Contents January–December 2022
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Mindful Social Studies Frameworks for Social Emotional Learning and Critically Engaged Citizens
Edited by Natalie Keefer and Tori K. Flint
Lexington Books
August 2022 • 332 pages • Part of the Mindfulness in Education series
Hardback 978 1 6669 0799 5 • $120.00 / £92.00 eBook 978 1 6669 8008 8 • $45.00 / £35.00
Mindful Social Studies situates the field of social studies education as uniquely poised to integrate anti-racist, equity, and asset-based pedagogies with contemplative, mindfulness-based strategies. Chapters explore ways of cultivating critical mindfulness and SEL to meet the needs of diverse students, families, educators, and communities.
Teaching Methods & Materials / Social Science
Transgressing Teacher Education Strategies for Equity, Opportunity and Social Justice in Urban Teacher Preparation and Practice
By Alice E. Ginsberg
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
February 2022 • 122 pages
Hardback 978 1 4758 6523 3 • $70.00 / £54.00
Paperback 978 1 4758 5240 0 • $30.00 / £22.99 eBook 978 1 4758 6525 7 • $28.50 / £21.99
This book is a series of original strategies that teacher educators, teacher candidates and practicing teachers can use to think critically about issues of equity, diversity, opportunity, and social justice in urban education.
Urban
Historical Dictionary of Niger, Fifth Edition
By Rahmane Idrissa
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
February 2022 • 642 pages • Part of the Historical Dictionaries of Africa series
Paperback 978 1 5381 6951 3 • $50.00 / £38.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 5381 0149 9 • $147.00 / £113.00
eBook 978 1 5381 2015 6 • $139.50 / £108.00
Historical Dictionary of Niger, Fifth Edition contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 700 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture.
Africa / Central
Historical Dictionary of Uganda, Second Edition
By Joseph Kasule
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
July 2022 •
Historical Dictionary of Uganda, Second Edition, covers the history of Uganda using a chronology, an introductory essay, appendixes, and a bibliography. The dictionary section covers many entries on politics, economy, foreign affairs, religion, society, culture, and important personalities.
Africa / General
The Human Rights Imperative in Teacher Education
Developing Compassion, Understanding, and Advocacy
Edited by Gloria T. Alter and William R. Fernekes
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
November 2022 • 336 pages • Part of the Global Teacher Education series
Hardback 978 1 5381 6192 0 • $95.00 / £73.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 1937 7 • $39.00 / £30.00 eBook 978 1 5381 6194 4 • $37.00 / £28.00
This book combines theory, practice, and purpose. Readers will encounter the work of leading scholars in human rights education to see how HRE is understood, taught, lived, and practiced in the Global North and Global South.
Teaching Methods & Materials / Social Science
Parents
and School Violence
Answers
that Reveal Essential Steps for Improving Schools
By Gerard Giordano
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
June 2022 • 156 pages
Paperback 978 1 4758 6170 9 • $25.00 / £18.99 eBook 978 1 4758 1716 6 • $23.50 / £17.99
This book explores advice about controlling school violence. Violence & Harassment
Instructional Cinema and African Audiences in Colonial Kenya, 1926–1963
By Samson Kaunga Ndanyi
Lexington Books
March 2022 • 176 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 4924 9 • $95.00 / £73.00 eBook 978 1 7936 9256 6 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book argues that African film audiences in colonial Kenya were not passive recipients of British cultural programs created to “teach” and “civilize” them. Rather, they rejected mediocre films and actively participated in the cinema discourse that brought about changes in cinema production.
Africa / Central
Khoikhoi, Microhistory, and Colonial Characters at the Cape of Good Hope
By Russel Viljoen
Lexington Books
December 2022 • 192 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 0058 3 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 6669 0590 0 • $45.00 / £35.00
The genre of microhistory has given Indigenous Khoikhoi individuals of modest status a voice and a place in South African historiography. This book examines the lived and everyday-life experiences of Khoikhoi characters in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century colonial South Africa.
Africa / General
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414 pages • Part of the Historical Dictionaries of Africa series Hardback 978 1 5381 4174 8 • $180.00 / £138.00 eBook 978 1 5381 1755 5 • $171.00 / £133.00
Africa 2022–2023, 56th Edition
By Francis Wiafe-Amoako
August 2022 • 390 pages • Part of the World Today series
Paperback 978 1 5381 6592 8 • $25.00 / £18.99
eBook 978 1 5381 6593 5 • $23.50 / £17.99
Africa 2020–2022 provides students with vital information on all countries on the African continent through a thorough and expert overview of political and economic histories, current events, and emerging trends.
Africa / General
Long-Distance Nationalism in the Global City A Cultural History of the Malian Diaspora in Lagos
By Bennett Eason Cross
Lexington Books
August 2022 • 228 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 1502 2 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 7936 5039 9 • $45.00 / £35.00
The author uses the Malian diaspora in Lagos, Nigeria to examine the persistence of nationalism in an age of globalization. In this case study, the bilateral struggle for loyalty between origin and host societies is complicated by a common faith and the presence of a transnational movement of reformist Islam.
Africa / West
Historical Dictionary of the United States
By Kenneth J. Panton Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
September 2022 • 782 pages • Part of the Historical Dictionaries of the Americas series
Hardback 978 1 5381 2419 2 • $350.00 / £269.00 eBook 978 1 5381 4208 8 • $332.50 / £258.00
Historical Dictionary of the United States contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has more than 400 cross-referenced entries on important personalities as well as aspects of the country’s politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture.
Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)
Soviet Policy in Xinjiang Stalin and the National Movement in Eastern Turkistan
By Jamil Hasanli
Lexington Books
May 2022 • 294 pages • Part of the The Harvard Cold War Studies Book series
Paperback 978 1 7936 4128 1 • $42.99 / £33.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 1267 7 • $111.00 / £85.00
eBook 978 1 7936 4127 4 • $40.50 / £31.00
Using recently declassified Soviet documents, Jamil Hasanli examines Soviet involvement in the anti-China rebellion in East Turkistan during the 1930’s and 1940’s.
Asia / Central Asia
Liberia under Samuel Doe, 1980–1985 The Politics of Personal Rule
By Yekutiel Gershoni
Lexington Books
March 2022 • 398 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 1787 3 • $125.00 / £96.00
eBook 978 1 7936 7880 0 • $50.00 / £38.00
This book explores Samuel K. Doe’s evolution of power in Liberia and the economic crises and political turmoil that ensued. Through primary sources and interviews with diplomats, politicians, and activists, Gershoni carefully details the timeline of Doe’s rise to power and the lasting effects of his dictatorial legacy.
Africa / West
Historical Dictionary of Cuba, Third Edition
By Antoni Kapcia
Rowman
& Littlefield Publishers
May 2022 • 724 pages • Part of the Historical Dictionaries of the Americas series
Hardback 978 1 4422 6454 0 • $265.00 / £204.00 eBook 978 1 4422 4557 7 • $251.50 / £196.00
Historical Dictionary of Cuba contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has several hundred cross-referenced entries on important personalities, politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture.
Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)
Death and Rebirth in Late Antiquity
Edited by Lee M. Jefferson
Fortress Academic August 2022 • 360 pages
Hardback 978 1 9787 0159 5 • $125.00 / £96.00 eBook 978 1 9787 1601 1 • $50.00 / £38.00
Memorialized in art, sculpture, epigraphy, and of course texts, the theme of death and rebirth became a central focus of the Christian religion as it developed in late antiquity. This book provides a deep examination of the theme of death and rebirth from various points of view to see how deeply ensconced it was in religious piety.
Subjects & Themes / Religious
An Anthropological Inquiry into Confucianism Ritual, Emotion, and Rational Principle
By Guo Wu
Lexington Books
March 2022 • 166 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 5431 1 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 4328 8 • $45.00 / £35.00
An Anthropological Inquiry into Confucianism provides a new lens to revisit Confucianism. Drawing upon anthropological theories, perspectives, and empirical studies, Guo Wu argues that Confucianism is distinctive and valuable in its balancing of the three titular ideas: emotion, ritual, and rational principle in theory and in real-life.
Asia / China
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Asia / China
An
Object of Seduction Chinese Silk in the Early Modern Transpacific Trade, 1500–1700
By Xiaolin Duan
Lexington Books
February 2022 • 230 pages • Part of the Empires and Entanglements in the Early Modern World series
Hardback 978 1 7936 1490 2 • $100.00 / £77.00 eBook 978 1 7936 4919 9 • $45.00 / £35.00
An Object of Seduction explores the early modern trans-Pacific export of Chinese silk to New Spain. It argues that the increasing demand for silk contributed to the parallel development of silk fashion and sericulture in China and New Spain, and also created conflicts on imperial regulations about foreign trade and hierarchical systems.
China in Revolution History Lessons
By Joseph W. Esherick
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
August 2022 • 446 pages • Part of the Asia/Pacific/ Perspectives series
Hardback 978 1 5381 6276 7 • $120.00 / £92.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 2774 4 • $47.00 / £36.00 eBook 978 1 5381 6278 1 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book examines key events in modern Chinese history to question the notion of historical inevitability and stresses the role of contingent circumstances. The constant change and diversity of Chinese society contrasts the persistence of a unitary autocratic state and suggest a key lesson in history is that China will continue to surprise us.
Asia / China
More Than the Great Wall
The Northern Frontier and Ming National Security, 1368–1644
By John W. Dardess
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
August 2022 • 572 pages
Paperback 978 1 5381 5902 6 • $50.00 / £38.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 5381 5105 5 • $142.00 / £109.00
eBook 978 1 5381 3511 2 • $47.50 / £37.00
This book provides the first comprehensive analysis of how Ming China’s emperors, officials, and commanders in the field thought, argued, and made decisions as they worked to defend their country. John W. Dardess immerses readers in their day-to-day world as he explores the question of how leaders kept their country safe for 276 years.
