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Cultural Histories Series
“An extraordinary and intriguing book series ... I don’t think I have ever come across anything quite like it.” Reference Reviews
The Cultural Histories are illustrated, multi-volume sets that survey the social and cultural construction of specific subjects across six historical periods: Antiquity; Medieval Age; Renaissance; Age of Enlightenment; Age of Empire; Modern Age.
Each volume discusses the same themes in its chapters so that readers may gain an understanding of a period by reading an entire volume, or follow a theme through history by reading the relevant chapter in each volume.
Also available in a fully searchable digital library, www.bloomsburyculturalhistory.com
A Cultural History of Race
6-Volume Set
Edited by Marius Turda, Oxford Brookes University, UK
How have definitions of race varied and changed over time? What impact have religion, science and politics had on race throughout history, and how has our concept of it been changed as a result? These ambitious questions are answered by 60+ experts who – drawing on perspectives from history, sociology, anthropology, literature and medical humanities –deepen our understanding of how race has developed conceptually and in reality between antiquity and the present day.
Using a consistent thematic structure, each volume covers: definitions of race; race, environment and culture; race and religion; race and science; race and politics; race and ethnicity; race and gender; race and body; and anti-race.
Special introductory offer (valid up to three months after publication): £395.00 / $550.00
A Cultural History of Hinduism
6-Volume Set
Edited by Karen Pechilis, Drew University, USA
This 6 volume set presents an authoritative survey of Hinduism from ancient times to the present, spanning 4,500 years.
1. A Cultural History of Hinduism in the Pre-Classical Age (2000 – 200 BCE)
2. A Cultural History of Hinduism in the Classical Age (200 BCE – 800 CE)
3. A Cultural History of Hinduism in the Post-Classical Age (800 – 1500)
4. A Cultural History of Hinduism in the Age of Empires (1500 – 1857)
5. A Cultural History of Hinduism in the Age of Late Colonialism (1857 – 1947)
6. A Cultural History of Hinduism in the Age of Independence (1947 – 2017)
The work takes an interdisciplinary approach to the complex subject of Hinduism, drawing on Religious Studies, Asian Studies, History, Literary Studies, Cultural Studies, Gender Studies, Politics/Political Science, Sociology, and Anthropology.
Special introductory offer (valid up to three months after publication): £395.00 / $550.00
UK May 2022 • US May 2022 • 6 vols • c.1,728 pages
HB Pack 9781350024434 • £440.00 / $610.00
300 bw illus
Series: The Cultural Histories • Bloomsbury Academic
A Cultural History of War
6-Volume Set
Edited by Mary Kathryn Barbier, Mississippi State University, USA and Dennis Showalter, Colorado College, USA
54 experts, 54 chapters and c. 1,728 pages present the first detailed and interdisciplinary reference work on the cultural history of war from the last 2,500 years.
The set explores questions such as:
What role has war played in the historical and contemporary formation of societies across the globe?
How have different classes and communities been impacted?
How have different civilisations over the last 2,500 years commemorated and remembered war?
Special introductory offer (valid up to three months after publication): £395.00 / $550.00
UK April 2022 • US April 2022 • 6 vols • c.1,728 pages
HB Pack 9781350052567 • £440.00 / $610.00
240 bw illus
Series: The Cultural Histories Bloomsbury Academic
A Cultural History of Genocide
6-Volume Set
Edited by Paul R. Bartrop, Florida Gulf Coast University, USA
The first comprehensive and interdisciplinary overview, bringing in perspectives from history, cultural studies, literary studies, anthropology, political science, classical studies and religious studies.
How has human response to genocide evolved over time? What effect has it had on our understanding of the cause and consequences of genocide?
This set covers 800 BCE to the present under the following themes: Responses to Genocide; Motivations and Justifications for Genocide; Genocide Perpetrators; Genocide Victims; Genocide and Memory; Consequences of Genocide; Representations of Genocide; Causes of Genocide.
Special introductory offer (valid up to three months after publication): £395 / $550
UK September 2021 • US September 2021 • 6 vols • c.1,728 pages
HB Pack 9781350034600 • £440 / $610
240 bw illus
Series: The Cultural Histories • Bloomsbury Academic
A Cultural History of Ideas
6-Volume Set
Edited by Sophia Rosenfeld and Peter T. Struck, both University of Pennsylvania, USA
This Cultural History presents historians, as well as students and scholars of related fields, with the first comprehensive and interdisciplinary overview of the cultural history of ideas from ancient times to the present day. It examines 2,800 years of ideas from a wide range of perspectives, including philosophy, religion, politics and art.
Themes (and chapter titles) are: Knowledge; The Human Self; Ethics and Social Relations; Politics and Economies; Nature; Religion and the Divine; Language, Poetry and Rhetoric; The Arts; History.
