University of London Press Catalogue 2023

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Reimagining Law and Justice series

Published in association with the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies

Jan 2023 • 306pp

PB: 978-1-911507-30-7 • £29.99

HB: 978-1-911507-39-0 • £90.00

PDF: 978-1-911507-29-1 • £0.00

Law, Humanities and the COVID Crisis

Edited by Carl F. Stychin

These rich and diverse essays are essential reading for anyone who wishes to better understand what we have just lived through and the lessons we should have learnt to shape a better future. In its contribution to our understanding, the collection is also a testament to the importance of law within the humanities.”

— Professor Michael Thomson, University of Technology Sydney, Australia, and University of Leeds, UK While there has been an abundance of scientific works on the COVID-19 crisis, there has been relatively little research to date from the humanities. This striking new book seeks to address the immediacy of COVID-19 by focusing on the implications of the virus in a wider interdisciplinary context—through the lens of the law, history, ethics, technology, economics, and gender studies.

From Europe to South America, Asia, and beyond, Law, Humanities and the COVID Crisis sets out a framework for understanding the COVID-19 virus beyond its epidemiological constraints, asking us to question the very definition of what it means to be human. Featuring essays on public welfare versus private interest, violence against women, mask compliance, conspiracy theories and national security laws, this book is a significant contribution to understanding our new ‘post-COVID’ landscape, and the future yet to come.

HISTORY

New Historical Perspectives series

Published in association with the Royal Historical Society and the Institute of Historical Research

April 2023 • 260pp

PB: 978-1-914477-35-5 • £29.99

HB: 978-1-914477-34-8 • £90.00

PDF: 978-1-914477-38-6 • £0.00

Anti-Communism in Britain During the Early Cold War

A Very British Witch Hunt Matthew Gerth

Matthew Gerth has produced the first full-length scholarly treatment of British domestic anti-communism in the early Cold War period. Bringing together a broad range of archival sources, Gerth greatly expands our knowledge of this ideological home front battle ... An important and necessary book.”

— Dr Matthew Grant, University of Essex, UK

The Cold War produced in many countries a form of political repression and societal paranoia which often infected governmental and civic institutions. In the West, the driving catalyst for the phenomenon was anti-communism. Anti-Communism in Britain During the Early Cold War is the first book to examine how British Cold War anti-communism transpired and manifested as McCarthyism raged across the Atlantic.

Drawing from a wealth of archival material, this book demonstrates that while policymakers and politicians in Britain sought to differentiate their anti-communist initiatives from the ‘witch hunt hysteria’ occurring in the United States, they were often keen to conduct – albeit less publicly – their own hunts as well. In striking detail, this book describes a nation at war with a specific political ideology and its willingness to use a variety of measures to disrupt or eradicate its influence..

Warburg Institute Studies & Texts series

Published in association with the Warburg Institute

July 2023 • 396pp

HB: 978-1-908590-58-9 • £90.00

The Optics of Ibn al-Haythām: On Reflection and Images Seen by Reflection Books IV–V

Abdelhamid I. Sabra and prepared for publication by Jan Hogendijk

Ibn al-Haythām (c. 965–c. 1040) is perhaps the greatest mathematician and physicist of the medieval Arabic/Islamic world. The most famous book in which he applies his scientific method, is his Optics (in Arabic: kitāb al-manāẓir) in which he deals with both the mathematics of rays of light and the physical aspects of the eye in seven comprehensive books. His reinstatement of the entire science of optics sets the scene for the whole of the subsequent development of the subject, influencing figures such as William of Ockham, Kepler, Descartes, and Christaan Huygens.

The immense work of editing, translating into English and commenting on this work was undertaken by Abdelhamid I. Sabra. This English translation of Books IV–V was completed by Sabra just before his death in 2013 with an introduction and critical analysis. It has been extensively revised by Jan Hogendijk.