Asia / China
The Healthy Socialist Life in Maoist China, 1949–1980
By Renée Krusche
Lexington Books
October 2022 • 282 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 5455 7 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 7936 4564 4 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book examines Mao-era health practices that were implemented to foster individual health and national production goals in socialist China. It highlights continuous state efforts towards a national healthy body and setbacks in the form of diseases of civilization.
Asia / China
China and the Uyghurs A Concise Introduction
By Morris Rossabi Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
January 2022 • 182 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 6297 2 • $84.00 / £65.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 2989 9 • $29.00 / £21.99 eBook 978 1 5381 6299 6 • $27.50 / £20.99
This balanced history of Xinjiang and its Uyghur inhabitants traces the development of this ethnic group from imperial China to the present and its fraught relationship with the Chinese state. Morris Rossabi focuses especially on CCP policies, both progressive and repressive, toward the Uyghurs since 1949.
Asia / China
Grassroots Activism of Ancient China Mohism and Nonviolence
By Hung-yok Ip
Lexington Books
February 2022 • 294 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 2234 1 • $110.00 / £85.00
eBook 978 1 7936 2358 8 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book examines Mohism as a movement in early China. To analyze how the Mohists pursued power, the author analyzes nonviolence as a goal and strategy of the Mohist movement, the Mohists’ creation of strategic knowledge, and their quest for a personhood that made their activism possible.
Asia / China
Subjectivity and Realism in Modern Chinese Fiction
Hu Feng and Lu Ling
By Xiaoping Wang
Lexington Books
March 2022 • 236 pages
Hardback 978 1 4985 6619 3 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 4985 6209 9 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book provides a reexamination of the debates between Hu Feng, Lu Ling, and other Chinese left-wing theorists from a cultural-political perspective. The author argues that individualism should be understood within changing historical contexts and that subjectivity should be treated as class-based and derived from collective community. Asia / China
This Suffering Is My Joy The Underground Church in Eighteenth-Century China
By D. E. Mungello
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
August 2022 • 186 pages
Paperback 978 1 5381 7397 8 • $36.00 / £28.00
Previously published in hardback
978 1 5381 0290 0 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 5381 5030 6 • $34.00 / £26.00
Tracing the little-known history of the first underground Catholic church in China, Mungello illuminates the century between the imperial expulsion of missionaries in 1724 and their return with European colonialism in the 1800s. This time of persecution offered an opportunity for the Chinese, rather than Europeans, to control their own church.
Asia / China
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Women in Qing China
By Bret Hinsch
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
March 2022 • 222 pages • Part of the Asian Voices series
Hardback 978 1 5381 6639 0 • $94.00 / £72.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 6406 6 • $34.00 / £26.00
eBook 978 1 5381 6641 3 • $32.50 / £25.00
This groundbreaking work provides an original and deeply knowledgeable overview of Chinese women and gender relations during the Qing Dynasty (1644–1912). It explores the central aspects of female life in this era, including family and marriage, motherhood, political power, work, inheritance, education, religious roles, and ethics.
Asia / China
Women in Tang China
By Bret Hinsch Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
August 2022 • 256 pages • Part of the Asian Voices series
Paperback 978 1 5381 5903 3 • $36.00 / £28.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 5381 4894 4 • $110.00 / £85.00 eBook 978 1 5381 3490 0 • $34.00 / £26.00
Surveying the history of women in China during the sixth through tenth centuries, this important study is the first book on the subject in English. Bret Hinsch provides rich insight into female life in the medieval era, ranging from political power, wealth, and work to family, religious roles, and emotion.
Asia / China
Historical Dictionary of Laos, Fourth Edition
By Martin Stuart-Fox; Simon Creak and Martin Rathie Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
December 2022 • 744 pages • Part of the Historical Dictionaries of Asia, Oceania, and the Middle East series
Hardback 978 1 5381 2027 9 • $300.00 / £231.00 eBook 978 1 5381 0286 6 • $285.00 / £219.00
Historical Dictionary of Laos, Fourth Edition contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has more than 1.000 cross-referenced entries on important personalities as well as aspects of the country’s politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture.
Asia / General
Indian Ocean Imaginings
People, Time, and Space
Edited by Joshua Esler and Mark Fielding
Lexington Books
December 2022 • 290 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 2216 5 • $110.00 / £85.00
eBook 978 1 6669 2172 2 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book is a multidisciplinary study of the Indian Ocean region, bringing together perspectives from history, defense and strategic studies, cultural and religious studies, and environmental studies. This collection examines both the continuity and change of the region, as well as its unity and diversity.
Asia / India & South Asia
Women in Song and Yuan China
By Bret Hinsch
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
August 2022 • 226 pages • Part of the Asian Voices series
Paperback 978 1 5381 7116 5 • $36.00 / £28.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 5381 4916 6 • $120.00 / £92.00 eBook 978 1 5381 4492 3 • $34.00 / £26.00
This deeply researched book provides an original history of Chinese women during the pivotal Song and Yuan dynasties (960–1368). Bret Hinsch explores the most important aspects of female life in this era?political power, family, work, inheritance, religious roles, and emotions?and considers why the status of women declined during this period.
Asia / China
Beyond Versailles
The 1919 Moment and a New Order in East Asia
Edited by Tosh Minohara and Evan Dawley
Lexington Books
May 2022 • 310 pages
Paperback 978 1 4985 5448 0 • $42.99 / £33.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 4985 4466 6 • $126.00 / £97.00
eBook 978 1 4985 5447 3 • $40.50 / £31.00
This edited collection examines the fundamental role East Asians played in reshaping the world order during the interwar period. The contributors argue that Japan, China, Korea, and Mongolia sought to redefine the concept of sovereignty to advance their own interests after the Treaty of Versailles was signed.
Asia / General
Heart Like a Fakir General Sir James Abbott and the Fall of the East India Company
By Chris Mason
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
November 2022 • 382 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 6956 8 • $115.00 / £88.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 9575 5 • $41.00 / £32.00 eBook 978 1 5381 6958 2 • $39.00 / £30.00
This book explores the last years of the British East India Company using the life of General Sir James Abbott—explorer, guerilla, district officer, and possible inspiration for Mr. Kurtz in Heart of Darkness—as a thread to reexamine the social and sexual relationships between Britons and Indians and chronicle the collapse of their social contract.
Asia / India & South Asia
Rabindranath Tagore, Amartya Sen, and the Early Indian Classical Period
The Obligations of Power
By Neal Leavitt
Lexington Books
October 2022 • 190 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 1567 9 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 6669 5686 6 • $45.00 / £30.99
This book examines the ethical standard of the obligations of power articulated by philosophers Rabindrinath Tagore and Amartya Sen. The author argues that Tagore and Sen focused on the need to diminish all states’ capacity for violence, regardless of regime type.
Asia / India & South Asia
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The Hindu Monastery in South India Social, Religious, and Artistic Traditions
By Nalini Rao
Lexington Books
May 2022 • 252 pages
Paperback 978 1 7936 2239 6 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 2372 2 • $100.00 / £77.00 eBook 978 1 7936 2238 9 • $38.00 / £29.00
This study analyzes the role of asceticism, icons, and the guru in South India. Tracing the development of Hindu monastic orders, the author analyzes the growth of these institutions from educational establishments to centers of traditional socio-religious authority, centering her argument on the phenomenon of guru whole-body relics.
Asia / India & South Asia
A Transnational Critique of Japaneseness Cultural Nationalism, Racism, and Multiculturalism in Japan
By Yuko Kawai
Lexington
Books
May 2022 • 182 pages • Part of the New Studies in Modern Japan series
Paperback 978 1 4985 9902 3 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 4985 9009 9 • $100.00 / £77.00 eBook 978 1 4985 9901 6 • $38.00 / £29.00
This book investigates the construction of Japaneseness from a transnational perspective. By analyzing a variety of communication during the first two decades of the twenty-first century, the author examines how Japaneseness is constructed in relation to discursive Others.
Asia / Japan
Japan’s Foreign Policy in the Twenty-First Century Continuity and Change
Edited by Lam Peng Er and Purnendra Jain
Lexington Books
May 2022 • 400 pages
Paperback 978 1 4985 8797 6 • $42.99 / £33.00
Previously published in hardback
978 1 4985 7952 2 • $137.00 / £105.00
eBook 978 1 4985 8796 9 • $40.50 / £31.00
This volume examines Japan’s new foreign policy frontiers in South Asia, Africa, and Eastern Europe. The contributors analyze Japan’s ongoing relationships with the United States and the ASEAN states as China’s influence expands.
Asia / Japan
Mito and the Politics of Reform in Early Modern Japan
By Michael Alan Thornton
Lexington Books
January 2022 • 264 pages • Part of the New
Studies in Modern Japan series
Hardback 978 1 7936 4189 2 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 7936 1908 8 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book takes the perspective of Mito Domain, one of three branches of Japan’s ruling Tokugawa shogunate, to explore the dynamic history of political reform in early modern Japan. This book, while grounded in Mito, examines the role that this domain and its people played in the birth of the modern Japanese nation-state in the nineteenth century.
Asia / Japan
The Life of
the Sixteenth
Karmapa Rangjung Rigpe Dorje
Transmitting the Dharma in Exile
By Meng Wang
Lexington Books
December 2022 • 330 pages • Part of the Studies
in Modern Tibetan Culture series
Hardback 978 1 6669 1345 3 • $120.00 / £92.00 eBook 978 1 6669 3460 0 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book examines the life of the sixteenth Karmapa and his contributions to the preservation and transmission of Tibetan Buddhism in exile. The author analyzes the life and activity of the Karmapa through the lens of cross-cultural interaction between Buddhism and the West with a particular focus on Asian agency.
Asia / India & South Asia
Gentleman Samurai and Internationalist
The Life and Trials of Ambassador Sato Naotake, 1882–1971
By Greg Gubler
Lexington Books
August 2022 • 470 pages
Paperback 978 1 7936 3278 4 • $46.99 / £36.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 2760 0 • $135.00 / £104.00
eBook 978 1 7936 3277 7 • $44.50 / £34.00
This book examines Sato Naotake’s remarkable and long career at the crossroads of Imperial Japan, emphasizing his role in maintaining the Neutrality Pact with the Soviet Union and in promoting the United Nations.
