History – Cross Discipline
History – Cross Discipline
Women in the British Armed Forces during the Second World War Jeremy A. Crang | University of Edinburgh
The Science of Useful Nature in Central America Landscapes, Networks and Practical Enlightenment, 1784–1838 Sophie Brockmann | De Montfort University, Leicester
Following material practices and scientific exchanges through local and global networks, Sophie Brockmann demonstrates how interactions with landscape and environment played a key role in constructing ideas of patriotism and nation in Enlightenment Central America. • Combines intellectual history and the history of science with historical geography and environmental history • Traces the impact of Enlightenment ideas and late-colonial reformers’ projects on the independent nations of Central America • Situates the global history of Enlightenment in a place usually considered ‘peripheral’ in world history and even within the Spanish empire September 2020 228 x 152 mm c.320pp 978-1-108-42123-2 Hardback £74.99 / US$99.99
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A Singular Remedy Cinchona Across the Atlantic World, 1751–1820 Stefanie Gänger | Universität Heidelberg
Stefanie Gänger explores how medical knowledge was shared across diverse societies tied to the Atlantic World between 1751 and 1820. Centred on Peruvian bark or cinchona, from which quinine is derived, she provides fresh perspectives on knowledge exchange and connections in the realm of medicine between the Atlantic empires and beyond. • Provides fresh perspectives on knowledge exchange, expertise and therapeutic connections in the Atlantic empires and beyond • Revises assumptions about non-elite participants in the history of medicine • Provides a valuable window into the realm of medicine at the turn of the nineteenth century Science in History
December 2020 228 x 152 mm c.300pp 978-1-108-84216-7 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99
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The Unknown Enemy Counterinsurgency and the Illusion of Control Christian Tripodi | King’s College London
Western counterinsurgency doctrine proposes that improved socio-cultural understanding enables a greater chance of success in counterinsurgency warfare. Tripodi illustrates that in fact it often leads to the reverse. The Unknown Enemy illustrates how the drive for such knowledge results not in better outcomes but in a costly illusion of control. • Considers how attempts to better understand the sociocultural surrounds of the operating environment can influence counterinsurgency and stabilisation operations • Utilizes a mixture of historical and theoretical analysis to examine why certain types of military operation fail • Draws upon a range of in-depth case studies from different eras of warfare to highlight recurring behaviours and outcomes across time November 2020 228 x 152 mm c.300pp 978-1-108-42460-8 Hardback £69.99 / US$89.99 978-1-108-44071-4 Paperback £22.99 / US$29.99
Sisters in Arms
During the Second World War many thousands of women joined the women’s auxiliary services to perform important military tasks for the RAF, army and Royal Navy. This book traces the wartime history of these auxiliary services and the integration of women into the British armed forces. • Covers all three women’s auxiliary services: the WAAF, ATS and WRNS • Combines an organisational history of the women’s auxiliary services with the personal experiences of servicewomen • Explores both the gender advances – and the limits of those advances – as represented by the women’s auxiliary services
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Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare
September 2020 228 x 152 mm 352pp 978-1-107-01347-6 Hardback £25.00 / US$34.95
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The Cambridge History of War Volume 2: War and the Medieval World Anne Curry | University of Southampton
An expert account of war in the medieval period world-wide, showing how war is ubiquitous yet ever changing across space and time. Each chapter is written by a recognised expert in the field and demonstrates the place of war in society as well as examining how it was fought. • Each chapter is written by experts in the field to provide up-to-date scholarship across a wide range of topics and a large number of geographical areas • Takes war in its broadest definition to offer informative synthesis as well as much fascinating detail • Readers can trace the relationships between strategy, tactics, weapons technology, logistics, military institutions and financing, social structures, and cultural influences Cambridge History of War
September 2020 228 x 152 mm 650pp 22 b/w illus. 16 maps 978-0-521-87715-2 Hardback £120.00 / US$156.00 R
Britain and Italy in the Era of the First World War Defending and Forging Empires Stefano Marcuzzi | University College Dublin
Drawing on a broad range of new archival material, Stefano Marcuzzi analyses the British strategy of imperial defence and the Italian strategy of imperial expansion within the context of World War I, the Peace Conference and the Fiume crisis. • Provides an original account of World War I by using Anglo-Italian bilateral relations as a lens through which to analyse Allied grand strategy • Includes examinations of both the war and the peace conference to highlight how war strategy and peace-making were intertwined • Reassesses Italian foreign policy and military and naval efficiency Cambridge Military Histories
November 2020 228 x 152 mm c.348pp 978-1-108-83129-1 Hardback £90.00 / US$120.00
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