History
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Religion in Schools
Learning Lessons from Wales
Russell Sandberg
Questions of how religion operates within schools are controversial and divisive. This book explores radical changes that are being made in Wales and the lessons that can be learnt.
Anthem Press
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9781839984259
July 2022
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£24.95 / $24.95Questions of how religion operates within schools are controversial and divisive. This book explores radical changes that are being made in Wales and the lessons that can be learnt.
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Joseph Karo and Shaping of Modern Jewish Law
The Early Modern Ottoman and Global Settings
Roni Weinstein
The book provides a global perspective on the history of Jewish law during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, focusing on the codification works of R. Joseph Karo.
Anthem Press
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9781785278761
July 2022
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£125.00 / $125.00The book provides a global perspective on the history of Jewish law during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, focusing on the codification works of R. Joseph Karo.
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Britain’s Empires
A History, 1600-2020
James Heartfield
A history of the many different British Empires – the Old Colonial System (1600-1776), the Empire of Free Trade (1776-1870), the New Imperialism (1870-1945), Decolonisation (1945-1990) and the era of humanitarian intervention (1990-2020). Britain’s Empires aims to tell the story of the colonial past as one marked by change and reinvention.
Anthem Press
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9781839987243
July 2022
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£150.00 / $150.00A history of the many different British Empires – the Old Colonial System (1600-1776), the Empire of Free Trade (1776-1870), the New Imperialism (1870-1945), Decolonisation (1945-1990) and the era of humanitarian intervention (1990-2020). Britain’s Empires aims to tell the story of the colonial past as one marked by change and reinvention.
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Gender and the Race for Space
Masculinity and the American Astronaut, 1957-1983
Erinn McComb
This book argues that the American astronaut image was informed by early Cold War ideals of masculinity that helped mold a distinctly American (anti-communist) masculinity, which appeared—on the surface anyway—to resolve not only an American “crisis of masculinity” but helped win the Cold War on an ideological and popular level.
Anthem Press
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9781839987175
June 2022
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£110.00 / $110.00This book argues that the American astronaut image was informed by early Cold War ideals of masculinity that helped mold a distinctly American (anti-communist) masculinity, which appeared—on the surface anyway—to resolve not only an American “crisis of masculinity” but helped win the Cold War on an ideological and popular level.
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The Global Spread of Football in the 1870s
Thomas Adam
This book offers a study of how football became in the 1870s a global sport that was played by high school students on several continents. It provides a horizontal perspective that focusses on the spread of football from its English cradle to Germany, the United States, and Argentina.
Anthem Press
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9781839987205
June 2022
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£110.00 / $110.00This book offers a study of how football became in the 1870s a global sport that was played by high school students on several continents. It provides a horizontal perspective that focusses on the spread of football from its English cradle to Germany, the United States, and Argentina.
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An Intellectual History of Migration Law and Policy c.1535-2020
Péter Szigeti
A history of immigration law as a legal discipline: how it has been constrained and unconstrained by developments in migration policy, international law, constitutional law and legal theory.
Anthem Press
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9781839987120
June 2022
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£120.00 / $120.00A history of immigration law as a legal discipline: how it has been constrained and unconstrained by developments in migration policy, international law, constitutional law and legal theory.
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Popular Radicalism and the Unemployed in Chicago during the Great Depression
Chris Wright
In a time when mass joblessness and precarious employment are becoming issues of national concern, it is useful to reconsider the experiences of the unemployed in an earlier period of economic hardship, the Great Depression. Focusing on the bellwether city of Chicago, this book reevaluates their struggles, revealing the kernel of political radicalism and class resistance in practices that are usually thought of as apolitical and un-ideological. From communal sharing to “eviction riots,” from Unemployed Councils to the nationwide movement behind the remarkable Workers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill, millions of people fought to end the reign of capitalist values and usher in a new, more socialistic society. Today, their legacy is their resilience, their resourcefulness, and their proof that the unemployed can organize themselves to renew the struggle for a more just world.
Anthem Press
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9781839983252
June 2022
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£125.00 / $125.00In a time when mass joblessness and precarious employment are becoming issues of national concern, it is useful to reconsider the experiences of the unemployed in an earlier period of economic hardship, the Great Depression. Focusing on the bellwether city of Chicago, this book reevaluates their struggles, revealing the kernel of political radicalism and class resistance in practices that are usually thought of as apolitical and un-ideological. From communal sharing to “eviction riots,” from Unemployed Councils to the nationwide movement behind the remarkable Workers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill, millions of people fought to end the reign of capitalist values and usher in a new, more socialistic society. Today, their legacy is their resilience, their resourcefulness, and their proof that the unemployed can organize themselves to renew the struggle for a more just world.
