment—be it at home, in the car, or workplace. But what about those toxic places and items that aren’t marked? Why are we warned about some toxic spaces’ substances and not others? The essays in Inevitably Toxic consider the exposure of bodies in the United States, Canada and Japan to radiation, industrial waste, and pesticides.

University of Pittsburgh Press • 9780822966128 • Paperback 13 b/w illus. • 229 x 152mm • 280 pages • June 2019 • £22.00

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Virtues of Renewal Wendell Berry's Sustainable Forms

By Jeffrey Bilbro Series: Culture of the Land

Lessons on how to live mindfully and practice the virtues of renewal.

For over fifty years, Wendell Berry has argued that our most pressing ecological and cultural need is a renewed formal intelligence—a mode of thinking and acting that fosters the health of the earth and its beings. This book combines textual analysis and cultural criticism to explain how Berry's literary forms encourage readers to practice virtues of renewal.

University Press of Kentucky • 9780813179421 • Paperback 229 x 152mm • 246 pages • January 2020 • £22.50

Religion and Resistance in Appalachia Faith and the Fight against Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining

By Joseph D. Witt Series: Place Matters: New Directions in Appalachian Studies

Examines how religious and environmental ethics foster resistance to mountaintop removal coal mining.

In the last fifty years, the Appalachian Mountains have suffered permanent and profound change due to the expansion of surface coal mining. The irrevocable devastation caused by this practice has forced local citizens to redefine their identities, their connections to global economic forces, their pasts, and their futures. This book draws on extensive interviews with activists, teachers, preachers, and community leaders to examine how religion has become a defining element of resistance against the practice.

University Press of Kentucky • 9780813179100 • Paperback • 11 b/w illus.

229 x 152mm • 296 pages • January 2020 • £22.50

Sacred Mountains A Christian Ethical Approach to Mountaintop Removal

By Andrew R. H. Thompson Series: Place Matters: New Directions in Appalachian Studies

A ground-breaking and nuanced study of religion and environmental consciousness in Appalachia.

This book proposes a Christian ethical analysis of a controversial mining practice in Appalachia that has often led to fierce and even violent confrontations. It provides a thorough introduction to the issues surrounding surface mining, including the environmental consequences and the resultant religious debates, and highlights the discussions being carried out in the media and by scholarly works.

University Press of Kentucky 9780813179117 • Paperback • 6 b/w illus.

229 x 152mm • 212 pages • March 2020 • £22.50

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The Syriac Dot A Short History

By George Kiraz

Explores the use of the Syriac dot.

The dot is used for everything in Syriac from tense to gender, number, and pronunciation, and unsurprisingly represents one of the biggest obstacles to learning the language. Using inscriptions, early grammars, and experiments with modern scribes, Dr. Kiraz peels back the evolution of the Syriac dot.

Gorgias Press • 9781463241001 • Paperback • 178 x 140mm 232 pages • August 2019 • £35.00

Wuka nya-nganunga li-Yanyuwa li-Anthawirriyarra.

Language for Us, The Yanyuwa Saltwater People A Yanyuwa Encyclopaedia

By John Bradley

A rich, authoritative repository of the cultural and linguistic knowledge of the Yanyuwa, Northern Australia.

This Encyclopaedia is a rich, authoritative repository of the cultural and linguistic knowledge of the Yanyuwa, the Saltwater people of the coastal and island country near Borroloola in the Northern Territory of Australia. Volume 1 will interest linguists and ethnographic researchers, covering the language, recorded texts, translations, songs and Ancestral Dreaming Stories. Volume 2 delves deeper into linguistics to examine Yanyuwa grammar, sounds, dialects, and a Yanyuwa-English dictionary.

Australian Scholarly Publishing • 9781925588682 • Paperback 1410 pages • July 2020 • £75.00

The Poetics of Plants in Latin American Literature

By Lesley Wylie Series: Illuminations

Examines the defining role of plants in cultural expression across Latin America.

From the colonial georgic to Pablo Neruda’s Canto general, Lesley Wylie’s close study of botanical imagery demonstrates the fundamental role of the natural world and the relationship between people and plants in the region. The book establishes how vegetal imaginaries are key to Spanish American attempts to renovate European forms and traditions as well as to the reconfiguration of the relationship between humans and nonhumans.

University of Pittsburgh Press • 9780822946250 • Hardback 12 b/w illus. • 229 x 152mm • 232 pages • October 2020 • £35.00

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Elfriede Jelinek Goes Australia Indigenising an Austrian Nobel Prize Winner

By André Bastian

The first volume to focus entirely on the work of Nobel Prize in Literature winner Elfriede Jelinek.

This is the first volume entirely published on Jelinek’s work in Australia and gathers a series of analyses around the first-ever production of one of her plays on an Australian stage, in Melbourne, 2011. It discusses questions of the Austrian writer’s complex writing strategies, potential problems of cultural transfer, the international reception of Jelinek’s work, and the contribution her work for theatre can make to a series of fundamental aspects of the global discourse of current times: feminism, sports and racism.

Australian Scholarly Publishing • 9781925588514 • Paperback 230 pages • November 2020 • £30.00

Lost in History Women in Literature and Philosophy

By Supakwadee Amatayakul and Ilenia De Bernardis

Deals with the issue of women’s absence from the visible horizons of literature and philosophy.

This book explores why and how women authors and philosophers are not included in the literary and philosophical canon. Women authors and philosophers seem to be left out of classes on great literature or the history of philosophy, leaving students with the impression that both literature and philosophy are shaped almost exclusively by men’s hands. The authors examine the sources and consequences of such exclusion and investigate the scholarly movements that have been set in place to rectify women’s absence in these fields.

Mimesis International • 9788869772870 • Paperback 210 x 140mm • 100 pages • October 2020 • £8.99

Poets, Philosophers, Lovers On the Writings of Giannina Braschi Edited by Frederick Luis Aldama and Tess O'Dwyer

Explores forty years of writing by Giannina Braschi.

Series: Latinx and Latin American Profiles This collection of essays, by fifteen scholars across diverse fields, explores forty years of writing by Giannina Braschi, one of the most revolutionary Latinx authors of her generation. Since the 1980s, Braschi’s linguistic and structural ingenuities, radical thinking, and poetic hilarity have spanned the genres of theatre, poetry, fiction, essay, musical, manifesto, political philosophy, and spoken word. This volume explores how Brasci’s texts shake up our ideas of ourselves and enrich our understanding of how powerful narratives can wake us to our higher expectations.

University of Pittsburgh Press • 9780822946182 • Hardback 203 x 127mm • 168 pages • October 2020 • £35.00

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Writing Appalachia An Anthology Edited by Katherine Ledford, Theresa Lloyd and Rebecca Stephens

A diverse and comprehensive anthology from and about Appalachian writers.

Despite the stereotypes and misconceptions surrounding Appalachia, the region has nurtured and inspired some of the nation’s finest writers. Featuring dozens of authors born into or adopted by the region over the past two centuries, this collection showcases for the first time the nuances and contradictions that place Appalachia at the heart of American history.

University Press of Kentucky • 9780813178790 • Hardback • 14 illus 235 x 156mm • 784 pages • February 2020 • £37.50

The Politics of Richard Wright Perspectives on Resistance Edited by Jane Anna Gordon and Cyrus Ernesto Zirakzadeh

Explores the controversies surrounding African American author Richard Wright.

A pillar of African American literature, Richard Wright is one of the most celebrated and controversial authors in American history. Here, an interdisciplinary group of scholars embraces the controversies surrounding Wright as a public intellectual and author. The Politics of Richard Wright is an indispensable resource for students of American literature, culture, and politics who strive to interpret this influential writer's life and legacy.

University Press of Kentucky • 9780813179599 • Paperback • 3 b/w illus.

229 x 152 386 pages • April 2020 • £30.00

The Correspondence of Thomas Stephens Revolutionising Welsh Scholarship in the Mid-Nineteenth Century through Knowledge Exchange

By Adam Coward Series: Celtic Studies Publications

The correspondence of nineteenth-century Welsh scholar Thomas Stephens.

Thomas Stephens was one of the most significant and controversial nineteenth-century Welsh scholars. This book examines his correspondence, includes comments by many of the most noted historians, literary critics and Celticists of his day on a wide range of subjects. More than this, however, Stephens’s correspondence shows the complex networks of knowledge exchange which stretched across the nineteenth-century scholarly world.

Celtic Studies Publications • 9781891271304 • Paperback 210 x 150mm • 272 pages • June 2020 • £19.95

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MEDICINE AND DISEASE

Dementia is Different Not just another ordinary illness

By Ludomyr Mykyta

A critique of the state of dementia diagnosis and care in Australia.

The conventional way that dementia is evaluated and managed is one-dimensional and outdated. We are fixated on identifying a cause, when we should be identifying the consequences. We use tests when we should be seeing and talking to people. Drawing from his long career in geriatric medicine, Dr Ludomyr Mykyta critiques the state of dementia treatment and care in Australia, highlighting the discrimination faced by our ageing residents.

Australian Scholarly Publishing • 9781925801248 • Paperback 354 pages • May 2020 • £30.00

Varieties of Causal Explanation in Medical Contexts

By Raffaella Campaner

Examines causal explanations in medicine.