Special introductory offer (valid up to three months after publication): £395.00 / $550.00
UK April 2022 • US April 2022 • 6 vols • c.1,728 pages
HB Pack 9781350007550 • £440.00 / $610.00
240 bw illus
Series: The Cultural Histories • Bloomsbury Academic
A Cultural History of Democracy
6-Volume Set
Edited by Eugenio Biagini, Sidney Sussex College, University of Cambridge, UK
How has the concept of democracy been understood, manifested, reimagined and represented through the ages? This set of six volumes spans 2,500 years of democracy in its physical, social and cultural context. Each volume discusses the same themes in its ten chapters: Sovereignty; Liberty; The ‘common good’; Economic and social democracy; Religion and the principles of political obligation; Gender and citizenship; Ethnicity, race and nationalism; Democratic processes, revolutions and civil resistance; International relations; and Expanding the polis, transforming sovereignty.
Special introductory offer (valid up to three months after publication): £395.00 / $550.00
UK May 2021 • US May 2021 • 6 vols • c. 1,824 pages
HB Pack 9781350042933 • £440.00 / $610.00
250 bw illus
Series: The Cultural Histories Bloomsbury Academic
A Cultural History of the Sea
6-Volume Set
Edited by Margaret Cohen, Stanford University, USA
Throughout history, how has the sea served as a site for cross-cultural exchange, trade and migration? As historians, how do the fields of naval history, maritime history and oceanic history intersect?
56 experts, 48 chapters and over 1,700 pages explore how representation and understanding of the sea has developed over 2,500 years of cultural and natural history.
Special introductory offer (valid up to three months after publication): £395.00 / $550.00
UK April 2021 • US April 2021 • 6 vols • c. 1,792 pages
HB Pack 9781474299107 • £440.00 / $610.00
287 bw illus
Series: The Cultural Histories • Bloomsbury Academic
A Cultural History of Shopping
6-Volume Set
Edited by Jon Stobart, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
Traces how the activity of shopping has changed over the centuries and what it tells us about the lives and interests of people living within different cultures.
Volume 1: A Cultural History of Shopping in Antiquity
Edited by Mary Harlow, University of Leicester, UK and Ray Laurence, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
Volume 2: A Cultural History of Shopping in the Middle Ages
Edited by James Davis, Queen's University, Belfast, UK
Volume 3: A Cultural History of Shopping in the Early Modern Age
Edited by Tim Reinke-Williams, University of Northampton, UK
Volume 4: A Cultural History of Shopping in the Age of Enlightenment
Edited by Ilja Van Damme, University of Antwerp, Belgium
Volume 5: A Cultural History of Shopping in the Age of Revolution and Empire
Edited by Erika Rappaport, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
Volume 6: A Cultural History of Shopping in the Modern Age
Edited by Vicki Howard, Hartwick College, USA
Special introductory offer (valid up to three months after publication): £395.00 / $550.00 UK
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A Cultural History of Fairy Tales
6-Volume Set
Edited by Anne E. Duggan, Wayne State University, USA
How have the fairy tales of different cultures changed over the centuries? What do they tell us about our fears and hopes?
In a work that spans 2,500 years and six volumes, these ambitious questions are addressed by 50+ experts, each contributing their overview of a theme applied to a period in history from antiquity to the modern age. Themes: Forms of the Marvellous; Adaptation; Gender and Sexuality; Humans and Non-humans; Monsters and the Monstrous; Spaces; Socialization; Power.
Essential for history, literary studies and cultural studies collections. Special introductory offer (valid up to three months after publication): £395 / $550
UK July 2021 • US July 2021 • 6 vols • c.2,048 pages
HB Pack 9781350095731 • £440 / $610
300 bw illus
Series: The Cultural Histories Bloomsbury Academic
A Cultural History of Plants
6-Volume Set
Edited by Annette Giesecke, University of Delaware, USA and David Mabberley, University of Oxford, UK and Macquarie University, Australia
A global exploration of how plants have shaped human culture. Covering the last 12,000 years, it is the definitive history of how we have cultivated, traded, classified, and altered plants and how, in turn, plants have influenced our ideas of luxury and wealth, health and well-being, art and architecture.
Over 50 scholars and chapters and c.1,744 pages deepen our understanding of the relationship between plants and society from prehistory to today. For students and scholars of social and cultural history, history and philosophy of science, history of medicine, botany, food studies, anthropology, art history, architecture, and museum studies.
Special introductory offer (valid up to three months after publication): £395.00 / $550.00
UK February 2022 • US February 2022 • 6 vols • c.1,744 pages
HB Pack 9781474273596 • £440.00 / $610.00
343 bw illus
Series: The Cultural Histories • Bloomsbury Academic
A Cultural History of Color
6-Volume Set
Edited by Carole P. Biggam, University of Glasgow, UK and Kirsten Wolf, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
A history of 5000 years of colour in western culture. The first systematic and comprehensive history, the work examines how colour has been perceived, developed, produced and traded, and how it has been used in all aspects of performance – from the political to the religious to the artistic – and how it shapes all we see, from food and nature to interiors and architecture, to objects and art, to fashion and adornment, to the colour of the naked human body, and to the way our minds work and our languages are created.
