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Invisible Cultures

Historical and Archaeological Perspectives

Edited By: Francesco Carrer, Viola Gheller

£52.99

Some cultural groups are “invisible,” absent from historiographical records or material remains. This volume explores why the memory of these marginalized groups was obliterated and presents new perspectives aimed at returning voice and presence to the “invisibles” of history.

Colonialism and National Identity

Edited By: Paolo Bertella Farnetti, Cecilia Dau Novelli

£47.99

This book addresses the neglected link between national identity and colonial culture in Italy. It is a critical reflection on a denied past, reconstructing uncomfortable memories that overlap the challenging present circumstances of rigidity, racism and rejection.

Living Like Nomads

The Milanese Anarchist Movement Before Fascism

By: Fausto Butta

£47.99

Living Like Nomads illuminates the unknown history of Milanese anarchists in the two decades before fascism. It tells the fascinating stories of their lifestyles, political campaigns, and ideological debates. They were the first to resist the violence of Mussolini’s black shirts.

The Many Faces of War in the Ancient World

Edited By: Graham Wrightson, Sabine Müller, Graham Wrightson

£52.99

This volume explores warfare and its political implications from archaic Greece to the late Roman Empire. With a focus on cultural and social history, it presents an overview of current issues and diverse approaches to the “new” military history.

Identity, Trauma, Sensitive and Controversial Issues in the Teaching of History

Edited By: Hilary Cooper, Jon Nichol

£62.99

History Education is a politically contested subject, and can both promote xenophobia and develop tolerance. Accordingly, these essays address the major challenges that it faces in an era of globalisation, digital revolution, and international and religious conflict.

Medieval Urban Identity

Health, Economy and Regulation

Edited By: Flocel Sabaté

£52.99

This book adopts a new approach to medieval urban life, using health, the economy, and law as frames of reference. Scholars provide insights into housing, cures for diseases, the work of artisans, and the relationship between the town and its region.

‘Intimately Associated for Many Years’

George K. A. Bell’s and Willem A. Visser 't Hooft's Common Life-Work in the Service of the Church Universal – Mirrored in their Correspondence (Part One 1938-1949)

By: Gerhard Besier

£62.99

Between 1938 and 1958, Bishop George Bell and Willem Visser’t Hooft exchanged hundreds of letters. Their correspondence mirrors the ecumenical effort to unite Christian churches and navigate an age of international crisis and conflict.

The First World War

Analysis and Interpretation, Volume 1

Edited By: Antonello Biagini

£57.99

The result of an international conference held in Rome 2014 to mark one hundred years since the beginning of the Great War, this volume uses archival documents from various countries to examine ideological debates and contemporary narratives of the war, and the use of propaganda.

Female Beauty Systems

Beauty as Social Capital in Western Europe and the United States, Middle Ages to the Present

Edited By: Christine Adams, Tracy Adams

£47.99

Female beauty systems sort individuals into "more" or "less" desirable. These essays examine Western female beauty systems over the centuries, considering how women have complied with, contributed to, profited or suffered from, and resisted them.

Female beauty systems sort individuals into “more” or “less” desirable. These essays examine Western female beauty systems over the centuries, considering how women have complied with, contributed to, profited or suffered from, and resisted them.

Learning Abroad

A History of the Commonwealth Scholarship and Fellowship Plan (Second Edition)

By: Hilary Perraton

£24.99

Since 1959, Commonwealth scholarships have moved over 30,000 people across borders. This book sets out the narrative of the scholarship plan, looking at both the scholars and those who selected them, and examines the policies of countries offering scholarships and the recipients.

ChiMoKoJa

Histories of China, Mongolia, Korea and Japan—Volume 1

Edited By: Frank Jacob

£29.99

This initial volume of the biannual and peer-reviewed journal of the same name covers a variety of aspects of East Asian history, including the Russian East Asiatic Company in the aftermath of the Russo-Japanese War in 1904-5 and the role of Japan during the early Cold War.

Clientelism and Implementing Social Security Programmes in Post-conflict Iraqi Kurdistan Region

By: Muslih Irwani

£41.99

This book investigates social policy in Iraqi Kurdistan, introducing a “clientelistic model of policy implementation.” It argues that politicians interfere, distributing social security benefits based on socio-political status, not socio-economic need.

Creole Societies in the Portuguese Colonial Empire

Edited By: Philip J. Havik, Malyn Newitt

£47.99

This collection investigates Portuguese presence in Guinea, Cape Verde, Angola, São Tomé, Brazil and Goa, and the resultant formation of mixed or creole communities which were influenced culturally both by Portugal and indigenous societies.

Myths and Brands in Vocational Education

Edited By: Anja Heikkinen, Lorenz Lassnigg

£47.99

Offering perspectives from under-discussed linguistic contexts, including Spain and Austria, in addition to more prominent countries such as the UK, this title explores tensions between the local and the global in education, investigating its increasing commodification.

Museums beyond the Crises

CIMAM 2012 Annual Conference Publication

Edited By: Zdenka Badovinac, Bartomeu Marí

£41.99

The predominant model of the museum is collapsing. The old paradigm is being replaced by a new one that still needs to be defined. This book investigates what such a new paradigm may entail and its consequences for the preservation of heritage.

Ethnosymbolism and the Dynamics of Identity

By: Liu Mingxin, Elya Tzaneva

£52.99

Using insights from Bulgarian history, Tzaneva views the construction of Bulgarian national identity as a process intimately affected by social circumstances in nineteenth-century Bulgaria, and explores how the concept of ethnosymbolism contributes to identity dynamics.

The Making of the Common in Social Relations

Edited By: Alexandre Cotovio Martins, José Resende

From £28.99

Exploring the qualifications that social actors use to support themselves when engaging in common actions, this inquiry highlights the ways in which these actors communalise certain aspects of their life and produce justifications that give sense to their actions.

Studies on Karachi

Papers Presented at the Karachi Conference 2013

Edited By: Sabiah Askari

£52.99

This book, a landmark in scholarship on Karachi, explores the city's development from a sleepy settlement into a mega-city. It depicts a city that, despite its vibrancy, is afflicted with problems ranging from poor planning to colossal mismanagement.

This book, a landmark in scholarship on Karachi, explores the city’s development from a sleepy settlement into a mega-city. It depicts a city that, despite its vibrancy, is afflicted with problems ranging from poor planning to colossal mismanagement.

Uses and Abuses of Culture

Greece 1974-2010

By: Vicky Karaiskou

£47.99

This monograph investigates the impact of the European crisis on perceptions of Greek identity and cultural memory, focusing on the contradictions between intrinsic components of Greek cultural and national identities and the country’s adopted European identity.

Enemies Within

Cultural Hierarchies and Liberal Political Models in the Hispanic World

Edited By: María Sierra

£47.99

This volume provides historical perspectives on the debate on forms of government and political legitimacy in the Hispanic dimension of the Atlantic world, where modern politics was based on a series of exclusions that were explained as natural and necessary.