History
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Colonial Urbanism in the Age of the Enlightenment
The Spanish Bourbon Reforms in the River Plate
Claudia Murray
This book tells the story of how the monarchy aimed at creating a new capital city in a remote and forgotten area of the empire and shows how the local Creole bourgeoisie rapidly assumed the role of urban developers and enhanced their economic status by investing in and controlling the Buenos Aires’ property market.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785279812
June 2023
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£110.00 / $110.00This book tells the story of how the monarchy aimed at creating a new capital city in a remote and forgotten area of the empire and shows how the local Creole bourgeoisie rapidly assumed the role of urban developers and enhanced their economic status by investing in and controlling the Buenos Aires’ property market.
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Youth Movements and Generational Politics, 19th–21st Centuries
Edited by Richard G. Braungart, Margaret M. Braungart
Youth Movements and Generational Politics, 19th–21st Centuries by Richard and Margaret Braungart is a collection of 19 of their previously published research articles on youthful political activism, generational conflict and social change—from the first student movement in Germany in 1815 to the international eruption of youth unrest and demonstrations in the 21st century. A concluding chapter assesses the global trends and worldwide surge in youth movement activity from 2000 to 2020, which is then put into perspective in relation to previous historical generations of youthful political unrest.
Anthem Press
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9781785277894
April 2023
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£200.00 / $200.00Youth Movements and Generational Politics, 19th–21st Centuries by Richard and Margaret Braungart is a collection of 19 of their previously published research articles on youthful political activism, generational conflict and social change—from the first student movement in Germany in 1815 to the international eruption of youth unrest and demonstrations in the 21st century. A concluding chapter assesses the global trends and worldwide surge in youth movement activity from 2000 to 2020, which is then put into perspective in relation to previous historical generations of youthful political unrest.
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The Impact of Coincidence in Modern American, British, and Asian History
Twenty-One Unusual Historical Events
Bruce A. Elleman
In 21 case studies, this short book examines the distinctive coincidental history of America, Britain, and various Asian countries during the twentieth century.
Anthem Press
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9781839989605
March 2023
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£24.95 / $24.95In 21 case studies, this short book examines the distinctive coincidental history of America, Britain, and various Asian countries during the twentieth century.
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The World of Wu Zhao
Annotated Selections from Zhang Zhuo’s Court and Country
N. Harry Rothschild
The World of Wu Zhao is an annotated translation of Zhang Zhuo’s collection of miscellany, Court and Country, that offers a lively, folksy and novel perspective of the empire of Wu Zhao, China’s first and only female emperor, that will amuse and shock readers, prompting them to recalibrate everything they think they know about medieval China.
Anthem Press
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9781839983528
February 2023
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£110.00 / $110.00The World of Wu Zhao is an annotated translation of Zhang Zhuo’s collection of miscellany, Court and Country, that offers a lively, folksy and novel perspective of the empire of Wu Zhao, China’s first and only female emperor, that will amuse and shock readers, prompting them to recalibrate everything they think they know about medieval China.
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Transnational Coupling in the Age of Nation Making during the 19th and 20th Centuries
Nicole Leopoldie
Transnational Coupling in the Age of Nation Making during the 19th and 20th Centuries examines and compares courtship and marriage patterns that occurred between France and the United States during the 19th and 20th centuries. Departing from state-centered studies of marriage law, it draws on the methodologies of transnational history, cultural history and the history of emotion to show that these unions were part of a broader pattern of the larger cultural love affair between the two societies.
Anthem Press
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9781839986208
February 2023
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£110.00 / $110.00Transnational Coupling in the Age of Nation Making during the 19th and 20th Centuries examines and compares courtship and marriage patterns that occurred between France and the United States during the 19th and 20th centuries. Departing from state-centered studies of marriage law, it draws on the methodologies of transnational history, cultural history and the history of emotion to show that these unions were part of a broader pattern of the larger cultural love affair between the two societies.
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Portuguese and Amsterdam Sephardic Merchants in the Tobacco Trade
Tierra Firme and Hispaniola in the Early Seventeenth Century
Yda Schreuder
Portuguese and Amsterdam Sephardic Merchants in the Tobacco Trade is a history of the role of Portuguese and Sephardic merchants in the tobacco industry and trade of Amsterdam. It focuses on the contraband trade with Tierra Firme and Hispaniola in the early seventeenth century as documented in the Engel Sluiter Historical Documents Collection.
Anthem Press
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9781785278280
January 2023
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£110.00 / $110.00Portuguese and Amsterdam Sephardic Merchants in the Tobacco Trade is a history of the role of Portuguese and Sephardic merchants in the tobacco industry and trade of Amsterdam. It focuses on the contraband trade with Tierra Firme and Hispaniola in the early seventeenth century as documented in the Engel Sluiter Historical Documents Collection.
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The Archaeology of War
The History of Violence between the 20th and 21st Centuries
Christian Wevelsiep
The book analyses the history of violence in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries and traces the many situations, images, motifs and sources for this experience of unbounded violence that characterizes our times.