Special introductory offer (valid up to three months after publication): £395.00 / $550.00
UK February 2021 • US February 2021 • 6 vols • c. 1,760 pages
HB Pack 9781474273732 • £440.00 / $610.00
185 bw & 181 colour illus
Series: The Cultural Histories • Bloomsbury Academic
A Cultural History of Furniture
6-Volume Set
Edited by Christina M. Anderson, University College London, UK
70 experts, 60 chapters and c. 1,824 pages in six volumes add to our understanding of the contribution of furniture to society from antiquity to the present day.
Themes and chapter titles are: Design and Motifs; Makers, Making, and Materials; Types and Uses; The Domestic Setting; The Public Setting; Exhibition and Display; Furniture and Architecture; Visual Representations; and Verbal Representations.
Special introductory offer (valid up to three months after publication): £395.00 / $550.00
UK September 2021 • US September 2021 • 6 vols • c. 1,824 pages
HB Pack 9781472577894 • £440.00 / $610.00
180 colour & 180 bw illus
Series: The Cultural Histories • Bloomsbury Academic
A Cultural History of Chemistry
6-Volume Set
Edited by Christina M. Anderson, University College London, UK
From prehistoric metal extraction to medieval alchemy to modern industry, chemistry has been central to our understanding and use of the physical world as well as to trade, warfare and medicine. In its turn, chemistry has been shaped by changing technologies, institutions and cultural beliefs. A Cultural History of Chemistry presents the first detailed and authoritative survey from antiquity to today, focusing on the West but integrating key developments in Egypt, Mesopotamia, and the Arabic-Islamic and Byzantine empires.
The six volumes cover: 1 – Antiquity (3,000 BCE to 600 CE); 2 – Medieval Age (600 to 1500); September 3 – Early Modern (1500 to 1700); 4 – Eighteenth Century (1700 to 1815); September 5 – Nineteenth Century (1815 to 1914); 6 – Modern Age (1914 to the Present).
Special introductory offer (valid up to three months after publication): £395.00 / $550.00
UK December 2021 • US December 2021 • 6 vols • c. 1,728 pages
HB Pack 9781474294928 • £440.00 / $610.00
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Series: The Cultural Histories • Bloomsbury Academic
A Cultural History of Medicine
6-Volume Set
Edited by Roger Cooter
How has our understanding of medicine evolved over the past 2,500 years? A Cultural History of Medicine, as the first comprehensive and interdisciplinary overview of the cultural history of medicine from ancient times to modernity, discusses this. With six highly illustrated volumes covering 2500 years of human history, this is the definitive reference work on the subject.
Special introductory offer (valid up to three months after publication): £395.00 / $550.00
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A Cultural History of Sport
6-Volume Set
Edited by Wray Vamplew, University of Stirling, UK, John McClelland, University of Toronto, Canada and Mark Dyreson, Penn State, USA
Over 50 scholars, in c. 1,776 pages, deepen our understanding of the role of sport in society from the birth of the Olympic Games to today. This set covers all forms and aspects of sport in the last 2,800 years: from technological developments to nationalism, from issues of race and gender to violence and eroticism.
Themes and chapter titles are: The Purpose of Sport; Sporting Time and Sporting Space; Products, Training and Technology; Rules and Order; Conflict and Accommodation; Inclusion, Exclusion and Segregation; Minds, Bodies and Identities; Representation.
Special introductory offer (valid up to three months after publication): £395.00 / $550.00
UK January 2021 • US January 2021 • 6 vols • c. 1,744 pages
HB Pack 9781350024106 • £440.00 / $610.00
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Series: The Cultural Histories • Bloomsbury Academic
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A Cultural History of Money
6-Volume Set
Edited by Bill Maurer, University of California Irvine, USA
Charts how money has made the world go around over four millennia and how it has shaped, and been shaped by, the broader social and cultural world. Each volume discusses the same themes in its seven chapters: money and its technologies; money and its ideas; money and religion; money and the everyday; money and art (or visual representations); money and its interpretation (or verbal representations); and money and the issues of the age.
A Cultural History of Money in Antiquity
Edited by Stefan Krmnicek, University of Tübingen, Germany
A Cultural History of Money in the Renaissance
Edited by Stephen Deng, Michigan State University, USA
UK March 2021 US March 2021 216 pages 40 bw illus
HB 9781474237093 • £70.00 / $95.00
A Cultural History of Money in the Age of Empire
Edited by Federico Neiburg, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (Museu Nacional), Brazil and Nigel Dodd, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK
UK March 2021 US March 2021 208 pages 24 bw illus
HB 9781474237406 £70.00 / $95.00
A Cultural History of Money in the Medieval Age
Edited by Rory Naismith, University of Cambridge, UK
A Cultural History of Money in the Age of Enlightenment
Edited by Christine Desan, Harvard Law School, USA
UK March 2021 US March 2021 256 pages 46 bw illus
HB 9781474237079 • £70.00 / $95.00
A Cultural History of Money in the Modern Age
Edited by Taylor C. Nelms, Filene Research Institute, USA and David Pedersen, University of California, San Diego, USA
UK March 2021 US March 2021 280 pages 63 bw illus
HB 9781474237116 • £70.00 / $95.00
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A Cultural History of Law
6-Volume Set
Edited by Gary Watt, University of Warwick, UK
“The series and its 230+ high-quality and well-placed illustrations represent an impressive feat of editing: indexes are accurate and generally comprehensive, and the thorough bibliographies will be useful to those seeking an introduction to the major themes ... These introductions should be of great use to scholars from across the periods, both for the summaries they provide of the present state of each field, and for the range of strategies they collectively offer to those seeking to tackle research in these fields in the future.”