Before Grenfell Fire, Safety and Deregulation in Twentieth-Century Britain Shane Ewen

On 14 June 2017, flames engulfed a residential block of flats in West London. Seventy-two people lost their lives and many hundreds more were traumatised as a national ‘cladding crisis’ unfolded. Yet the Grenfell Tower fire was a disaster foretold – the culmination of successive decades of deregulation, corporate greed and institutional failure to learn from the lessons of past multiple-fatality fires.

HISTORY

IHR Shorts series

Published in association with the Institute of Historical Research

July 2023 • 112pp

PB: 978-1-914477-25-6 • £14.99

PDF: 978-1-914477-26-3 • £0.00

By advocating a historical approach spanning the twentieth century, Before Grenfell deepens our contemporary understanding of the events surrounding the disaster and reveals how past decisions taken by governments and industry bodies created the conditions under which the fire occurred. In drawing upon several previous, and often forgotten, multiple-fatality fires, the book sheds light on the historic failures of policymakers to heed the lessons of the past in protecting vulnerable communities, arguing that good policymaking necessitates learning with history as well as learning from history.

– Matt Wrack, General Secretary, Fire Brigades Union,

UK

for Grenfell.”

A well-researched and highly readable account of fire safety and deregulation over the last century. I strongly recommend the book to everyone serious about justice

The Victoria History of Middlesex

St George Hanover Square

Francis Boorman

The parish of St George Hanover Square encompasses the wealthy neighbourhoods of Mayfair, Belgravia and Pimlico, as well as part of Hyde Park. This VCH Short relates the history of the parish, from its inception in 1725, to its abolition with the establishment of the London County Council in 1900. The area was transformed through rapid urbanisation from largely undeveloped fields on the western fringe of London to becoming one of the most affluents parts of the metropolis, with developments centred on a series of grand squares, including Hanover, Grosvenor and Belgrave Squares.

The book explores the local government of the vestry, as well as the schools, charities and St George’s Hospital. It describes the wider political culture of the parish, from the aristocrats and servants of Mayfair, to the industries on the bank of the Thames. Finally, it covers religious life.

International Handbook on Clinical Tax Education

Edited by Amy Lawton with Annette Morgan, David Massey and Donovan Castelyn

While tax clinics have existed in the US since the early 1970s, they are now being established throughout the world, with recent clinical developments in Australia, the UK and Ireland in particular. Of interest to higher education professionals, the tax profession and policymakers, this practical handbook explores the benefits that a clinical tax education can have and equips readers with the tools needed to start a clinical tax project. It investigates the ways in which tax clinics can both educate and remedy tax positions for local communities. It also explores the higher education setting, in which community tax projects rely on students for their success. Beyond identifying the practical benefits, this handbook uses learning from tax clinics to uncover the burdens and impacts of tax policy on more marginalised taxpayers, and how policymakers can tailor tax systems to overcome them.

HISTORY

VCH Shorts series

Published in association with the Institute of Historical Research

September 2023 • 150pp

PB: 978-1-912702-84-8 • £14.99

LAW

OBserving Law series

Published in association with the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies

September 2023 • 270pp

PB: 978-1-911507-35-2 • £29.99

PDF: 978-1-911507-36-9 • £0.00

HISTORY

New Historical Perspectives series

Published in association with the Royal Historical Society and the Institute of Historical Research

November 2023 • 252pp

PB: 978-1-915249-16-6

HB: 978-1-915249-15-9

Gender, Emotions and Power, 1750–2020

Edited by Hannah Parker and Josh Doble

This is an important contribution to the history of emotions that addresses how gender and emotions are formed as coconstituents within dominant power structures, in different geographic and temporal spaces. Interrogating how emotional expectations are established as gendered, racialised and class-based notions, the collection explores the ways these expectations have been attained, stratified and maintained by institutions, societies, media and those with access to structural or personal power.

• £29.99

• £90.00

PDF: 978-1-915249-19-7 • £0.00

The authors identify and explore connections between the depiction of twentieth-century transnational radical feminists, the settler colonies of southern Africa, post-unification Italy, Maoist China, the twentieth-century Soviet Union and the medicalised spaces of the British Raj. Contributions also move across time from notions of eighteenth-century British masculinity, through Victorian Britain to the Liverpool docks of the 1990s and contemporary Russia.