Anthem Press
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9781839983559
January 2023
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£110.00 / $110.00The book analyses the history of violence in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries and traces the many situations, images, motifs and sources for this experience of unbounded violence that characterizes our times.
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Voices of the Lost Children of Greece
Oral Histories of Cold War International Adoption
Edited by Mary Cardaras
introduction by Gonda Van Steen
foreword by Gabrielle GlaserVoices of the Lost Children of Greece is a collection of essays from Greek-born adoptees in the 1950s after two consecutive wars that ravaged the country. Their stories will strike home the experience of international adoption, whose impact has been lifelong, but has not been properly measured, let alone acknowledged.
Anthem Press
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9781839983702
January 2023
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£110.00 / $110.00Voices of the Lost Children of Greece is a collection of essays from Greek-born adoptees in the 1950s after two consecutive wars that ravaged the country. Their stories will strike home the experience of international adoption, whose impact has been lifelong, but has not been properly measured, let alone acknowledged.
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The Death Census of Black ’47: Eyewitness Accounts of Ireland’s Great Famine
Liam Kennedy, Donald M. MacRaild, Lewis Darwen, Brian Gurrin
The Great Irish Famine claimed the lives of one million people, mainly from the lower classes. In recent decades, its history has become the focus of considerable scholarly and popular attention, but much remains to be retrieved and reconstructed, particularly at the level of the rural poor. This book fills that gap.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839984310
January 2023
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£110.00 / $110.00The Great Irish Famine claimed the lives of one million people, mainly from the lower classes. In recent decades, its history has become the focus of considerable scholarly and popular attention, but much remains to be retrieved and reconstructed, particularly at the level of the rural poor. This book fills that gap.
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Roland Barthes Writing the Political
History, Dialectics, Self
Andrew Stafford
Roland Barthes Writing the Political: History, Dialectics, Self re-reads and re-purposes for the twenty-first century France’s most important writer of the twentieth century. It argues that Barthes’s wide-ranging analyses – from Voltaire to Nietzsche, Marx to myth, gay love to Japan – can be applied to debates and controversies in the contemporary world, in what he called the writer’s ‘double grasp’.
Anthem Press
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9781785278976
November 2022
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£125.00 / $125.00Roland Barthes Writing the Political: History, Dialectics, Self re-reads and re-purposes for the twenty-first century France’s most important writer of the twentieth century. It argues that Barthes’s wide-ranging analyses – from Voltaire to Nietzsche, Marx to myth, gay love to Japan – can be applied to debates and controversies in the contemporary world, in what he called the writer’s ‘double grasp’.
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War, Genocide and Cultural Memory
The Waffen-SS, 1933 to Today
Claus Bundgård Christensen, Niels Bo Poulsen, Peter Scharff Smith
This book presents the most comprehensive study of the Waffen-SS until this date. Based on archival studies done in more than 20 archives in 13 different countries over a period of 5 years the book covers the entire history of the Waffen-SS and follows the post-war fate of the SS-veterans as well.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785279669
November 2022
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£125.00 / $125.00This book presents the most comprehensive study of the Waffen-SS until this date. Based on archival studies done in more than 20 archives in 13 different countries over a period of 5 years the book covers the entire history of the Waffen-SS and follows the post-war fate of the SS-veterans as well.
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Refugees, Refuge, and Human Displacement
Edited by Ignacio López-Calvo, Marjorie Agosin
This volume studies the concept of refuge as well as historical forced displacement and statelessness, trying to provide potential lasting solutions to the many problems associated with this situation. It moves from the pressing crisis of refugees to the crisis of humanity that seeks to find refuge.
Anthem Press
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9781839982484
November 2022
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£125.00 / $125.00This volume studies the concept of refuge as well as historical forced displacement and statelessness, trying to provide potential lasting solutions to the many problems associated with this situation. It moves from the pressing crisis of refugees to the crisis of humanity that seeks to find refuge.
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The Influence of José da Silva Lisboa’s Journalism on the Independence of Brazil (1821-1822)
Guilherme Celestino
This work analyses the influence of the publications from 1821–1822 written by José da Silva Lisboa, the future Viscount of Cairu, on the events that led to the independence of Brazil in 1822.
Anthem Press
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9781839985072
November 2022
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£125.00 / $125.00This work analyses the influence of the publications from 1821–1822 written by José da Silva Lisboa, the future Viscount of Cairu, on the events that led to the independence of Brazil in 1822.
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General and Periodic Crises of Overproduction
Jean Lescure
Edited by D'Maris Coffman, Ali Kabiri, Nicholas Di LibertoJean Lescure’s General and Periodic Crises of Overproduction is a pioneering study of the causes and consequences of industrial crises in capitalist economies in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It was updated periodically through five editions and now appears in English for the first time.
Anthem Press
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9781839988301
October 2022
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£200.00 / $200.00Jean Lescure’s General and Periodic Crises of Overproduction is a pioneering study of the causes and consequences of industrial crises in capitalist economies in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It was updated periodically through five editions and now appears in English for the first time.