Law and Literature
2019 • 6 vols • c.1,352 pages • 237 bw illus
HB Pack 9781474212854 £440 / $610
Series: The Cultural Histories Bloomsbury Academic
A Cultural History of Law in Antiquity
Edited by Julen Etxabe, University of British Columbia, Canada
UK March 2021 US March 2021 216 pages 44 bw illus
HB 9781474212298 • £70.00 / $95.00
A Cultural History of Law in the Middle Ages
Edited by Emanuele Conte, Roma Tre University, Italy and Laurent Mayali, Berkeley Law, University of California, USA
UK March 2021 • US March 2021 • 184 pages • 34 bw illus
HB 9781474212533 • £70.00 / $95.00
A Cultural History of Law in the Early Modern Age
Edited by Peter Goodrich, Cardozo School of Law, New York, USA
A Cultural History of Law in the Age of Reform
Edited by Ian Ward, Newcastle University, UKA Cultural History of Law in the Age of Enlightenment
Edited by Rebecca Probert, University of Exeter, UK and John Snape, University of Warwick, UK UK
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A Cultural History of Law in the Modern Age
Edited by
Danielle Celermajer, University of Australia and Richard K. Sherwin, New York Law School, USASydney,
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A Cultural History of the Emotions
6-Volume Set
Edited by Susan Broomhall, University of Western Australia, Australia, Jane Davidson, University of Melbourne, Australia and Andrew Lynch, University of Western Australia, Australia
Explores not only how emotions have changed over the course of human history, but also how emotions have themselves created and changed history. Emotions underpin our everyday lives and shape our mental, physical and social well-being. This collection shows how emotions can offer a unique insight into the historical thought and function of different societies. 2019
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A Cultural History of the Emotions in Antiquity
Edited by Douglas Cairns, University of Edinburgh, UK
A Cultural History
Edited by Andrew Lynch and Susan Broomhall, both University of Western Australia, Australia
A Cultural History of the Emotions in the Medieval Age
Edited by Clare Monagle, Macquarie University, Australia and Juanita Feros Ruys, University of Sydney, Australia
A Cultural History of the
in the Baroque and
Age
Edited by Katie Barclay, David Lemmings and Claire Walker, all University of Adelaide, Australia
A Cultural History of the
Edited by Joy Damousi and Jane W. Davidson, both University of Melbourne, Australia
Edited by Susan J. Matt, Weber State University, USA
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A Cultural History of Work 6-Volume Set
Edited by Deborah Simonton, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark, and University of Turku, Finland and Anne Montenach, Aix-Marseille University, France Winner of the 2020 PROSE Award for Multivolume Reference/Humanities
“This format allows a reader to pursue a single topic within the 2,500-years of the history of work in the West … [Programs] such as economics, American and world history, women’s studies, and art history will benefit from the information herein.” American Reference Books
A Cultural History of Work in Antiquity
Edited by Ephraim Lytle,
Canada
A Cultural History of Work in the Age of Enlightenment
Edited by Anne Montenach, Aix-Marseille University, France and Deborah Simonton, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark, and University of Turku, Finland
UK September 2020 US September 2020 248 pages 54 bw illus
HB 9781474244824 £70.00 / $95.00
A Cultural History of Work in the Early Modern Age
Edited by Bert De Munck, Full Professor at the University of Antwerp, Belgium and Thomas Max Safley, University of Pennsylvania, USA
UK September 2020 • US September 2020 • 232 pages • 50 bw illus
HB 9781474244879 • £70.00 / $95.00
A Cultural History of Work in the Medieval Age
Edited by Valerie L. Garver, Northern Illinois University, USA
• £70.00 / $95.00
A Cultural History of Work in the Age of Empire
Edited by Victoria E. Thompson, Arizona State University, USA
UK September 2020 • US September 2020 • 216 pages • 46 bw illus
HB 9781474244930 • £70.00 / $95.00
A Cultural History of Work in the Modern Age
Daniel J. Walkowitz, New York University, USA
UK September 2020 • US September 2020 • 232 pages • 49 bw illus
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A Cultural History of Hair
6-Volume Set
Edited by Geraldine Biddle-Perry, Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London, UK
“A thick, tangled and deliciously idiosyncratic history of hair ... There is plenty to inform and intrigue here, partly because the study of hair demands an exhilarating disciplinary range: from the art of cuts and colours, the history of scissors, razors and combs and the sociology of barbershops, to the semiotics of hair pulling and lock tugging, the ethnography of ‘Afros’, and the sexual politics of boyish bobs ... The volumes appeal to period-specific scholars, but also slot together, forming a continuous, braided history.” Times Literary Supplement
A Cultural History of Hair in Antiquity
Edited by Mary Harlow, University of Leicester, UK
A Cultural History of Hair in the Middle Ages
Edited by Roberta Milliken, Shawnee State University, USA
A Cultural History of Hair in the Renaissance
Edited by Edith Snook, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, Canada
UK January 2021
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A Cultural History of Hair in the Age of Empire
Edited by Sarah Heaton, University of Chester, UK
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A Cultural History of Hair in the Age of Enlightenment
Edited by Margaret K.
