History – American History / History – British History
Urban Slavery in the Age of Abolition
American Slavery, American Imperialism
Volume 28 Part 1 Edited by Karwan Fatah-Black | Universiteit Leiden
US Perceptions of Global Servitude, 1870–1914 Catherine Armstrong | Loughborough University
Armstrong charts the legacy of slavery in the United States by tracing the representations of global slavery’s victims and perpetrators in popular culture after the Civil War. In doing so, she reveals the rhetorical manoeuvres that were used to justify exploitation and forced labour both in the US and globally. • Considers the global implications of U.S. slavery and demonstrates its relevance to the contemporary world • Draws on newspapers, cartoons, and popular media to understand the legacy of slavery • Explains how global trends were key to the economic and cultural aftermath of slavery Slaveries since Emancipation
July 2020 228 x 152 mm c.300pp 9 b/w illus. 978-1-108-47709-3 Hardback £47.99 / US$59.99
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African American Transatlantic Abolitionism in the British Isles Hannah-Rose Murray | University of Edinburgh
Focusing on unexplored testimony, this book highlights numerous ways in which African Americans challenged slavery on British soil. Written with a wide audience in mind, it appeals to those who have an interest in American slavery and abolition, black activism, and the transatlantic journeys of African Americans to Britain. • Creates a framework for analysing activist resistance to slavery in the British Isles • Highlights anti-slavery activism in Britain after the American Civil War, an area vastly neglected by scholars • Updates and radically alters the scholarly field on transatlantic abolitionism after 1865 Slaveries since Emancipation
July 2020 228 x 152 mm 248pp 978-1-108-82575-7 Paperback £19.99 / US$34.99
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Networks and Crossings in the Revolutionary Caribbean Jeppe Mulich | London School of Economics and Political Science
By exploring transnational networks involved in smuggling, privateering, slave trade, marronage, and corruption, Jeppe Mulich illuminates the entangled nature of imperial politics and colonial law in the maritime borderlands of the Caribbean during the age of revolutions. • An innovative approach to global and imperial history emphasizing cross-border networks and integration across empires • Builds on multi-sited research in archives across Europe and the Americas, using sources in Danish, English, French, and Swedish • Draws on historical sociology, international relations, and global history to provide a reinterpretation of imperial integration and early nineteenth-century globalization Cambridge Oceanic Histories
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The Smell of Slavery
July 2020 228 x 152 mm c.300pp 978-1-108-48972-0 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99
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History – British History
Olfactory Racism and the Atlantic World Andrew Kettler | University of California, Los Angeles
In the Atlantic World, different groups were aromatically classified in opposition to other ethnic, gendered, and class assemblies due to an economic necessity that needed certain bodies to be defined as excremental. African subjects were defined as scented objects, appropriated as filthy to create ownership through forceful sensory discourse. • Uses smell as a frame of analysis for constructions and perceptions of race and environment in the age of Atlantic slavery • Demonstrates that the roots of racism transgressed intellectual and political arenas and included the realm of senses • Offers a transnational framework for understanding the connections between olfactory discourse and blackness before the nineteenth century May 2020 228 x 152 mm 254pp 978-1-108-49073-3 Hardback £29.99 / US$39.99
International Review of Social History Supplements, 28
In a Sea of Empires
Advocates of Freedom
September 2020 228 x 152 mm c.378pp 978-1-108-48751-1 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99
When the full abolition of slavery appeared on the political agenda in the Atlantic world, the institutional arrangements that underpinned it changed dramatically. This volume explores how cities were part and parcel of slave societies, and how methods of control as well as routes to emancipation changed in the century before emancipation. • Contributions to this volume re-examine slavery in an urban context, exploring the relationship between cities and slave societies • Contributions look in depth at cities in the British and French Caribbean, West-Central Africa, Brazil, the United States, and South Africa • A range of topics are covered, including marronage, freedom of movement, and the legacy of slavery
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Anglo-Saxon England Volume 47 Edited by Rosalind Love | University of Cambridge
The contributions to the forty-seventh volume of Anglo-Saxon England focus on various aspects of Anglo-Saxon culture and history across a period from the sixth to the thirteenth century, from skaldic art at Cnut’s court to the Germanic context of Beowulf. Each article is preceded by a short abstract. • A collection of original research covering various aspects of AngloSaxon culture and history, from the sixth to the thirteenth century • This volume covers a broad range of topics, from the Germanic context of Beowulf to the ‘old books of Glastonbury’ and the Muchelney breviary fragment • Also included is a record of the Eighteenth Conference of the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists, held in 2017 Anglo-Saxon England
May 2020 228 x 152 mm 434pp 978-1-108-83004-1 Hardback £90.00 / US$175.00
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