Asia / Japan
Journalism and the Russo-Japanese War The End of the Golden Age of Combat Correspondence
By Michael S. Sweeney and Natascha Toft Roelsgaard
Lexington Books
March 2022 • 260 pages
Paperback 978 1 7936 1792 7 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 7927 7 • $39.99 / £31.00
eBook 978 1 7936 1791 0 • $38.00 / £29.00
This book examines Japan’s victory over Russia in 1904–05 and how it overhauled press–military relations, ending sixty years of battlefield freedom for correspondents. The authors argue that Japan controlled access and allowed only a narrowly constrained view of the war to circulate, thus creating the template for all modern wars.
Asia / Japan
The Meiji Japanese Who Made Modern Taiwan
By Toshio
Watanabe
- Translated by Robert D. Eldridge
Lexington Books
March 2022 • 184 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 0853 4 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 6669 8541 1 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book examines the policies and personalities behind Japan’s administration of Taiwan from 1895 to 1945. The author examines various important figures that contributed to the development of modern Taiwan, such as Kodama Gentaro, Goto Shinpei, Hatta Yoichi, and others.
Asia / Japan
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The United States and the Japanese Student Movement, 1948–1973 Managing a Free World
By Naoko Koda
Lexington Books
May 2022 • 274 pages
Paperback 978 1 4985 8343 5 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 4985 3411 1 • $111.00 / £85.00 eBook 978 1 4985 8342 8 • $38.00 / £29.00
The author argues that interactions between the movement and US Cold Warriors had a profound and lasting impact on Japanese society and Japan–US relations.
Asia / Japan
The Postcolonial Condition of Architecture in Asia A Lead from Display-ness
By Francis Chia-Hui Lin Lexington Books
February 2022 • 238 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 1403 2 • $100.00 / £77.00 eBook 978 1 7936 4049 9 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book provides a bidirectional investigation of Asia’s spatiotemporality by asking how Asia is located and how localities are Asianized. The author examines “display-ness” as a theoretical common divisor and argues that Asia’s architectural and urban spectacle is as meaningful and significant as an indicator of Asia’s postcolonial condition.
History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945)
Yearbook of Transnational History (2022), Volume 5
Edited by Thomas Adam - Assisted by Austin E. Loignon - Contributions by Bradley J. Borougerdi; Volker Depkat; J. Laurence Hare; Susanne Lachenicht; Berthold Unfried and Ky Woltering Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
May 2022 • 214 pages
Hardback 978 1 6839 3351 9 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 6839 3526 6 • $45.00 / £35.00
The Yearbook of Transnational History is dedicated to disseminating pioneering research in the field of transnational history. The six chapters of this volume explore topics and themes from early modern times to the fall of Communism.
Essays
English Trade and Adventure to Russia in the Early Modern Era
The Muscovy Company, 1603–1649
By Maria Salomon Arel
Lexington Books
March 2022 • 362 pages • Part of the Empires and Entanglements in the Early Modern World series
Paperback 978 1 4985 5025 3 • $42.99 / £33.00
Previously published in hardback
978 1 4985 0239 9 • $128.00 / £98.00
eBook 978 1 4985 5024 6 • $40.50 / £31.00
This book explores English trade to Russia in the first half of the seventeenth century. Meticulously reconstructing commercial activities, personnel, and day-to-day business strategies of the Muscovy Company, it reveals the workings of a growing branch of early modern overseas trade linking Russia to intersecting markets across the globe.
Europe / Eastern
The Contested State Transnational Battles for Control of the Philippines Since 1898, Second Edition
By Amy Blitz
Lexington Books
November 2022 • 312 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 2222 6 • $110.00 / £85.00 eBook 978 1 6669 2233 3 • $45.00 / £30.99
This study examines rising authoritarianism today in historical, transnational context, using the Philippines as a case study. Tracing the battle for control of the Philippines back to the Spanish era, the book offers insights into the broader transnational issues threatening democracy today.
Asia / Southeast Asia
Canada
2022–2023, 37th Edition
By Paul T Babie; Charles J. Russo and James Kent Donlevy
October 2022 • 228 pages • Part of the World Today series
Paperback 978 1 5381 6590 4 • $25.00 / £18.99 eBook 978 1 5381 6591 1 • $23.50 / £17.99
This is an annually updated presentation of Canada past and present. Canada / General
The Hungarian Agricultural Miracle? Sovietization and Americanization in a Communist Country
By Zsuzsanna Varga - Translated by Frank T Zsigó
Lexington Books
August 2022 • 354 pages • Part of the Harvard Cold War Studies Book series
Paperback 978 1 7936 3437 5 • $42.99 / £33.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 4351 1 • $132.00 / £102.00
eBook 978 1 7936 3436 8 • $40.50 / £31.00
This book examines the success of the Hungarian agricultural miracle, a hybrid agricultural system created by transfer processes of Sovietization and Americanization.
Europe / Austria & Hungary
Montažstroj’s Emancipatory Performance Politics Never Mind the Score
By Leo Rafolt
Lexington Books
September 2022 • 314 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 2117 5 • $110.00 / £85.00
eBook 978 1 6669 1182 2 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book deals with the broader theoretical and philosophical context of performance art in former Yugoslavia. It focuses on the politically engaged performance activity of the Montažstroj group, putting it in the context of terrorism, globalism, radical democratic regimes, and identity politics.
Europe / Eastern
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Hitler’s Refugees and the French Response, 1933–1938
By Julius Fein
Lexington Books
October 2022 • 322 pages
Paperback 978 1 7936 2230 3 • $42.99 / £33.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 2280 0 • $120.00 / £92.00 eBook 978 1 7936 2229 7 • $40.50 / £31.00
This book examines the ways in which the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs (the Quai d’Orsay) responded to the large number of German citizens who sought refuge in France between 1933 and 1938.
Europe / France
Festival, Culture, and Identity in Lübeck Nordic Days, 1920–1960
By Erika L. Briesacher
Lexington Books
December 2022 • 212 pages
Hardback 978 1 4985 8501 9 • $95.00 / £73.00 eBook 978 1 4985 5026 6 • $45.00 / £35.00
In this study Erika L. Briesacher argues that festivals in Lübeck, Germany spanning 1920 to 1960 demonstrate interlocking economic, social, and cultural factors that contribute to local, national, and international identity formation.
Europe / General
The Soviet Union and Cold War Neutrality and Nonalignment in Europe
Edited by Mark Kramer; Aryo Makko and Peter Ruggenthaler
Lexington Books
August 2022 • 644 pages • Part of the Harvard Cold War Studies Book series
Paperback 978 1 7936 3194 7 • $54.99 / £42.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 1923 3 • $155.00 / £119.00
eBook 978 1 7936 3193 0 • $52.00 / £40.00
Based on extensive archival research, the contributions in this collection examine the nuances of neutrality leading up to and during the Cold War. The contributors demonstrate the importance of the Soviet Union to the neutral states of Europe during the Cold War and vice versa.
Europe / General
Nordic, Central, and Southeastern Europe
2022–2023, 21st Edition
By Wayne C. Thompson
July 2022 • 626 pages • Part of the World Today
series
Paperback 978 1 5381 6584 3 • $25.00 / £18.99
eBook 978 1 5381 6585 0 • $23.50 / £17.99
Nordic, Central, and Southeastern Europe 2020–2022 provides students with vital information on these countries through a thorough and expert overview of political and economic histories, current events, and emerging trends.
Europe / General
A Concise History of Modern Europe Liberty, Equality, Solidarity, Fifth Edition
By David S. Mason
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
June 2022 • 268 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 6157 9 • $99.00 / £76.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 1586 6 • $34.00 / £26.00 eBook 978 1 5381 6159 3 • $32.00 / £25.00
Highlighting the most important events, ideas, and individuals that shaped modern Europe, this text provides a concise history of the continent from the Enlightenment to the present day focusing on the causes and consequences of revolution, the origins and development of human rights and democracy, and issues of European identity and integration.
Europe / General
Jesuit Art and Czech Lands, 1556–1729
Missionizing through the Arts
Edited by Kateřina Horníčková and Michal ŠroněkContributions by Ondřej Jakubec; Martin Deutsch; Martin Mádl; Katrin Sterba and Štěpán Vácha
Lexington Books
December 2022 • 430 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 0586 1 • $125.00 / £96.00 eBook 978 1 6669 5878 8 • $50.00 / £38.00
This collection examines how the Society of Jesus used art and architecture in its missionary efforts in the Lands of the Bohemian Crown from the sixteenth century to the eighteenth. The contributors demonstrate how the Jesuit Order cultivated the subjects and functions of art to promote concepts of Catholic piety.
Europe / General
Unmaking Détente Yugoslavia, the United States, and the Global Cold War, 1968–1980
By Milorad Lazic Lexington Books
June 2022 • 304 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 4921 8 • $100.00 / £77.00 eBook 978 1 7936 9225 5 • $45.00 / £35.00
This study examines the global history of the Cold War in the 1970s through the perspective of Yugoslavia’s activism in the Global South and its relations with the United States and the Soviet Union.
Europe / General
Western Europe 2022–2023, 40th Edition
By Wayne C. Thompson
August 2022 • 470 pages • Part of the World Today series
Paperback 978 1 5381 6576 8 • $25.00 / £18.99
eBook 978 1 5381 6577 5 • $23.50 / £17.99
Western Europe 2020–2022 provides students with vital information on all countries on the African continent through a thorough and expert overview of political and economic histories, current events, and emerging trends.
