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World War One The Global Revolution
Second edition Lawrence Sondhaus | University of Indianapolis This revised and updated interpretation of World War I highlights the revolutionary nature and legacy of the conflict of 1914–1919. It examines the political, economic, social and cultural history of the war at home as well as the war’s origins, ending and subsequent legacy. • Demonstrates the revolutionary global impact of World War I • Includes a range of pedagogical features including images, timelines, key documents from the war, online essays and guides to further reading • Contains a range of sources, including first-hand accounts of the war, to provide students with an understanding of the impact of the war on the lives of ordinary people Contents: Introduction; 1. The world in 1914 and the origins of the war; 2. The July Crisis, 1914; 3. The European war unfolds, August-December 1914; 4. The world war: East Asia, the Pacific, Africa; 5. The deepening stalemate: Europe, 1915; 6. The home fronts, 1914–16; 7. Raising the stakes: Europe, 1916; 8.The war at sea, 1915–18; 9. Wilson, Lenin, and visions for peace; 10. Upheaval and uncertainty: Europe, 1917; 11. The home fronts, 1916–18; 12. The world war: the Middle East and India; 13. Endgame: Europe, 1918; 14. The Paris Peace Conference; 15. Legacy; Conclusion. November 2020 244 x 170 mm c.495pp 49 b/w illus. 14 maps 978-1-108-49619-3 Hardback £64.99 / US$84.99 X 978-1-108-79163-2 Paperback £29.99 / US$38.99 X
Humanitarianism and Human Rights A World of Differences?
Edited by Michael N. Barnett | George Washington University, Washington DC Human rights and humanitarianism are two totems of global ethics and politics in today’s world, but they have a complicated relationship that is not always understood or appreciated. To capture that past, present, and future, this volume explores what each hopes to attain and how those ambitions converge or diverge. • Unpacks and interrogates the relationship between human rights and humanitarianism • Explores different notions of humanity and the tensions and conflicts that this can create • Provides a philosophical and practical consideration of global ethics
Human Rights in History
September 2020 229 x 152 mm c.340pp 978-1-108-83679-1 Hardback £69.99 / US$89.99 P 978-1-108-81920-6 Paperback £22.99 / US$29.99 P
Christianity and Human Rights Reconsidered
Edited by Sarah Shortall | University of Notre Dame, Indiana This volume showcases the work of a new generation of scholars interested in the historical connection between religion and human rights in the twentieth century, offering a truly global perspective on the internal diversity, theological roots, and political implications of Christian human rights theory. • Highlights the global turn in the history of human rights • Showcases a range of interdisciplinary work on the relationship between religion and human rights • Transforms our understanding of both human rights theory and the history of Christianity
Human Rights in History
September 2020 228 x 152 mm c.300pp 978-1-108-42470-7 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C
Islanders and Empire Smuggling and Political Defiance in Hispaniola, 1580–1690
Juan José Ponce Vázquez | University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa Islanders and Empire is a pioneering and comprehensive examination of the role smuggling played in the economic and socio-political transformation of Hispaniola from the late sixteenth to seventeenth centuries that will interest students and scholars of the Caribbean, colonial Latin American, and the Atlantic World. • Provides a rare, on-the-ground study of a Spanish Caribbean society in the seventeenth century, a previously understudied period and region • Discusses significant examples of colonial peripheries and borderlands in shaping overall imperial governance • Features a strong narrative style as a key feature of historical inquiry
Cambridge Latin American Studies, 121
October 2020 229 x 152 mm c.320pp 978-1-108-47765-9 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C
Modernity in Black and White Art and Image, Race and Identity in Brazil, 1890–1945
Rafael Cardoso | Freie Universität Berlin Rafael Cardoso provides a groundbreaking account of artistic modernization in Brazil in his first single-authored English-language publication. He puts popular culture and racial tensions at the center, situating cultural debates within the broader currents of Brazilian life, such as the rise of favelas, carnival, mass media, and dictatorship. • A comprehensive and meticulously researched introduction to artistic modernization in Brazil • Analyzes the tension in Brazil between Western definitions of ‘the modern’ and Brazil’s largest African-descended population, from which popular cultural markers such as carnival dominate • Showcases a vast archive of images across a range of visual cultural production, including painting, graphic art, and photography
Afro-Latin America
November 2020 228 x 152 mm c.288pp 978-1-108-48190-8 Hardback £39.99 / US$49.99 P
A History of the Republic of Biafra Law, Crime, and the Nigerian Civil War
