Early Globalism and Chinese Literature
Exploring early globalism and Chinese literature through the lens of literary diffusion, this Element analyzes two primary forms. The first is Buddhist literary diffusion, whose revolutionary impact on Chinese language and literature is illustrated through scriptural translation, transformation texts, and journey to the West stories. The second, facilitated diffusion, engages with the maritime world, traced through the seafaring journey of...Paperback$7500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
Early Globalism and Chinese Literature
Exploring early globalism and Chinese literature through the lens of literary diffusion, this Element analyses two primary forms. The first is Buddhist literary diffusion, whose revolutionary impact on Chinese language and literature is illustrated through scriptural translation, transformation texts, and journey to the West stories. The second, facilitated diffusion, engages with the maritime world, traced through the seafaring journey of...Hardback$21300Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
Pre-orderDundee and the Empire
In the half-century before the First World War, Britain simultaneously expanded its empire and globalised its economy. Dundee and the Empire uses the case of Dundee to analyse the impact of these issues of empire and globalisation, covering the 'expansionary' period before 1914 and the much more difficult era from the First to the Second War. Dundee is especially well-suited...Paperback$4999Unit price /UnavailableOut 7 Aug 2026Pre-order
Dora's Dream
Birmingham, 1858: Dora, a spirited young maid with a vivid imagination, finds solace in the library of the esteemed family she works for. But when a forbidden love leads to a secret that could ruin her, Dora has no choice but to leave the only place that has ever offered her security and kindness. Alone in Birmingham's teeming industrial streets,...Paperback$7000Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
Does Scripture Speak for Itself?
Is the Bible the unembellished Word of God or the product of human agency? There are different answers to that question. And they lie at the heart of this book's powerful exploration of the fraught ways in which money, race, and power shape the story of Christianity in American public life. The authors' subject is the Museum of the Bible...Hardback$7200Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
Documenting Gen ’95er Voices from Catalonia
Documenting Gen ’95er Voices from Catalonia documents linguistic practices and ideologies toward language, identity, and nationalism among 35 members of the first generation in Spain to grow up with democracy and Catalan language normalisation. Part I reproduces, translates, and analyses artifacts (1975–1998) concerning language shift, linguistic nationalism, and Europeanisation, illustrating contemporaneous sociologies of language and globalisation in Catalonia. Part II...Hardback$38800Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks-
Doctors' Riot of 1788
Throughout the seventeenth century, medical lecturers demonstrated human anatomy by dissecting a cadaver while surrounded by students. After the Revolutionary War, instructors realised that they needed many more cadavers to serve a growing number of medical students. Enter the “resurrectionists” – body snatchers. Resurrectionists were a cruel lot; men (almost always men and often medical students themselves) who would sneak...Hardback$7777Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks -
Dionysos
A landmark account of the Dionysos myth as an archetypal expression of indestructible life. No other god of the Greeks is as widely present in the monuments and ritual practices of antiquity as Dionysos. In this book, acclaimed mythologist and historian of religion Carl Kerenyi presents an engaging history of the religion of Dionysos from its beginnings in the Minoan...Hardback$24100Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks 
Digital Modernity
This is the first systematic theorization of digital modernity, arguing that the digital age cannot be understood apart from the long historical arc of modernity. Bridging digital humanities, critical theory, sociology, philosophy, and global history, Digital Modernity demonstrates that contemporary digital systems are continuations rather than ruptures of the modern project. It offers a robust conceptual framework for examining how...Hardback$54600Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
Dibia’s World: Life on an Early Sugar Plantation
Dibia’s World: Life on an Early Sugar Plantation tells the story of Dibia, who was educated in Africa, stolen across the sea, and sold into slavery. He spent the rest of his life on a sugar plantation, working with Agoüya, drinking Aboré’s rum, marrying Izabelle, and having a son named Paul. This book paints a vivid picture of the community...Paperback$15000Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks-
Diachronic Narratology in Greek Myth
Diachronic Narratology in Greek Myth looks at ancient Greek mythology from the viewpoint of its storytelling through time. There are hundreds of different figures and stories in Greek mythology, interconnected in a complex narrative network. While earlier research often sought to penetrate the core of the seemingly 'true' or 'original' myths, it is now better understood that the way the...Paperback$7500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks -
Determining Provenance from Compositional Data