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Athanasios Souliotis-Nikolaidis and Greek Irredentism A Life in the Shadows
By John Athanasios Mazis
Lexington Books
February 2022 • 208 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 3444 3 • $95.00 / £73.00 eBook 978 1 7936 4450 0 • $45.00 / £35.00
This study examines the life of Athanasios Souliotis-Nikolaidis (1878–1945), a Greek military officer and undercover agent in the Ottoman Empire. In particular, the author examines his role in Greek irredentism, his ideology, and his other connections to Ion Dragoumis. Europe / Greece
Historical Dictionary of Modern Greece, Second Edition
By Dimitris Keridis
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
July 2022 • 328 pages • Part of the Historical
Dictionaries of Europe series
Hardback 978 1 4422 6470 0 • $150.00 / £115.00 eBook 978 1 4422 4717 7 • $142.50 / £110.00
Historical Dictionary of Modern Greece, Second Edition contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has more than 200 cross-referenced entries on important personalities as well as aspects of the country’s politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture.
Europe / Greece
Italian
Rebels Mazzini, Gramsci, and Giuliano
By Raymond Angelo Belliotti
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
December 2022 • 292 pages • Part of the Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Series in Italian Studies
Hardback 978 1 6839 3369 4 • $110.00 / £85.00 eBook 978 1 6839 3700 0 • $45.00 / £30.99
Belliotti analyzes the role of positive duties in moral theory, the efficacy of theocratic republicanism, strategies for political revolutions, the implications of an enduring Sicilian ethos, and the profits and perils of the individual-community continuum, while distinctively interpreting the lives and ideologies of Mazzini, Gramsci, and Giuliano.
Europe / Italy
The Vatican and Permanent Neutrality
Edited by Marshall J. Breger and Herbert R. Reginbogin
Lexington Books
March 2022 • 322 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 4216 5 • $120.00 / £92.00
eBook 978 1 7936 2172 2 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book examines Vatican diplomacy from the fall of the Papal States in 1870 to the present day. The contributors focus on the concept of permanent neutrality and trace the Vatican’s political transformation into a modern international institution in conjunction with its use of neutrality as a tool of diplomacy and statecraft.
Europe / Italy
Christians and Muslims in the Middle Ages
From Muhammad to Dante
By Michael Frassetto
Lexington Books
March 2022 • 314 pages
Paperback 978 1 4985 7758 8 • $42.99 / £33.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 4985 7564 4 • $116.00 / £89.00
eBook 978 1 4985 7757 1 • $40.50 / £31.00
This study examines relations between Muslims and Christians during the Middle Ages. The author argues that the relationship between the two faiths was essential to the creation of the cultural and religious traditions that defined each faith.
Europe / Medieval
Italian Women in Basilicata Staying Behind but Moving Forward during the Age of Mass Emigration, 1876–1914
By Victoria Calabrese
Lexington Books
January 2022 • 212 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 0778 2 • $95.00 / £73.00 eBook 978 1 7936 7799 9 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book examines the women who remained behind in the southern Italian region of Basilicata during the age of mass migration. While thousands of married men left, their wives remained in Italy, taking on a new role and challenging stereotypes.
Europe / Italy
A History of Medieval Heresy and Inquisition,
Second Edition
By Jennifer Kolpacoff Deane Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
September 2022 • 332 pages • Part of the Critical
Issues in World and International History series
Hardback 978 1 5381 5293 5 • $114.00 / £88.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 2942 2 • $39.00 / £30.00
eBook 978 1 5381 5295 9 • $37.00 / £28.00
Examining the dynamic interplay between competing medieval notions of Christian observance, this book traces the escalating confrontations between piety, reform, dissent, and Church authority. It explores how diverse culture and regional settings influence major disputes over scripture, sacraments, and spiritual hierarchies of the Medieval world.
Europe / Medieval
Common Culture and the Ideology of Difference in Medieval and Contemporary Poland
By Teresa Pac
Lexington Books
February 2022 • 346 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 2691 2 • $120.00 / £92.00
eBook 978 1 7936 6929 9 • $45.00 / £35.00
This study examines shared culture in medieval and contemporary Poland. The author argues that shared culture produced by ethnically, religiously, and linguistically diverse societies—rather than elitist values or institutional, ethnic, and religious differences—was foundational to societal survival in medieval Polish cities.
Europe / Medieval
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Medieval Fare Food and Culture in Medieval Iberia
By Martha M. Daas
Lexington Books
October 2022 • 182 pages
Hardback 978 1 4985 8959 8 • $95.00 / £73.00 eBook 978 1 4985 9604 4 • $45.00 / £30.99
This study examines food in the Middle Ages. The author analyzes its preparation, consumption, and cultural significance and how food provides insight in to the cultural, religious, and social complexities of medieval Iberia.
Europe / Medieval
Joseph Stalin
A Reference Guide to His Life and Works
By David R. Marples and Alla Hurska Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
September 2022 • 314 pages • Part of the
Significant Figures in World History series
Hardback 978 1 5381 3360 6 • $115.00 / £88.00 eBook 978 1 5381 3613 3 • $109.00 / £84.00
Joseph Stalin: A Reference Guide to His Life and Works captures his life, and legacy. It features a chronology, an introduction offers a brief account of his life, a dictionary section lists entries on Stalin’s associates from the period of the Russian Empire in the late 19th century to the leader’s death in 1953, and beyond.
Europe / Russia & the Former Soviet Union
Sino–Russian Policies in the Center and Periphery A Comparative Analysis
By Samra Sarfraz Khan
Lexington Books
March 2022 • 282 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 1057 5 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 6669 0582 2 • $45.00 / £35.00
This study provides a comparative analysis of Chinese and Russian policies in their respective inner peripheries. The author also examines Sino–Russian partnerships in the region.
Europe / Russia & the Former Soviet Union
State Ideology, Science, and Pseudoscience in Russia
Between the Cosmos and the Earth
By Baasanjav Terbish
Lexington Books
February 2022 • 310 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 0568 7 • $110.00 / £85.00
eBook 978 1 6669 5694 4 • $45.00 / £35.00
Russia is defined by its past legacies, including Soviet state ideology and the intellectual movements of Russian cosmism and Eurasianism. This book recounts the histories of these legacies and the ongoing search for a unifying state-controlled narrative in contemporary Russia, drawing on the evolution of ideas across time and space.
Europe / Russia & the Former Soviet Union
In the Labyrinth of the KGB Ukraine’s Intelligentsia in the 1960s–1970s
By Olga Bertelsen
Lexington Books
February 2022 • 370 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 0892 5 • $125.00 / £96.00 eBook 978 1 7936 8932 2 • $50.00 / £38.00
This book focuses on the writers who lived through the processes of de-Stalinization and re-Stalinization during the 1960s and 1970s in Soviet Ukraine. The author argues that the KGB unintentionally facilitated the transnational and intercultural links among the Kharkiv multiethnic community of writers.
Europe / Russia & the Former Soviet Union
Russia in the Early Modern World The Continuity of Change
By Donald Ostrowski
Lexington Books
January 2022 • 574 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 3420 7 • $155.00 / £119.00 eBook 978 1 7936 4214 4 • $60.00 / £46.00
This study examines the continuity of Russian policies during the early modern period in the midst of constant change. The author analyzes how Russian rulers from Ivan III to Catherine II—along with their hub advisors—managed to sustain a balance between the two in seeking solutions to problems the country faced.
Europe / Russia & the Former Soviet Union
Stalin’s Millennials Nostalgia, Trauma, and Nationalism
By Tinatin Japaridze
Lexington Books
March 2022 • 180 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 4186 1 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 1878 8 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book examines Stalin’s increasing popularity in his native Georgia and in Putin’s Russia. Through extensive field research, political commentary, and autobiographical elements from the perspective of the post-Soviet millennial generation, the author analyzes how Stalin’s image is manipulated and exploited for political gain.
Europe / Russia & the Former Soviet Union
The Carpathians, the Hutsuls, and Ukraine An Environmental History
By Anthony J. Amato
Lexington Books
August 2022 • 484 pages
Paperback 978 1 7936 0837 6 • $46.99 / £36.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 8352 2 • $142.00 / £109.00
eBook 978 1 7936 0836 9 • $44.50 / £34.00
This book examines ecology and culture in the Carpathian Mountains, with a focus on Ukraine’s Galician Hutsul region from 1848 to 1939.
Europe / Russia & the Former Soviet Union
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The Cinema of Soviet Kazakhstan 1925–1991 An Uneasy Legacy
By Peter Rollberg
Lexington Books
May 2022 • 466 pages • Part of the Contemporary Central Asia: Societies, Politics, and Cultures series
Paperback 978 1 7936 4176 2 • $46.99 / £36.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 1748 8 • $135.00 / £104.00 eBook 978 1 7936 4175 5 • $44.50 / £34.00
This monograph traces the history of Kazakh filmmaking from its conception as a Soviet cultural construction project to its peak as fullyfledged national cinema to its eventual re-imagining as an art-house phenomenon.
Europe / Russia & the Former Soviet Union
The Language of Russian Peasants in the Twentieth Century A Linguistic Analysis and Oral History
By Alexander D. Nakhimovsky
Lexington Books
March 2022 • 252 pages
Paperback 978 1 4985 7505 8 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 4985 5034 4 • $105.00 / £81.00 eBook 978 1 4985 7504 1 • $38.00 / £29.00
This book analyzes the social dialect of Russian peasants in the twentieth century through their letters and stories. It constitutes an oral history of peasants’ tragic Soviet past, and argues that for all their variability, local peasant dialects maintained an underlying unity throughout the century.
Europe / Russia & the Former Soviet Union
The Stalin Cult in East Germany and the Making of the Postwar Soviet Empire, 1945–1961
By Alexey Tikhomirov - Translated by Jacqueline Friedlander Lexington Books
March 2022 • 384 pages • Part of the Harvard Cold War Studies Book series
Hardback 978 1 6669 1189 3 • $125.00 / £96.00 eBook 978 1 6669 1909 9 • $50.00 / £38.00
This study examines the Stalin cult in East Germany as both a representative and a unique case study of Sovietization in Eastern Europe. The author investigates the emergence and functioning of the postwar Soviet empire from the end of World War II to the building of the Berlin Wall.
