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Saharan Crossroads

Exploring Historical, Cultural, and Artistic Linkages between North and West Africa

Edited By: Tara F. Deubel, Hélène Tissières, Scott M. Youngstedt

£54.99

The Sahara is not a barrier, but a vibrant crossroads. This book explores millennia of historical, cultural, and artistic linkages between North and West Africa, revealing long histories of peaceful coexistence, interdependence, and cooperation.

The Third Wave of Historical Scholarship on Nigeria

Essays in Honor of Ayodeji Olukoju

Edited By: Saheed Aderinto, Paul Osifodunrin

£54.99

This volume in honor of historian Ayodeji Olukoju ventures into uncharted terrain in Nigerian history. It presents groundbreaking scholarship on underresearched topics like sexuality, youth, and crime, offering historical explanations for Nigeria’s challenges.

The Ionian Islands

Aspects of their History and Culture

Edited By: Anthony Hirst, Patrick Sammon

£54.99

The Ionian Islands: an East-West crossroads ruled by Venice and Britain. This book explores their rich history, archaeology, and culture, from Homer’s Bronze Age to today, with a special focus on the British Protectorate (1815-1864).

The Holocaust

Memories and History

Edited By: Ryan Barrick, Abigail S Gruber, David Misal

£54.99

This collection of scholarly articles analyzes Holocaust testimonies, photographs, literature, and films. Based on multi-disciplinary research, these essays provide new perspectives on the Holocaust and explore innovative methods for teaching its significance.

The Selected Letters of Alice Meynell

Poet and Essayist

Edited By: Damian Atkinson

£54.99

Catholic convert Alice Meynell was a sophisticated essayist and poet of the late Victorian era. With her husband, she was central to the literary world, editing journals and famously publishing Francis Thompson’s “The Hound of Heaven.”

From Distant Tales

Archaeology and Ethnohistory in the Highlands of Sumatra

Edited By: Dominik Bonatz, John Miksic, J. David Neidel

£54.99

The most comprehensive book on Sumatra in over half a century. Despite its major role in world trade for 2,000 years, its rich culture and archaeology have been surprisingly neglected. This volume by leading authorities remedies this defect.

Nazi Ideology and Ethics

Edited By: Wolfgang Bialas, Lothar Fritze

£54.99

This volume explores the ethics of National Socialism, from its ideology of racial warfare and “euthanasia” killings to the moral convictions of perpetrators who acted with a “good conscience.” It connects Nazi ideology to current ethical challenges.

Coming Home?

Conflict and Return Migration in Post-Civil War Europe of the Twentieth-Century and in the Context of France and North Africa, 1962–2009, in Two Volumes

Edited By: Sharif Gemie, Norry LaPorte

£54.99

The wars of the twentieth century created the refugee. Forced displacement, in turn, created its own conflicts. This series explores the complex relationship between conflict, return migration, and the compelling, often elusive, search for a sense of home.

Life and Work of Pauline Viardot Garcia, vol. I

The Years of Fame 1836-1863 Second Edition

By: Barbara Kendall-Davies

£54.99

Once famous, now obscure, Pauline Viardot Garcia was one of the most important singers of the 19th century. A superb singer, composer, and pianist, she was a muse to composers, a friend of Chopin and George Sand, and loved by Ivan Turgenev.

Latin American Bureaucracy and the State Building Process (1780-1860)

Edited By: Juan Carlos Garavaglia, Juan Pro Ruiz

£54.99

While most analyses of state formation focus on Europe and North America, this volume pays particular attention to Latin America. It provides the first detailed perspective on the formation of the State’s bureaucracies and offers an innovative analysis.

New Perspectives on Late Antiquity

Edited By: David Hernández de la Fuente

£54.99

Late Antiquity (3rd–7th c.) was a first Renaissance, shaping the Western World. This volume combines diverse methodologies, with leading scholars offering a scientific update on new research in history, archaeology, philosophy, and classical studies.

In the Light and Shadow of an Emperor

Tomás Pereira, SJ (1645–1708), the Kangxi Emperor and the Jesuit Mission in China

Edited By: Artur K. Wardega

£54.99

These essays explore the decisive moments of the Jesuit mission in China during the Kangxi era, focusing on the neglected Tomás Pereira. A musician and diplomat closer to the emperor than any Westerner, his influence was ultimately undermined by a papal legation.

Daimonic Imagination

Uncanny Intelligence

Edited By: Patrick Curry, William Rowlandson

£54.99

This volume of essays celebrates the daimonic presence—god, angel, muse, spirit—and its role in inspired creativity. Contributors evoke the daimon through history, literature, and encounter, exploring humanity’s relationship with mysterious and numinous reality.

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.

Blest Gana via Machiavelli and Cervantes

National Identity and Social Order in Chile

By: Patricia Vilches

£57.99

Vilches reflects on the work of Chilean author Alberto Blest Gana (1830–1920) through the lens of Machiavelli and Cervantes. She delves into Chile’s emergence as a nation, and illustrates conflicts among the political parties and social classes in the early days of independence.

The B. S. Johnson – Zulfikar Ghose Correspondence

Edited By: Vanessa Guignery

£57.99

From 1959 to 1973, writers B. S. Johnson and Zulfikar Ghose exchanged letters containing detailed analyses of their work. This correspondence offers personal revelations and provides insight into their lives, conjuring a picture of the London literary world of the 1960s.

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.

Africa’s Many Divides and Africa’s Future

Pursuing Nkrumah`s Vision of Pan-Africanism in an Era of Globalization

Edited By: Vincent Dodoo, Charles Quist-Adade, Wendy Royal

£57.99

"If in the past the Sahara divided us, now it unites us," Kwame Nkrumah declared. Determined to bridge Africa’s many divides, he proposed a pan-African government. This collection of papers contextualizes his vision in an era of globalization.

“If in the past the Sahara divided us, now it unites us,” Kwame Nkrumah declared. Determined to bridge Africa’s many divides, he proposed a pan-African government. This collection of papers contextualizes his vision in an era of globalization.

The History of U.S. Information Control in Post-War Germany

The Past Imperfect

By: Erwin J. Warkentin

£57.99

Warkentin summarises the activities and methods of the American military’s Information Control Division. He also offers his perspective on how the US occupation of Germany in 1945 utilised psychologists, sociologists and others to vet candidates for media licenses in Germany.

Mathematics in Industry

Edited By: Angela Slavova

£57.99

This book presents achievements in industrial and applied mathematics, offering new methods and algorithms for solving real-life problems. It promotes interdisciplinary collaboration and covers topics like numerical methods, control systems, and scientific computing.