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Nuclear Power Policies in Britain
The Quandaries of Neoliberalism
Lucie de Carvalho
This book analyses Britain’s most recent nuclear project launched in the mid-2000s against a backdrop of rising international concerns about energy security and climate change mitigation. This case study offers insight into the public policy dynamics at work in British nuclear policies and confronts them to the prevailing neoliberal doctrine.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785277283
October 2022
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£125.00 / $125.00This book analyses Britain’s most recent nuclear project launched in the mid-2000s against a backdrop of rising international concerns about energy security and climate change mitigation. This case study offers insight into the public policy dynamics at work in British nuclear policies and confronts them to the prevailing neoliberal doctrine.
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A Narrative of Cultural Encounter in Southern China
Wu Xing Fights the 'Jiao'
Hugh R. Clark
Using a local land reclamation project of the later eighth century, this book explores the interaction between a local culture of the southeast coast and the Sinitic culture of the north.
Anthem Press
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9781839984136
September 2022
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£24.95 / $24.95Using a local land reclamation project of the later eighth century, this book explores the interaction between a local culture of the southeast coast and the Sinitic culture of the north.
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Britain and Its Mandate over Palestine
Legal Chicanery on a World Stage
John Quigley
When Britain took control of Palestine from the Turkish Ottoman Empire in World War 1, it tried to find a way to gain a legal right both to govern Palestine and to facilitate a Jewish national home there. It never found one. As a result, the changes it brought about in Palestine lack a legal basis.
Anthem Press
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9781839984631
September 2022
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£125.00 / $125.00When Britain took control of Palestine from the Turkish Ottoman Empire in World War 1, it tried to find a way to gain a legal right both to govern Palestine and to facilitate a Jewish national home there. It never found one. As a result, the changes it brought about in Palestine lack a legal basis.
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Absolute Freedom: An Interdisciplinary Study
Paul Gordon
A re-evaluation of the notion of “positive” (versus merely “negative”) freedom.
Anthem Press
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9781839985171
September 2022
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£125.00 / $125.00A re-evaluation of the notion of “positive” (versus merely “negative”) freedom.
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Classical Edinburgh
A City Divided
Alan H Balfour
This work is both a family history and a social history of Scotland with a focus on Edinburgh.
First Hill Books
Hardback
9781839987892
September 2022
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£39.95 / $39.95This work is both a family history and a social history of Scotland with a focus on Edinburgh.
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Sub-Saharan African Immigrants’ Stories of Resilience and Courage
Mariam Konate, Fredah Mainah
This book seeks to produce a more specific description of Sub-Saharan African immigration in the US by recording our reflections, experiences, and strategies of coping, as well as those of the participants.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839987861
July 2022
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£125.00 / $125.00This book seeks to produce a more specific description of Sub-Saharan African immigration in the US by recording our reflections, experiences, and strategies of coping, as well as those of the participants.
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African Memoirs and Cultural Representations
Narrating Traditions
Toyin Falola
In this book, memoirs by West African writers are discussed as repositories of African communities, ranging from the traditional to the contemporary. Each memoir examined analyzes and sheds light on the inner workings of society via the individual, including the dynamic processes of African cultures, civilizations, and peoples.
Anthem Press
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9781839987731
July 2022
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£110.00 / $110.00In this book, memoirs by West African writers are discussed as repositories of African communities, ranging from the traditional to the contemporary. Each memoir examined analyzes and sheds light on the inner workings of society via the individual, including the dynamic processes of African cultures, civilizations, and peoples.
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Popular Iconoclasm in the Public Square
Paul Hardin Kapp
This book is the first theory-informed work in architectural conservation and historic preservation to examine the discordance among the public over controversial historic monuments in the historic landscape and how it should be addressed. It challenges architects, landscape architects, conservationists, preservationists, elected officials, and the public to reconsider the public square and whether or not civic art that memorializes is still relevant or a practice that can be reimagined.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839987342
July 2022
Forthcoming
£110.00 / $110.00This book is the first theory-informed work in architectural conservation and historic preservation to examine the discordance among the public over controversial historic monuments in the historic landscape and how it should be addressed. It challenges architects, landscape architects, conservationists, preservationists, elected officials, and the public to reconsider the public square and whether or not civic art that memorializes is still relevant or a practice that can be reimagined.
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Soccer and Racism
The Beginnings of Futebol in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, 1895-1933
Rosana Barbosa
This book aims to use soccer as a tool to understand key elements of Brazil’s history from the overthrow of the Monarchy in 1889 to the 1930 Revolution that brought Getulio Vargas to power – the so-called First Republic.
Anthem Press
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9781839984754
July 2022
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£80.00 / $80.00This book aims to use soccer as a tool to understand key elements of Brazil’s history from the overthrow of the Monarchy in 1889 to the 1930 Revolution that brought Getulio Vargas to power – the so-called First Republic.
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The Rise and Fall of the National Atlas in the Twentieth Century
Power, State and Territory
John Rennie Short
Many countries produced an official national atlas in the twentieth century. This book examines these national atlases as an intriguing window into the connections between science, state, territory and power.
Anthem Press
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9781839983030
July 2022
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£125.00 / $125.00Many countries produced an official national atlas in the twentieth century. This book examines these national atlases as an intriguing window into the connections between science, state, territory and power.