Samuel Fury Childs Daly | Duke University, North Carolina Based on research using an original archive of legal records and oral histories, this accessible study examines the history of the Nigerian Civil War and its aftermath from the perspective of the courtroom, demonstrating how the conditions of the Nigerian Civil War paved the way for the country’s long experience of crime that was to follow. • An accessible account of the Nigerian Civil War using previously unexamined legal records and oral histories • Examines the connection between warfare and crime, both in postcolonial Africa and within a global context • Demonstrates how the conditions of the Nigerian Civil War paved the way for the country’s long experience of crime that was to follow August 2020 229 x 152 mm c.300pp 10 b/w illus. 1 map 978-1-108-84076-7 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C
France’s Wars in Chad Military Intervention and Decolonization in Africa
Nathaniel K. Powell | King’s College London The first comprehensive narrative of French involvement in Chad’s civil wars in the first two decades of its independence between 1960 and 1982, this study explores France’s counterinsurgency efforts to protect the regime of François Tombalbaye and its contribution to the rise to power of Hissène Habré, one of Africa’s most notorious dictators. • The first comprehensive narrative of French involvement in Chad’s civil wars in the first two decades of its independence between 1960 and 1982 • Provides context for better understandings of ongoing military involvement in the Sahel • Of interest to students and scholars looking at the impact of foreign interventions in civil wars and the limits of counterinsurgency strategies in weak states
African Studies, 150
November 2020 228 x 152 mm c.336pp 978-1-108-48867-9 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C
Islam, Ethnicity, and Conflict in Ethiopia The Bale Insurgency, 1963-1970
Terje Østebø | University of Florida Discussing an armed insurgency in south-eastern Ethiopia from 1963-1970, a time when a range of liberation struggles emerged across the Horn of Africa, this in-depth study offers a new perspective for understanding relations between religion, interreligious relations, ethnicity, and ethno-nationalism during conflicts. • An in-depth study of armed insurgency in Ethiopia during the 1960s within the context of armed struggles in the broader Horn of Africa • New perspectives on how to understand the relationship between religion and ethnicity through the concept peoplehood • Resists talking about ethnic and religious groups as mutually exclusive categories, arguing for an integrated approach which recognizes the role of embodied experiences and emplaced realities in shaping ethnic and religious identities
African Studies, 151
October 2020 228 x 152 mm c.300pp 978-1-108-83968-6 Hardback £90.00 / US$120.00 C
The Path to Genocide in Rwanda Security, Opportunity, and Authority in an Ethnocratic State
Omar Shahabudin McDoom | London School of Economics and Political Science Rwanda has become a touchstone case in genocide studies. This study evaluates the myriad theories behind the genocide. Combining original field data with some of the best existing evidence, it offers a rigorous and comprehensive explanation of how and why the genocide occurred, and how and why so many Rwandans participated in it. • A rigorous and comprehensive explanation of how and why the genocide in Rwanda occurred, and how and why so many Rwandans participated in it • Draws on extensive original field data, including interviews with over three hundred Rwandans, both killers and non-killers, and comparative case studies of violence in six local communities • Provides a broader engagement with key theoretical debates in the study of genocides and ethnic conflict
African Studies, 152
November 2020 228 x 152 mm c.350pp 978-1-108-49146-4 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C
The Idea of Development in Africa A History
Corrie Decker | University of California, Davis An innovative approach to examining the history and culture of development which has been an essential component of the ‘idea of Africa’ in western discourses since the early 1800s, this engaging coursebook provides detailed case study analysis to enhance understanding of key theoretical and historical concepts. • An accessible and engaging course book containing a balance between historical overview and analysis of case studies with each chapter providing at least one detailed case study to demonstrate key themes • Provides a refreshing take on the history and culture of development that begins with the foundations of the idea of development in nineteenth-century imperialism and colonialism • Offers important and useful historical context for students and scholars working in African development today
New Approaches to African History
November 2020 228 x 152 mm 280pp 978-1-107-10369-6 Hardback £69.99 / US$89.99 P 978-1-107-50322-9 Paperback £22.99 / US$29.99 P
The ‘Early Medieval’ Origins of India
Manu V. Devadevan | Indian Institute of Technology, Mandi This book posits that India as an idea is neither a colonial construct nor a phenomenon as old as the Vedas or the Harappan age, but a historical reality that had its beginnings in the ‘early medieval’ times. It is a mustread for anyone interested in the meaning of India’s past. • Provides a fresh assessment of the early medieval period and its point of departure from the early historical period • Expands the thematic scope of early medieval historiography by including aspects such as identities (caste, language, religion and territory) and ideas that governed science, literature and performative arts • Identifies the early medieval as the period when institutions, ideas and identities associated with India began to evolve September 2020 228 x 152 mm c.420pp 978-1-108-49457-1 Hardback £74.99 / US$99.99 P 978-1-108-74851-3 Paperback £29.99 / US$39.99 P