Explanation in terms of causes has nourished a wide debate addressing diseases, what produces them, and how. The aims of this volume are two-fold: to stress the core features, differences and interaction between various theories and their suitability in medicine, and to advocate a form of pluralism grounded in deep analysis of specific features of explanatory context in the health sciences, especially in cancer and mental health studies.

Mimesis International • 9788869772788 • Paperback 208 x 140mm • 170 pages • April 2020 • £20.99

The Cancer Crisis in Appalachia Kentucky Students Take ACTION Edited by Nathan L. Vanderford, Lauren Hudson and Chris Prichard

Endeavours to convey how life-changing cancer diagnoses can be.

Kentucky has more cancer diagnoses and cancer-related deaths than any other US state, and most of these cases are concentrated in the Appalachian region of the commonwealth. This collection features essays written by a group of twenty high school and five undergraduate students detailing the effects of cancer diagnoses and deaths on individuals and communities.

University Press of Kentucky • 9781950690039 • Paperback 229 x 152mm • 146 pages • March 2020 • £15.00

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Compound Remedies Galenic Pharmacy in Colonial Mexico

By Paula De Vos

Examines the equipment, books, and remedies of colonial Mexico City’s Herrera pharmacy.

This book examines the equipment, books, and remedies of colonial Mexico City’s Herrera pharmacy—natural substances with known healing powers that formed the basis for modern-day healing traditions and home remedies in Mexico. Paula De Vos traces the evolution of the Galenic pharmaceutical tradition from its foundations in Ancient Greece to the physician-philosophers of the Islamic empires in the medieval Latin West and eventually through the Spanish Empire to Mexico, offering a global history of the transmission of these materials, knowledges, and techniques.

University of Pittsburgh Press • 9780822946496 • Hardback • 40 b/w illus. • 229 x 152mm • 352 pages • November 2020 • £38.00

The Making of Modern Anthrax, 1875-1920 Uniting Local, National and Global Histories of Disease

By James F. Stark Series: Sci & Culture in the Nineteenth Century

Examines anthrax in terms of local, national and global significance.

From the mid-nineteenth century onwards a number of previously unknown conditions were recorded in both animals and humans. Known by a variety of names, and found in diverse locations, by the end of the century these diseases were united under the banner of "anthrax." Stark offers a fresh perspective on the history of infectious disease. He examines anthrax in terms of local, national and global significance, and constructs a narrative that spans public, professional and geographic domains.

University of Pittsburgh Press • 9780822966494 • New in Paperback 229 x 152mm • 272 pages • December 2020 • £26.50

Typhoid in Uppingham Analysis of a Victorian Town and School in Crisis, 1875–1877

By Nigel Richardson Series: Sci & Culture in the Nineteenth Century

Examines nineteenth-century health strategy through a well-documented market town.

After the Public Heath Acts of 1872 and 1875, British local authorities bore statutory obligations to carry out sanitary improvements. Richardson explores public health strategy and central-local government relations during the midnineteenth-century, using the experience of Uppingham, England, as a microhistorical case study.

University of Pittsburgh Press • 9780822966456 • New in Paperback 229 x 152mm • 288 pages • December 2020 • £26.50

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Thoughts on War

By Phillip S. Meilinger

A fresh, controversial perspective on time-honoured military values.

War is changing. Unlike when modern military doctrine was forged, the United States no longer mobilises massive land forces for direct political gain. Instead, the US fights small, overseas wars by global mandate to overthrow dictators, destroy terrorist groups, and broker regional peace. In Thoughts on War, Phillip S. Meilinger confronts the shortcomings of US military dogma in search of a new strategic doctrine.

University Press of Kentucky • 9780813178899 • Hardback • 1 map, 6 figures 229 x 152mm • 312 pages • January 2020 • £45.00

Desert Redleg Artillery Warfare in the First Gulf War

By L. Scott Lingamfelter Series: American Warriors Series

A boots-on-the-ground perspective on the largest US artillery bombardment since World War II. When Saddam Hussein’s Iraq invaded Kuwait in August 1990, a coalition of thirty-five countries led by the United States responded with Operation Desert Storm. This book recounts the logistical and strategic decisions that led to a coalition victory. Drawing on original battle maps, official reports, and personal journals, it describes the experience of the First Gulf War through a soldier’s eyes and attempts to answer the question of whether the United States “got the job done” in its first sustained Middle Eastern conflict.

University Press of Kentucky • 9780813179209 • Hardback • 30 b/w illus., 17 maps, 3 charts • 229 x 152mm • 344 pages • April 2020 • £25.00

Lectures of the Air Corps Tactical School and American Strategic Bombing in World War II Edited by Phil Haun Series: Aviation & Air Power

Nine lecture transcripts from the Air Force archives.

Nine Air Corps Tactical School (ACTS) lecture transcripts present a distinctive American strategy of high-altitude daylight precision bombing as told through lectures given at the ACTS during the interwar period and how these airmen put the theory to the test. The book examines the Air Corps theory of HADPB as compared to the reality of combat in World War II by relying on recent, revisionist histories with a deeper understanding of the impact of strategic bombing on Germany.

University Press of Kentucky • 9780813179247 • Paperback • 24 b/w illus., 2 maps, 2 charts, 27 tables • 229 x 152mm • 320 pages • April 2020 • £22.50

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Parleying with the Devil Prisoner Exchange in Yugoslavia, 1941‒1945

By Gaj Trifković and Klaus Schmider Series: New Perspectives on the Second World War

Examines the little-known story of prisoner exchanges during WW2 in Yugoslavia.

The Second World War in Yugoslavia is notorious for the brutal struggle between the armed forces of the Third Reich and the communist-led Partisans. Less known is the fact that the two sides negotiated prisoner exchanges throughout the war. This is the first comprehensive analysis of prisoner exchanges and the attendant contacts between the German occupation authorities and the Yugoslav Partisans.

University Press of Kentucky • 9781949668087 • Hardback • 10 tables 229 x 152mm • 476 pages • May 2020 • £83.00

American Datu John J. Pershing and Counterinsurgency Warfare in the Muslim Philippines, 1899-1913

By Ronald K. Edgerton Series: Battles and Campaigns

Explores a crucial but often overlooked period in the development of American counterinsurgency strategy.

Tracing Pershing’s military campaigns in the Philippines, Ronald K. Edgerton examines how Progressive Counterinsurgency doctrine evolved in direct response to the first sustained military encounter between the United States and Muslim militants. In light of Pershing’s military success, this study calls for a re-evaluation of the more invasive counterinsurgency methods used by US officers against Muslim militants today.

University Press of Kentucky • 9780813178936 • Hardback • 12 b/w illus., 5 maps • 229 x 152mm • 376 pages • April 2020 • £45.00

To Risk It All The Capture of Fort Duquesne, and the Course of Empire in the Ohio Country

By Michael N. McConnell

An in-depth exploration of General John Forbes’ campaign against Fort Duquesne.

General John Forbes’ campaign against Fort Duquesne was the largest over-land expedition during the Seven Years’ War in America. While most histories of the time period include the Forbes Campaign as an aside, McConnell documents how and why Forbes and his army succeeded, and what his success meant to the subsequent history of the mid-Atlantic colonies, native inhabitants of the Ohio Country, and the empire he represented.

University of Pittsburgh Press • 9780822946328 • Hardback 26 b/w illus. • 254 x 178mm • 320 pages • October 2020 • £30.00

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Victory Banner Over the Reichstag Film, Document, and Ritual in Russia’s Contested Memory of World War II

By Jeremy Hicks Series: Russian and East European Studies

Explores the power of an image in building a national narrative.

One of the most iconic images of WWII was a Russian soldier raising a red flag atop the ruins of the German Reichstag. Award-winning author Jeremy Hicks explores how the Soviets, and then Putin, have used this image and the banner itself to build a remarkably powerful mythology of Russian greatness.

University of Pittsburgh Press • 9780822946502 • Hardback • 40 b/w illus.

229 x 152mm • 340 pages • October 2020 • £35.00

German-Balkan Entangled Histories in the Twentieth Century Edited by Christopher Molnar and Myrna Zakic Series: Russian and East European Studies

Explores the history and memory of Germany’s fateful push for power in the Balkans.

This volume brings together a diverse group of young scholars from North America and Europe to explore the history and memory of Germany’s fateful push for power in the Balkans during the era of the two world wars and the long post-war period. Each chapter focuses on one or more of four interrelated themes: war, empire, (forced) migration, and memory.

University of Pittsburgh Press • 9780822946458 • Hardback • 8 b/w illus.

229 x 152mm • 344 pages • October 2020 • £35.00

Conscript Nation Coercion and Consent in the Bolivian Barracks

By Elizabeth Shesko Series: Pitt Latin American Series

The first comprehensive history of the military's role in Bolivian state formation.

Drawing on a body of internal military records never before used by scholars, Elizabeth Shesko argues that conscription in Bolivia evolved into a pact between the state and society. It not only was imposed from above but was also embraced from below because it provided a space for Bolivians across divides of education, ethnicity, and social class to negotiate their relationships with each other and with the state.