Traditionally, classical multivariate statistical methods have been applied to relate cultural materials recovered at archaeological sites to their respective raw material sources. However, when reviewing published research, which usually claims to have reached a high degree of confidence in the assignment of materials, the authors have detected that those applying these methods can make serious errors that compromise the inferences...Paperback$7500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks -
Determining Provenance from Compositional Data
Traditionally, classical multivariate statistical methods have been applied to relate cultural materials recovered at archaeological sites to their respective raw material sources. However, when reviewing published research, which usually claims to have reached a high degree of confidence in the assignment of materials, the authors have detected that those applying these methods can make serious errors that compromise the inferences...Hardback$21300Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks 
Deserter Declarations
This book explores nearly two hundred letters from Confederate deserters to Governor Zebulon B. Vance from 1861 to 1865. It shares the voices of deserters or friends and family petitioning on their behalf. Deserter Declarations helps us understand who deserters were and lets us tease out some of the factors that motivated soldiers to leave their posts. These letters add...Hardback$40400Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks-
Deserted Wives and Economic Divorce in 19th-Century England and Wales
This book considers Section 21 of the Divorce and Matrimonial Causes Act 1857 and its significant impact on previously invisible married women in the 19th century. Tens of thousands of women used this little-known section of the Act to apply for orders from local magistrates' courts to reclaim their rights of testation, inheritance, property ownership, and (dependent on local franchise...Paperback$19000Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks 
Defining Moments in Black History
NAACP 2017 Image Award Winner With his trademark acerbic wit, incisive humour, and infectious paranoia, one of our foremost comedians and most politically engaged civil rights activists looks back at 100 key events from the complicated history of black America. A friend of luminaries including Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Medgar Evers, and the forebear of today's popular black...Paperback$4700Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
Defending Democracy in the European Parliament
The rise of the far right in the European Parliament and the institutional pushback it provoked In recent years, far-right political parties have grown in influence not only in the domestic politics of countries such as Hungary, Brazil, and the United States, but also in international institutions ranging from the United Nations Human Rights Council to the European Union. Have...Paperback$8800Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks-
Decolonizing Emotions in French Algeria
Alongside the diplomatic struggles of the early Cold War, European politicians worked to shape emotions about the postwar order—advocating fear of communism and hope for postwar recovery. In this context, the French Empire in North Africa emerged as one important emotional battleground, where Algerian nationalists and anti-colonial campaigners challenged French narratives about imperial pride and native hysteria. During the Algerian...Paperback$13500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks 
Decolonising International Solidarity
Decolonising International Solidarity analyses the post-independence trajectories of formerly colonised countries in Africa and the Middle East from an unexplored angle: the differences between the natural environments of coloniser and colonised. Most explanations for the bumpy post-independence trajectory of many countries in Africa and the Middle East presuppose the existence of an objective, universal development format, modelled on western European...Hardback$32200Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
Declared Defective
Declared Defective is the anthropological history of an outcast community and a critical reevaluation of The Nam Family, written in 1912 by Arthur Estabrook and Charles Davenport, leaders of the early twentieth-century eugenics movement. Based on their investigations of an obscure rural enclave in upstate New York, the biologists were repulsed by the poverty and behaviour of the people in...Paperback$9700Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks-
Dear Senator: A Daughter's Memoir
Breaking nearly eight decades of silence, Essie Mae Washington-Williams comes forward with a story of unique historical magnitude and incredible human drama. Her father, the late Strom Thurmond, was once the nation's leading voice for racial segregation (one of his signature political achievements was his 24-hour filibuster against the Civil Rights Act of 1957, done in the name of saving...Paperback$5400Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks 
Deadly Divide
When most people picture the US-Mexico border, they think of walls, fences, concrete, and wire. However, in this first history of how the environment influenced physical boundary-making between the two nations, Mary E. Mendoza focuses on how the natural world shaped ideas about race, gender, and security. In so doing, she unearths surprising origins of the modern-day immigration debate. Mexican...Hardback$30800Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
Dawn of an Empire