Women’s Voices and Historical Silences in South Africa

Young Women and Youth Activism in the Anti-Apartheid Struggle

Rachel E. Johnson

HISTORY

New Historical Perspectives series

Published in association with the Royal Historical Society and the Institute of Historical Research

December 2023 • 188pp

PB: 978-1-915249-45-6

HB: 978-1-915249-44-9

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• £75.00

PDF: 978-1-915249-46-3

• £0.00

This book examines the history of South Africa’s liberation struggle through the lens of speech and silence, and what this reveals about the gendered dynamics of anti-apartheid political action, state repression and history-writing. Following the political lives of two young black women, the activists Sibongile Mkhabela and Masabatha Loate, from 1976 to the early 2000s, the book explores the gender dynamics of youth anti-apartheid activism and the politics of talking during and about the struggle.

It uses archival records of political trials, human rights testimonies and autobiographical writings to analyse the moments and spaces within which these individuals and their contemporaries chose or were compelled to speak publicly of their politics and actions, or to stay silent. The book offers up a way of conceptualising the relationship between ‘what we know’ and ‘how we know what we know’ that has profound effects on the shape and limits of the historical record.

26/01/2023

PB: 978-1-911507-39-0

HB: 978-1-911507-39-0

PDF: 978-1-911507-29-1

Hardback LAW 306p

26/01/2023

978-1-911507-39-0

978-1-911507-39-0

978-1-911507-29-1

Hardback

LITERARY STUDIES

Published in association with the Institute of English Studies

2024 • 260pp

PB: 978-1-913739-03-4 • £24.99

HB: 978-1-913739-02-7• £75.00

PDF: 978-1-913739-04-1• £0.00

Books, Readers and Libraries in Fiction

Edited by Karen Attar and Andrew Nash

It is easy to find books and libraries within fiction from the earliest times onwards in works for all age groups. From Don Quixote to Louisa M. Alcott’s March girls and Terry Pratchett’s Unseen University wizards, the reading material of fictional personae is part of their characterisation; we are often reading readers. This volume breaks new ground in offering a chronological account of the depiction of books, libraries and reading specifically in fiction from the medieval period to the present.

Through detailed case studies from primarily British fiction that address common themes such as gender, genre and the relation between reading and writing itself, the collection examines the ways in which authors of fiction mediate and interpret books, libraries, and the act of reading to their own readers. The volume draws on approaches from literary studies, book history, library history, and theories and histories of reading.

Innovations in Teaching History

Eighteenth-Century Studies in Higher Education

Edited by Ruth Larsen, Alice Marples, and Matthew McCormack

HISTORY

Published in association with the Institute of Historical Research

2024 • 194pp

PB: 978-1-908590-60-2 • £24.99

HB: 978-1-908590-61-9 • £75.00

PDF: 978-1-908590-63-3 • £0.00

Although the eighteenth century has been a notable recent growth area in historical studies and related disciplines, it also presents challenges, including new students’ unfamiliarity with the period, and extensive online source material requiring digital skills for its evaluation. Focusing on pedagogical innovation and current developments in the discipline, this collection of essays reflects on how we teach the history of the long eighteenth century, exploring subfields such as histories of material culture, the senses, gender, crime, and race, empire and colonialism. It presents practical case studies showcasing how novel teaching methods can be employed in the classroom that promote active learning and invite students to think critically about their discipline.

Methods covered include decolonising the curriculum, digital history, transferable skills, engaging with objects, working in non-classroom settings and multisensory approaches. Grounded in real academic practice, this is a valuable guide for all history educators, whether specialising in the eighteenth century or beyond.

