History – Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Collecting and Access

Edited By: Susan Bracken, Andrea M. Gáldy, Adriana Turpin

£67.99

Collections reflect the passions of their owners, but how did people get to see them? This book investigates an understudied field: "access" to collections before public museums. The essays show there were diverse types of access that served a range of purposes.

Collections reflect the passions of their owners, but how did people get to see them? This book investigates an understudied field: “access” to collections before public museums. The essays show there were diverse types of access that served a range of purposes.

Early Republican History in New Turkish Cinema

By: Deniz Gürgen Atalay

£72.99

This book explores how 1990s criticism reshaped the cinematic portrayal of Turkey's Early Republican Period. It examines how historical films about the Republic's founding were influenced by a new scrutiny of nationalism and the previously untouchable ideals of the era.

This book explores how 1990s criticism reshaped the cinematic portrayal of Turkey’s Early Republican Period. It examines how historical films about the Republic’s founding were influenced by a new scrutiny of nationalism and the previously untouchable ideals of the era.

Chinese Export Paintings

A Marketing Success Story

By: Maria Kar-wing Mok

£64.99

This book deciphers the formula for market success of Chinese export paintings, a unique and misunderstood East-meets-West art form. Dr Maria Mok reveals the tactical artistic decisions that made these paintings best-sellers for Western customers in the 18th and 19th centuries.

The Emblem and its Variations

Edited By: Paulette Choné, Marie Chaufour, Jean-Jacques Chardin

£75.99

An emblem is a combination of images and texts that flourished in the early modern period. This book presents the culture of the emblem, its influences on art, and its symbolism, reminding us that understanding images is as demanding today as it was centuries ago.

The Leonardos and the Forgotten Arab Polymath, Zoroastro

By: Susan Audrey Grundy

From £35.99

This book unmasks the legend of Leonardo da Vinci. Rediscovered documents show the artist was two different men: a Tuscan painter and an Ottoman agent. Crucially, a document proves the painter died in 1499, revealing the true artist of the Mona Lisa: Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio.

Women and Martyrdom in Stalinist War Cinema

Russia's Eternal Quest for Messianism

By: Mozhgan Samadi

From £35.99

This book challenges the idea of the compatibility of femininity and combat under Stalinism. It reveals how Stalinist war cinema drew on Russian religious tradition to create cinematic representations of Soviet women during WWII, serving collective identity-construction policies.

Shakespeare’s Reception and Interpretation in the Baltics

By: Ramunė Marcinkevičiūtė, Maris Peters, Guna Zeltiņa

From £37.99

This is the first collection of research in English on interpretations of Shakespeare in the Baltic countries. Written by leading researchers, it analyzes Shakespeare’s importance in developing Baltic national culture and introduces the unique experience of Baltic theatre.

Visual, Material and Textual Cultures of Food and Drink in China, 200 BCE-1900 CE

Edited By: Stacey Pierson

From £40.99

Explore the history of Chinese food and drink through its utensils, ingredients, and dining practices. This collection of essays examines items from Han jade goblets to 18th century imperial tea houses to reveal the evolution of culinary concepts and food cultures in China.

Placing the Origins of the Buddha

An Island, Its People, and an Orientalist Odyssey

By: Bhadrajee S. Hewage

From £29.99

For two centuries, the Buddha’s origin story has been accepted as fact. But is it built on a flawed foundation? This book exposes the stunning inconsistencies in the evidence, demanding a radical rethinking of early Buddhism’s true beginnings.

Age, Ages and Ageing in the Greco-Roman World

Edited By: Mary Harlow, Lena Larsson Lovén

From £32.99

From mythological satyrs and wicked imperial stepmothers to misbehaving students and obstreperous old Athenians, this volume investigates attitudes to age in the ancient world, exploring intergenerational relationships and the intersections with gender, class and status.