Before Jamestown. Before Plymouth. There was St. Augustine. In 1565—fifty-five years before the Pilgrims set foot at Plymouth Rock—Spanish ships slipped along the Florida coast and anchored in a shallow inlet guarded by marsh and sand. What they built there would become the oldest continuously occupied European-founded city in the continental United States. Yet its story has been pushed to...Hardback$9800Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
Pre-orderDavid Brewster and the Culture of Science in Scotland, 1793–1843
The decades between the French Revolution and the mid-nineteenth century were a period of radical transformation in Scottish society and culture on many levels. The Scottish Enlightenment had seen a striking blossoming of the natural sciences, with the development of a distinctive and influential national scientific culture. The natural philosopher David Brewster was educated in Edinburgh amidst the intellectual ferment...Paperback$4999Unit price /UnavailableOut 8 Sep 2026Pre-order
Daughter of Genoa
Enthralling and eloquently bittersweet—a vivid historical portrait of the pivotal yet overlooked struggle to save Italian Jews in WWII, and how one unforgettable woman risks everything for love. Devereaux writes with great authority and masterfully blends imagination and history. A deeply affective novel that captivated me from the first page." — Shelly Sanders, bestselling author of Daughters of The Occupation...Paperback$5300Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks-
Das Gespenst des Totalitarismus
Es gab ja einmal Zeiten, als das Gespenst des Kommunismus in der bürgerlichen Welt Angst und Schrecken verbreitete. Mittlerweile ist es den herrschenden Mächten aber gelungen, jeden Einspruch gegen ihre Herrschaft zum Totalitarismus zu erklären, den Faschismus und Kommunismus gemeinsam hätten. So soll jede Opposition zu ihrer Gesellschaftsordnung als Geisteshaltung verwirrter Menschen angeprangert und im Keim erstickt werden. Aufgrund der...Paperback$4900Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks -
Daily Life in the American West
Daily Life in the American West explores the lives of a wide range of people who struggled to make a home for themselves in this harsh and unforgiving region. It includes descriptions of how various people lived their daily lives, from nomadic Indian tribes to Chinese immigrants, and from cowboys to city-dwellers. The book conveys how these individual lives are...Paperback$10500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks -
Cry of Murder on Broadway
In Cry of Murder on Broadway, Julie Miller shows how a woman's desperate attempt at murder came to momentarily embody the anger and anxiety felt by many people at a time of economic and social upheaval and expanding expectations for equal rights. On the evening of November 1, 1843, a young household servant named Amelia Norman attacked Henry Ballard, a...Hardback$7499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks -
Critical Failures
Critical Failures revisits the overlooked messiness at the heart of Japan's early experiments with modern criticism. In the Meiji era, young intellectuals posited that mastering the art of critical reading – called hihyō – was essential for Japan's advancement on the world stage. Yet, while they made concerted efforts to theorize hihyō and proposed ambitious ideals, their actual reading practice...Hardback$44900Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks -
Critical Failures
Critical Failures revisits the overlooked messiness at the heart of Japan's early experiments with modern criticism. In the Meiji era, young intellectuals posited that mastering the art of critical reading – called hihyō – was essential for Japan's advancement on the world stage. Yet, while they made concerted efforts to theorise hihyō and proposed ambitious ideals, their actual reading practice...Paperback$12200Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks -
Crimes of States and Powerful Elites
A collection of case studies investigating the crimes of the powerful, the social harms caused and the perpetuation of inequalities through lack of prosecution. Crimes of States and Powerful Elites explores fourteen case studies of state crime and immoralities of the powerful, including disasters caused by neglect, pharmaceutical fraud, state-sponsored or instigated crime, corporate crime, organisational crime, and state terrorism....Paperback$11700Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks -
Contesting Memorial Spaces of Japan's Empire
Ongoing arguments over how histories are honoured – as evidenced by the conflict between South Korea and Japan over the opening of Tokyo’s Heritage Information Centre in June 2020 – reveal the extent to which heritage processes enable states to assert legitimacy and power on a global stage. Here, Contesting Memorial Spaces of Japan’s Empire shines a timely spotlight on...Paperback$13400Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks -
Constructing American Childhood
How definitions of childhood in early America codified social hierarchies and remain with us today As of 2025, in the United States an eleven-year-old child can be charged with a federal crime, while in many states it is illegal to leave a twelve-year-old home alone. Twenty-six states allow children younger than sixteen to marry, while the legal drinking age remains...Hardback$34100Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks -
Connecting with Ambivalent Heritage
Exploring the difficult and contested sites of deindustrialised society on the brink of transformation to either heritage or wasteland, this open access volume looks at the creative ways that such sites are (re)used and suggests that they are not always merely abject or abandoned. As a result, our understanding of the meanings given to leftover spaces is enhanced by an...Paperback$13500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks -
Confronting Saddam Hussein
A vivid portrayal of what drove George W. Bush to invade Iraq in 2003—an outcome that was in no way predetermined. America's decision to go to war in Iraq in 2003 is arguably the most important foreign policy choice of the entire post-Cold War era. Nearly two decades after the event, it remains central to understanding current international politics and...Hardback$8600Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks 
Confronting China
Informed by senior policymakers with extensive expertise in defence policy, this book provides a comprehensive regional and functional perspective on US policy toward the People’s Republic of China. Confronting China addresses the central security questions of our generation: How best can the United States deter Chinese aggression and win the peace? China’s pursuit of global hegemony reflects a patient yet...Paperback$13700Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks-
Concubines in Public
Moving beyond familiar narratives of abolition, Xia Shi introduces the contentious public presence of concubines in Republican China. Drawing on a rich variety of historical sources, Shi highlights the shifting social and educational backgrounds of concubines, showing how some served as public companions of elite men in China and on the international stage from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth...Hardback$26700Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks -
Common Enemies
During the 1980s, Black athletes and other athletes of colour broadened the popularity and profitability of major-college televised sports by infusing games with a "Black style" of play. At a moment ripe for a revolution in men's college basketball and football, clashes between "good guy" white protagonists and bombastic "bad boy" Black antagonists attracted new fans and spectators. And no...Hardback$7500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks 
Command
Using examples from a wide variety of conflicts, Lawrence Freedman shows that successful military command depends on the ability not only to use armed forces effectively but also to understand the political context in which they are operating. Command in war is about forging effective strategies and implementing them, ensuring that orders are appropriate, well-communicated, and then obeyed. It is...Hardback$9500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks-
Colonial Urbanism in the Age of the Enlightenment
This book tells the story of how the monarchy aimed at creating a new capital city in a remote and forgotten area of the empire. It also shows how the local Creole bourgeoisie rapidly assumed the role of urban developers, and enhanced their economic status by investing in and controlling the Buenos Aires' property market. In a short period, from...Paperback$11500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks 
Collecting Knowledge in East and West
This is a festschrift in honour of Arnoud Vrolijk, the emeritus curator of Oriental manuscripts and rare books at Leiden University Libraries. His title of Interpres Legati Warneriani refers to the role of keeper of the manuscripts bequeathed to the Library of the University of Leiden by Levinus Warner in 1665. The eighteen articles, ranging from book history to manuscript...Hardback$50900Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks-
Cinema Before the World
Cinema Before the World investigates the transnational origins of filmmaking by focusing on a case study in world cinema – the 1896-1897 voyage of one of the Lumière Brothers' camera operators, Alexandre Promio, across North Africa and the Middle East. The book shows how the sites in these early films are not simply backdrops, but integral to film form and...Hardback$31000Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks 
Christ’s war
Christ's War examines Carolingian holy war from the forging of their empire in the eighth century to its dissolution in the late ninth century during the Northmen's attacks. It argues that the Franks understood their wars to be holy when their soldiers were without sin and, therefore, were holy themselves. God heard their prayers as they begged for divine aid,...Hardback$38000Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
Chinese Cosmopolitanism
A provocative defence of a forgotten Chinese approach to identity and difference. Historically, the Western encounter with difference has been catastrophic: the extermination and displacement of aboriginal populations, the transatlantic slave trade, and colonialism. China, however, took a different historical path. In Chinese Cosmopolitanism, Shuchen Xiang argues that the Chinese cultural tradition was, from its formative beginnings and throughout its...Paperback$9600Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks-
Children of Ash and Elm
From a distinguished archaeologist, the definitive history of the Vikings—from arts and culture to politics and cosmology. "A thrilling read." --Wall Street Journal The Viking Age saw an unprecedented expansion of the Scandinavian peoples into the world. As traders and raiders, explorers and colonists, they ranged from eastern North America to the Asian steppe. But for centuries, the Vikings have...Paperback$6000Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks 
Pre-orderCatastrophic Technology in Cold War Political Thought
