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History – British History
American Slavery, American Imperialism 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 C
Advocates of Freedom 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
September 2020 228 x 152 mm c.378pp 978-1-108-48751-1 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C
The Smell of Slavery 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 P
Urban Slavery in the Age of Abolition
Volume 28 Part 1 Edited by Karwan Fatah-Black | Universiteit Leiden 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
International Review of Social History Supplements, 28
July 2020 228 x 152 mm 248pp 978-1-108-82575-7 Paperback £19.99 / US$34.99 C
In a Sea of Empires 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
July 2020 228 x 152 mm c.300pp 978-1-108-48972-0 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C
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 Anglo-
Saxon 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 C
Crime and Punishment in Anglo-Saxon England
Andrew Rabin | University of Louisville, Kentucky The legal texts of pre-Conquest England reveal the capacities and limits of the king’s regulatory power, and provide key evidence for the process by which disparate kingdoms merged to become a unified English state. They offer unparalleled insight into Anglo-Saxon England’s diverse inhabitants – those who enforced the law and those subject to it.
Elements in England in the Early Medieval World
September 2020 229 x 152 mm c.75pp 978-1-108-93203-5 Paperback £15.00 / US$20.00 P
England’s Northern Frontier Conflict and Local Society in the Fifteenth-Century Scottish Marches
Jackson Armstrong | University of Aberdeen This first book-length study of England’s northern borderlands in the fifteenth century addresses issues of conflict, kinship, lordship, law, justice, and governance. Examining the region at different social levels, this book expands our understanding of late medieval English political society, within its broader chronological and European context. • The first book-length study of England’s far north and the Anglo-
Scottish borderlands in the fifteenth century • Frames the region in a broad English, European and chronological context, c.1300–c.1600 • Integrates the study of conflict in late medieval England into the wider
European historiography of feud, contrary to the view of England’s development as exceptional and distinct
Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series, 118
November 2020 228 x 152 mm c.414pp 978-1-108-47299-9 Hardback £90.00 / US$120.00 C
Memory and the English Reformation
Edited by Brian Cummings | University of York The Reformation was a battleground over memory. This volume investigates the history and literature of early modern England to reveal how people remembered – and forgot – the religious past, and forged new ways of understanding the present and future. • Presents the Reformation as a complex arena within memory studies, involving ideas of construction, denial, repression, fiction and forgetting • Includes multidisciplinary accounts of the conflicts between Catholicism and Protestantism in Early Modern England • Offers new ways of understanding the cultural history of religion October 2020 228 x 152 mm c.425pp 978-1-108-82999-1 Hardback £90.00 / US$120.00 C
Ruling the World Freedom, Civilisation and Liberalism in the Nineteenth-Century British Empire
Alan Lester | University of Sussex Provides a more balanced understanding of the British Empire and reveals how the men in charge of the most diverse empire in history enforced their ideas of freedom, civilization and liberalism around the world as they managed some of the greatest crises of the Victorian period. • Reassesses nineteenth-century colonial governance during a series of key moments in the development of the British Empire • Provides a more complete understanding of the diverse colonies under
British rule • Develops a new perspective on governmentality and offers a new framework for understanding key episodes in British imperial history December 2020 228 x 152 mm c.510pp 978-1-108-42620-6 Hardback £69.99 / US$89.99 P 978-1-108-44489-7 Paperback £22.99 / US$29.99 P
England Re-Oriented How Central and South Asian Travelers Imagined the West, 1750–1857
Humberto Garcia | University of California, Merced Examines how Central and South Asian travelers provincialized Britishness between 1750 and 1857 and how, by appropriating metropolitan media, they recalibrated Eurasian ways of behaving and knowing to counter a chauvinistic British imperialism with Indo-Persian masculine gentility. • Demonstrates how Persian knowledges and behaviours intersected with British culture, art, news media, and literature to give rise to
British orientalism • Introduces a queer methodology based on examples of British-Asian sociability • Proposes alternatives to the West-East binary in Postcolonial theory and criticism
Critical Perspectives on Empire
September 2020 228 x 152 mm c.345pp 978-1-108-49564-6 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C
The Rule of Manhood Tyranny, Gender, and Classical Republicanism in England, 1603–1660
Jamie A. Gianoutsos | Mount Saint Mary’s University Exploring the connection between concepts of power and masculinity in seventeenth-century England, this study shows how stories of ancient tyranny were deployed in dialogues concerning monarchy and rule between 1603 and 1660, and the extent to which these shaped English classical republican thought. • Deepens our understanding of the influence of the classical, and particularly Roman, heritage on the seventeenth century • Attends to ideas of gender, and especially of masculinity, in political discourse before and after the English Revolution • Draws on extensive research in contemporary printed texts to show how classical stories of ancient tyranny were reimagined in dialogues around monarchy and classical republicanism between 1603 and 1660
Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History
November 2020 229 x 152 mm c.350pp 978-1-108-47883-0 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C
