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The Old English Epic of Waldere

By: Jonathan Himes

£34.99

The Waldere fragments reveal the world of migration-era heroes. At its heart, a climactic duel between Walter and Guðhere forces an ethical crisis for Hagen. This new critical edition resolves key textual cruces, unlocking the epic’s power.

The British Labour Movement and Imperialism

Edited By: Billy Frank, Craig Horner, David Stewart

£39.99

This collection explores the British labour movement's neglected relationship with imperialism from 1800–1982. It engages with themes from trade union interaction with empire to post-colonialism, making a substantial contribution to the debates on imperialism's legacy.

This collection explores the British labour movement’s neglected relationship with imperialism from 1800–1982. It engages with themes from trade union interaction with empire to post-colonialism, making a substantial contribution to the debates on imperialism’s legacy.

The Future of Post-Human Mass Media

A Preface to a New Theory of Communication

By: Peter Baofu

£44.99

Is mass media informational or propagandistic? Contrary to conventional wisdom, neither view is correct. Something vital has been missing from the analysis. This book shows a better way to understand mass media, a seminal view that will alter its future.

British-French Exchanges in the Eighteenth Century

Edited By: Kathleen Hardesty Doig, Dorothy Medlin

£39.99

In the 18th century, the flow of people and ideas between France and Britain became a flood. This collection of essays examines these exchanges through correspondences, translations, and personal sojourns, revealing intellectual influences in the arts and sciences.

Fresche fontanis

Studies in the Culture of Medieval and Early Modern Scotland

Edited By: J. Derrick McClure, Janet Hadley Williams

£59.99

Fresche fontanis presents major new research by leading scholars on Scottish culture of the 14th-17th centuries. Essays analyze writers, romances, chronicles, and manuscripts, making a significant contribution to this imaginatively productive period.

African Zion

Studies in Black Judaism

Edited By: Edith Bruder

£44.99

Forged in slavery, exile, and subjugation, some black African and American societies have adopted a Judaic identity. This book explores the historical mosaic of black Judaism, reshaping the standard accounts of their collective religious experience.

The Orient of Europe

The Mythical Image of India and Competing Images of German National Identity

By: Nicholas Germana

£39.99

Why did German Romantics call Germany "the Orient of Europe"? This book reveals how they used an idealized India as a mirror to forge a national identity based on culture and spirit, not military might, during the Napoleonic Wars.

Why did German Romantics call Germany “the Orient of Europe”? This book reveals how they used an idealized India as a mirror to forge a national identity based on culture and spirit, not military might, during the Napoleonic Wars.

Black and White Masculinity in the American South, 1800-2000

Edited By: Sergio Lussana, Lydia Plath

£39.99

These essays trace the historical construction of white and black Southern masculinities. From the antebellum era to today, they reveal how conceptions of manhood intersected with race, class, and power to define the American South.

The Quest for Streetcar Unionism in the Carolina Piedmont, 1919-1922

By: Jeffrey M. Leatherwood

From £48.99

Ever since the courtroom doors closed in 1919, the tragic Charlotte Streetcar Strike has haunted the collective memory of the Carolina Piedmont region. This monograph represents the result of over ten years’ worth of primary research about the strike.

Yea, Alabama! A Rare Glimpse into the Personal Diary of the University of Alabama (Volume 2 – 1871 through 1901)

By: David M. Battles

£59.99

This second volume introduces several elements into the University of Alabama’s narrative, like its hassle with the state government through 1877 and its strict admission of women students. Other topics explored include the history of unofficial student sports from the 1870s.

Civilization at Risk

Seeds of War

By: Ron D. Petitte

£41.99

The evil of sex trafficking will not stop, but it can be discouraged and lives spared. All of the author’s proceeds for this book go directly to the Justice and Mercy Initiative at Bryan College to fight human trafficking.

Peripheral Europe

On Transitology and Post-Crisis Discourses in Southeast Europe

By: Ksenija Vidmar Horvat

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This book connects the EU’s mismanagement of the financial and refugee crises to the integration of the post-socialist East. By turning Europe’s social contract into a cultural one, this process has betrayed core democratic values, both East and West.

Science and Empire in the Nineteenth Century

A Journey of Imperial Conquest and Scientific Progress

Edited By: Catherine Delmas, Christine Vandamme

£39.99

This book explores how sciences like anthropology and ethnography became tools of empire. It analyzes the link between knowledge and power, revealing the tension between scientific objectivity and imperialist propaganda in the British and American empires.

Holocaust Persecution

Responses and Consequences

Edited By: Wendy Koenig, Nancy Rupprecht, Nancy E. Rupprecht

£39.99

This anthology uniquely approaches Holocaust Studies by focusing on the responses to and consequences of persecution. Essays by renowned scholars explore topics from Arab rescuers of Jews to the legal precedents set by the Nuremberg trials.

Ball Lightning as a Messenger from a New World of Circulating Light

By: Vladimir Torchigin, A. V. Torchigin

From £32.99

This book shows ball lightning is not electricity, but a bubble of light—a new object whose anomalous behaviour matches the mystery of natural ball lightning. The physical laws ensuring its stability are detailed, based on over 30 published scientific articles.

Another Black Like Me

The Construction of Identities and Solidarity in the African Diaspora

Edited By: Nielson Rosa Bezerra, Elaine Pereira Rocha

£47.99

This book presents notable scenes from the long history of Blacks in Latin America. It provides a glimpse into their complex struggle to belong in societies where the definition of blackness was flexible, yet full recognition of their rights was denied.

The Balkans and Caucasus

Parallel Processes on the Opposite Sides of the Black Sea

Edited By: Ivan Biliarsky, Ovidiu Cristea, Anca Oroveanu

£44.99

The Black Sea is a bridge between peoples and a border between powers. This volume brings together scholars to ask: Is this a coherent zone whose past, present, and future suggest a shared destiny?

The History and Philosophy of Astrobiology

Perspectives on Extraterrestrial Life and the Human Mind

Edited By: David Dunér, Gustav Holmberg, Erik Persson

£44.99

Does intelligent life exist beyond Earth, or are we alone? This book traces the science and philosophy of astrobiology, exploring the limits of the human mind, the challenges of interstellar communication, and our first steps into the terra incognita of extraterrestrial life.

Byron and Italy

By: Peter Cochran

£44.99

Peter Cochran explores Byron’s relationship with Italy as a whole—its literature, women, and politics. He argues the poet’s sojourn was an attempt to forge a new identity, showing how Italian culture gave him a new sense of self and his poetry.

The Post-War Angola

Public Sphere, Political Regime and Democracy

By: Paulo C. J. Faria

£49.99

In post-war Angola, political reform is the key challenge. The state controls the 'public sphere,' but how do people speak truth to power? This book explores the public's role, using Foucault's ideas to look afresh at Angola's democratic future.

In post-war Angola, political reform is the key challenge. The state controls the ‘public sphere,’ but how do people speak truth to power? This book explores the public’s role, using Foucault’s ideas to look afresh at Angola’s democratic future.