More-than-Human Histories

of Latin America and the Caribbean Decentring the Human in Environmental History

Edited by Diogo de Carvalho Cabral, André Vasques Vital, and Margarita Gascón

The Latin American and Caribbean regions’ historical trajectories have been shaped by complex human-nonhuman interactions. This book brings together eight thought-provoking chapters to centre nonhuman beings and things. The oscillating glare of the sun, the allure and resourcefulness of animals, and the life-giving impassivity of rivers are some of the other-than-human agents driving history in this volume. It problematises Latin American(ist) historiography’s tendency to frame ‘nature’ as a separate ontological domain that is only acted upon – conquered, manipulated, devastated – lacking the self-propelled dynamics capable of shaping the course of events. With broad regional and temporal coverage across Latin America and the Caribbean from the pre-colonial period to the present day, the book responds to environmental history’s call to write biophysical environments into the human past – a reconsideration of historical agency that, in this era of climate change, is needed now more than ever.

Mapping the State English Boundaries and the 1832 Reform Act Martin Spychal

The 1832 Reform Act was a landmark moment in the development of modern British politics, which established the political structures and precedents that both shaped and hindered Britain’s slow lurch towards democracy by 1928.

Mapping the State leads to a fundamental rethinking of the 1832 Reform Act by demonstrating how boundary reform, and the reconstruction of England’s electoral map by the little-known 1831–2 boundary commission, underpinned this turning point in the development of the British political nation. Eschewing traditional approaches to the 1832 Reform Act, it draws from a significant new archival discovery – the working papers of the boundary commission – and a range of innovative quantitative techniques to provide a major reassessment of why and how the 1832 Reform Act passed, its impact on reformed politics both at Westminster and in the constituencies, and its significance to the expansion of the modern British state.

Published in association with the Centre for Latin American & Caribbean Studies

2024 • 250pp

PB: 978-1-915249-51-7 • £24.99

HB: 978-1-915249-50-0 • £75.00

PDF: 978-1-915249-52-4 • £0.00

HISTORY

New Historical Perspectives series

Published in association with the Royal Historical Society and the Institute of Historical Research

2024 • 250pp

PB: 978-1-915249-25-8 • £24.99

HB: 978-1-914477-39-3 • £75.00

PDF: 978-1-915249-26-5 • £0.00

LATIN AMERICAN AND CARIBBEAN STUDIES

PUBLISHED HIGHLIGHTS

HISTORY

New Historical Perspectives series

Published in association with the Royal Historical Society and the Institute of Historical Research

November 2022 • 340pp

PB: 978-1-912702-33-6 • £29.99

HB: 978-1-909646-77-3 • £90.00

PDF: 978-1-909646-78-0 • £0.00

The Glasgow Sugar Aristocracy

Scotland and Caribbean Slavery, 1775–1838

Stephen Mullen

This important book assesses the size and nature of Caribbean slavery’s economic impact in British society. The Glasgow Sugar Aristocracy, a grouping of West India merchants and planters, became active before the emancipation of chattel slavery in the British West Indies in 1834. This book examines what impact the private investments of West India merchants and colonial adventurers had on metropolitan society and the economy, as well as the wider effects of such commerce on industrial and agricultural development.

It also examines the fortunes of temporary Scottish economic migrants who travelled to some of the wealthiest of the Caribbean islands, presenting the first large-scale survey of repatriated slavery fortunes via case studies of Scots in Jamaica, Grenada and Trinidad. It illuminates the world of individuals who acquired West India for tunes and ultimately explores, in an Atlantic frame, the interconnections between the colonies and metropole in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

HISTORY

Published in association with the Institute of Historical Research

February 2022 • 266pp

PB: 978-1-912702-93-0 • £14.00

PDF: 978-1-912702-94-7 • £0.00

Freedom Seekers

Escaping from Slavery in Restoration London

Simon P. Newman

“Freedom Seekers is a triumph of inventive and accessible scholarship.” London Review of Books

An unmissable and important book that delves into Britain’s colonial past, Freedom Seekers reveals the hidden stories of enslaved and bound people who attempted to escape from captivity in England’s capital. In 1655, White Londoners began advertising in the Englishspeaking world’s first newspapers for enslaved people who had escaped. Based on the advertisements placed by masters and enslavers offering rewards for so-called runaways, this book brings to light for the first time the history of slavery in England as revealed in the stories of resistance by enslaved workers. Featuring a series of case-studies, this book explores the nature and significance of escape attempts.

