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History – Cross Discipline
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 C
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 C
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 P 978-1-108-44071-4 Paperback £22.99 / US$29.99 P
Sisters in Arms Women in the British Armed Forces during the Second World War
Jeremy A. Crang | University of Edinburgh 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
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 G
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 C
The Great War in History Debates and Controversies, 1914 to the Present
Second edition Jay Winter | Yale University, Connecticut This revised and updated edition provides the first survey of historical interpretations of the Great War from 1914 to 2020. It demonstrates how the history of the Great War has now gone global, and how the internet revolution has affected the way we understand the conflict. • The first up-to-date and fully global account of historical interpretations of the Great War from 1914 to 2020 • Charts the positive and negative effects of the digital revolution on the writing of the history of the Great War • Surveys how history and memory overlap, informing professional history, history in museums, in films, on stage, and in re-enactments
Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare
October 2020 228 x 152 mm c.300pp 978-1-108-84316-4 Hardback £64.99 / US$84.99 P 978-1-108-82396-8 Paperback £21.99 / US$28.99 P
Refugee Crises, 1945-2000 Political and Societal Responses in International Comparison
Edited by Jan Jansen | German Historical Institute, Washington DC This timely study examines responses to mass refugee movements by a range of actors from local communities to supranational organizations. Bringing together ten case studies from around the world, it pays particular attention to receiving societies in the Global South and to the long-term consequences of ‘refugee crises’. • Examines the ways receiving societies have handled the sudden inflow of large numbers of refugees between 1945 and 2000 • Includes cases studies from Asia, Africa and the Middle East, emphasizing that ‘refugee crises’ are not confined to affluent Western nations • A timely study published during a period of intense public debate surrounding Europe’s ‘refugee crises’ and the challenges posed for EU member states
Publications of the German Historical Institute
October 2020 228 x 152 mm c.350pp 978-1-108-83513-8 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C
Jewish Internationalism and Human Rights after the Holocaust
Nathan A. Kurz | Birkbeck College, University of London Nathan A. Kurz examines the separation between Jewish advocacy organizations and international human rights after Israel’s creation. A key text for those interested in the global politics of Israel, international advocacy of non-governmental organizations, political relations between diasporas and homelands, and the recent history of human rights. • Weaves together Jewish and international history • Provides a case-study of non-governmental organizations in action • Covers a broad geographical range to enable the reader to draw connections between regions and locales
Human Rights in History
September 2020 228 x 152 mm c.300pp 978-1-108-83492-6 Hardback £29.99 / US$39.99 P
Radical Conduct Politics, Sociability and Equality in London 1789-1815
Mark Philp | University of Warwick Radical Conduct reinterprets literary and political radicalism in London at the time of the French Revolution. It explores the tensions between the world people took for granted and their aspirations for change, exploring language, sociability, gender relations, music and dance. • Presents the period in a new way that sheds new light on major figures of English radicalism and feminism, questioning common assumptions about the literary and political world of the 1790s • Knits together social and cultural history with intellectual history through a fresh interpretation of literary sources • Illuminates the tensions between the world that the radicals imagined and sought to bring into being, and the social conventions and norms of their time that undercut their ambitions September 2020 228 x 152 mm c.290pp 978-1-108-84218-1 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C
The English Republican Exiles in Europe during the Restoration
Gaby Mahlberg | University of Warwick Offers a transnational perspective on 17th-century English republicanism through an intimate portrait of the lives of three English republicans – Edmund Ludlow, Henry Neville, and Algernon Sidney – who went into exile in Europe after the Restoration. • Vividly connects English political thought with the European experience • Offers an accessible history of seventeenth-century English republicanism with a study of the exiles’ lived experience • Draws on previously unpublished primary sources from a broad range of English and continental European archives
Ideas in Context
October 2020 228 x 152 mm c.300pp 978-1-108-84162-7 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C
Newborn Imitation The Stakes of a Controversy
Ruth Leys | The Johns Hopkins University, Maryland Newborn imitation has recently become the focus of a major controversy in the human sciences. New studies have reexamined the evidence and found it wanting. This Element offers a critical assessment of the theories of newborn imitation and the stakes involved.
Elements in Histories of Emotions and the Senses
July 2020 228 x 152 mm c.75pp 978-1-108-82673-0 Paperback £15.00 / US$20.00 P