In the mid-twentieth century, a certain idea of technology emerged in the work of many influential political theorists: a critical, catastrophic concept of technology, entangled with the apocalyptic fears fuelled by two all-consuming world wars and the looming nuclear threat. Drawing on the work of theorists such as Hannah Arendt, Jacques Ellul, Martin Heidegger and Herbert Marcuse, Catastrophic Technology in...Paperback$6999Unit price /UnavailableOut 8 Sep 2026Pre-order-
Canal Dreamers
In the 1820s, there was a little-known quest to unite the world by building a waterway between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. As new Spanish American nations declared independence and new canals intensified US expansion and British industrialisation, many imagined the construction of an interoceanic canal as predestined. With dreams substituting for data, an international cast of politicians, lawyers, philosophers,...Paperback$9800Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks -
Bowling Alone
The basis for the documentary Join or Die—now streaming on Netflix! Updated to include a new chapter about the influence of social media and the Internet—the 20th anniversary edition of Bowling Alone remains a seminal work of social analysis, and its examination of what happened to our sense of community remains more relevant than ever in today's fractured America. Twenty...Paperback$5800Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks -
Borne by the River
After a near-fatal stroke and a separation, amidst a global pandemic, Rick Van Noy decided to go for a paddle. In Borne by the River, he charts the story of discovery and healing that came from this solo canoe journey. Paddling two hundred miles on the Delaware River to his boyhood home just upriver from Trenton, New Jersey, Van Noy...Paperback$5100Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks -
Borders of Biodiversity
What happens to species when climate disruption causes suitable habitat within one country to move or vanish? In Borders of Biodiversity, Will Wright examines the histories of transnational conservation efforts to address the tension between a warming world in which living things are on the move and an increasingly walled world in which their movements are constrained. Focusing on the...Hardback$31200Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks 
Book and Danger
The untold story of the academics who became OSS spies, invented modern spycraft, and helped turn the tide of the war At the start of WWII, the U.S. found itself in desperate need of an intelligence agency. The Office of Strategic Services (OSS), a precursor to today's CIA, was quickly formed—and, in an effort to fill its ranks with experts,...Paperback$5400Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
Black Reconstruction in America 1860-1880
The pioneering work in the study of the role of Black Americans during Reconstruction by the most influential Black intellectual of his time. This pioneering work was the first full-length study of the role Black Americans played in the crucial period after the Civil War, when the slaves had been freed and the attempt was made to reconstruct American society....Paperback$7700Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks-
Black at Baylor
Black at Baylor: Vital Voices of the First Generation explores the stories of thirteen of the first Black students to enrol at Baylor University in the 1960s and early 1970s. Each chapter chronicles an individual student's account of their lived experience of integration within spaces segregated for over a century at the oldest university in Texas. The thirteen students varied...Paperback$8300Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks -
Beyond the Elite
Beyond the Elite focuses on the everyday social history of Jews in medieval northern and central Europe using four interpretive lenses: people, space, objects, and rituals. Contributors to this innovative volume discuss aspects of daily life through which non-elite Jews interacted with their Christian neighbours, while at the same time creating and affirming their own religious, social, and cultural identities....Hardback$44900Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks -
Beyond the Elite
Beyond the Elite focuses on the everyday social history of Jews in medieval northern and central Europe using four interpretive lenses: people, space, objects, and rituals. Contributors to this innovative volume discuss aspects of daily life through which non-elite Jews interacted with their Christian neighbours, while at the same time creating and affirming their own religious, social, and cultural identities....Paperback$12600Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks -
Between the Buddha and the New Tsar
Between the Buddha and the New Tsar is an ethnography of contemporary urban Buddhism in Buryatia, a republic within the Russian Federation. Kristina Jonutytė shows how – in this ethnically and religiously diverse borderland region – Buryat Buddhists are caught between an oppressive, militant Russian regime and the tenacity of local religious and cultural forms. As Jonutytė narrates, historically Buryat...Hardback$44900Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks -
Betrayal of the Homeland
The Syrian regime endured the uprisings that began in 2011, aided by Russian military intervention in 2015 that changed the trajectory of the conflict and brought more territory under government control, until its eventual collapse in 2024. Over this period, how did the state attempt to manage the conflict away from the battlefield and reestablish control over the population? Samer...Hardback$42900Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks -
Belfastmen