The book demonstrates that not only were enslaved people present in Restoration London but that White Londoners of this era were intimately involved in the construction of the system of racial slavery, a process that traditionally has been regarded as happening in the colonies rather than the British Isles.

LATIN AMERICAN AND CARIBBEAN STUDIES

Published in association with the Centre for Latin American & Caribbean Studies

September 2021• 220pp

PB: 978-1-908857-89-7 • £25.00

PDF: 978-1-908857-92-7 • £0.00

A Horizon of (Im)possibilities

A Chronicle of Brazil’s Conservative Turn

Edited by Katerina Hatzikidi and Eduardo Dullo

“A rich and diverse collection of perspectives on the Brazil of Bolsonaro’s presidency ... fundamental reading for understanding the rise of the far-right in contemporary Brazil.”

— Sean T. Mitchell, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Rutgers University-Newark, US

The 2018 presidential election result in Brazil shocked many. Numerous texts have since attempted to understand the country’s so-called ‘conservative turn’. A gripping in-depth account of politics and society in Brazil today, this volume brings together different perspectives to help us understand the political events that shook the country. Combining ethnographic insights with political science, history, sociology, and anthropology, the interdisciplinary analyses included offer a panoramic view on social and political change in Brazil, spanning temporal and spatial dimensions. Starting with the 2018 presidential election, and pointing to the continuities and disruptions over those years, the analyses offered are an invaluable guide to unpacking and understanding the limits of Brazilian democracy, including what has already come to pass, and what is yet to come.

Queer Between the Covers

Histories of Queer Publishing and Publishing Queer Voices

Edited by Leila Kassir and Richard Espley

LITERARY STUDIES

Published in association with the Senate House Library

May 2021• 144pp

PB: 978-1-913002-04-6 • £15.00

PDF: 978-1-913002-05-3 • £0.00

Queer Between the Covers presents a history of radical queer publishing and literature from 1880 to the modern day. The book demonstrates how the fight for representation was often waged secretly between the covers of books at a time when public spaces for queer identities were limited. The chapters provide an array of voices and histories – from the famous, Derek Jarman and Oscar Wilde, to the lesser-known and underappreciated John Wieners and Valerie Taylor. It includes first-hand accounts of seminal moments in queer history, including the birth of Hazard Press and the Defend Gay’s the Word Bookshop campaign in the 1980s, to show the imaginative and radical ways queer texts have fought against censorship and repression.

A fascinating and poignant analysis of key historic moments for queer lib in publishing and book history, this is an essential read for those interested in how LGBTQ people have used literature as a forum for self-expression and self-actualisation.

HISTORY

New Historical Perspectives series

Published in association with the Royal Historical Society and the Institute of Historical Research

February 2021• 312pp

PB: 978-1-912702-55-8 • £25.00

HB: 978-1-912702-54-1 • £40.00

PDF: 978-1-912702-58-9 • £0.00

Coal Country

Shortlisted

for Scottish History

Book of the Year in Scotland’s National Book Awards

2021

The Meaning and Memory of Deindustrialization in Postwar Scotland

Ewan Gibbs

“Required reading for anyone who wants to understand the history of Scotland.”

— Conrad Landin, The Guardian

“Gibbs’s prose is a joy to read ... Coal Country is a worthy addition to the field, a tour de force. It should be required reading for students and historians of the Scottish coal industry.”

— Historical Studies in Industrial Relations

Coal Country presents the first book-length account of deindustrialization in the Scottish coalfields. It draws on archival research using records from UK government, the nationalized coal industry and trade unions, as well as the words and memories of former miners, their wives and children that were collected in an extensive oral history project.

In this book, the oral testimonies bring to life transformations in gender relations and distinct generational workplaces experiences. The adverse effects of UK government policy, and centralization in the nationalized coal industry, encouraged miners and their trade union to voice their grievances in the language of Scottish national sovereignty. These efforts established a distinctive Scottish national coalfield community and laid the foundations for a devolved Scottish Parliament. Coal Country explains the deep roots of economic changes and their political reverberations, which continue to be felt as we debate another major change in energy sources during the 2020s.

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