Powelland Joseph Roach, both Yale University, USA
A Cultural History of Hair in the Modern Age
Edited by Geraldine Biddle-Perry, Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London, UK
UK
A Cultural History of Dress and Fashion
6-Volume Set
Edited by Susan J. Vincent, University of York, UK
“A sumptuous series, as rich in ideas as it is in its descriptions of silks and satins, cashmeres and furs.”
Times Literary Supplement
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A Cultural History of Dress and Fashion in Antiquity
Edited by Mary Harlow, University of Leicester, UK
UK February 2021 US February 2021 256 pages 101 bw illus
PB 9781350204720 • £25.99 / $35.95
HB 9780857856968 • £75.00 / $100.00 • 2018
A Cultural History of Dress and Fashion in in the Renaissance
Edited by Elizabeth Currie, freelance lecturer and author, formerly V&A Museum and Royal College of Art, UK
UK February 2021 • US February 2021 • 272 pages • 102 bw illus
PB 9781350204706 • £25.99 / $35.95
HB 9780857857514 £75.00 / $100.00 2018
A Cultural History of Dress and Fashion in the Age of Empire
Edited by Denise Amy Baxter, University of North Texas, USA
UK February 2021 • US February 2021 • 288 pages • 109 bw illus
PB 9781350204645 £25.99 / $35.95
HB 9780857856845 £75.00 / $100.00 2018
A Cultural History of Dress and Fashion in the Medieval Age
Edited by Sarah-Grace Heller, Ohio State University, USA
UK February 2021 US February 2021 256 pages 90 bw illus
PB 9781350204713 £25.99 / $35.95
HB 9780857856876 • £75.00 / $100.00 • 2018
A Cultural History of Dress and Fashion in the Age of
Enlightenment
Edited by Peter McNeil, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
UK February 2021 • US February 2021 • 288 pages • 103 bw illus
PB 9781350204690 • £25.99 / $35.95
HB 9780857857613 £75.00 / $100.00 2018
A Cultural
History
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and Fashion in the Modern Age
Edited by Alexandra Palmer, Royal Ontario Museum and University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
UK February 2021 • US February 2021 • 288 pages • 101 bw illus
PB 9781350204591 • £25.99 / $35.95
HB 9780857856029 £75.00 / $100.00 2018
A Global History of Crime and Punishment
6-Volume Set
Edited by Clive Emsley, Open University, UK and Sara McDougall, CUNY, USA
What constituted a crime 2,500 years ago, and how was criminal activity dealt with? How has our definition of justice evolved over time alongside developments in law, society, religion and class structures? 36 experts address these pressing questions in a six-volume reference set that spans 2,500 years of human history.
Integrating perspectives from history, cultural studies, philosophy and classics, this globallyfocused work traces developments in the ever-changing criminal and justice worlds against a variety of social, legal and cultural contexts.
Special introductory offer (valid up to three months after publication): £395.00 / $550.00 UK
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History of the Moorish Empire in Europe
3-Volume Set
Samuel Parsons Scott (1846-1929) was a US attorney, financier and independent scholar Scott's three-volume history of the Moors in Spain and their influence on the culture of Western Europe was a landmark publication when it first came out in 1904.
The first two volumes provide a detailed chronological history while the third volume presents aspects of the culture of al-Andalus, revealing the achievements of the Moorish empire and its impact upon Western scholarship and progress. Topics covered include the Moorish modes of conquest, government and administration; agriculture, trade and commerce; the influence of Moorish learning in science, literature and the arts; and reflections on Muslim social life and practices.
This edition includes a new introduction by Elizabeth Drayson, Emeritus Fellow in Spanish, Murray Edwards College, University of Cambridge, UK.
Special introductory offer (valid up to three months after publication): £295.00 / $400.00
The European Way since Homer: History, Memory, Identity
3-Volume Set
Edited by Étienne François, Free University of Berlin, Germany, and the University of Paris-I (Panthéon-Sorbonne), France and Thomas Serrier, European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder), Germany
Bringing together leading scholars from across Europe, as well as the United States, Africa and Asia, The European Way since Homer is a three-volume journey through the political, cultural, religious, intellectual, social and geographical history of Europe. It synthesises over 150 chapters on topics from across the spectrum of people, places, ideas, art, objects and events that have influenced the shaping of the continent.