University of Pittsburgh Press • 9780822946021 • Hardback • 10 b/w illus.

229 x 152mm • 264 pages • May 2020 • £35.00

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Red Atom

The Holocaust in Croatia

By Paul Josephson

Camp Century

By Henry Nielsen and Kristian Hvidtfeldt Nielsen

Reveals the history and death of the Soviet Union's peaceful use of nuclear power.

By Ivo Goldstein and Slavko Goldstein

University of Pittsburgh Press 9780822958819 • Paperback 352 pages • June 2005 • £27.00

University of Pittsburgh Press 9780822944515 • Hardback 720 pages • October 2016 £31.00

Aarhus University Press 9788772190198 • Hardback 268 pages • August 2020 £30.00

Romans at War

Medieval Militar y Combat

A Warrior Dynasty

A fully illustrated account of the Roman military in the Republican and Imperial periods.

By Tom Lewis Shows for the first time the battle techniques of the medieval period and reexamines the sources for battle numbers.

Examines the meteoric rise of Sweden as the pre-eminent military power in Europe during the Thirty Years War during the 1600s.

Casemate Publishers 9781612008851 • Hardback 368 pages • September 2020 £29.95

Casemate Publishers 9781612008875 • Hardback 256 pages • September 2020 £25.00

Casemate Publishers 9781612009315 • Paperback 328 pages • January 2021 £18.99

By Simon Elliott

Recounts the history of the Croatian Jewish community during WW2.

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Unravels the extraordinary story of the secret US Army military base in the Greenland ice cap.

By Henrik O. Lunde

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P H I LO S O P H Y REFLECTIONS SERIES FROM AARHUS UNIVERSITY PRESS 60 pages. 60 minutes. That's all it takes to understand the thoughts, discoveries and ideas that Danish researchers have spent years, sometimes even a lifetime of study to arrive at.

Condensed and written in words we all understand. No footnotes, no references and no academic nonsense. Perfect for a morning commute, a plane ride or your living room couch.

RE FLEC TION S Corruption

Welfare

Happiness

By Mette Frisk Jensen

By Carsten Jensen

By Christian Bjørnskov

Why is Denmark possibly the least corrupt nation in the world?

Is there a dark side to the welfare state?

What kinds of happiness are there? How can we find them?

Aarhus University Press 9788771842197 • Paperback 60 pages • August 2020 £4.99

Aarhus University Press 9788772191881 • Paperback 60 pages • June 2020 £7.00

Aarhus University Press 9788772191867 • Paperback 60 pages • June 2020 £7.00

Democracy

Creativity

Play

By Svend-Erik Skaaning

By Jan Løhmann Stephensen

By Marc Malmdorf Andersen

Why do we love democracy?

What are its flaws?

Why isn’t creativity the answer to everything?

Should grown-ups play too?

Can play save the world?

Aarhus University Press 9788772191850 • Paperback 60 pages • June 2020 £7.00

Aarhus University Press 9788772191843 • Paperback 60 pages • June 2020 £7.00

Aarhus University Press 9788772191874 • Paperback 60 pages • June 2020 £7.00

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Imaginative Moods: Aesthetics, Religion, Philosophy

By Dorthe Jørgensen

Explores human experiences of transcendence.

What do human experiences of transcendence mean? Would investigating their mind-opening and world-transformative nature improve contemporary philosophy and theology? This book shows the importance of experiences traditionally categorised as religious or aesthetic for our understanding of, e.g., art, faith, prayer, presence, beauty, sensitivity, imagination, susceptibility, and divinity.

Aarhus University Press • 9788772191058 • Hardback 240 x 160mm • 256 pages • September 2020 • £29.00

Poetic Inclination: Ethics, History, Philosophy

By Dorthe Jørgensen

Explores aesthetic thinking and its relevance in a variety of disciplines.

Philosophy originates in wonder that generates aesthetic thinking. Can this thinking foster human well-being and develop our notions of history, hospitality, freedom, and the good life? This book presents the formative nature of aesthetic thinking and attests its relevance in many disciplines and a broad spectrum of society, e.g., border studies, education policy, and social work.

Aarhus University Press • 9788772191041 • Hardback 240 x 160mm • 256 pages • September 2020 • £29.00

Rationalism A Critique of Pure Theory

By Brian Ellis

A critique of rationalism, and thoughts on moving past it.

A critique of rationalism, this book aims to explain both its powerful contributions to mathematics and the physical sciences, where our arithmetical, geometrical, and mechanical intuitions have had a highly productive role in the development of pure theory, and its disastrous failures in cosmology and the moral sciences, where rationalism has all but destroyed the social conscience of the West by creating the disastrous political philosophy of neoliberalism.

Australian Scholarly Publishing • 9781925003550 • Paperback 306 pages • March 2020 • £30.00

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The New Enlightenment On Steven Pinker & Beyond

By Brian Ellis

Suggests a new enlightenment is needed to overcome the poverty of up-to-date social theory.

Steven Pinker’s Enlightenment Now establishes that great progress has been made on the aims of the European Enlightenment. However, many economists, moralists and political thinkers in the West are still lagging behind. Progress has been due mainly to the physical scientific revolutions of the 19th and 20th centuries. This book suggests that a new enlightenment is needed to overcome the poverty of social theory and bring economists and political into the socially connected, commercially integrated and existentially threatened world of the 21st century.

Australian Scholarly Publishing • 9781925801910 • Paperback 308 pages • March 2020 • £30.00

The Creation of Digital Materiality Artillery Warfare in the First Gulf War

By Liberati Nicola

Analyses how we perceive digital objects produced by AR and its effects on society.

The book aims to analyse how Augmented Reality (AR) is perceived and its effects on us and our society following a phenomenological approach. AR has been developed to “merge” the digital and the real world. In order to achieve such a merge, we need to complement an engineering approach with a philosophical one by studying how subjects perceive the world around and how to design an AR able to provide the same kind of objects we are used to have in our everyday world.

Mimesis International • 9788869772795 • Paperback 208 x 140 mm • 176 pages • May 2020 • £14.99

Imagination in Thought and Action The cognitive architecture of imagination and belief

By Anna Ichino

An exploration of the role of imagination in human cognition and culture.

What is the imagination’s role in human cognition and culture? This book explores the hypothesis that such role is larger than we commonly think.

Imagination is the key to understanding many important domains of our lives that are often supposed to be the province of belief alone. Combining traditional methods of philosophical inquiry with relevant findings from cognitive and social sciences, this book provides solid empirical support for this hypothesis and to explores its important theoretical and practical implications.

Mimesis International • 9788869772993 • Paperback 210 x 140mm • 230 pages • September 2020 • £18.99

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Human Space

By Otto Bollnow

An English translation of an important study of our experience of space.

Since it was published in Germany in 1963, Bollnow’s text has become a key reading in architecture, anthropology, and philosophy, and has been kept continuously in print. The book is both serious academic research and something more, showing a great sensitivity to the near and the everyday. This translated text is enlivened and illustrated with many quotations, principally from German and English literature.

Mimesis International • 9788869772832 • Paperback 210 x 140mm • 320 pages • December 2020 • £27.99

Identity in a Secular Age Science, Religion, and Public Perception Edited by Fern Eldson-Baker and Bernard Lightman Series: Science, Values, and the Public

Analyses perceptions of the relationship between evolutionary science, religion, and personal belief.

Although historians have suggested for some time that we move away from the assumption of a necessary clash between science and religion, the conflict narrative persists in contemporary discourse. In this multidisciplinary volume, experts in history and philosophy of science, oral history, sociology of religion, social psychology, and science communication and public engagement look beyond two warring systems of thought.

University of Pittsburgh Press • 9780822946281 • Hardback 21 b/w illus. • 229 x 152mm • 312 pages • September 2020 • £38.00

Science and Moral Imagination A New Ideal for Values in Science

By Matthew Brown Series: Science, Values, and the Public

Directly challenges the idea that science and values cannot and should not influence each other.

The idea that science is or should be value-free, and that values are or should be formed independently of science, has been under fire by philosophers of science for decades. This book argues that science and values mutually influence and implicate one another, that the influence of values on science is pervasive and must be responsibly managed, and that science can and should have an influence on our values.

University of Pittsburgh Press • 9780822946267 • Hardback 6 b/w illus. • 229 x 152mm • 296 pages • October 2020 • £38.00

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Four Decades of Scientific Explanation

Metaethics, Egoism, and Virtue

By Wesley C. Salmon

Edited by Allan Gotthelf and James G. Lennox

Analyses changes in philosophical conceptions of scientific explanation after the landmark 1948 essay by Carl Hempel and Paul Oppenheim.

The Philosophy Of Scientific Experimentation

By Hans Radder

Seeks a fuller scholarly understanding of this highly original and influential thinker Ayn Rand.

A collection of essays that focuses on the identification and clarification of philosophical issues in experimental science.