Europe / Russia & the Former Soviet Union
Henry VIII
A Reference Guide to His Life and Works
By Clayton Drees Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
April 2022 • 286 pages • Part of the Significant
Figures in World History series
Hardback 978 1 5381 2283 9 • $115.00 / £88.00
eBook 978 1 5381 2846 6 • $109.00 / £84.00
Henry VIII: A Reference Guide to His Life and Work captures his eventful life, his works, and his legacy. It features a chronology, an introduction, a comprehensive bibliography, and the dictionary section lists entries on all the locales, events and personalities associated with King Henry.
Royalty
The Hidden History of New Women in Serbian
Culture Toward
a New History of Literature
By Svetlana Tomić
Lexington Books
February 2022 • 304 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 3198 5 • $110.00 / £85.00 eBook 978 1 7936 1992 2 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book examines a group of educated women appearing in the nineteenth century and their contribution to Serbian literature and society. Tomic analyzes the literary values of their works and contrasts them with official evaluations, presenting their different social engagements and showing that there is abundant evidence challenging the canon.
Europe / Russia & the Former Soviet Union
The Pilsen Revolt of 1953 Kindred by Currency
By Jakub Šlouf - Translated by Lucie Mikolajková
Lexington Books
February 2022 • 324 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 4645 3 • $120.00 / £92.00
eBook 978 1 7936 6460 0 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book examines the Pilsen revolt in Czechoslovakia in 1953, a confluence of several individual, mutually incompatible protests, through which different parts of society reacted to the currency reform using different cultural traditions. The author analyzes how each protest brought their own alternative authorities into public space.
Europe / Russia & the Former Soviet Union
Russia and Eurasia 2022–2023, 52nd Edition
By Navruz Nekbakhtshoev
September 2022 • 360 pages • Part of the World Today series
Paperback 978 1 5381 6582 9 • $25.00 / £18.99
eBook 978 1 5381 6583 6 • $23.50 / £18.99
Russia and Eurasia 2020–2022 provides students with vital information on these countries through a thorough and expert overview of political and economic histories, current events, and emerging trends. Europe / Russia & the Former Soviet Union
Marx and Engels on Bonapartism
Selected Journalism, 1851–59
Edited by Spencer A. Leonard
Lexington Books
December 2022 • 460 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 2804 4 • $135.00 / £104.00
eBook 978 1 6669 8051 1 • $50.00 / £38.00
This volume is the first to compile the journalistic works of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels dealing with what they termed Bonapartism. The topics examined include the emergence of a new unionist capitalist politics in Britain, post-1848 Chartism, the East India Company, European nationalisms, and the Taiping Rebellion in China. Europe / Western
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Beyond Truman Robert H. Ferrell and Crafting the Past
By Douglas A. Dixon
Lexington Books
May 2022 • 184 pages
Paperback 978 1 7936 2783 4 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 7810 0 • $95.00 / £73.00 eBook 978 1 7936 2782 7 • $38.00 / £29.00
This study examines the successes, struggles, and personal life of the nationally recognized historian Robert H. Ferrell. His life history provides insight into postmodernism, the New Left, and the art of historical writing.
Historiography
Historical Dictionary of the Holocaust, Third Edition
By Jack R. Fischel
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
February 2022 • 452 pages • Part of the Historical Dictionaries of Religions, Philosophies, and Movements series
Paperback 978 1 5381 6947 6 • $50.00 / £38.00
Previously published in hardback
978 1 5381 0155 5 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 5381 3016 2 • $95.00 / £73.00
Historical Dictionary of the Holocaust, Third Edition contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 600 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, issues, and events that led to the murder of six-million Jews, and millions of other groups by Nazi Germany.
Holocaust
Communist Poland A Jewish Woman’s Experience
By Sara Nomberg-Przytyk - Edited by Holli Levitsky and Justyna Włodarczyk - Translated by Paula Parsky
Lexington Books
March 2022 • 254 pages • Part of the Lexington Studies in Jewish Literature series
Hardback 978 1 4985 7750 2 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 4985 7519 9 • $45.00 / £35.00
This annotated edition of Holocaust survivor Sara Nomberg-Przytyk’s postwar memoir follows her life as an investigative journalist during the emergence and deterioration of the communist state in Poland. Once a devoted communist herself, Nomberg-Przytyk recounts how antisemitism and government corruption shattered her illusions.
Jewish
Soviet Influence on Cuban Culture, 1961–1987 When the Soviets Came to Stay
By Isabel Story
Lexington Books
March 2022 • 244 pages • Part of the Lexington
Studies on Cuba series
Paperback 978 1 4985 8013 7 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 4985 0113 3 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 4985 8012 0 • $38.00 / £29.00
This book examines the ways in which the Cuban-Soviet relationship was expressed in the cultural sphere between 1961 and 1987. It specifically focuses on the theater and the visual arts to analyze the ways in which the culture became a means of asserting the Cuban Revolution’s independence.
Latin America / Central America
German Jews and Migration to the United States, 1933–1945
Edited by Andrea A. Sinn and Andreas Heusler
Lexington Books
March 2022 • 304 pages • Part of the Lexington Studies in Modern Jewish History, Historiography, and Memory series
Hardback 978 1 7936 4600 2 • $110.00 / £85.00 eBook 978 1 7936 6019 9 • $45.00 / £35.00
This collection of mostly unpublished first-person accounts documents the flight and exile of German Jews from Nazi Germany to the USA. The thematic and biographical introductions by the editors, clear geographic framework, and well-defined time frame make this volume helpful to those new to the subject.
Holocaust
A Jewish Journey Surviving and Thriving in Poland, Israel, and the United States
By Sam Ron - With Caren Schnur Neile
Hamilton Books
December 2022 • 206 pages
Paperback 978 0 7618 7358 7 • $24.99 / £14.99
eBook 978 0 7618 3594 4 • $23.50 / £14.99
Never forget. This stirring memoir of Polish Holocaust survivor Samuel Ron is structured as a Q&A with students, in order to reflect the decades he has spent educating groups about his survival from four Nazi concentration camps, and his many contributions to the founding of the modern State of Israel.
Jewish
Ernestine L. Rose To Change a Nation
By Joyce B. Lazarus Hamilton Books
July 2022 • 168 pages
Paperback 978 0 7618 7342 6 • $19.99 / £14.99 eBook 978 0 7618 3433 3 • $19.00 / £14.99
Ernestine L. Rose: To Change a Nation relates the life of Ernestine L. Rose (1810-1892), a fearless human rights activist who fought for racial equality, women’s rights and religious freedom. As America continues to struggle to live up to its democratic principles, Ernestine Rose’s words are more relevant than ever.
Jewish
Contemporary Latin American Revolutions, Second Edition
By Marc Becker
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
January 2022 • 374 pages • Part of the Latin American Perspectives in the Classroom series
Hardback 978 1 5381 6372 6 • $94.00 / £72.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 3733 3 • $34.00 / £26.00
eBook 978 1 5381 6374 0 • $32.50 / £25.00
This clear text extends our understanding of revolutions with critical narrative analysis of key case studies. Becker analyzes revolutions through the lens of participants and explores the sociopolitical conditions that led to a revolutionary situation, the differing responses to those conditions, and the outcomes of the political changes.
Latin America / General
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Discourses on American Musical Theatre between São Paulo and New York Theatrical Flows at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century
By Bernardo Fonseca Machado - Translated by Philip Badiz and David Rodgers
Lexington Books
February 2022 • 152 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 3817 5 • $90.00 / £69.00 eBook 978 1 7936 8182 2 • $45.00 / £35.00
In Discourses on American Musical Theater between São Paulo and New York: Theatrical Flows at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century, Bernardo Fonseca Machado examines cultural exchange between musical theater production in the US and Brazil.
Latin America / General
Latin American Studies and the Cold War
Edited by Ronald H. Chilcote
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
March 2022 • 280 pages • Part of the Latin American Perspectives in the Classroom series
Hardback 978 1 5381 4158 8 • $94.00 / £72.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 1595 5 • $39.00 / £30.00 eBook 978 1 5381 4160 1 • $37.00 / £28.00
This timely text traces the impact of the Cold War on the transformation of the field of Latin American studies. Drawing on unpublished documents, it highlights how new academics challenged the mainstream consensus and opened the field to progressive theoretical currents. This book provides an essential foundation for new directions in the field.
Latin America / General
Latin America 2022–2023, 55th Edition
By William H. Beezley
September 2022 • 472 pages • Part of the World Today series
Paperback 978 1 5381 6586 7 • $25.00 / £18.99
eBookt 978 1 5381 6587 4 • $23.50 / £18.99
Latin America 2020-2022 provides students with vital information on Latin America through a thorough and expert overview of political and economic histories, current events, and emerging trends.
Yearbooks & Annuals
Latin American History through its Art and Literature, Second Edition
By Jack Child
UPA
September 2022 • 284 pages
eBook 978 0 7618 5283 4 • $42.50 / £33.00
This book explores 2,000 years of Latin American history through the words of the writer, the brush of the painter, the pen of the cartoonist, and the lens of the photographer. The interdisciplinary approach to Latin America focuses on the way the region has related to the United States.
General
Latin American History at the Movies
Edited by Donald F. Stevens
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
August 2022 • 346 pages • Part of the Latin American Silhouettes series
Hardback 978 1 5381 5245 4 • $110.00 / £85.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 2461 1 • $39.00 / £30.00 eBook 978 1 5381 5247 8 • $37.00 / £28.00
Combining history with discussion of cinema, this book examines how film has portrayed five hundred years of Latin America history. An introduction on the visual presentation of the past sets the stage for essays that explore sixteen of the best feature films on Latin America from the perspective of historians.
Latin America / General
Ten Notable Women of Colonial Latin America
By James D. Henderson; Linda R. Henderson and Suzanne M. Litrel
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
August 2022 • 262 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 5299 7 • $95.00 / £73.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 3000 0 • $32.00 / £25.00 eBook 978 1 5381 5301 7 • $30.00 / £22.99
Spanning the years from 1464 to independence, this book introduces readers to the history of early Latin America through the experiences of ten notable women of the region. Each biographical chapter includes an overview of the era, providing a fresh perspective on Latin American history. Latin America / General
World Today 2022–2023
By Multiple Authors
October 2022 • 3342 pages • Part of the World Today series
Multiple-item product 978 1 5381 6575 1 • $200.00 / £154.00
Latin
America / General
The Rebel Scribe Carleton Beals and the Progressive Challenge to
Policy in Latin America
By Christopher Neal
Hamilton Books
January 2022 • 390 pages
U.S.