The set enriches our understanding of collective memory in Europe, explores what unites and divides the continent, and investigates the different links between Europe and the rest of the world.
Special introductory offer (valid up to three months after publication): £395 / $550
UK August 2021 • US August 2021 • 3 vols • c.1,296 pages
HB Pack 9781350058668 • £440 / $610
Historiography: Critical Readings Critical and Primary Sources
4-Volume Set
Edited by Q.
Edward Wang, Rowan University, USAQ. Edward Wang’s unparalleled four-volume survey of historiography examines the nature and significance of history writing from ancient worlds to the present day. Taking a global approach, it presents and contextualizes classic works that portray the traditions of historical writing around the world. The collection also incorporates key essays and articles from the 18th century to the present that analyze the continuities and transformations that have existed and taken place within those traditions.
Edited by a world-renowned, leading scholar in the field, the four volumes cover the ancient and medieval eras, the Renaissance period through to the 18th century, the rise of the Rankean school and ‘scientific history’ in the West, and new developments in worldwide historiography from the 1990s to the present day. As well as substantial contextualizing editor introductions for each volume, there are 60 individual essays and extracts included across the set, with notions of time, antiquarianism, the Annales School and postcolonialism all key topics at the heart of this vital collection.
This is an essential resource for all scholars interested in historiography and the development of history as a discipline.
Special introductory offer (valid up to three months after publication): £595.00 / $804.00
UK February 2021 • US February 2021• 4 vols • c. 1,408 pages
HB Pack 9781350086876 • £660.00 / $890.00
Series: Critical and Primary Sources Bloomsbury Academic
Literature and the Environment Critical and Primary Sources
4-Volume Set
Edited by Stephanie LeMenager, University of Oregon, USA & Teresa Shewry, University of California Santa Barbara, USA
Bringing together 100 essential critical articles, Literature and the Environment: Critical and Primary Sources is a comprehensive collection of the most important academic writings on ecocriticism and literature’s engagement with environmental crisis. With texts by key scholars, creative writers and activists, the articles in these four volumes follow the development and history of environmental criticism.
Literature and the Environment includes work by such writers as: Stacy Alaimo, Jonathan Bate, Rosi Braidotti, Jacques Derrida, Ursula K. Heise, Bruno Latour, Rob Nixon, Arundati Roy, Ken Saro-Wiwa, William Shakespeare, Leslie Marmon Silko, Henry David Thoreau, E.O. Wilson, Cary Wolfe and William Wordsworth.
Special introductory offer (valid up to three months after publication): £595.00 / $804.00
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Adaptations Critical and Primary Sources
3-Volume Set
Edited by Deborah Cartmell & Imelda Whelehan, both De Montfort University, UK
Adaptations: Critical and Primary Sources is a reference resource bringing together over 80 landmark texts in adaptation studies. Volume One covers the history of adaptation studies, by plotting the ‘prehistory’ of the field, beginning with Vachel Lindsay’s classic Art of the Moving Picture (1915), to some of the most important critical and theoretical interventions up until the 1990s. Volume Two collects essays from the last 25 years, charting the process of critical and theoretical maturation. Volume Three covers key case studies, such as Christine Geraghty’s take on adapting Westerns and Ian Inglis’ understanding of the transformation of music into movies.
Special introductory offer (valid up to three months after publication): £445.00 / $600.00
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Animation Critical and Primary Sources
4-Volume Set
Edited by Chris Pallant, Canterbury Christ Church University, UK
Animation: Critical and Primary Sources is a major multi-volume work of reference that brings together seminal writings on animation studies. Gathering historical and contemporary texts from a wide-ranging number of sources, the volumes provide a key resource in understanding and studying the past and future directions of animation studies. The four volumes thematically trace animation studies from its many definitions, or a lack thereof, to the institutional nature of animation production, to establishing greater space within animation discourse for the consideration of broadcast and interactive animation, and finally, giving greater contextual understanding of the field of animation studies.
Special introductory offer (valid up to three months after publication): £595.00 / $804.00
UK February 2021 • US February 2021 • 4 vols • c. 1,536 pages
HB Pack 9781501305757 • £660.00 / $890.00
Series: Critical and Primary Sources Bloomsbury Academic
South Korean Film Critical and Primary Sources
3-Volume Set
Edited by Hyon Joo Yoo, The University of Vermont, USA
South Korean Film: Critical and Primary Sources is an essential three-volume reference collection representing three distinct phases in the development of South Korean national cinema. Volume I covers the “Golden Age”, referring to the cinematic era that covers the postKorean War period from 1955 to 1972. Volume II comprises the phase that produced what critics sum up as New Korean Cinema produced since the 1990s, and which has led to the commercial and critical success of recent South Korean cinema. Volume III, while continuing the thematic and stylistic development distinct in New Korean Cinema, calls for a new epochal conceptualization that emphasizes South Korean film’s global location.