A Hygienic City-Nation Space, Community, and Everyday Life in Colonial Calcutta
Nabaparna Ghosh | Babson College, Wellesley, USA This book offers the first comprehensive history of everyday urban spaces – that is, spaces planned by the people, and not the state – in a colonial South Asian city. It will interest students, researchers, and faculty of history, South Asian studies, empire and colonialism, nationalism, comparative cities, architecture, and city-planning. • This is the first academic monograph on the everyday spaces of colonial Calcutta’s neighbourhoods or paras • The book explains urbanization as a pedagogic process that targeted both spaces and bodies in the city • It points to the conflation of urbanism and nationalism in nationalist (Swarajist) discourses on public health and the city September 2020 228 x 152 mm c.250pp 978-1-108-48989-8 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C
A Genealogy of Terrorism Colonial Law and the Origins of an Idea
Joseph McQuade | University of Toronto Using India as a case study, Joseph McQuade traces the genealogy of the political and legal category of terrorism. He demonstrates how the modern concept of terrorism was shaped by colonial emergency laws dating back into the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. • Traces the genealogy of counter-terrorism laws in colonial India • Shows how the idea of terrorism built on older criminal categories such as thugs and pirates • Demonstrates the role of violence in shaping the Indian nationalist movement and colonial responses November 2020 229 x 152 mm c.300pp 978-1-108-84215-0 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C
Let there be Light Engineering, Entrepreneurship and Electricity in Colonial Bengal, 1880–1945
Suvobrata Sarkar | Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata Let There Be Light focusses on the hitherto unexplored vernacular sources, and emphasizes that the history of technology in India is basically a history of India, and the history of its people, and not simply a history of the Indian techno-scientific tradition as proposed by the literature emerging from the West. • Brings back the use of vernacular sources to understand Indian appropriation of modern technoscience • Explores the uncharted terrain of electrification in a colonial context September 2020 228 x 152 mm c.320pp 978-1-108-83598-5 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C
The Making of the Indo-Islamic World c.700–1800 CE
André Wink | University of Wisconsin, Madison André Wink offers a new interpretation of the long-term history of India and the Indian Ocean region from the perspective of world history and geography, situating the history of the Indianized territories of South Asia and Southeast Asia within the wider history of the Islamic world. • Provides a world-historical perspective on the history of South and
Southeast Asia • Introduces an environmental and geographical dimension to Indian history • Situates the history of the Indianized territories of South Asia and
Southeast Asia within the wider history of the Islamic world August 2020 228 x 152 mm 308pp 978-1-108-41774-7 Hardback £74.99 / US$99.99 P 978-1-108-40565-2 Paperback £24.99 / US$31.99 P
The Economics of World War II in Southeast Asia Economy and Society under Japanese Occupation
Gregg Huff | University of Oxford Gregg Huff presents the first comprehensive account of the economic and social impact of Japanese occupation on Southeast Asia during World War II. This is vital reading for anyone wishing to understand the history and economies of Southeast Asia before, during, and in the decades after the Pacific War. • Provides the first comprehensive study of Southeast Asian economy and society during the 1941-1945 Japanese occupation • Features an extraordinarily wide range of archive material drawn from 25 archives over three continents • Includes economic, social and historical analysis to assess the longterm impact of the Pacific War and Japanese occupation on Southeast
Asia October 2020 228 x 152 mm 450pp 978-1-107-09933-3 Hardback £90.00 / US$120.00 C
Gender Politics at Home and Abroad Protestant Modernity in Colonial-Era Korea
Hyaeweol Choi | University of Iowa Arguing that religion cannot be separated from modernity, Choi demonstrates how twentiethcentury Korea exemplifies the role global Protestant networks played in shaping modern gender ideology, reforming domestic practices, instilling a sense of locality and the world, and claiming new space for women in the public sphere. • Considers the influence of multiple cultures in shaping modern gender relations in Korea • Illustrates how Protestant global networks played a significant role in shaping gendered modernity • Demonstrates colonial and postcolonial roots of gender norms and practices in modern Korea July 2020 228 x 152 mm c.320pp 978-1-108-48743-6 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C
Disability in Contemporary China Citizenship, Identity and Culture