Paperback 978 0 7618 7310 5 • $32.99 / £25.00
eBook 978 0 7618 3112 2 • $31.00 / £23.99
American journalist Carleton Beals’s combative reporting of U.S. intervention in Latin America from Mexico to Cuba in the 20th century won him millions of readers. The Rebel Scribe tells his story in a way that sheds new light on Western Hemisphere history while also showing how probing journalism drives change.
Latin America / Mexico
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Historical Dictionary of Brazil
By Robert M. Levine Scarecrow Press
October 2022 • 309 pages • Part of the Historical Dictionaries of the Americas series
Hardback 978 0 8108 1178 2 • $35.00 / £27.00
Latin America / South America
The History of the Tajik Civil War, 1992–1997
By Parviz Mullojonov Lexington Books
November 2022 • 464 pages • Part of the Contemporary Central Asia: Societies, Politics, and Cultures series
Hardback 978 1 7936 1286 1 • $135.00 / £104.00 eBook 978 1 7936 2878 8 • $50.00 / £38.99
Tajik civil war is defined as a mulit-aspect and multi-level armed conflict, which often takes place after the collapse of empires or during transition from one social order to another. It is also an example of incomplete peace when the end of open violence fails to resolve the conflict-generating factors that brought the country to the civil war.
Middle East / General
Historical Dictionary of Palestine, Second Edition
By Ilan Pappe and Johnny Mansour Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
March 2022 • 542 pages • Part of the Historical Dictionaries of Asia, Oceania, and the Middle East series
Hardback 978 1 5381 1985 3 • $225.00 / £173.00 eBook 978 1 5381 9860 0 • $213.50 / £165.00
Historical Dictionary of Palestine, Second Edition contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has more than 800 cross-referenced entries on important personalities as well as aspects of the country’s politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture.
Middle East / Israel & Palestine
The Sandžak of Novi Pazar Millets, Nations, Empires
By Aleksander Zdravkovski
Lexington Books
April 2022 • 152 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 4180 9 • $90.00 / £69.00
eBook 978 1 7936 1816 6 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book examines the current ethnic and religious landscape in the western Balkans. The author argues that the molding of nations and religious groups was a very slow and incremental process that was shaped by Ottoman policies, conflict, and geopolitical meddling in this culturally diverse part of Europe.
Middle East / Turkey & Ottoman Empire
The Golden Age of Piracy in China, 1520–1810
A Short History with Documents
By Robert J. Antony
Rowman
& Littlefield Publishers
March 2022 • 180 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 6152 4 • $79.00 / £61.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 1531 1 • $29.00 / £21.99 eBook 978 1 5381 6154 8 • $27.50 / £20.99
This book exposes readers to the little-known history of Chinese piracy from the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries, when it was unsurpassed in size and scope anywhere else in the world. By providing a large selection of primary sources, this book allows previously silenced pirates, victims, and officials to tell their stories in their own words.
Maritime History & Piracy
The Middle East and South Asia 2022–2023, 55th Edition
By Ilan Pappe
September 2022 • 316 pages • Part of the World Today series
Paperback 978 1 5381 6580 5 • $25.00 / £18.99 eBook 978 1 5381 6581 2 • $23.50 / £18.99
The Middle East and South Asia 2020–2022 provides students with vital information on the Middle East and South Asia countries through a thorough and expert overview of political and economic histories, current events, and emerging trends.
Middle East / General
Sultanahmet, Istanbul’s Historic Peninsula Musealization and Urban Conservation
By Pınar Aykaç
Lexington Books
January 2022 • 266 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 4168 7 • $105.00 / £81.00 eBook 978 1 7936 1694 4 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book examines how the museum concept has expanded beyond the boundaries of a single building into the historic city itself through the process of musealization. By discussing the Sultanahmet district on Istanbul’s historic peninsula, the author provides insight into this important global phenomenon.
Middle East / Turkey & Ottoman Empire
Permanent Neutrality A Model for Peace, Security, and Justice
Edited by Herbert R. Reginbogin and Pascal Lottaz
Lexington Books
May 2022 • 250 pages
Paperback 978 1 7936 1030 0 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 0287 7 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 7936 1029 4 • $38.00 / £29.00
This collection examines state neutrality in the contemporary international system. The contributors analyze permanent neutrality as a policy not only for small states, but as an option for the management of the security architectures of Europe and Asia—one which, this volume argues, has the potential to decrease global security dilemmas.
Military / General
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The French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars Strategies for a World War
By Jeremy Black Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
January 2022 • 234 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 6369 6 • $85.00 / £65.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 3702 2 • $32.00 / £25.00
This innovative book analyzes the strategic dimensions of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, critiquing Napoleon’s broader strategic weaknesses. The first history to look holistically at the strategies of the leading belligerents from a global perspective, it is an essential read for military professionals, students, and history buffs.
Military / Napoleonic Wars
Vietnam’s Prodigal Heroes American Deserters, International Protest, European Exile, and Amnesty
By Paul Benedikt Glatz
Lexington Books
September 2022 • 412 pages • Part of the War and Society in Modern American History series
Paperback 978 1 7936 1672 2 • $46.99 / £36.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 6708 8 • $125.00 / £96.00 eBook 978 1 7936 1671 5 • $44.50 / £34.00
This book examines young American war refusers and transnational activism during the Vietnam War.
Military / Vietnam War
Women at the Hague The International Peace Congress of 1915
By Jane Addams; Emily G. Balch and Alice Hamilton - Introduction by Mary Jo Deegan Humanities Press
May 2022 • 140 pages • Part of the Classics in Women’s Studies series
Paperback 978 1 5381 5012 2 • $29.99 / £22.99 eBook 978 1 5381 0139 9 • $28.50 / £21.99
This book is the first-hand report by the three leaders of the American delegation—Nobel Peace Prize winners, Jane Addams and Emily G. Balch, as well as Alice Hamilton—of their mission for peace. This edition is enhanced by an introduction by University of Nebraska scholar Mary Jo Deegan.
Military / World War I
The Nazi Religion and the Rise of the French Christian Resistance
By Kathleen Burton Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
September 2022 • 222 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 7140 0 • $105.00 / £81.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 1417 7 • $36.00 / £28.00
eBook 978 1 5381 7142 4 • $34.00 / £26.00
Few people know that Nazism included a religious component, yet Positive Christianity is directly cited in the Nazi Platform. But what was Positive Christianity? This book details the religion, its critiques, and the Christian resistance in France. It concludes by listing what work still needs to be done to understand and debunk the Nazi religion.
Military / World War II
Historical Dictionary of Modern Coups d’état
By John J. Chin; Joseph Wright and David B. Carter Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
October 2022 • 1512 pages • Part of the Historical Dictionaries of War, Revolution, and Civil Unrest series
Multiple-item product, shrinkwrapped 978 1 5381 2067 5 • $500.00 / £385.00 eBook 978 1 5381 0682 2 • $475.00 / £365.00
Historical Dictionary of Modern Coups d’état contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has more than 1,400 cross-referenced dictionary entries. This book is an excellent resource for students, and researchers.
Military / Other
Moral Injury and a
First
World
War Chaplain
The Life of G. A. Studdert Kennedy
By Dayne Edward Nix
Lexington Books
January 2022 • 248 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 0865 7 • $100.00 / £77.00 eBook 978 1 6669 8664 4 • $45.00 / £35.00
This study examines Chaplain G. A. Studdert Kennedy, a British chaplain during World War I. The author analyzes Kennedy’s poetry, prose, and postwar activities and the impact of moral injury on a combat veteran through the lens of contemporary psychological research.
Military / World War I
American Isolationists
Pro-Japan Anti-interventionists and the FBI on the Eve of the Pacific War, 1939–1941
By Roger B. Jeans
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
August 2022 • 240 pages
Paperback 978 1 5381 7117 2 • $36.00 / £28.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 5381 3087 7 • $120.00 / £92.00
In this first full study of pro-Japan isolationists in the United States, Roger Jeans provides a detailed history of the Committee on Pacific Relations. Drawing on previously untapped sources— personal letters of committee members and the dossiers the FBI compiled on them—he paints a rich picture of this little-known and often-ostracized group.
Military / World War II
Marx and Engels on Imperialism
Selected Journalism, 1856–62
Edited by Spencer A. Leonard
Lexington Books
December 2022 • 370 pages
Hardback 978 1 4985 5923 2 • $135.00 / £104.00
eBook 978 1 4985 9249 9 • $50.00 / £38.00
This volume is the first to compile the journalistic works of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels dealing with imperialism. Here Marx and Engels examine capitalist state policymaking, mass democracy, the Second Opium War, the suppression of the 1857 Indian Revolt, the rise of credit agencies, the global significance of the US Civil War, and more.
Modern / 19th Century
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Global Social Democracy Willy Brandt and the Socialist International in Latin America
By Bernd Rother
Lexington Books
June 2022 • 414 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 1138 1 • $125.00 / £96.00
eBook 978 1 6669 1398 8 • $50.00 / £38.00
This book examines the history of the Socialist International during the presidency of former German Chancellor Willy Brandt, from 1976 to 1992. The author uses archives from Latin America and Europe to avoid a Eurocentric view.
Modern / 20th Century
Socialism as a Secular Creed A Modern Global History
By Andrei Znamenski
Lexington Books
October 2022 • 494 pages
Paperback 978 1 4985 5732 0 • $46.99 / £36.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 4985 7306 6 • $135.00 / £104.00 eBook 978 1 4985 5731 3 • $44.50 / £34.00
This book provides a historical overview of socialism as a modern political religion. Taking a global history approach, the author explores the varieties of the socialist experience, including Marxism, anarchism, Soviet communism, German national socialism, Maoism, Israeli kibbutzim, Tanzanian ujamaa, and the cultural woke left in the West.