Frans Hals in America

Collectors, Scholars, and Connoisseurs

By: Dennis P. Weller

From £37.99

Frans Hals was one of the most gifted masters of Dutch seventeenth-century art. This book explores the narrative of Hals in America, from his rediscovery by Gilded Age collectors to the thorny issues of attribution and the impact of a dynamic art market over a century.

Theatres of Rebellion in Nicaragua

From the Colony to the Sandinista Revolution

By: Alberto Guevara

From £29.99

To understand Nicaragua today, we must look at its theatrical performances of power and resistance. This book examines the nation's history, from the colonial period to the Sandinista Revolution, to reveal the critical connection between revolt and cultural performance.

To understand Nicaragua today, we must look at its theatrical performances of power and resistance. This book examines the nation’s history, from the colonial period to the Sandinista Revolution, to reveal the critical connection between revolt and cultural performance.

Memorializing and Decolonizing Practices in the Francophone Caribbean and Other Spaces

Edited By: Stéphanie Melyon-Reinette

From £32.99

This hybrid collection of essays and self-portraits explores the ‘mark’—from heritage and race to trauma and scars. Through various art forms, it tackles identity, emancipation, and self-determination in postcolonial France and the French Caribbean.

The Visual Perception of Deities from the Palaeolithic to the Present

Faces of Gods

By: Sirpa Aalto, Uta Herzog, Peter Hupfauf, Rudolf Simek

From £29.99

For 30,000 years, humans have created visual expressions of their sacred beings. This book investigates these interpretations of deities throughout history, exploring the psychological necessity for us to create gods and goddesses in a human-like form.

The Gladiators vs. Spartacus, Volume 2

Abraham Polonsky’s Screenplay

By: Abraham Polonsky

From £35.99

From blacklisted director Abraham Polonsky, this is the unproduced screenplay for The Gladiators. He transformed Arthur Koestler’s complex novel of an ancient slave rebellion into a script worthy of its bold vision, but due to bad timing, it never went before the cameras.

The Gladiators vs. Spartacus, Volume 1

Dueling Productions in Blacklist Hollywood

By: Henry MacAdam, Duncan Cooper

From £35.99

Using unpublished sources, this book documents the intense rivalry between movie productions of The Gladiators and Spartacus. This little-known chapter of Hollywood's blacklist history was key to Dalton Trumbo's successful effort to win screen credit.

Using unpublished sources, this book documents the intense rivalry between movie productions of The Gladiators and Spartacus. This little-known chapter of Hollywood’s blacklist history was key to Dalton Trumbo’s successful effort to win screen credit.

Global History, Visual Culture and Itinerancies

Changes and Continuities

Edited By: Francisco José Díaz Marcilla, Jorge Tomás García, Yvette Sobral dos Santos

From £32.99

This chronologically ambitious book investigates globalization from Roman times to the present. It argues that itinerant agents carry cultural baggage, transporting and transmitting it to create interconnections and produce active changes in global history.

Arts, Politics and Social Movements

In the Fields and in the Streets

Edited By: Elena Raviola, Elen Riot, Claudia Schnugg

From £32.99

This collection describes artistic and activist actions challenging the existing order. With case studies from Europe and the US, it questions contemporary ideas in the face of the Great Transition, proposing utopian forms and asking the vital question: "what is to be done?"

Tracing the Landscape of Dance in Greece

By: Katia Savrami

From £29.99

This volume explores dance’s role in modern Greek society, from ballet to contemporary genres. It uncovers factors affecting its development over the last century and asks why dance has yet to be established as an academic discipline, inspiring future artists to advocate for it.

Depictions of the Three Orders and Estates around the Year 1500

Triplex Status Mundi

By: Tomislav Vignjević

From £25.99

This volume highlights the copious depictions of society's three orders—the oratores, bellatores, and laboratores—in the Late Middle Ages and Early Modern Period. The vast visual material proves this trifunctional division was a widespread ideological foundation.

This volume highlights the copious depictions of society’s three orders—the oratores, bellatores, and laboratores—in the Late Middle Ages and Early Modern Period. The vast visual material proves this trifunctional division was a widespread ideological foundation.