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Fronsperger and Laffemas
16th-century Precursors of Modern Economic Ideas
Edited by Erik S. Reinert, Philipp Robinson Rössner
Leonhard Fronsperger, Barthélemy de LaffemasThis volume introduces two very early, unique, and hitherto largely unknown contributions to the making of modern economic knowledge: Fronsperger's on the role of self-interest in economic development (later called the ‘Mandeville Paradox’) and Laffemas’ on the importance of an active industrial policy. Both for the first time in English.
Anthem Press
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9781839987083
June 2022
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£110.00 / $110.00This volume introduces two very early, unique, and hitherto largely unknown contributions to the making of modern economic knowledge: Fronsperger’s on the role of self-interest in economic development (later called the ‘Mandeville Paradox’) and Laffemas’ on the importance of an active industrial policy. Both for the first time in English.
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The Peterborough Chronicle, Volume 1
Introduction and Text
Edited by Bernard J. Muir, Nicholas A. Sparks
This work is a critical edition and translation with commentary on one of the most important surviving Anglo-Saxon historical documents, The Peterborough Chronicle.
Anthem Press
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9781839986994
June 2022
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£195.00 / $195.00This work is a critical edition and translation with commentary on one of the most important surviving Anglo-Saxon historical documents, The Peterborough Chronicle.
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The Peterborough Chronicle, Volume 2
Translation, Indexes and Plates
Edited by Bernard J. Muir, Nicholas A. Sparks
This work is a critical edition and translation with commentary on one of the most important surviving Anglo-Saxon historical documents, The Peterborough Chronicle.
Anthem Press
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9781839987021
June 2022
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£195.00 / $195.00This work is a critical edition and translation with commentary on one of the most important surviving Anglo-Saxon historical documents, The Peterborough Chronicle.
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Universality and Utopia
The 20th Century Indigenista Peruvian Tradition
Daniel Sacilotto
This work examines the evolution of the Peruvian indigenista literary tradition in the twentieth century in its relation to the evolution of socialist thought and dialectical materialist philosophy.
Anthem Press
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9781839986871
May 2022
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£110.00 / $110.00This work examines the evolution of the Peruvian indigenista literary tradition in the twentieth century in its relation to the evolution of socialist thought and dialectical materialist philosophy.
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The Politics of Public Opinion in the Novels of Anthony Trollope
A 'Tenth Muse'
Jan Gordon
The Politics of Public Opinion: Trollope'’s ‘Tenth Muse’ takes as its subject the rise of public opinion in the nineteenth-century British novel as (1) a uniquely collective narrative form posing as a singular voice and (2) a “voice” that distances itself from re-sponsibility by disguising its presence. As both immanent and transcendent, public opinion is aligned with “empty universals” that generate meaning.
Anthem Press
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9781839986932
May 2022
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£110.00 / $110.00The Politics of Public Opinion: Trollope’’s ‘Tenth Muse’ takes as its subject the rise of public opinion in the nineteenth-century British novel as (1) a uniquely collective narrative form posing as a singular voice and (2) a “voice” that distances itself from re-sponsibility by disguising its presence. As both immanent and transcendent, public opinion is aligned with “empty universals” that generate meaning.
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Military Memories
Draft Era Veterans Recall their Service
Edited by Donald Zillman
This book describes eight American military veterans of the Vietnam/Cold War era and describes their service and its influence on their lives.
Anthem Press
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9781839986451
April 2022
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£125.00 / $125.00This book describes eight American military veterans of the Vietnam/Cold War era and describes their service and its influence on their lives.
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Individuals and Small Groups in Jewish Resistance to the Holocaust
A Case Study of a Young Couple and their Friends
Ben Braber
This book aims to increase our knowledge and deepen the understanding of Jewish resistance to the Holocaust by examining personal circumstances and characteristics of Jewish resistance members and the formation of small Jewish resistance groups.
Anthem Press
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9781839983580
April 2022
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£125.00 / $125.00This book aims to increase our knowledge and deepen the understanding of Jewish resistance to the Holocaust by examining personal circumstances and characteristics of Jewish resistance members and the formation of small Jewish resistance groups.
