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The Atlantic World in the Antipodes

Effects and Transformations since the Eighteenth Century

Edited By: Kate Fullagar

£44.99

This collection of essays investigates the transformations of ideas, peoples, and institutions from the Atlantic World when carried into the Antipodes. The chapters underscore how both oceanic worlds were co-produced through intellectual and practical interactions.

Civic Duty

Public Services in the Early Modern Low Countries

By: Manon van der Heijden

£39.99

This study offers a new view on public services in the early modern Low Countries. It explores who provided services between 1500 and 1800, how they were rewarded, and how these responsibilities were shaped by conceptions of citizenship and collective interest.

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.

Reconsidering a Lost Intellectual Project

Exiles’ Reflections on Cultural Differences

Edited By: José M. Faraldo, Carolina Rodríguez-López

£34.99

This book explores how transnational experiences shaped the views of intellectuals exiled between 1933–1945. Essays focus on German, Spanish, and East European cases, comparing how exiles reconsidered their past in light of their new homelands.

The Middle East and the Cold War

Between Security and Development

Edited By: Matteo Gerlini, Massimiliano Trentin

£34.99

This volume integrates historical debate with fresh insights on the Cold War's impact on the Middle East. Superpowers proved constrained in their interventions, while Middle Eastern rulers enjoyed remarkable autonomy, exploiting global rivalry to achieve their goals.

This volume integrates historical debate with fresh insights on the Cold War’s impact on the Middle East. Superpowers proved constrained in their interventions, while Middle Eastern rulers enjoyed remarkable autonomy, exploiting global rivalry to achieve their goals.

‘A Storme Out of Wales’

The Second Civil War in South Wales, 1648

By: Robert Matthews

£39.99

This is the first detailed study of the 1648 revolt in Wales, covering the Battle of St. Fagans and Cromwell’s campaign. It offers a radical reinterpretation: not a Royalist uprising, but a localist revolt against a centralising government.

The Captivity Narrative

Enduring Shackles and Emancipating Language of Subjectivity

Edited By: Benjamin Mark Allen

£34.99

These scholarly essays assess captivity, exploring how captives expressed psychological duress and coped with bondage. Offering historical, literary, and philosophical analyses, topics range from 17th-century captivity to 21st-century prisoner narratives.

To be a Sailor’s Wife

By: Hanna Hagmark-Cooper

£34.99

This book brings maritime women’s experiences to the fore. Based on the life stories of seafarers’ wives from the Åland Islands, it explores their perception of leading two parallel lives and investigates their attitudes to the myths surrounding their image.

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?

Crafting Identities, Remapping Nationalities

The English-Speaking World in the Age of Globalization

Edited By: Cécile Coquet-Mokoko, Trevor Harris

£34.99

In multicultural societies, identity is a battleground between myths of purity and the need to belong. This book explores how people use the politics of memory to forge personal and communal narratives of self-definition and belonging.

The 1960s in Australia

People, Power and Politics

Edited By: Shirleene Robinson, Julie Ustinoff

£39.99

The 1960s is a heavily mythologised decade. This collection challenges that myth, showing that not everyone in Australia experienced it the same way. Expert historians explore the complex social realities, power, and politics of this significant time.

Historical Knowledge

In Quest of Theory, Method and Evidence

Edited By: Susanna Fellman, Marjatta Rahikainen

£39.99

This book offers theoretical and methodological building blocks for historical research. It addresses the challenges of evidence and interpreting the past, featuring texts by eminent historians Natalie Zemon Davis, Carlo Ginzburg, and Giovanni Levi.

The Emergence of a Greek Identity (1700-1821)

By: Stratos Myrogiannis

£39.99

This book reveals how Greek Enlightenment intellectuals forged a modern national identity. They reframed history to include Byzantium and transformed liberal Enlightenment ideas into a nationalist ideology, paving the way for the War of Independence in 1821.

Aesopic Voices

Re-framing Truth through Concealed Ways of Presentation in the 20th and 21st Centuries

Edited By: Philip Morrisey, Gert Reifarth

£49.99

When circumstances are hostile to truth, critical thinkers may use Aesopic language—veiling opinions in fables and myths. This collection breaks new academic ground, offering thought-provoking insights into this subversive art across five continents.

Islands and Britishness

A Global Perspective

Edited By: Jodie Matthews

£39.99

What does it mean to be an islander? This collection explores the complex relationship between islands and Britain, examining how empire, tourism, and language shape identity from Jersey to Jamaica, offering a global perspective on Britishness.

The Life and Legacy of George Leslie Mackay

An Interdisciplinary Study of Canada’s First Presbyterian Missionary to Northern Taiwan (1872 – 1901)

Edited By: Clyde R. Forsberg Jr.

£34.99

This study explores George Leslie Mackay, a 19th-century Canadian missionary in Taiwan. He defied colonial norms by ordaining aboriginal ministers and marrying a Taiwanese woman, creating a unique “biculture” of foreign initiative and aboriginal agency.

Receptions and Re-visitings

Review Articles, 1978-2011 and Social History, Local History, and Historiography

By: Roger C. Richardson

£59.99

This wide-ranging collection of essays on early modern English history explores the English Revolution, social change, politics, and historiography. This accessibly written guide is a rewarding volume for general readers and specialists alike.

Social History, Local History, and Historiography

Collected Essays

By: Roger C. Richardson

£39.99

These wide-ranging essays on early modern English history explore social change, the Revolution, Puritanism, and historical writing. Stressing the inter-connectedness of social and local history, this rewarding volume will interest specialists and non-specialists.

Re-reading Pat Barker

Edited By: Pat Wheeler

£34.99

International scholars explore the work of Pat Barker, one of Britain’s most notable novelists. This collection offers fresh and innovative readings on themes of gender, class, and violence, exploring the social and ethical issues in her novels.

Writing Out of Limbo

International Childhoods, Global Nomads and Third Culture Kids

Edited By: Nina Sichel, Elaine Neil Orr, Faith Eidse

From £29.99

They are Third Culture Kids. While their global lifestyle offers an expanded worldview, it brings recurring losses. In this collection, writers from around the world explore the search for identity, belonging, and a place to call “home.”