Sarah Dauncey | University of Nottingham Through innovative analysis of sources from film to literature and life writing, media and state documents, Dauncey explores disability and citizenship in China from 1949 to the present. She proposes a dynamic relationship of identity and belonging, encompassing both the perils of difference and the potential for empowerment. • Analyses a wide variety of Chinese cultural genres • Offers a dynamic and objective framework for understanding disability and citizenship in different societies • Reveals perspectives dependent upon closeness to the disability experience and highlights the gendered nature of disability September 2020 228 x 152 mm 300pp 4 b/w illus. 978-1-107-11853-9 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C
The Making of Song Dynasty History Sources and Narratives, 960–1279 CE
Charles Hartman | University at Albany, State University of New York Charles Hartman undertakes a detailed revisionist analysis of the major sources that survive as vestiges of the official dynastic historiography of the Chinese Song dynasty (960–1279), deconstructing the master narratives that emerge from these sources as products of political discourse. • Presents a comprehensive introduction to the major sources for Song dynasty history • Offers the first analysis of the received narratives of Song history from a deconstructionist perspective • Provides a new governance model for middle period China October 2020 228 x 152 mm c.400pp 978-1-108-83483-4 Hardback £90.00 / US$120.00 C
The Great Exodus from China Trauma, Memory, and Identity in Modern Taiwan
Dominic Meng-Hsuan Yang | University of Missouri, Columbia Yang uncovers the traumatic aftermath of the Chinese civil war by examining the lives of ordinary people who were displaced from China to Taiwan in 1949. He presents a trajectory of repeated traumatization and a search for home, belonging, and identity that reconsiders notions of trauma, memory, diaspora, and reconciliation. • Uncovers the painful aftermath of Chinese civil war from the perspective of those traumatized and displaced by it • Discusses conflicting cultural traumas/historical memories between
Taiwan and China • Offers a powerful critique of the Eurocentric notions of trauma and memory September 2020 228 x 152 mm c.320pp 978-1-108-47812-0 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C
Life after the Harem Female Palace Slaves, Patronage and the Imperial Ottoman Court
Betül Ipsirli Argit | Marmara University, Istanbul The first study exploring the lives of female slaves of the Ottoman imperial court, it demonstrates the diversity of experiences in nondynastic female-agency in the early-modern Ottoman world. It focuses particularly on the period following their manumission and transfer from the imperial palace. • The first study to explore the lives of female slaves of the Ottoman imperial court, including the period following their manumission and transfer from the imperial palace • Demonstrates the diversity of experiences and agency of non-dynastic female members of the imperial courts • Opens new horizons for those interested in the roles of palace women, the nature of patronage relationships, and personal and political dynamics in the Ottoman imperial court October 2020 228 x 152 mm c.304pp 5 b/w illus. 1 map 9 tables 978-1-108-48836-5 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C
King Abdul Aziz: Diplomacy and Statecraft 1902–1953 Diplomacy and Statecraft 1902–1953 Edited by A Burdett
Library Editions reprints make available CAE originals in a new format. This collection of primary source documents evidences the methods, policies and diplomacy employed by Abdul Aziz Al Saud in extending and then consolidating the Saudi state. It traces his relations with Arab rulers, Britain, the United States and other European powers. • Contains collections of key documents from the India Office Library • Previously unknown or fragmented material is now available in a coherent collection • This title is one of a pair with ‘King Abdul Aziz: Political
Correspondence 1904–1953’, which has a slightly different focus with many original Arabic documents. This title has no Arabic documents. August 2020 246 x 160 mm c.2000pp 978-1-78806-210-7 4 Volume Hardback Set £1400.00 / US$1860.00 R
Port Cities of the Eastern Mediterranean Urban Culture in the Late Ottoman Empire
Malte Fuhrmann | Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO) A fascinating history of nineteenth century Eastern Mediterranean port cities, which re-examines the European influence over the urban space, leisure practises, and the formation of class, gender and national identity, providing an alternative view of the relationship between the Islamic World and Europe. • A fascinating history of nineteenth century Eastern Mediterranean port cities including Constantinople, Smyrna, and Salonica • Provides new perspectives on the region by featuring lower class and subaltern perspectives • Examines urban space, leisure practises, and the formation of class, gender, and national identities for an alternate view on the relationship between the Islamic World and Europe November 2020 228 x 152 mm c.444pp 978-1-108-47737-6 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C
Islamic Knowledge and the Making of Modern Egypt