University of Pittsburgh Press 9780822959267 • Paperback 240 pages • Available now £25.50

University of Pittsburgh Press 9780822962724 • Paperback 200 pages • Available Now £23.00

University of Pittsburgh Press 9780822957959 • Paperback 328 pages • Available now £27.50

Anthropocentrism and Its Discontents

A Journey through Philosophy in 101 Anecdotes

Process Philosophy

By Gary Steiner The first comprehensive examination of views of animals in the histor y of Western philosophy, from Homeric Greece to the twentieth century.

By Nicholas Rescher

University of Pittsburgh Press 9780822961192 • Paperback 344 pages • Available now £27.00

University of Pittsburgh Press 9780822963356 • Paperback 304 pages • Available now £17.50

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T h e f i r s t c o m p r e h e n s i ve chronology of philosophical anecdotes, from antiquity to the current era.

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By Nicholas Rescher An accessible survey of the basic issues and controversies surrounding process philosophy.

University of Pittsburgh Press 9780822961284 • Paperback 152 pages • Available now £21.50

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The Manner of Their Going Prime Ministerial Exits from Lynne to Abbott

By Norman Abjorensen

The story of how all twenty-nine former Australian prime ministers lost their jobs.

This book is for those who want to understand Australian politics today. Why does Australia change its prime ministers so often? Has the job of prime minister become more difficult? It has certainly become more insecure, with six changes in the eleven years between 2007 and 2018. This volume presents the story of how all twenty-nine former prime ministers lost their jobs to explore these questions.

Australian Scholarly Publishing • 9781925984064 • Paperback 284 pages • February 2020 • £30.00

Being Left-Wing in Australia Identity, Culture and Politics after Socialism

By Geoff Robinson

Explores various aspect of the left-wing movement in Australia.

This book examines the left-wing movement in Australia–from its rebirth as a force of government after the collapse of the socialist project in the eighties, to its issues grappling with the remnants of past radicalisms (such as Marxism and radical feminism) and new challenges (such as religious fundamentalism, right-wing populism, crisis in Indigenous communities, global economic crisis, and the rise of the Greens as a challenge to Labor).

Australian Scholarly Publishing • 9781925801798 • Paperback 408 pages • February 2020 • £30.00

Markets, Misconduct and the Technological Age Edited by David Chaikin

How digital disruption is refashioning the legal services market.

In these essays, experts in financial crime, regulation, and markets provide an international analysis of the market for trusts and explain how digital disruption is refashioning the legal services market. They also explore how whistleblowing, as in the example of the Panama Papers, has undermined the offshore secrecy market; how technology has impacted insider-trading behaviour and the regulatory response, and why criminal risks posed by new technologies must be managed under global anti-money laundering standards.

Australian Scholarly Publishing • 9781925984248 • Paperback 150 pages • February 2020 • £30.00

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Corporate and Trust Structures Legal and Illegal Dimensions Edited by David Chaikin

Explores the legitimate use and illegal exploitation of companies and trusts.

This collection of essays by experts in company law, trusts and financial crime explores the nature of companies and trusts, how they have been utilised for legitimate business purposes, and how they can be exploited by criminals for illegal purposes. Basic concepts relating to trusts and companies are considered together with recent developments in corporate liability; complex corporate structures are examined, and trusts and company structures that make them vulnerable and attractive for criminal abuse are examined.

Australian Scholarly Publishing • 9781925588866 • Paperback 148 pages • Available now • £30.00

Police and Government in Australia Who’s in Charge and Who Should be in Charge?

By Ian Killey

A complete assessment of the constitutional relationship of Australian police.

Ian Killey examines what should be a simple question of who controls the body exercising the policing power of the Australian State and it finds the current understanding is both confused and concerning. He undertakes a complete assessment of the constitutional relationship of Australian police, and of government and proposals for law reform for the establishment of a clear, coherent and constitutional relationship between them.

Australian Scholarly Publishing • 9781925801804 • Paperback 490 pages • Available now • £30.00

Bridging Troubled Waters Australia and Asylum Seekers

By Tony Ward

New insights into Australia's attitude to Asylum seekers.

Australian discussion of asylum seekers is polarised between slogans of ‘Stop the Boats’ and ‘Bring them here’. Both sides have good arguments – and both have their blind spots. And both are ill-prepared for surprises that emerge from the details: in how most asylum seekers reach Australia; in changing public attitudes; in what policies work, and which do more damage than good. Surveying a wide range of evidence, it presents new insights on how best to approach a major issue for Australia’s future.

Australian Scholarly Publishing • 9781925588385 • Paperback 270 pages • July 2020 • £30.00

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‘So Distant, So Close’ Australia and the European Union in the 21st Century Edited by Bruno Mascitelli

An examination of the relationship between Australia and the EU. This book is offered at a time of great global uncertainty, when Australia and the European Union seem determined to offer reliability and predictability in their own relationship, and in their influence on others. While there are strong grounds for optimism, only time will tell how successful they are with this objective.

Included here are specialist commentaries on topics that are at the heart of the Australia–European Union relationship, revealing how interests have come to coincide more and more closely.

Australian Scholarly Publishing • 9781925801460 • Paperback 364 pages • May 2020 • £30.00

In Apartheid’s Shadow Australian Race Politics and South Africa, 1945–1975

By Roger Bell

Explores the struggles of Apartheid as white Australia negotiated its place in a post-colonial world.

Race politics in post-war Australia was deeply affected by the fractious international struggle over apartheid. The movement against apartheid obliged white Australia to grapple with moral and political issues embedded in its own racialised history and sense of nationhood. Contests provoked by apartheid were played out on the world stage and, as Indigenous activists emphasised, in Australia’s own backyard. This pioneering book explores these struggles as white Australia negotiated its place in a post-colonial world.

Australian Scholarly Publishing • 9781925801675 • Paperback 370 pages • March 2020 • £30.00

Rising Subjects The 1905 Revolution and the Origins of Modern Polish Politics

By Wiktor Marzec Series: Russian & East European Studies

Examines the unsuccessful 1905 revolution and the case of Russianruled Poland.

The 1905 Revolution was one of the few bottom-up political transformations and general democratisations in Polish history. This study considers the 1905 Revolution as a tipping point for the ongoing developments of the public sphere.

It addresses the question of Polish socialism, nationalism, and antisemitism. It demonstrates the difficulties in using the class cleavage for democratic politics in a conflict-ridden, multi-ethnic polity striving for an irredentist self-assertion against the imperial power.

University of Pittsburgh Press • 9780822946120 • Hardback 229 x 152mm • 320 pages • May 2020 • £40.00

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Towards Nationalizing Regimes Conceptualizing Power and Indentity in the Post-Soviet Realm

By Diana T. Kudaibergenova Series: Central Eurasia in Context

A comparative study of Latvia and Kazakhstan.

The collapse of the Soviet Union famously opened new venues for the theories of nationalism and the study of processes and actors involved in these new nation-building processes. In this comparative study, Kudaibergenova takes the new states and nations of Eurasia that emerged in 1991, Latvia and Kazakhstan, and seeks to better understand the phenomenon of post-Soviet states tapping into nationalism to build legitimacy.

University of Pittsburgh Press • 9780822946175 • Hardback 229 x 152mm • 240 pages • June 2020 • £35.00

Fourteen Points for the Twenty-First Century A Renewed Appeal for Cooperative Internationalism Edited by Richard H. Immerman and Jeffrey A. Engel Series: Studies in Conflict, Diplomacy, and Peace

Challenges American leaders and policymakers to work with other nations with mutual respect.

This book brings together a diverse group of thinkers who take up Woodrow Wilson’s famous call for a new world order from his speech “The Fourteen Points” by exploring fourteen new directions for the twenty-first century. The contributors—scholars, policymakers, entrepreneurs, poets, doctors, and scientists—propose solutions to challenges such as migration, global warming, health care, and privacy in the digital age.

University Press of Kentucky • 9780813179001 • Hardback 3 figures, 1 table • 229 x 152mm • 352 pages • May 2020 • £37.50

Revolutionary Pairs Marx and Engels, Lenin and Trotsky, Gandhi and Nehru, Mao and Zhou, Castro and Guevara

By Larry Ceplair

Examines strategic relationships between pairs of exceptional leaders.

This book tells the stories of five revolutionary struggles through the lens of famous duos. While each relationship was unique—Castro and Guevara bonded like brothers while Mao and Zhou were like enemies—these leaders seized the opportunity for revolution and recognised they could not succeed without the other. The first cross-cultural exploration of revolutionary pairs, this book reveals the undeniable role of personality in modern political change.

University Press of Kentucky • 9780813179193 • Hardback 9 b/w illus. • 229 x 152mm • 256 pages • June 2020 • £45.00

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Public Diplomacy in Global Communication Theories and Models

By Zhou Qing'an

Studies contemporary public diplomacy in theory and reality.

This book explores the idea that that the formation of public diplomacy must be based on the background and ideological of global communication. It examines public diplomacy in its inseparable capacity from the decision of the basic unit of the nation-state, and the impact of recent disputes on globalisation on the survival and development environment of public diplomacy.

Bridge 21 Publications • 9781626430709 • Paperback 4 tables • 210 x 148mm • 352 pages • July 2020 • £60.00

The Sceptical Conservative David Hume as Political Thinker

By Spartaco Pupo

Highlights the importance of a rediscovery of David Hume’s political thought.

