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Spooked

Britain, Empire and Intelligence since 1945

Edited By: Patrick Major, Christopher R. Moran

£34.99

Britain's leading intelligence historians present a fresh study of British secrecy since 1945. Drawing on recently declassified archives, these essays explore the use and misuse of intelligence, from the era of decolonisation to the ‘War on Terror’.

Britain’s leading intelligence historians present a fresh study of British secrecy since 1945. Drawing on recently declassified archives, these essays explore the use and misuse of intelligence, from the era of decolonisation to the ‘War on Terror’.

The Family and the Nation

Dutch Family Migration Policies in the Context of Changing Family Norms

By: Sarah van Walsum

£39.99

Many nations are restricting family migration. How can this be explained? Does it indicate a new trend towards racist exclusion? This book places these policies in the perspective of changing family norms, revealing techniques of power reminiscent of the colonial past.

Thirty-Six More Short Essays, Plus Another, on the Probing Mind of Thomas Jefferson

By: M. Andrew Holowchak

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This book provides new short essays on Jefferson's thoughts on political philosophy, religion, and morality. Crafted to both entertain and enlighten, these provocative and critical essays take the reader deep into Jefferson’s mind, highlighting his relevance today.

This book provides new short essays on Jefferson’s thoughts on political philosophy, religion, and morality. Crafted to both entertain and enlighten, these provocative and critical essays take the reader deep into Jefferson’s mind, highlighting his relevance today.

China’s Development from a Global Perspective

Edited By: María Dolores Elizalde, Wang Jianlang

£76.99

This volume presents an analysis of China from a global perspective within a broad temporal and spatial spectrum. It reveals the early relations established between the Roman Empire and China, the development of diplomatic relations, and the rise and resolution of conflicts.

Dictatorship in Fact and in Fiction

Edited By: Keith Ellis

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Simón Bolívar. Fidel Castro. Hugo Chávez. Dictators or liberators? This book challenges the loaded term "dictatorship," re-examining Latin American independence movements and exposing the politics behind a word often used as a weapon.

Simón Bolívar. Fidel Castro. Hugo Chávez. Dictators or liberators? This book challenges the loaded term “dictatorship,” re-examining Latin American independence movements and exposing the politics behind a word often used as a weapon.

Information Infrastructure(s)

Boundaries, Ecologies, Multiplicity

Edited By: Alessandro Mongili, Giuseppina Pellegrino

£52.99

This book explores how information infrastructures enable, but also constrain, cooperation across different groups. It questions the role of the material and immaterial objects connecting us—from devices and networks to society itself.

The History of Professional Chess in Britain, 1774-2000

By: Adrian Harvey

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The first history of British chess from 1774 to 2000. The book focuses on the professionals and amateurs who shaped the game, its struggle against moral disapproval, and its rise to a popular recreation. It covers major events, providing game scores and tables of results.

Legacies of the U.S. Occupation of Japan

Appraisals after Sixty Years

Edited By: Duccio Basosi, Rosa Caroli

£47.99

The consequences of the US occupation of Japan transcended its formal duration. Rich with fresh analyses on mutual influence, memory, and international perspectives, this book provides a greater understanding of the lasting legacies of this crucial 20th-century event.

Autobiography as a Writing Strategy in Postcolonial Literature

Edited By: Benaouda Lebdai

£41.99

This book analyzes how postcolonial writers used autobiography to express themselves. By using the ‘I’ and ‘me’ as subjects, not objects, they affirmed their identity and established autobiographical writing as a true art form.

Truths Breathed Through Silver

The Inklings' Moral and Mythopoeic Legacy

Edited By: Joe R. Christopher, Jonathan Himes, Salwa Khoddam

£29.99

The Oxford Inklings believed old myths held truth to fortify humanity. This collection explores how Lewis, Tolkien, and Williams wove theology and literary craft to connect the mortal with the divine.

In Permanent Transit

Discourses and Maps of the Intercultural Experience

Edited By: Clara Sarmento, Silvia Sousa

£49.99

In Permanent Transit offers interdisciplinary approaches to migrations, globalisation, and the intercultural experience. This book finds the potential for change at peripheries marked by hybridity, where the ‘excluded’ use subversion to undermine the powerful.

Biographies of Drink

A Case Study Approach to our Historical Relationship with Alcohol

Edited By: Mark Hailwood, Deborah Toner

£47.99

This book offers the “biographies of drink” approach, an innovative methodology for studying alcohol. Each essay constructs a “biography” of a drink, place, or idea, from Roman vessels to 1950s whisky ads, showcasing insights for anyone interested in alcohol's role in society.

The Singular and the Making of Knowledge at the Royal Society of London in the Eighteenth Century

By: Palmira Fontes da Costa

£39.99

This book explores the role of singular experiences in making knowledge at the 18th-century Royal Society. It reveals how extraordinary phenomena were vital to the Society, yet their problematic authentication made it a target for literary satire.

Resistance and the Practice of Rationality

By: Martin W. Bauer, Rom Harré, Carl Jensen

£49.99

Resistance is a historical constant, not simply irrational behaviour. Fifteen authors from diverse disciplines, including physics, biology, and political science, explore concepts of ‘resistance’ and examine the potential of a general ‘resistology’.

West of Eden

Botanical Discourse, Contact Languages and Translation

By: Rosanna Masiola

£39.99

West of Eden is a study of botanical discourse in colonial and post-colonial contexts. It explores the loss of roots and identity when plants were brought along the slave-route. The loss of a plant may also mean the loss of its name, putting a rich eco-literature at risk.

Power, Politics and Episcopal Authority

The Bishops of Cremona and Lincoln in the Middle Ages (1066-1340)

By: Angelo Silvestri

£52.99

This book assesses the shifts in bishops’ power in Lincoln and Cremona from the 11th to the 14th century. The comparison highlights the differences between the role of a prelate in England's largest diocese and the struggle for authority in a communal Italian city.

This book assesses the shifts in bishops’ power in Lincoln and Cremona from the 11th to the 14th century. The comparison highlights the differences between the role of a prelate in England’s largest diocese and the struggle for authority in a communal Italian city.

Harbors, Flows, and Migrations

The USA in/and the World

Edited By: Anna De Biasio, Gianna Fusco

£80.99

Here, thirty-two American Studies scholars from around the world interrogate the manifold significance of ports and the exchanges they enable or restrain, casting a decentered look onto the complex positioning of the United States in its relationships with the rest of the world.

Shining Humanity

Life Stories of Women in Bosnia and Herzegovina

By: Zilka Spahić Šiljak

£49.99

This collection tells the tale of eleven ordinary Bosnian women peace builders who bore witness to horror but chose to live in hope. In the darkness of war, they showed genuine humanity and dared to imagine a life beyond violence and fear.

History and Politics

Remembrance as Legitimation

Edited By: Adam Jarosz, Ralph Schattkowsky

£64.99

History and politics are interlinked. Politicians consistently use historical arguments, (re)interpreting the past and deciding what should be remembered. A prepared narrative of the past can become a powerful instrument to influence reality and consolidate power.

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.