Special introductory offer (valid up to three months after publication): £445.00 / $600.00
UK September 2021 • US September 2021 • 3 vols •
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Modern and Contemporary World Drama Critical and Primary Sources
4-Volume Set
Edited by Esther Kim Lee, Duke University, USA
Bringing together over 80 major critical articles, this work collects scholarly articles, reviews and critical interventions that are indispensable to anyone wishing to gain an understanding of world drama from the past 150 years.
Contesting a Eurocentric reading or history of modern drama, the articles underscore the importance of migration and transnational movements of dramatic forms, and place emphasis on the transmission and circulation of dramatic theories around the world. Modern drama is revealed as a worldwide phenomenon in which a diverse array of artists and writers participated and in which modernism is seen to have affected all parts of the world in ways that are much more complex and multi-directional than what has been assumed in Eurocentric models.
The 4 volumes are arranged both thematically and chronologically to give readers a sense of how world modern and contemporary drama began and how it has been studied.
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Theories of Performance Critical and Primary Sources
4-Volume Set
Edited by Kélina Gotman, King’s College London, UK
A collection of key writings on a subject which has come to permeate fields as diverse as theatre, comparative literature, philosophy, geography, history, English, science and technology studies. The 4 volumes include 90 essays spanning the transdisciplinary field and include perspectives from regions and disciplines that have been under-represented until now. Each volume is introduced by the editor and arranged thematically, with writings in chronological sequence so that the development of ideas can be traced within a theme. The broad areas covered include: discipline, method, documentation, and body politic. Special introductory offer (valid up to three months after publication): £595.00 / $804.00
UK January 2022 • US January 2022 • 4 vols • c.1.408 pages
HB Pack 9781350118096 £660.00 / $890.00
Series: Critical and Primary Sources Bloomsbury Academic
Vernacular Architecture Critical and Primary Sources
4-Volume Set
Edited by Howard Davis, University of Oregon, USA
Collating scholarly historical texts from the last 200 years from a wide range of sources, this four-volume set offers a key knowledge resource for the field. An essential addition to libraries, it creates for the first time a comprehensive framework through which to understand the critical aspects and diverse interpretations of vernacular architecture studies, vital to much ongoing research in the built environment, in heritage studies, and material culture studies.
Special introductory offer (valid up to three months after publication): £595.00 / $804.00
UK December 2021 • US December 2021 • 4 vols • c. 1,536 pages
HB Pack 9781474283915 £660.00 / $890.00
Series: Critical and Primary Sources Bloomsbury Academic
Encyclopedia of Vernacular Architecture of the World
6-Volume Set
Edited by Marcel Vellinga, Oxford Brookes University, UK
The Encyclopedia of Vernacular Architecture of the World presents, in six volumes, 2 million words, and 3,000 illustrated entries, the definitive resource for the study of the world’s vernacular and traditional building cultures.
Increasing from three volumes to six, this new edition, expanded and updated throughout, presents over 30 percent new material. A major development in the field of vernacular architecture studies, this new edition reflects the considerable growth in research in the field since the first edition, and its expanded scope captures two decades of concerted effort to document and understand the world’s fast disappearing traditional and vernacular building cultures.
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up to three months after publication): £995.00 / $1,350.00 UK
Global Encyclopedia of Women in Architecture 1960-2015 2-Volume Set
Edited by Lori A. Brown, Syracuse University, USA and Karen Burns, University of Melbourne, AustraliaThis Encyclopedia fills a void in architectural history, giving students, scholars and professional architects an authoritative reference to women architects and their work, and to key terms for gender and feminism in architecture.
With over 1,000 entries and 600 images across two volumes, the Encyclopedia covers a key period in women’s history from 1960 to 2015 – from when the gender bar was lifted at iconic architecture schools, to the present day. Women now comprise half of all architecture students in many countries but students and scholars lack authoritative, globally connected histories of female mentors, peers and forebears. The Encyclopedia introduces them to the notable and overlooked women of the global built world.
Within a geographical and historical framework, key architects from over 135 countries are included in detailed biographical entries. Coverage includes an expanded field of female designers from related fields (urbanism, landscape, and interiors) plus influential scholars, writers, and activists as well as keys terms, themes, books and exhibitions.
Special introductory offer (valid up to three months after publication): £395.00 / $550.00
UK April 2022 US April 2022 2 vols c,1,040 pages
HB Pack 9781350059764 £440.00 / $610.00
600 bw illus
Bloomsbury Academic
The Ruins of Palmyra and Baalbek
Volumes I-II
Robert Wood
First published in the 1750s, The Ruins of Palmyra and The Ruins of Baalbek contain over 100 engravings of the classical architecture of these two ancient cities. The volumes were unique in providing systematic discussion of the sites' physical and human geography alongside two kinds of pictorial evidence: views of the ancient sites and detailed plans, with measurements, of architectural features. The volumes had great influence upon Neoclassical architecture in Britain, Europe and North America.