This book highlights the importance of a rediscovery of David Hume’s political thought, focusing on his ideas on the origin of government and political obedience and his vision of ideals such as liberty, property, political stability, and moderation—all topics that are a precious source of inspiration for the development of political conservatism. The author outlines the main features that characterise Hume’s counter-revolutionary conservatism.

Mimesis International • 9788869772757 • Paperback 208 x 140mm • 208 pages • March 2020 • £15.99

Targeted as a Spy Surveillance of an American Diplomat in Communist Romania

By Ernest Latham and Edited by Dennis Deletant and Vadim Guzun

Surveillance reports revealing the extent of surveillance to which Western diplomats were subjected in the Communist bloc.

An often-overlooked aspect of the Cold War was the extent of diplomatic espionage that went on in the countries behind the Iron Curtain. This book is a collection of the surveillance reports that Dr. Latham was able to obtain from the Romanian archives following the collapse of the Communist regime. They reveal the extent of the surveillance to which Western diplomats were subjected and, more importantly, they reveal a great deal about the system and society that produced these materials.

Vita Histria • 9781592110636 • Hardback 229 x 152mm • 350 pages • January 2020 • £39.99

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Persuasive Acts Women’s Rhetorics in the Twenty-First Century Edited by Shari J. Stenberg and Charlotte Hogg Series: Composition, Literacy, and Culture

Women's and feminist rhetorics for the new millennium.

University of Pittsburgh Press 9780822966135 • Paperback 15 b&w • 229 x 152mm • 464 pages March 2020 • £25.00

About the editors: Shari Stenberg is Professor of English and Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Charlotte Hogg is associate professor of English at Texas Christian University.

In June 2015, Bree Newsome scaled the flagpole in front of South Carolina’s state capitol and removed the Confederate flag. The following month, the Confederate flag was permanently removed from the state capitol. Newsome is a compelling example of a twenty-first-century woman rhetor, along with bloggers, writers, politicians, activists, artists, and everyday social media users, who give new meaning to Aristotle’s ubiquitous definition of rhetoric as the discovery of the “available means of persuasion.”

Women’s persuasive acts from the first two decades of the twenty-first century include new technologies and repurposed old ones, engaged not only to persuade, but also to tell their stories, to sponsor change, and to challenge cultural forces that repress and oppress.

Persuasive Acts: Women’s Rhetorics in the TwentyFirst Century gathers an expansive array of voices and texts from well-known figures including Hillary Rodham Clinton, Malala Yousafzai, Michelle Obama, Lindy West, Sonia Sotomayor, and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, so that readers may converse with them, and build rhetorics of their own. Editors Shari J. Stenberg and Charlotte Hogg have complied timely and provocative rhetorics that represent critical issues and rhetorical affordances of the twenty-first century.

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Rhetorical Crossover The Black Rhetorical Presence in White Culture

By Cedric D. Burrows Series: Composition, Literacy, and Culture

How African American rhetoric becomes whitened when it crosses over into white audiences.

In music, crossover means that a song has moved beyond its original genre and audience into the general social consciousness. Rhetorical Crossover uses the same concept to theorise how the black rhetorical presence has moved in mainstream spaces in an era where African Americans were becoming more visible in white culture. Cedric Burrows argues that when black rhetoric moves into the dominant culture, white audiences appear welcoming to African Americans as long as they present an acceptable form of blackness for white tastes.

University of Pittsburgh Press • 9780822946205 • Hardback 229 x 152mm • 168 pages • October 2020 • £38.00

Defiant Geographies Race and Urban Space in 1920s Rio de Janeiro

By Lorraine Leu Series: Illuminations

Examines an act of urban reform as a forgetting of the country’s racial past.

This book examines the destruction of a poor community in the centre of Rio de Janeiro to make way for Brazil’s first international mega-event. As the country celebrated the centenary of its independence, its post-abolition whitening ideology took on material form in the urban development project that staged Latin America’s first World’s Fair. The book explores official efforts to reorganise space that equated modernisation with racial progress.

University of Pittsburgh Press • 9780822946007 • Hardback 37 b/w illus. • 229 x 152mm • 224 pages • March 2020 • £32.00

Our Rightful Place A History of Women at the University of Kentucky, 1880--1945

By Terry L. Birdwhistell and Deirdre A. Scaggs Series: Topics in Kentucky History

The story of the first female students at the University of Kentucky.

Drawing on yearbooks, photographs, and other private collections, this book examines the struggle for gender equity in higher education through the lens of the University of Kentucky. In the face of shifting resistance, pioneering women constructed opportunities for themselves. By examining the trials and triumphs of the university’s first female undergraduates, faculty, and administrators, this book uncovers the lasting impact women had on higher learning in the early days of coeducation.

University Press of Kentucky • 9780813179377 • Hardback 79 b/w illus. • 229 x 152mm • 230 pages • June 2020 • £37.50

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Itineraries of Expertise Science, Technology, and the Environment in Latin America's Long Cold War Edited by Andra B. Chastain and Timothy W. Lorek Series: Intersections

Argues for the importance of expertise in the Latin American Cold War. Itineraries of Expertise contends that experts and expertise played fundamental roles in the Latin American Cold War. While traditional Cold War histories of the region have examined diplomatic, intelligence, and military operations and more recent studies have probed the cultural dimensions of the conflict, the experts who constitute the focus of this volume transcend these categories.

University of Pittsburgh Press • 9780822945963 • Paperback 22 b/w illus. • 229 x 152mm • 480 pages • March 2020 • £30.00

Radiation Evangelists Technology, Therapy, and Uncertainty at the Turn of the Century By , Jeffrey Womack

A cautionary tale of technological medical progress and the consequences of human experimentation.

Explores x-ray and radium therapy in the United States and Great Britain during a crucial period of its development, from 1896 to 1925. It focuses on the pioneering work of early advocates in the field, the “radiation evangelists” who, motivated by their faith in a new technology, trust in new energy sources, and hope for future breakthroughs, turned a blind eye to the dangers of radiation exposure.

University of Pittsburgh Press • 9780822946090 • Hardback 43 b/w illus. • 229 x 152mm • 228 pages • March 2020 • £30.00

Weather, Climate, and the Geographical Imagination Placing Atmospheric Knowledges Edited by Martin Mahony and Samuel Randalls Series: Intersections

The history of expertise, practice, and politics related to weather and climate.

As global temperatures rise, new questions are being asked of how societies make sense of their weather, of the cultural values which are afforded to climate, and of how environmental futures are imagined, feared, predicted, and remade.

This book brings together a range of voices from history of science, historical geography, and environmental history, each speaking to a set of questions about the role of space and place in the production, circulation, reception, and application of knowledges about weather and climate.

University of Pittsburgh Press • 9780822946168 • Hardback 22 b/w illus. • 229 x 152mm • 360 pages • March 2020 • £40.00

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Anatomists of Empire Race, Evolution and the Discovery of Human Biology in the British World

By Ross L. Jones

Describes and closely examines key figures in Evolutionary Biology.

This book explores the 20th-century anatomists Grafton Elliot Smith, Frederic Wood Jones and Arthur Keith, who travelled the globe collecting, cataloguing and constructing morphologies of the biological world with the aim of weaving these into a new vision of bio-ecology that links humans to their deep past as well as their evolutionary niche. By changing popular views of race and environment, they moulded attitudes as to what it meant to be human in a post-Darwinian world - thus providing a potent critique of racism.

Arden • 9781925984705 • Paperback • 229 x 152mm 320 pages • September 2020 • £30.00

Astronomy in India, 1784-1876

By Joydeep Sen Series: Science & Culture in the Nineteenth Century

Shows Indians as active participants in modern scientific observational astronomy.

Indian scientific achievements in the early twentieth century are well known, with a number of heralded individuals making globally recognized strides in the field of astrophysics. Covering the period from the foundation of the Asiatic Society in 1784 to the establishment of the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science in 1876, Sen explores the relationship between Indian astronomers and the colonial British.

University of Pittsburgh Press • 9780822966470 • New in Paperback 229 x 152mm • 282 pages • December 2020 • £26.50

Science and Societies in Frankfurt am Main

By Ayako Sakurai Series: Science & Culture in the Nineteenth Century

A fascinating insight into Germany’s scientific history.

The nineteenth century saw science move from being the preserve of a small learned elite to a dominant force which influenced society as a whole. This book studies how scientific societies affected the social and political life of a city. As it did not have a university or a centralised government, Frankfurt am Main is an ideal case study of how scientific associations—funded by private patronage for the good of the local populace—became an important centre for natural history.

University of Pittsburgh Press • 9780822966463 • New in Paperback 229 x 152mm • 248 pages • December 2020 • £26.50

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Regionalizing Science Placing Knowledges in Victorian England

By Simon Naylor Series: Science & Culture in the Nineteenth Century

A historical geography of regional science using Cornwall as a case study.

Victorian England, as is well known, produced an enormous amount of scientific endeavour, but what has previously been overlooked is the important role of geography on these developments. Taking an in-depth look at the county of Cornwall, questions on how science affected provincial Victorian society, how it changed people’s relationship with the landscape and how it shaped society are applied to the Cornish case study.