Belfastmen reconstructs the everyday experiences of queer men in a region infamous for its recent history of intolerance, violence, and religious homophobia to show how queer lives before the gay rights movement were not only possible but also rich, exciting, and fulfilling. Irish churches and governmental authorities found the topic of sex between men unmentionable and imagined such vice as...Hardback$44300Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks 
Becoming couture
Becoming couture is the first book to examine the history of the Italian fashion industry during the global transition brought about by the Second World War. It draws on a wide range of primary sources, some of them newly unearthed, to demonstrate that the Italian fashion industry in the Republican era continued to rely on business practices and professionals established...Paperback$12100Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks-
Bale After Bale
From the cotton boll to the Cotton Bowl in modern American culture There are few places on earth as thoroughly identified with a crop as the American South is with cotton. Burgundy is known for wine, and Java has coffee. In the South, for most of its history, cotton was king. Through much of the twentieth century, cotton cultivation determined...Paperback$12200Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks -
Bale After Bale
From the cotton boll to the Cotton Bowl in modern American culture There are few places on earth as thoroughly identified with a crop as the American South is with cotton. Burgundy is known for wine, and Java has coffee. In the South, for most of its history, cotton was king. Through much of the twentieth century, cotton cultivation determined...Hardback$37300Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks -
A War of Sections
In a sweeping reinterpretation of the history of disfranchisement, Steve Suitts illuminates how a century of political conflicts in Alabama came to shape both some of America’s best achievements in voting rights and its continuing struggles over voter suppression. A War of Sections tells the unknown political history symbolised today by the annual pilgrimage of presidents and celebrities across the...Paperback$8400Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks -
Avenue Breakdown
Avenue Breakdown uncovers the rich yet often overlooked legacy of Black music in Shreveport, Louisiana—a city better known for country tunes and the Louisiana Hayride. This compelling history shines a spotlight on the city’s vibrant postwar scene, where blues, R&B, jazz, soul, funk, and gospel thrived in Black neighbourhoods despite the pressures of segregation and state-sanctioned violence. From the iconic...Paperback$12000Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks -
A Third Path
How Brazil and Portugal experimented with corporatism as a "third path" between laissez-faire capitalism and communism Following the Great Depression, as the world searched for new economic models, Brazil and Portugal experimented with corporatism as a "third path" between laissez-faire capitalism and communism. In a corporatist society, the government vertically integrates economic and social groups into the state so that...Paperback$10100Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks -
Astrology and History in Early Islam
Aligning Heaven and Earth in Early Islam focuses on the construction of historical knowledge during the first centuries of Islam (7th-10th centuries CE) and sheds light on the much-neglected genre of astrological histories. It contends that astrologers played a significant, albeit totally overlooked, role in the making of Islamic historiography. The volume documents a unique moment in historical writing and...Hardback$63000Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks 
A Square of Sky
At the age of nine, Janina David was leading a sheltered life with her prosperous Jewish family in Poland. One year later, they were all facing starvation in the Warsaw ghetto. In her memoirs of a wartime childhood, A Square of Sky, Janina David describes the family's struggle against insurmountable odds. When it became clear that none of them was...Paperback$8100Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
A Southern Moderate in Radical Times
In A Southern Moderate in Radical Times, David I. Durham offers a comprehensive and critical appraisal of one of the South's famous dissenters. Against the backdrop of one of the most turbulent periods in American history, he explores the ideological and political journey of Henry Washington Hilliard (1808–1892), a southern politician whose opposition to secession placed him at odds with...Paperback$8780Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks-
Asklepios
A landmark account of the divine physician of the Greeks in myth and archetype. To the physicians of classical antiquity, Asklepios was the ideal of their existence as healers. In this book, acclaimed mythologist and historian of religion Carl Kerényi takes readers on a tour of the sacred sites of the Greek god of medicine to investigate the origins and...Hardback$20500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks -
Asklepios
A landmark account of the divine physician of the Greeks in myth and archetype. To the physicians of classical antiquity, Asklepios was the ideal of their existence as healers. In this book, acclaimed mythologist and historian of religion Carl Kerényi takes readers on a tour of the sacred sites of the Greek god of medicine to investigate the origins and...Paperback$7600Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks -
Architecture, Media, Archives