This new edition features reproductions of all the engravings from the original publications and includes a new introduction by noted scholar, Benjamin Anderson (Cornell University, USA).
Special introductory offer (valid up to three months after publication): £250.00 / $340.00
UK May 2021 • US May 2021 • 2 vols • c. 320 pages
HB Pack 9780755617265 • £278.00 / $380.00
113 bw illus
Bloomsbury Visual Arts
A History of Western Philosophy of Education
5-Volume Set
Edited by Megan Laverty & David Hansen, both Columbia University, USA
With five volumes covering 2500 years of history, this is the definitive reference work on the subject, with volumes divided into Antiquity (500BCE-500CE), The Medieval and Renaissance Period (500-1550), The Age of Enlightenment (1550-1850), The Modern Era (1850-1914), and The Contemporary Landscape (1914-present).
Each volume covers the major thinkers and schools of thought for each historical period and pays particular attention to the following themes: philosophical anthropology; ethics; social and political philosophy; epistemology; aesthetics; pedagogy, schooling and education; philosophy of psychology and the social sciences. The volumes also include timelines showing the major historical events of the period including educational initiatives and the publication of noteworthy philosophical works.
Special introductory offer (valid up to three months after publication): £395.00 / $550.00 UK
Twentieth-Century Critical Thought in the Global South
3-Volume Set
Edited by J. Daniel Elam, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
This 900 page collection brings together political, aesthetic, and philosophical writing from across the non-European and postcolonial world. It covers critical thought from South East Asia, South Asia, Africa, the Caribbean, and Latin America, regions often overlooked when studying critical thought. By assembling these 75 texts side-by-side it marks the first time that many of these writings have been considered properly as ‘philosophy’.
Organised chronologically, the volumes are divided into Empire, Modernity and Critique. Each volume features the major figures associated with movements and schools of thoughts that defined a decade. From anticolonialism and revolution at the start of the century to the Third World aesthetics of the 1970s and the liberalisation, globalisation, and protest of the 1990s, assembled under these themes is the work of Rabindranath Tagore, M.K. Gandhi, Mao Zedong, Jawaharlal Nehru, W.E.B. Du Bois, Fidel Castro, Kim Sang-ok, Elena Poniatowska and Stuart Hall.
Special introductory offer (valid up to three months after publication): £325.00 / $440.00
UK March 2022 US March 2022 3 vols c,900 pages
HB Pack 9781350167766 • £360.00 / $487.00
Bloomsbury Academic
Portraits of Confucius: The Reception of Confucianism from 1580 to 1960
2-Volume Set
Edited by Kevin DeLapp, Converse College, USA
A major collection of Western perspectives on Confucius and Confucianism, stretching from the Jesuit missions of the 16th-century to the dawn of modern cross-cultural scholarship in the early 20th-century.
With selections from over 100 figures, this two-volume work features writing from American and European sources including Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Paine, Friedrich Nietzsche, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau and Bertrand Russell. Arranged chronologically, they represent methodologies that span philosophy, political science, religious studies, sociology, anthropology, economic theory, linguistics, missionary texts, and works of popular moralism. Together they reveal important ideological trends in Western attitudes toward China – with Confucius becoming positioned at different times as anti-Christian or nearly Christ-like, while Confucianism is interpreted as something positive the West needs to adopt or as something negative that must be opposed.
Special introductory offer (valid up to three months after publication): £350.00 / $475.00
UK January 2022 • US January 2022 • 2 vols • c,1,300 pages HB Pack 9781350079229 • £389.00 / $532.00
Bloomsbury Academic
Portraits of Wollstonecraft
2-Volume Set
Edited by Eileen Hunt Botting, University of Notre Dame, USA
Bringing together illustrated portraits and over 100 individual responses to Mary Wollstonecraft's life and work, this two-volume collection traces her emergence as an international public figure of women’s rights from 1785 to 2017. Featuring writing by Mary Shelley, Virginia Woolf, Simone de Beauvoir, Betty Friedan, Susan Moller Okin, Martha Nussbaum, and Amartya Sen it showcases her philosophical, literary, and artistic reception and reveals how Wollstonecraft has been interpreted throughout Britain, Ireland, Europe, North and South America, and across the British Empire and its former colonies from Jamaica to India to South Africa, as well as in China, Japan and South Korea.
With never-before-seen accounts of Wollstonecraft and pieces by major thinkers from across the history of philosophy, this one-of-a-kind collection achieves what no other work on Wollstonecraft has yet to do: it charts the depth and breadth of her legacies for philosophy, feminist philosophy, ethics, and political theory on a global scale.
Special introductory offer (valid up to three months after publication): £350.00 / $475.00
UK May 2021 • US May 2021 • 2 vols • c. 1,000 pages
HB Pack 9781350035881 • £389.00 / $532.00
Bloomsbury Academic