University of Pittsburgh Press • 9780822966463 • New in Paperback 229 x 152 • 248 pages • December 2020 • £26.50

Popular Exhibitions, Science and Showmanship, 1840-1910 Edited by Joe Kember, John Plunkett and Jill A. Sullivan Series: Science & Culture in the Nineteenth Century

A collection of essays exploring the Victorian phenomena of exhibitions.

Victorian culture was characterised by a proliferation of shows and exhibitions.

These were encouraged by the development of new sciences and technologies, together with changes in transportation, education and leisure patterns. The essays in this collection look at exhibitions and their influence in terms of location, technology and ideology.

University of Pittsburgh Press • 9780822966395 • New in Paperback 229 x 152mm • 304 pages • December 2020 • £26.50

Uncommon Contexts: Encounters between Science and Literature, 1800-1914 Edited by Ben Marsden, Hazel Hutchinson and Ralph O'Connor Series: Science & Culture in the Nineteenth Century

An exploration of the historical relationship between science and literature.

Britain in the long nineteenth century developed an increasing interest in science of all kinds. Whilst poets and novelists took inspiration from technical and scientific innovations, those directly engaged in these new disciplines relied on literary techniques to communicate their discoveries to a wider audience. The essays in this collection uncover this symbiotic relationship between literature and science, at the same time bridging the disciplinary gulf between the history of science and literary studies.

University of Pittsburgh Press • 9780822966418 • New in Paperback 229 x 152mm • 256 pages • December 2020 • £26.50

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The Medical Trade Catalogue in Britain, 1870-1914

By Claire L. Jones Series: Science & Culture in the Nineteenth Century

Connects medicine and commerce by examining historical medical trade catalogues.

By the late nineteenth century, advances in medical knowledge, technology and pharmaceuticals led to the development of a thriving commercial industry.

The medical trade catalogue became one of the most important means of promoting the latest tools and techniques to practitioners. Drawing on over 400 catalogues produced between 1870 and 1914, Jones presents a study of the changing nature of medical professionalism.

University of Pittsburgh Press • 9780822966388 • New in Paperback 229 x 152mm • 280 pages • December 2020 • £26.50

Victorian Medicine and Popular Culture Edited by Louise Penner and Tabitha Sparks Series: Science & Culture in the Nineteenth Century

An interdisciplinary study on the impact of scientific medicine on Victorian culture.

This collection of essays explores the rise of scientific medicine and its impact on Victorian popular culture. Chapters include an examination of Charles Dickens’s involvement with hospital funding, concerns over milk purity and the theatrical portrayal of drug addiction, plus a whole section devoted to the representation of medicine in crime fiction. This is an interdisciplinary study involving public health, cultural studies, the history of medicine, literature and the theatre, providing new insights into Victorian culture and society.

University of Pittsburgh Press • 9780822966432 New in Paperback 229 x 152mm • 200 pages • December 2020 • £26.50

The Age of Scientific Naturalism Tyndall and His Contemporaries Edited by Bernard Lightman and Michael S. Reidy Series: Science & Culture in the Nineteenth Century

Examines how John Tyndall and his correspondents developed their ideas through writings.

Physicist John Tyndall and his contemporaries were at the forefront of developing the cosmology of scientific naturalism during the Victorian period. They rejected all but physical laws as having any impact on the operations of human life and the universe. Contributors focus on the way Tyndall and his correspondents developed their ideas through letters, periodicals and scientific journals and challenge previously held assumptions about who gained authority, and how they attained and defended their position within the scientific community.

University of Pittsburgh Press • 9780822966401 • New in Paperback 229 x 152mm • 200 pages • December 2020 • £26.50

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The Transit of Venus Enterprise in Victorian Britain

By Jessica Ratcliff Series: Science & Culture in the Nineteenth Century

Explores the nature of 'big science' in Victorian Britain In the nineteenth century, the British Government spent money measuring the distance between the earth and the sun using observations of the transit of Venus. This book presents a narrative of the two Victorian transit programmes.

It draws out their cultural significance and explores the nature of "big science" in late-Victorian Britain.

University of Pittsburgh Press • 9780822966449 • New in Paperback 229 x 152mm • 232 pages • December 2020 • £26.50

The Science of History in Victorian Britain Tyndall and His Contemporaries

By Ian Hesketh Series: Sci & Culture in the Nineteenth Century

Draws on a variety of sources to challenge the notion of a single scientific approach to history.

New attitudes towards history in nineteenth-century Britain saw a rejection of romantic, literary techniques in favour of a professionalised, scientific methodology. The development of history as a scientific discipline was undertaken by several key historians of the Victorian period, influenced by German scientific history and British natural philosophy. This study examines parallels between the professionalisation of both history and science at the time, which have previously been overlooked.

University of Pittsburgh Press • 9780822966364 • New in Paperback 229 x 152mm • 248 pages • December 2020 • £26.50

Recreating Newton Newtonian Biography and the Making of Nineteenth-Century History of Science

By Rebekah Higgitt Series: Sci & Culture in the Nineteenth Century

Examines Isaac Newton's changing legacy during the nineteenth century.

Higgitt examines Isaac Newton's changing legacy during the nineteenth century.

She focuses on 1820–1870, a period that saw the creation of the specialised and secularised role of the "scientist." At the same time, researchers gained better access to Newton's archives. These were used both by those who wished to undermine the traditional, idealised depiction of scientific genius and those who felt obliged to defend Newtonian hagiography.

University of Pittsburgh Press • 9780822966371 • New in Paperback 229 x 152mm • 200 pages • December 2020 • £26.50

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Natural History Societies and Civic Culture in Victorian Scotland

By Diarmid A. Finnegan Series: Sci & Culture in the Nineteenth Century

Winner of the Frank Watson Prize in Scottish History, 2011 The relationship between science and civil society is essential to our understanding of cultural change during the Victorian era. Science was frequently packaged as an appropriate form of civic culture, inculcating virtues necessary for civic progress. In turn, civic culture was presented as an appropriate context for enabling and supporting scientific progress. Finnegan's study looks at the shifting nature of this process during the nineteenth century, using Scotland as the focus for his argument.

University of Pittsburgh Press • 9780822966357 • New in Paperback 229 x 152mm • 248 pages • December 2020 • £26.50

Science and Eccentricity Collecting, Writing and Performing Science for Early Nineteenth-Century Audiences

By Victoria Carroll Series: Sci & Culture in the Nineteenth Century

The first scholarly history of eccentricity.

The concept of eccentricity was central to how people in the nineteenth century understood their world. This book explores how discourses of eccentricity were established to make sense of individuals who did not seem to fit within an increasingly organised social and economic order. It focuses on the self-taught natural philosopher William Martin, the fossilist Thomas Hawkins and the taxidermist Charles Waterton.

University of Pittsburgh Press • 9780822966333 • New in Paperback 229 x 152mm • 272 pages • December 2020 • £26.50

Styles of Reasoning in the British Life Sciences Shared Assumptions, 1820–1858

By James Elwick Series: Sci & Culture in the Nineteenth Century

Explores how "compound individuality" brought together life scientists pre-Darwinian London.

Scientists conducting research in comparative anatomy, physiology, cellular microscopy, embryology and the neurosciences repeatedly stated that plants and animals were compounds of smaller independent units. Discussion of a "bodily economy" was widespread. But by 1860, the most flamboyant discussions of compound individuality had come to an end in Britain. Elwick relates the growth and decline of questions about compound individuality to wider nineteenth-century debates about research standards.

University of Pittsburgh Press • 9780822966340 • New in Paperback 229 x 152mm248 pages • December 2020 • £26.50

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Communities of Science in Nineteenth-Century Ireland

By Juliana Adelman Series: Sci & Culture in the Nineteenth Century

Challenges historians to reassess the relationship between science and society.

The nineteenth century was an important period for both the proliferation of "popular" science and for the demarcation of a group of professionals that we now term scientists. For Ireland, the prominence of Catholicism posed various philosophical questions regarding research. This study examines the impact of the growth of science in these communities and on the country’s economy; the role of museums and exhibitions in spreading scientific knowledge, and the role that science had to play in Ireland’s turbulent political context.

University of Pittsburgh Press • 9780822966326 • New in Paperback 229 x 152mm • 240 pages • December 2020 • £26.50

American Dinosaur Abroad A Cultural History of Carnegie's Plaster Diplodicus

By Ilja Nieuwland

Explores the influence of Andrew Carnegie’s prized skeleton on European culture.

In 1899, a team of palaeontologists sponsored by Andrew Carnegie discovered the fossil remains of what was then the longest and largest dinosaur on record.

Named after its benefactor, the Diplodocus carnegii—Dippy, as it’s known today— was later mounted and unveiled at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History. This book explores Dippy’s influence on European culture through the dissemination, reception, and agency of his plaster casts, revealing much about the social, political, cultural, and scientific context of the early twentieth century.

University of Pittsburgh Press • 9780822966524 • Paperback 56 b/w illus. • 229 x 152mm • 336 pages • September 2020 • £16.99

Science Museums in Transition Cultures of Display in Nineteenth-Century Britain and America Edited by Carin Berkowitz and Bernard Lightman

Explores the transformation of scientific exhibitions and museums during the nineteenth century.

