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Mediterráneos

An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Cultures of the Mediterranean Sea

Edited By: Arturo Echavarren, Sergio Carro Martin, Esther Fernández Medina

£59.99

This book analyzes the political, religious, social, and artistic expressions that have flourished and converged in the Mediterranean and Near East, highlighting the scope of this blend of traditions from its earliest stages to the present.

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.

Purgatory between Kentucky and Canada

African Americans in Ohio

Edited By: Marsha R. Robinson

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In the purgatory between Kentucky and Canada, ordinary African Americans in Ohio fought to create a space of peace. These histories reveal how individuals in the 19th and 20th centuries used social networks to secure education, voting rights, and liberty.

Wicked Ladies

Provincial Women, Crime and the Eighteenth-Century English Justice System

By: Gregory J. Durston

£49.99

This book shifts the focus from London to explore female crime in 18th-century provincial England. It examines why women offended and their treatment by the justice system, comparing their experiences to those of men and their counterparts in the capital.

Blue Black Sea

New Dimensions of History, Security, Strategy, Energy and Economy

Edited By: Giray Saynur Bozkurt

£59.99

Experts from the Black Sea states analyze the region’s complex security, political, and economic dynamics, offering essential assessments of the international policies shaping the area today.

The Post-War Angola

Public Sphere, Political Regime and Democracy

By: Paulo C. J. Faria

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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.

Fundraising, Flirtation and Fancywork

Charity Bazaars in Nineteenth Century Australia

By: Annette Shiell

£44.99

The 19th-century charity bazaar was a paradox. While it funded Australia's major institutions, it encouraged a loosening of social restraint, giving women a public role where commerce, gambling, and even flirtation were actively encouraged.

The 19th-century charity bazaar was a paradox. While it funded Australia’s major institutions, it encouraged a loosening of social restraint, giving women a public role where commerce, gambling, and even flirtation were actively encouraged.

Women Who Belong

Claiming a Female’s Right-Filled Place

Edited By: Marsha R. Robinson

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To fight the fallacious assumption that patriarchy is eternal, this book inverts history. By centering the ordinary woman, we find women, rich and poor, who used patriarchal laws to protect their rights and demand the powers due them.

Interwar Japan beyond the West

The Search for a New Subjectivity in World History

By: Oliviero Frattolilio

£39.99

To avoid the Western imperialist yoke, late nineteenth-century Japan embraced an imperial identity. This was justified by a philosophy that saw Japan’s hegemonic aspirations as a moral obligation: a duty to overcome modern civilization and promote a new culture.

A Body Politic to Govern

The Political Humanism of Elizabeth I

By: Ted Booth

£44.99

This work examines the influence of Italian Renaissance humanism on the political persona of Elizabeth I. To silence critics of a female monarch, Elizabeth used her classical education to defend and assert her right to rule through her letters and speeches.

North and South

Essays on Gender, Race and Region

Edited By: Christine DeVine, Mary Ann Wilson

£44.99

This collection of essays crosses historical and disciplinary boundaries to ask if “north” and “south” represent real divisions. The essays interrogate boundaries—symbolic and literal, as communication and division—and explore how identity emerges across them.

The Holocaust and World War II

In History and In Memory

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

£49.99

This interdisciplinary volume explores the connection between World War II and the Holocaust in history and memory. Nineteen articles from prominent scholars, including acclaimed historian Gerhard L. Weinberg, examine presidential decisions, racial hatred, and more.

Health and Hazard

Spa Culture and the Social History of Medicine in the Nineteenth Century

By: Karl E. Wood

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The nineteenth-century European spa was an intersection of social class and medical ideas. It offers a unique opportunity to study a key shift: the rise of the order-giving physician over the compliant patient, and the turn from liberalism toward authoritarianism.

Pursuing Eudaimonia

Re-appropriating the Greek Philosophical Foundations of the Christian Apophatic Tradition

By: John Matthews

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This book recovers an ancient, ‘negative’ reason as a spiritual way of life. By investigating the Christian apophatic tradition and its philosophical heritage, it offers a path to rediscovering the wellsprings of human passion, desire and happiness.

Lesser Civil Wars

Civilians Defining War and the Memory of War

By: Marsha R. Robinson

Edited By: Marsha R. Robinson

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This book explores the cycle where the Memory of war, kept alive by civilians, creates the Will to fight again. It examines these "lesser civil wars"—the battles over memory in the Ohio River Valley that incubate a nation’s will to fight.

This book explores the cycle where the Memory of war, kept alive by civilians, creates the Will to fight again. It examines these “lesser civil wars”—the battles over memory in the Ohio River Valley that incubate a nation’s will to fight.

Constitutional Cultures

On the Concept and Representation of Constitutions in the Atlantic World

Edited By: Ulrike Bock, Katrin Dircksen, Silke Hensel

£54.99

This volume explores constitutions in the Atlantic World, showing their connectedness. To fully understand a constitutional order, it is necessary to analyse not just the legal text, but its implementation, legitimisation, and especially its culture.

Meteors that Enlighten the Earth

Napoleon and the Cult of Great Men

By: Matthew D. Zarzeczny

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Napoleon blended Roman and French traditions to honor great men, comparing himself to Caesar and Charlemagne. This book analyzes his ever-changing personal cult of “great men” and his recognition of contemporaries who contributed to human civilization.

History of Modern Cremation in Romania

By: Marius Rotar

£54.99

This history of cremation in Romania analyses key periods from 1867 to the present day. It covers the Interwar period, when Romania became the first Orthodox country with a crematorium, provoking a vehement reaction, and the Communist and post-Communist eras.

Culture, Power, and Security

New Directions in the History of National and International Security

Edited By: Mary Kathryn Barbier, Richard V. Damms

£39.99

A diverse group of historians grapples with the notion of “security” across time and geography. Drawing on new sources, these engaging essays offer fresh perspectives on military, political, intelligence, and foreign relations history.

Doubt, Time and Violence in Philosophical and Cultural Thought

Sino-Western Interpretations and Analysis

Edited By: Artur K. Wardega

£44.99

These essays confront the traumas of our postmodern world: loss of identity, media uniformity, violence, and climate change. Distinguished scholars explore these and other fascinating topics from Western and Chinese history to address our shared global concerns.