Over 60 years on from its inception, the celebrated Fun Palace civic project – developed in the 1960s by the radical theatre director Joan Littlewood and the architect Cedric Price – continues to capture the architectural imagination. Despite the building itself never being realized, much of the previous analysis of the Fun Palace has been devoted to Price and his...Paperback$13500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks -
Architecture as a Frail, Literary Object
This book considers the motives, ambitions, and malaprops of writing architectural history during the early-1900s—a moment that coincided with the emergence of modernity. In reference to a series of eccentric Anglo-American cultural figures, it examines the relationships between architecture, human perception, disease, and frailty to provide original ideas regarding the writing of architectural history and the literary construction of architecture....Hardback$54600Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks -
Archaeoastronomy
How does archaeoastronomy assist archaeologists in comprehending the past of human societies? Archaeoastronomy is an interdisciplinary field that combines scientific principles and astronomical measurements to enhance our understanding of ancient cultures. Its interdisciplinary character appears by blending areas of the natural sciences, such as astronomy, physics, mathematics, and even geology or biology, with others of the social sciences and humanities,...Hardback$23200Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks -
A Proxy Africa
Nestled between Brazil, Venezuela, and Suriname, Guyana is the third-smallest sovereign state in mainland South America, and one of its youngest. Originally a Dutch colony, Guyana remained under British rule from the late eighteenth century until gaining independence in 1966 and becoming a republic in 1970. Apart from the 1978 mass murder-suicide of cult leader Jim Jones’s followers in Jonestown,...Hardback$30800Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks 
Pre-orderAppearance Politics
Appearance Politics, by Lex Lu, argues that crafting an appealing and powerful outward image has long been a critical political tool in China. This strategy is evident in historical records, imperial portraits, physiognomic assessments, photographs, posters, statues, and digital images. Using rare archival materials from Beijing, Shanghai, and Nanjing, Lu explores how political figures designed their images and examines the...Paperback$11039Unit price /UnavailableOut 20 Aug 2026Pre-order-
An Unholy Pedagogy
The traumatic Spanish invasion of Mesoamerica, and the Ibero-Catholic colonialism that followed, truly transformed Indigenous political, economic, and socio-cultural practices. Confronted by dogmatic European literary regimes, strident indoctrination, and acts of structural violence, how could 'Aztec' education have survived in colonial times? An Unholy Pedagogy rethinks education studies by centring discussions on Indigenous visions of learning that shaped schooling throughout...Hardback$35100Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks 
Anti-racism in Britain
Concepts of 'race' and racism are central to British history. They have shaped, and been shaped by, British identities, economies and societies for centuries, from colonialism and enslavement to the 'hostile environment' of the 2010s. Yet state and societal racism has always been met with resistance. This edited volume collects the latest research on anti-racist action in Britain, and makes...Paperback$14400Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks-
And Then They Prayed
Riveting... Inspiring... Entertaining—this is how some of America's leading influencers are describing this breakout bestseller. As the United States celebrates its 250th anniversary, this is the one book you cannot afford to miss. Whether you are a seasoned history buff or someone who never quite "got" history, you will absolutely enjoy this book. Experience true and awe-inspiring stories of courage,...Paperback$5400Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks -
Ancient Greek Democracies
Classical Athenian democracy is rightly famous, but democracy flourished in other parts of the Greek world as well. In this clear and fascinating book, Ancient Greek Democracies, Matthew Simonton traces the emergence, growth, consolidation, and decline of democratic city-states over the millennium down to the fifth century CE. He argues for the widespread and highly participatory nature of democratic constitutions...Hardback$26700Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks -
Anatomy of Torture
Does torture "work?" Can controversial techniques such as waterboarding extract crucial and reliable intelligence? Since 9/11, this question has been angrily debated in the halls of power and the court of public opinion. In Anatomy of Torture, Ron E. Hassner mines the archives of the Spanish Inquisition to propose an answer that will frustrate and infuriate both sides of the...Paperback$9800Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks 
Analytical Chemistry in Archaeology
This volume serves as an introduction to the principles and applications of analytical chemistry to archaeological materials. Accessible to students without a comprehensive background in chemistry, it will enable them to draw meaningful interpretations from analytical data in order to facilitate a deeper understanding of the beliefs of people in the distant past. The second edition of Analytical Chemistry in...Paperback$14200Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
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