The nineteenth century witnessed a dramatic shift in the display and dissemination of natural knowledge across Britain and America. This book provides a nuanced, comparative study of the diverse places and spaces in which science was displayed during this period. Taken together, the chapters in this volume span the Atlantic, exploring private and public museums, short and long-term exhibitions, and museums built for entertainment, education, and research, and in turn raise a host of important questions, about expertise, and about who speaks for nature and for history.

University of Pittsburgh Press • 9780822944751 • Hardback 230 x 150mm • 368 pages • Available now • £34.50

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The Dystopia in the Desert The Silent Culture of Australia’s remotest Aboriginal communities

By Tadhgh Purtill

An in-depth look at the odd and alternative world of Australia’s Western Desert.

The Ngaanyatjarra Lands, deep in Western Australia, are home to Australia’s most remote Aboriginal communities. The region remains obscure because of its detachment from mainstream Australia in distance and culture, but also its peculiar operational culture. This study takes in psychological, economic, political and anthropological aspects of its community system, and reveals a self-sustaining and possibly unreformable situation, suggesting the region has surpassed the merely ‘dysfunctional’: it has become a disturbing independent society characterised by a negative coherency and a dystopian functionality.

Australian Scholarly Publishing • 9781925333862 • Paperback 284 pages • January 2020 • £30.00

Heart of Violence Why People Harm Each Other

By Paul Valent

Explores how we can understand violence, from the individual to the international.

Violence is the plague of our civilisation. It threatens us daily through its many tentacles: domestic violence, criminal violence, sexual abuse, terrorism, state violence, revolution, war, and genocide. The recently evolved discipline of traumatology has amply described commonalities in the consequences of violence. But there was no corresponding discipline of violentology, which explained why violence occurred in the first place. This book takes the leap from healing the minds of victims to trying to understand the minds of perpetrators.

Australian Scholarly Publishing • 9781925984057 • Paperback 344 pages • January 2020 • £30.00

Psychoanalytical Notes on the Origin of Money

By Fabio Benini

Explores the potential origin of the coin in relation to the body.

In the ancient world, many units of measurement were based, approximately, on some parts of the human body: arm, cubit, span, inch, foot; or on their functions: pace, half hour, league. This treatise examines the origin of the antique measurement of half a siqlum or half a giĝ (4.25g), its symbolic relation to the discarded foreskin, its connection to forgotten traditions of jewellery rings worn on or in the body, and as the potential origin of the coin.

Mimesis International • 9788869772801 • Paperback 210 x 140mm • 340 pages • September 2020 • £25.99

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The Tenth Circle Notes for a Disability History

By Massimo Fioranelli

Illustrates how disability has been defined through time.

When Dante visited the nine circles of hell, he he found no trace of the disabled, although at the time they were considered the bearers of sin, the physical and mental non-conformists to the paradigm of the human species. Over the centuries, the perceived meaning of disability has often been akin to guilt and sin, uselessness, and sometimes even crime. This book illustrates how disability was viewed and defined at different points in time, and how it is viewed and defined today.

Mimesis International • 9788869772979 • Paperback 210 x 140mm • 157 pages • September 2020 • £17.99

Bad Cities

By Ugo Rubeo

Examines urban violence through the lens of contemporary American literature.

From Larry Kramer's New York to Roth's Newark and Colla's Baghdad, this collection of 15 essays explores how American contemporary literature tackles the issue of urban violence, its relationship with the forerunners of the genre, and how its main features evolved over time.

Mimesis International • 9788869772818 • Paperback 210 x 140mm • 270 pages • October 2020 • £22.99

Future Humanism

By Anna Maria Rufino

A treatise on humanism and freedom as a common value in our society.

The theme of this pamphlet is knowledge, examined in its own origins and in the transformations of a world where deep meaning appears to be lost in the conscious awareness. Societal risks, fears and conflicts seem to affect the sense and memory of humanistic culture, making us forget the meaning of freedom as a common value. This is not an academic text book, but an imagining of the world as it could be.

Mimesis International • 9788869772849 • Paperback 170 x 110mm • 70 pages • December 2020 • £8.99

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In-security

By Anna Maria Rufino

An exploration of uncertainty and violence in our society.

The uncertainty of our continued existence—individually, socially, institutionally and economically—disrupts the social system in the immediacy of the hereand-now, and often encourages the expression of words, images and gestures through violence. This pamphlet looks behind these phenomena to examine the state of modern society and the question of its future.

Mimesis International • 9788869772856 • Paperback 170 x 110mm • 70 pages • December 2020 • £8.99

Choose Decide Change

By Anna Maria Rufino

Examines our choices and how we make them.

Choosing, deciding, and changing constitute the common basis of everything that we want and do. But what choices are we really making? Heterogeneity and social conditioning seem to have become the norm, with individuals accustomed to passively accept input from unidentifiable sources. This book analyses the new social and political geographies of our word which self-perpetuate, separating our will and our capacity to truly choose.

Mimesis International • 9788869772863 • Paperback 170 x 110mm • 70 pages • December 2020 • £8.99

Steppe Dreams Time, Mediation, and Postsocialist Celebrations in Kazakhstan

By Margarethe Adams Series: Central Eurasia in Context

The significance of temporality and how time is experienced in contemporary Kazakhstan.

Steppe Dreams concerns the political significance of temporality in Kazakhstan, as manifested in public events and performances, and its reverberating effects in the personal lives of Kazakhstanis. Adams examines the political, public aspects of temporality and the personal and emotional aspects of these events, providing a view into how time, mighty and unstoppable, is experienced in Kazakhstan.

University of Pittsburgh Press • 9780822946144 • Hardback 25 b/w illus. • 229 x 152mm • 232 pages • May 2020 • £35.00

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The Making of British Anthropology, 1813-1871

By Efram Sera-Shriar Series: Science & Culture in the Nineteenth Century Explores the beginnings and development of British anthropology.

Victorian anthropology has been derided as an "armchair practice," distinct from the scientific discipline of the twentieth century. But the observational practices that characterised the study of human diversity developed from the established sciences of natural history, geography and medicine. This book argues that anthropology at this time went through a process of innovation which built on scientifically grounded observational study. Far from being an evolutionary dead end, nineteenth-century anthropology laid the foundations for the field-based science of anthropology today.

University of Pittsburgh Press • 9780822966487 • New in Paperback 229 x 152mm • 272 pages • December 2020 • £26.50

Literacy in the Mountains Community, Newspapers, and Writing in Appalachia

By Samantha NeCamp Series: Place Matters: New Directions in Appalachian Studies

Combines literacy and journalism studies to tackle negative stereotypes about Appalachia.

After the 2016 presidential election, popular media branded Appalachia as “Trump Country,” decrying its inhabitants as ignorant fearmongers voting against their own interests. And since the 1880s, there have been many, including travel writers and absentee landowners, who have framed mountain people as uneducated and hostile. Attacking these misrepresentations head on, this book reclaims the long history of literacy in the Appalachian region.

University Press of Kentucky • 9780813178851 • Hardback 2 tables • 229 x 152mm • 146 pages • January 2020 • £37.50

The Arthurdale Community School Education and Reform in Depression Era Appalachia

By Sam F. Stack Series: Place Matters: New Directions in Appalachian Studies

Examines the successes and failures of this famous progressive experiment.

The first of many homestead communities designed during the rollout of the New Deal, Arthurdale, West Virginia, was a bold experiment in progressive social planning. At the centre of the settlement was the school, which was established to improve the curriculum offered to Appalachian students. The first book-length study of the well-known educational experiment, The Arthurdale Community School illuminates the institution's history, influence, and impact.

University Press of Kentucky • 9780813179124 • Paperback 20 b/w illus. • 229 x 152mm • 220 pages • March 2020 • £22.50

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Marriage on the Border Love, Mutuality, and Divorce in the Upper South during the Civil War

By Allison Dorothy Fredette Series: New Directions in Southern History

New perspectives on the institution of marriage and its impact on the social fabric of the US. Not quite the Cotton Kingdom or the free labour North, the nineteenth century border South was a land in between. Here, the era’s clashing values—slavery and freedom, city and country, industry and agriculture—met and melded. Drawing on court records, personal correspondence, and prescriptive literature, this book follows border southerners into their homes to examine how changing divorce laws in the border regions of Kentucky and West Virginia reveal surprisingly progressive marriages throughout the antebellum and post-war Upper South.

University Press of Kentucky • 9780813179155 • Hardback • 2 maps, 1 fig., 7 tables • 229 x 152mm • 296 pages • March 2020 • £45.00

Irish Working Lives

By Mary Louise O'Donnell and Eric Luke

Stunning stories and images about Ireland’s workers.

In a series of impassioned, remarkably diverse vignettes, Marie Louise relates her travels across the length and breadth of the country, engaging with a selection of committed Irish men and women whose work forms the lifeblood of Ireland. Whether spending a day on the road with a postman in Co Wicklow or meeting the Galway gardener who has used her own experience of personal tragedy to help others heal, Marie Louise’s assiduity and innate curiosity enlivens each and every encounter.