Modern / 20th Century
Rethinking Revolutionary Change in Europe A Neostructuralist Approach
By Bailey Stone
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
March 2022 • 320 pages
Paperback 978 1 5381 6387 0 • $39.00 / £30.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 5381 1374 4 • $137.00 / £105.00
eBook 978 1 5381 3138 1 • $37.00 / £28.00
Reconsidering the English, French, and Russian Revolutions, this book offers an important approach to the theoretical and comparative study of revolutions. Stone proposes an innovative “neostructuralist” synthesis of competing structuralist and postmodernist theory that marks a critical advance in our understanding of revolution.
Revolutionary
Salvation and Catastrophe
The Greek-Turkish War, 1919–1922
Edited by Konstantinos Travlos
Lexington Books
May 2022 • 438 pages
Paperback 978 1 4985 8509 5 • $46.99 / £36.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 4985 5071 1 • $132.00 / £102.00 eBook 978 1 4985 8508 8 • $44.50 / £34.00
Between 1919 and 1923, the last aftershock of the First World War was fought between Greece and the nascent Turkish nation. On its centenary, the contributions in this volume analyze the onset, conduct, and aftermath of this last of the wars of the Great War.
Modern / 20th Century
The Cold War Endgame
Geopolitics, Arms Control, and a Planned Revolution, 1984–1991
By Ralph L. Dietl
Lexington Books
September 2022 • 392 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 5581 3 • $125.00 / £96.00 eBook 978 1 7936 5820 0 • $50.00 / £38.00
This book examines the planned disaggregation of the global structures of the Cold War. In the final years of a decades-long era of bipolarity, the United States and the Soviet Union comanaged a continental transformation that erased Europe’s Iron Curtain.
Modern / General
Adin Ballou’s Spiritual Journey through Nineteenth-Century New England Practical Christianity
By Bryce Hal Taylor
Lexington Books
December 2022 • 280 pages
Hardback 978 1 4985 8971 0 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 4985 9727 7 • $45.00 / £35.00
This study examines Adin Ballou and his spiritual quest in New England from 1820 to 1880. The author argues that denominational histories, however important, do not explain what a nineteenth-century Christian became. This book looks at how Ballou exemplifies this paradox.
United States / 19th Century
African Abolitionist T.
J.
Alexander on the Ohio and Indiana Underground Railroads
By Paula D. Royster and Gregory M. George
Lexington Books
December 2022 • 216 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 5347 5 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 3482 2 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book examines Thornton J. Alexander, who was a station manager and conductor on the Underground Railroad in Ohio and Indiana. The authors examine how his formative years into adulthood was spent in bondage until he was emancipated in 1816, and how he then purchased land in Ohio and Indiana to facilitate his clandestine emancipation work.
United States / 19th Century
African Americans, Death, and the New Birth of Freedom Dying Free during the Civil War and Reconstruction
By Ashley Towle
Lexington Books
November 2022 • 222 pages • Part of the New Studies in Southern History series
Hardback 978 1 6669 0571 7 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 6669 5724 4 • $45.00 / £35.00
In this study the author examines how, in the Civil War-era South, newly freed African Americans used their experiences with death from war, disease, and racial violence to advance their own understanding of the meaning of freedom and to stake claims to citizenship, civil rights, and racial justice from the federal government.
United States / 19th Century
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Collected Writings of Charles Brockden Brown
The American Register and Other Writings, 18071810, Volume 6
Edited by Jared Gardner and Elizabeth HewittSeries edited by Mark L. Kamrath and Philip Barnard Bucknell University Press
August 2022 • 704 pages • Part of the Collected Writings of Charles Brockden Brown series Hardback 978 1 6114 8454 0 • $170.00 / £131.00 eBook 978 1 6114 4557 7 • $65.00 / £50.00
The sixth volume of the Collected Writings of Charles Brockden Brown presents for the first time writing from the final years of Brown’s life, including from his magisterial periodical project, the American Register, in which Brown narrates a contemporary history of the United States and Europe during the Napoleonic Wars.
United States / 19th Century
Setting Slavery’s Limits
Physical Confrontations in Antebellum Virginia, 1801–1860
By Christopher H. Bouton
Lexington Books
March 2022 • 212 pages • Part of the New Studies in Southern History series
Paperback 978 1 4985 7947 6 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 4985 9452 2 • $100.00 / £77.00 eBook 978 1 4985 7946 9 • $38.00 / £29.00
This study examines how slaves in antebellum Virginia, through physical confrontations with whites, fought to reassert some measure of control over their day-today lives. The author analyzes how while this violence came at a high cost, it also ensured the preservation of their humanity and set limits on their enslavement.
United States / 19th Century
Washington Gladden’s Church The Minister Who Made Modern American Protestantism
By David Mislin Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
March 2022 • 226 pages
Paperback 978 1 5381 5963 7 • $36.00 / £28.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 4422 8920 0 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 4422 6893 7 • $34.00 / £26.00
David Mislin focuses on eight defining elements of Gladden’s religious thought and explores the crucial moments in his life that shaped his ministry. He weaves together critical analysis of Gladden’s ideas with engaging anecdotes that offer insights into the ordinary life and work of a nineteenth-century pastor and the activities of his churches.
United States / 19th Century
Party Politics in the Age of Roosevelt
The Making of Modern America
By Michael P. Riccards and Cheryl A. Flagg
Lexington Books
April 2022 • 394 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 3345 3 • $125.00 / £96.00
eBook 978 1 7936 3460 0 • $50.00 / £38.00
This book examines Franklin D. Roosevelt and his development since being a young politician in Albany, how he created the modern welfare state, and how he made the presidency the focal point of American national government.
United States / 20th Century
July 2022 • 254 pages • Part of the Significant Figures in World History series
Hardback 978 1 5381 1356 1 • $105.00 / £81.00 eBook 978 1 5381 3578 8 • $99.50 / £77.00
Harriet Tubman: A Reference Guide to Her Life and Works captures her life, her works, and legacy. It features a chronology, an introduction offers a brief account of her life, a dictionary section includes entries on people, places, and events related to her. A comprehensive bibliography offers a list of works about her life.
Women
The Wakamatsu Tea and Silk Colony Farm and the Creation of Japanese America
By Daniel A. Métraux - Foreword by Amy S. MillerAfterword by Melissa Lobach
Lexington Books
March 2022 • 158 pages
Paperback 978 1 4985 8540 8 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 4985 5385 5 • $95.00 / £73.00 eBook 978 1 4985 8539 2 • $38.00 / £29.00
This study examines the Wakamatsu Tea and Silk Colony Farm, founded in California by refugees of the 1868 Boshin War as the first Japanese settlement in the United States. The author analyzes how the farm played a critical role in expanding agriculture in the state and how it paved the way for tens of thousands of Japanese immigrants.
United States / 19th Century
Belle Baranceanu Life, Art, and the New Deal Renaissance
By Jennifer Hernandez
Lexington Books
November 2022 • 348 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 1212 0 • $120.00 / £92.00
eBook 978 1 7936 2113 3 • $45.00 / £35.00
In this first biography of artist Belle Baranceanu, Jennifer Peoples Hernandez tells the riveting story of a woman who overcame insurmountable odds to become the most important female muralist in San Diego during the Great Depression and one of California’s foremost Modern artists.
United States / 20th Century
Radio and the Great Debate over US Involvement in World War II
By Mark S. Byrnes
Lexington Books
December 2022 • 398 pages
Hardback 978 1 4985 9855 2 • $125.00 / £96.00
eBook 978 1 4985 8569 9 • $50.00 / £38.00
The debate over US involvement in World War II was a turning point in the history of both US foreign policy and radio. In this book the author argues that the debate’s historical significance cannot be fully appreciated unless these stories are understood in relation rather than in isolation.
United States / 20th Century
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Harriet Tubman A Reference Guide to Her Life and Works
By Kate Clifford Larson Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
The Life and Times of Sergeant José M. López Mexican by Birth, American by Valor
By Manuel F. Medrano
Lexington Books
December 2022 • 132 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 1783 3 • $90.00 / £69.00 eBook 978 1 6669 7840 0 • $45.00 / £35.00
This study provides a biography of Jose M. Lopez, who earned the US Congressional Medal of Honor during World War II. The author examines how he returned to segregation and discrimination in the United States and how court decisions, civil rights legislation, and veterans’ organizations became part of the postwar US political agenda.
United States / 20th Century
US Public Opinion since the 1930s Galluping through History
By Richard Seltzer
Lexington Books
January 2022 • 266 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 5350 5 • $110.00 / £85.00 eBook 978 1 7936 3512 2 • $45.00 / £35.00
This study examines American public opinion since the 1930s. The author analyzes data from Gallup and other sources and looks at such issues as US politics, international events, race, sex, gender, economics, the environment, and more.
United States / 20th Century
American Furniture Designers 1900-2020
By Oscar P. Fitzgerald
April 2022 • 294 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 3562 4 • $110.00 / £85.00
eBook 978 1 5381 3563 1 • $104.50 / £81.00
The book will serve as the essential reference for collectors of modern furniture, curators of museum collections and house museums with 20th century furniture, and for the hundreds of dealers, gallery owners, auctioneers, and appraisers who specialize in 20th and 21st century design.
Americana
The Making of American Whiteness The Formation of Race in Seventeenth-Century Virginia
By Carmen Thompson
Lexington Books
November 2022 • 188 pages • Part of the Philosophy of Race series
Hardback 978 1 6669 2321 6 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 6669 3223 3 • $45.00 / £35.00
The Making of American Whiteness shows that White supremacy was the guiding principle in the settlement of Virginia, the first colony that made up the United States of America, and for the organization of its civil society.