Hilary Kalmbach | University of Sussex For 130 years, tensions have raged over the place of Islamic ideas and practices within modern Egypt. This history focuses on a pivotal yet understudied school, Dar al-Ulum, whose alumni became authoritative arbiters of how to be modern and authentic within a Muslim-majority community, including by founding the Muslim Brotherhood. • A ground-breaking study of a pivotal, yet understudied school, Dar al-‘Ulum, an institution that has not been published on for thirty-five years • Demonstrates the importance of Arabic and Islamic knowledge to performances of authority, belonging, and authenticity within a modernising Muslim-majority community • Establishes a 130-year history for tensions over the place of Islamic ideas and practices within modernized public spheres, tensions that were central to the outcomes of the 2011 Arab Uprisings August 2020 228 x 152 mm c.288pp 978-1-108-42347-2 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C
Sholeh A. Quinn | University of California, Merced The first comparative study of Persian historiography of the early modern Islamic empires, the Ottomans, Safavids and Mughals, presenting in-depth case analyses alongside a wide array of primary sources to illustrate the extensive universe of literary-historical writing that Persian historiography can be found within. • This first comparative study of Persian historiography from the 16th17th centuries • Presents in-depth case analyses alongside a wide array of primary sources written under the Ottomans, Safavids, Mughals • Draws attention to the importance of placing these historical chronicles within their previously neglected historiographical context January 2021 229 x 152 mm c.250pp 978-1-108-84221-1 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C
Records of Yemen 1798–1960 Edited by Doreen Ingrams
Library Editions reprints make available CAE originals in a new format. The important historical material in this work, including privileged access to ancient and fragile archives now closed to public view provides scholars with an extensive and importance repertoire of primary documents reflecting the history of the Yemen. • This publication provides a uniquely curated collection of historical primary source documents from British archive sources • Having lived in Yemen as part of the British governmental apparatus, and being permitted access to fragile papers now closed, the two editors were uniquely positioned to create a work of unusually high status August 2020 246 x 160 mm c.12000pp 978-1-78806-548-1 16 Volume Hardback Set £5600.00 / US$7440.00 R
Empire and the Making of Native Title Sovereignty, Property and Indigenous People
Bain Attwood | Monash University, Victoria Bain Attwood re-examines the historical treatment of indigenous peoples’ sovereignty and property rights in Australia and New Zealand, demonstrating that it was primarily the outcome of political struggles between multiple players at the metropolitan centre and the peripheries of empire, rather than the workings of abstract norms. • Sheds new light on the ways an imperial power treated the sovereignty and property rights of indigenous peoples • Pays careful attention to historical context and historical circumstances to reveal why native title was made in some colonies but not others • Challenges accounts that emphasise the importance of abstract norms by paying careful attention to legal politics at the centre of empire and forces on the ground July 2020 228 x 152 mm 454pp 978-1-108-47829-8 Hardback £34.99 / US$44.99 P
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A Concise History of Australia
Fifth edition Stuart Macintyre | University of Melbourne The fifth edition of A Concise History of Australia brings together the long narrative of Australia’s First Nations’ peoples; the arrival of Europeans and the era of colonies, convicts, gold and free settlers; the foundation of a nation state; and the social, cultural, political and economic developments that created a modern Australia. • Written by one of Australia’s most respected historians • A lively and clear narrative history accessible to general readers • The fifth edition explores contemporary Australia, and recent scholarship in the fields of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories Contents: 1. Beginnings, c. 50,000 years before the present–c. 1600; 2. Newcomers, c. 1600–1792; 3. Coercion, 1793–1821; 4. Conquest, 1822–1850; 5. Progress, 1851–1888; 6. Reconstruction, 1889–1913; 7. Sacrifice, 1914–1945; 8. Golden age, 1946–1975; 9. Rectification, 1976–1996; 10. Outcomes, 1997–2019.
Cambridge Concise Histories
October 2020 216 x 138 mm c.420pp 48 b/w illus. 6 maps 978-1-108-72848-5 Paperback £19.99 / US$24.95 G
Arabian Boundaries New Documents 1966–1975 Edited by Richard Schofield
Library Editions reprints make available CAE originals in a new format. This collection of illuminating Foreign and Commonwealth Office documents chronicle the most critical decade in the territorial evolution of the Arabian Peninsula and Gulf region, a wholly unique area in geopolitical terms. • This title is part of an unofficial series with three sets: Arabian
Boundaries 1853-1960; Arabian Boundaries New Documents 19611965; Arabian Boundaries New Documents 1966-1975 • Provides a unique tie-in of historical primary source documents and representative contemporary maps • Provides a uniquely curated collection of historical primary source documents from British archive sources August 2020 246 x 160 mm c.11000pp 978-1-78806-896-3 18 Volume Hardback Set £6300.00 / US$8370.00 R