Veritas Books • 9781847308344 • Hardback • 230 x 230mm 224 pages • Available now • £22.00

Women and Peace A New Training Model for a Culture of Inclusion Edited by Angelo Romeo and Maria Caterina Federici

Examines prospects for women as expert teachers of mediation and integration processes.

This book reports not only a didactic experience but also research, offering a training model on peace mediation. The female protagonists of this research experience the role of trainers of other compatriots through a new didactic model. Compared to other books, the volume proposes for the first time a reflection of research—action on the themes of peace, security of the female gender.

Mimesis International • 9788869773013 • Paperback 210 x 140mm • 128 pages • October 2020 • £12.00

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Romanian Gymnastics

By Kurt Treptow and Nicolae Vieru

An album that presents the history of Romanian gymnastics.

Since Nadia Comăneci captured the hearts of the world with her amazing performance at the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal, one that would change the sport of gymnastics forever, Romania has been known throughout the world for its remarkable success in the sport of gymnastics. This limited edition, full-colour album presents the history of Romanian gymnastics from the founding of the Romanian Gymnastics Federation in 1906 to the Romanian women’s team that won five consecutive world championship titles between 1994 and 2001.

Center for Romanian Studies • 9781592110483 • Paperback • colour illus.

280 x 216mm • 66 pages • January 2020 • £24.99

The Slide Leyland, Bonds, and the Star-Crossed Pittsburgh Pirates

By Richard Peterson and Stephen Peterson

Detailed account of the infamous “slide” and its devastating effect on the Pittsburgh Pirates.

In the deciding game of the 1992 National League Championship Series against the Atlanta Braves, the Pittsburgh Pirates suffered the most dramatic and devastating loss in team history when former Pirate Sid Bream slid home with the winning run. This book tells the story of the myriad events, beginning with the aftermath of the 1979 World Series, which led to the fated 1992 championship game and beyond.

University of Pittsburgh Press • 9780822966180 • Paperback 229 x 152mm • 200 pages • March 2020 • £12.50

Spectacular Bid The Last Superhorse of the Twentieth Century

By Peter Lee Series: Horses in History

Examines the legacy of one of horse racing's true champions.

This work examines Spectacular Bid from his humble beginnings to his recognition as one of the greatest American racehorses. It tells the story of the honest and not-so-glamorous colourful characters surrounding the champion—including Bud Delp, the brash and cocky trainer who was distrustful of the Kentucky establishment, and Ron Franklin, the nineteen-year-old jockey who buckled under the stress and pressure associated with fame—and how they witnessed first-hand the splendour and triumphs of Spectacular Bid. University Press of Kentucky • 9780813177809 • Hardback • 16 b/w illus.

229 x 152mm • 242 pages • Available now • £22.50

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Collected Poems Of Muriel Rukeyser Edited by Janet E. Kaufman and Anne F. Herzog Complete texts of Rukeyser's published books and newly discovered poems.

University of Pittsburgh Press 9780822959243 • Paperback 235 x 160mm • 712 pages May 2006 • £23.00

Legends from Vamland

Zalmoxis

By Vladimir Colin, Luiza Carol and Octavian Ion Penda

By Lucian Blaga, Keith Hitchins and Doris Plantus-Runey

A beautiful story about the human struggle with fear.

One of the first efforts to make Blaga’s firsty play accessible to an international audience.

Center for Romanian Studies 9781592110513 • Paperback 24 b/w illus. • 203 x 117mm 106 pages • November 2020 £19.99

Center for Romanian Studies 9781592110537 • Paperback 203 x 117mm • 116 pages January 2020 • £19.99

Drue Heinz Prize

Russian and East European Studies

Drue Heinz Prize

The Prince of Mournful Thoughts and Other Stories

Tarantas

The Islands

By Vladimir Sollogub and Michael Katz

By William Wall

By Caroline Kim Stories exploring what it means to be human through the Korean diaspora.

A 19th centur y translated Russian social novella about two contrasting characters and their long cross-country journey.

University of Pittsburgh Press 9780822946489 • Hardback 229 x 152mm • 222 pages June 2020 • £17.90

University of Pittsburgh Press 9780822946465 • Hardback 229 x 152mm • 120 pages October 2020 • £18.00

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A collection of interconnected stories following two sisters and the people who come and go in their lives.

University of Pittsburgh Press 9780822966265 • Paperback 216 x 140mm • 144 pages August 2020 • £12.99

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University Press of Kentucky New Poetry & Prose Series

Drue Heinz Prize

Wanting Radiance

Grieving for Guava

By Karen Salyer McElmurray

By Cecilia M. Fernandez

By Kate Wisel

A story of love and betrayal that reveals the binding power of magic and memory.

Ten stories explore the lives of Cuban refugees in Miami

University of Pittsburgh Press 9780822966272 • Paperback 229 x 152mm • 192 pages August 2020 • £12.99

University Press of Kentucky 9781949669145 • Hardback 229 x 152mm • 264 pages April 2020 • £19.00

University Press of Kentucky 9780813178974 • Hardback 216 x 140mm • 152 pages March 2020 • £19.00

Juanita and the Frog Prince

In My Unknowing

Imperial Liquor

By Chard deNiord

By Amaud Jamal Johnson

Explores the paradoxical nature of unknowing.

A chronicle of melancholy, a reaction to the monotony of racism.

University of Pittsburgh Press 9780822966159 • Paperback 229 x 152mm • 80 pages March 2020 • £12.99

University of Pittsburgh Press 9780822966067 • Paperback 229 x 152mm • 80 pages March 2020 • £12.99

The collective story of women whose lives careen back into the past, to the places where pain lurks and haunts.

Pitt Poetry Series

Pitt Poetry Series

Driving in Cars With Homeless Men

By Ed McClanahan, J.T. Dockery and Bob Levin A southern Gothic psychedelic trip of a comic.

University Press of Kentucky 9781949669138 • Hardback 35 illus. • 305 x 229mm • 56 pages March 2020 • £19.00

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Pitt Poetry Series

The Painted Bunting's Last Molt

Holiday in the Islands of Grief

By Nancy Krygowski

By Virgil Suarez

By Jeffrey McDaniel

A New Collection from the Starret Prize Winning Poet Nancy Krygowski.

Poems exploring fatherhood, parenting, and separation anxiety.

Poems that confront the insular and expansive qualities of loss.

University of Pittsburgh Press 9780822966043 • Paperback 229 x 152mm • 75 pages March 2020 • £12.99

University of Pittsburgh Press 9780822966098 • Paperback 229 x 152mm • 80 pages March 2020 • £12.99

University of Pittsburgh Press 9780822966104 • Paperback 229 x 152mm • 80 pages March 2020 • £12.99

Poemas del Amor/Love Poems

Pitt Poetry Series

By Danusha Lameris

Pitt Poetry Series

Pitt Poetry Series

Bonfire Opera

Pitt Poetry Series

Pitt Poetry Series

The Woman in the Corner

Earnest, Earnest?

By Eleanor Boudreau

By Idea Vilarino Poems in praise of the impossible, wild world and its beauty.

Poems about sexuality and what it means to be a woman.

Eleanor writes postcards to her on-again-off-again lover, Earnest.

University of Pittsburgh Press 9780822966050 • Paperback 229 x 152mm • 80 pages April 2020 • £12.99

University of Pittsburgh Press 9780822966258 • Paperback 229 x 152mm • 122 pages June 2020 • £12.99

University of Pittsburgh Press 9780822966302 • Paperback 229 x 152mm • 62 pages August 2020 • £12.99

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Pitt Poetry Series

Pitt Poetry Series

Pitt Poetry Series

The Volcano and After

Be Holding

Body Wars

By Alicia Ostriker

By Ross Gay

By Jan Beatty

Bold new poems exploring the challenges and absurdities of aging.

Wonders how the imagination and our looking might make or bring us closer.

Poems that explore being at home in oneself, creating a fire map of the body.

University of Pittsburgh Press 9780822946403 • Hardback 229 x 152mm • 214 pages August 2020 • £23.00

University of Pittsburgh Press 9780822966234 • Paperback 229 x 152mm • 68 pages August 2020 • £12.99

University of Pittsburgh Press 9780822966241 • Paperback 229 x 152mm • 76 pages September 2020 • £12.99

Pitt Poetry Series

Pitt Poetry Series

Pitt Poetry Series

I: New and Selected Poems

Bring Now the Angels

Horsepower

By Dilruba Ahmed

By Joy Priest

Poetry with a desire to move toward transformation and rebirth.

A cinematic escape narrative that radically envisions a daughter’s waywardness as aspirational.

University of Pittsburgh Press 9780822966074 • Paperback 229 x 152mm • 88 pages April 2020 • £12.99

University of Pittsburgh Press 9780822966197 • Paperback 229 x 152mm • 68 pages September 2020 • £13.00

By Toi Derricotte One woman’s response to the repressive and fracturing forces of race, class, colour, gender, and sexuality.

University of Pittsburgh Press 9780822966289 • Paperback 229 x 152mm • 224 pages March 2020 • £14.99

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