United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775)
Ukrainian Historical Writing in North America during the Cold War The Struggle for Recognition
By
Volodymyr V. Kravchenko
Lexington Books
December 2022 • 312 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 0907 6 • $120.00 / £92.00 eBook 978 1 7936 9083 3 • $45.00 / £35.00
This study examines Ukrainian historical writing in the United States and Canada during the Cold War. The author describes the development of Ukrainian historical studies as an open yet sometimes difficult dialogue between Ukrainian ethnic and academic communities and between Ukrainian scholars and the Western academic mainstream.
United States / 20th Century
Warren Austin, Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., and the Cold War at the United Nations, 1947–1960
By Sean Brennan
Lexington Books
December 2022 • 302 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 1330 9 • $110.00 / £85.00 eBook 978 1 6669 3316 6 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book provides a history of the early period of the Cold War through the framework of the United States’ first two ambassadors to the United Nations, Warren Austin and Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., and their tumultuous experiences from the late 1940s to the early 1960s United States / 20th Century
The Child Witches of Lucerne and Buchau A Translation of Eveline Hasler’s Novel
Edited and translated by Waltraud Maierhofer - Original author Eveline Hasler - Translated by Jenniefer Vanderbeek - Introduction by Waltraud Maierhofer
Lehigh University Press May 2022 • 194 pages
Hardback 978 1 6114 6338 5 • $95.00 / £73.00 eBook 978 1 6114 3392 2 • $45.00 / £35.00
In her research on witchcraft trials, Swiss writer Eveline Hasler discovered children who were accused of witchcraft and punished by death. With this thought-provoking novel, The Child Witches of Lucerne and Buchau, provides a moving memorial for them, translated from the original German by Waltraud Maierhofer and Jennifer Vanderbeek. Historical / Colonial America & Revolution
The Missed Revolution at the Origins of United States
By Alessandro Maurini
Lexington Books
November 2022 • 204 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 1291 3 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 6669 2920 0 • $50.00 / £38.00
This study examines the US Declaration of Independence as a political manifesto of the Enlightenment and the right to revolution. The author argues that there was a missed opportunity concerning the “rights of man” during the early constitutional debates.
United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775)
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First Along the River
A Brief History of the U.S. Environmental Movement, Fifth Edition
By Benjamin Kline
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
January 2022 • 288 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 5932 3 • $75.00 / £58.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 9330 0 • $29.95 / £22.99 eBook 978 1 5381 5934 7 • $28.50 / £21.99
First Along the River provides students with a balanced, historical perspective on the history of the environmental movement in relation to major social and political events in U.S. history, from the pre-colonial era to the present. The book highlights the impact of government, industry, and population on the American landscape.
United States / General
The Blessings of Liberty A Concise History of the Constitution of the United States, Fourth Edition
By Michael Les Benedict
Rowman
& Littlefield Publishers
July 2022 • 660 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 6554 6 • $120.00 / £92.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 5553 3 • $70.00 / £54.00 eBook 978 1 5381 6556 0 • $66.00 / £51.00
This concise, accessible text by historian Michael Benedict provides students with a history of American constitutional development in the context of political, economic, and social change. The fourth edition is updated to include the 2016 election, the Trump administration, the 2020 election, and the first activities of the Biden administration.
United States / General
The Religion-Supported State Piety and Politics in Early National New England
By Nathan S. Rives
Lexington Books
September 2022 • 292 pages • Part of the Religion in American History series
Hardback 978 1 7936 5524 0 • $110.00 / £85.00 eBook 978 1 7936 5257 7 • $45.00 / £35.00
Between 1776 and 1850, the people, politicians, and clergy of New England transformed the relationship between church and state. This book examines how church and state collided over disestablishment, Sunday laws, and antislavery and built the foundation of what the author describes as a religion-supported state.
United States / General
Medicine, Education, and the Arts in Contemporary Native America Strong Women, Resilient Nations
Edited by Clifford E. Trafzer; Donna L. Akers and Amanda K. Wixon
Lexington Books
February 2022 • 224 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 0702 5 • $95.00 / £73.00 eBook 978 1 6669 7032 2 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book highlights indigenous American women throughout modern American history, countering past stereotypes by offering twenty original scholarly chapters featuring historical and biographical analyses of Native American women who excelled in education, health, medicine, and the arts.
United States / General
The Many Worlds of American Communism
By Joshua Morris
Lexington Books
September 2022 • 528 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 3195 4 • $145.00 / £112.00 eBook 978 1 7936 1961 1 • $50.00 / £38.00
This book examines the multifaceted dimensions that make up the American communist movement from its early years in the 1920s to its peak in the years leading up to World War II. The author’s approach differentiates between the political-, social-, and labor-oriented motivations taken by the movement’s participants.
United States / General
The USA and The World 2022–2023, 17th Edition
By David M. Keithly
August 2022 • 296 pages • Part of the World Today series
Paperback 978 1 5381 6578 2 • $25.00 / £18.99
eBook 978 1 5381 6579 9 • $23.50 / £17.99
The USA and The World 2020–2022 provides students with vital information on these countries through a thorough and expert overview of political and economic histories, current events, and emerging trends.
United States / General
Escaping
Slavery A Documentary History of Native American Runaways in British North America
By Antonio T. Bly
Lexington Books
February 2022 • 244 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 3270 8 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 7936 2715 5 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book is a documentary history of Native Americans in British North America. This study of indigenous peoples captures the lives of numerous individuals who refused to sacrifice their humanity in the face of the violent, changing landscapes of early America.
United States / Revolutionary Period (1775-1800)
Liberty and Insanity in the Age of the American Revolution
By Sarah L. Swedberg
Lexington Books
August 2022 • 276 pages
Paperback 978 1 4985 7388 7 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback
978 1 4985 3863 3 • $116.00 / £89.00
eBook 978 1 4985 7387 0 • $38.00 / £29.00
In Liberty and Insanity in the Age of the American Revolution, Sarah L. Swedberg illustrates how concerns about insanity raised difficult questions about the nature of governance in the tumultuous era of the American Revolution.
United States / Revolutionary Period (1775-1800)
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Smallpox in Washington’s Army Disease, War, and Society during the Revolutionary War
By Ann M. Becker
Lexington Books
November 2022 • 302 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 3069 8 • $110.00 / £85.00 eBook 978 1 7936 0704 4 • $45.00 / £35.00
During the Revolutionary War smallpox created havoc within both the British and American armies and the colonial civilian population. Washington’s implementation of isolation policies and troop innoculations removed the threat of epidemic smallpox and ultimately protected American soldiers and civilians from the dangers of this feared disease.
United States / Revolutionary Period (1775-1800)
Urban Biodiversity The Natural History of the New Jersey Meadowlands
By Erik Kiviat and Kristi MacDonald - Contributions
by Robert E. Schmidt
Lexington Books
August 2022 • 460 pages
Hardback 978 1 4985 9991 7 • $135.00 / £104.00 eBook 978 1 4985 9924 4 • $50.00 / £38.00
Kiviat and MacDonald delve into the considerable biodiversity of an ecologically battered urban-industrial region, addressing wild species from lichens to mammals. The results will help decision makers foster wildlife and plants that can cope with urban conditions and will aid in reducing loss of biodiversity in urbanizing areas.
Ecosystems & Habitats / Plains & Prairies
Portland’s Good Life Sustainability and Hope in an American City
By R. Bruce Stephenson
Lexington Books
August 2022 • 276 pages • Part of the Environment and Society series
Paperback 978 1 7936 1459 9 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 4575 5 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 7936 1458 2 • $38.00 / £29.00
In Portland’s Good Life, R. Bruce Stephenson discusses how Portland’s investment in sustainability helped stave off climate change and COVID-19. Stephenson tells the timeless story of the city’s private citizens who, devoted to the public good and grounded in the good life, built a city that honors their humanity.
Sustainability & Green Design
US and Azerbaijani Oil in the Nineteenth Century The Two Titans
By Marius S. Vassiliou
Lexington Books
and Mir-Yusif Mir-Babayev
November 2022 • 186 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 2952 4 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 9531 1 • $45.00 / £30.99
This book examines the history of oil in the United States and Azerbaijan during the nineteenth century, when the two economies were the overwhelmingly dominant global producers.
World
The Heart of Central New York Stories of Historic Homer, NY
By Martin A. Sweeney
Hamilton Books
July 2022 • 424 pages
Paperback 978 0 7618 7332 7 • $32.99 / £25.00 eBook 978 0 7618 3334 4 • $31.00 / £23.99
In this book Martin A. Sweeney makes the past come alive through this collection of articles from his column in The Homer News. Through his writing, Sweeney offers readers a glimpse of the excitement he brought to his classrooms by bringing to life the people, events, manners, and mores of the past in a community that is the heart of Central New York State. United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic
Wisteria House
Life in a New England Home, 1839–2000
By
Susan J. Montgomery
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
January 2022 • 200 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 6185 2 • $75.00 / £58.00 eBook 978 1 5381 1869 9 • $71.00 / £55.00
Wisteria House: Life in a New England Home, 1839–2000 tells the story of the lives lived in a particular house in a particular town at a particular time based on the buildings, furnishings, clothing, personal effects, photographs, correspondence, and financial papers of two upper-middle class families.
United States / State & Local / New England
James McDowell of Virginia
The Perils of an Antebellum Southern Reformer
By Charles A. Bodie
Lexington Books
December 2022 • 244 pages • Part of the New Studies in Southern History series
Hardback 978 1 6669 2735 1 • $100.00 / £77.00 eBook 978 1 6669 7368 8 • $45.00 / £35.00
This biography examines the antebellum career of James McDowell, a Democratic officeholder from western Virginia who often opposed the status quo. The author examines how, through skillful oratory and rational discourse, he sought and achieved progressive change.
United States / State & Local / South
Aesthetic Ecology of Communication Ethics Existential Rootedness
By
Özüm Üçok-Sayrak
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
March 2022 • 170 pages • Part of the The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Series in Communication Studies series
Paperback 978 1 6839 3226 0 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback
978 1 6839 2246 6 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 6839 3225 3 • $38.00 / £29.00
This book introduces the framework of aesthetic ecology to communication studies as well as the study of communication ethics underlining the importance of the interplay between our sensuous and interpretive engagements in/with the world.
Communication Studies
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