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Sarah Bowdich Lee (1791-1856) and Pioneering Perspectives on Natural History
Mary Orr
This first book-length appraisal of the pioneering perspectives of Sarah Bowdich Lee (1791–1856) on natural history in the first half of the nineteenth century pivotally highlights the intercultural, interdisciplinary and multi-genre reach of her work. The fact that she undertook it independently and transnationally over three decadeschallenges approaches to women, gender and national nineteenth-century scientific endeavour that have defined women at work in the period by their secondary roles (to more famous men in science) that also delimit their contributions and discoveries(as domestic). By focusing on how Sarah undertook her science despite the many bars to women in its fields, this study also promotes one woman’s blueprint for non-conformist independent work and, in consequence, an alternative paradigm for the ‘leaky pipeline’ model still informing women’s careers in STEM(M) today.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839986093
March 2022
Forthcoming
£110.00 / $110.00This first book-length appraisal of the pioneering perspectives of Sarah Bowdich Lee (1791–1856) on natural history in the first half of the nineteenth century pivotally highlights the intercultural, interdisciplinary and multi-genre reach of her work. The fact that she undertook it independently and transnationally over three decadeschallenges approaches to women, gender and national nineteenth-century scientific endeavour that have defined women at work in the period by their secondary roles (to more famous men in science) that also delimit their contributions and discoveries(as domestic). By focusing on how Sarah undertook her science despite the many bars to women in its fields, this study also promotes one woman’s blueprint for non-conformist independent work and, in consequence, an alternative paradigm for the ‘leaky pipeline’ model still informing women’s careers in STEM(M) today.
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War and Peace in the Worlds of Rudolf H. Sauter
A Cultural History of a Creative Life
Jeffrey S. Reznick
War and Peace in the Worlds of Rudolf H. Sauter is the first book to examine the creative life and worlds of Rudolf H. Sauter (1895–1977), the German-born artist, poet, cultural observer and nephew of the famed novelist John Galsworthy. It reveals him as a creative figure in his own right who produced an intriguing body of artistic and literary work.
Anthem Press
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9781839980152
March 2022
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£125.00 / $125.00War and Peace in the Worlds of Rudolf H. Sauter is the first book to examine the creative life and worlds of Rudolf H. Sauter (1895–1977), the German-born artist, poet, cultural observer and nephew of the famed novelist John Galsworthy. It reveals him as a creative figure in his own right who produced an intriguing body of artistic and literary work.
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The Cold War in the 1950s
Nicolas Lewkowicz
The book describes the domestic and external conditions that shaped the interaction between the United States and the Soviet Union during the 1950s.
Anthem Press
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9781839985539
February 2022
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£110.00 / $110.00The book describes the domestic and external conditions that shaped the interaction between the United States and the Soviet Union during the 1950s.
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The Puritan Ideology of Mobility
Corporatism, the Politics of Place and the Founding of New England Towns before 1650
Scott McDermott
The Puritan Ideology of Mobility: Corporatism, the Politics of Place, and the Founding of New England Towns before 1650 presents the ideology of mobility which Puritan leaders developed to justify migration and town founding. New England towns were born as living “bodies politic” with a metaphysical basis in keeping with Christian corporatist theory.
Anthem Press
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9781785274725
February 2022
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£125.00 / $125.00The Puritan Ideology of Mobility: Corporatism, the Politics of Place, and the Founding of New England Towns before 1650 presents the ideology of mobility which Puritan leaders developed to justify migration and town founding. New England towns were born as living “bodies politic” with a metaphysical basis in keeping with Christian corporatist theory.
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Muhammad Ali in Africana Cultural Memory
Edited by James L. Conyers, Jr., Christel N. Temple
Muhammad Ali in Africana Cultural Memory is a comprehensive study of Ali’s identity and superlative impact framed in terms of the discipline’s subfield of Africana cultural memory studies. This critical approach challenges us to itemize Ali’s influential legacy with precise conceptual value wherein his mythological structure is illuminated as an inheritance.
Anthem Press
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9781785277191
January 2022
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£125.00 / $125.00Muhammad Ali in Africana Cultural Memory is a comprehensive study of Ali’s identity and superlative impact framed in terms of the discipline’s subfield of Africana cultural memory studies. This critical approach challenges us to itemize Ali’s influential legacy with precise conceptual value wherein his mythological structure is illuminated as an inheritance.
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Eight Years on Sakhalin
A Political Prisoner’s Memoir
Ivan P. Iuvachev
translated with commentary by Andrew A. GentesThis memoir by Ivan P. Iuvachëv, a cofounder of the People’s Will, details his time as a political exile in the Sakhalin penal colony from 1887 to 1895. Iuvachëv experienced one of the penal colony’s most tumultuous periods. His vivid descriptions make this both a work of literature and a valuable historical document.
Anthem Press
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9781785278228
January 2022
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£140.00 / $140.00This memoir by Ivan P. Iuvachëv, a cofounder of the People’s Will, details his time as a political exile in the Sakhalin penal colony from 1887 to 1895. Iuvachëv experienced one of the penal colony’s most tumultuous periods. His vivid descriptions make this both a work of literature and a valuable historical document.
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Self-Presentation and Representative Politics
Essays in Context, 1960-2020
Derek Robbins
The book presents six articles written at intervals of about a decade between 1960 and 2020, all of which relate to the problem of representative politics. The articles are contextualised historically to document a developing presentation of self on the part of the author while also raising questions about the changing nature of political representation.
Anthem Press
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9781785279003
January 2022
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£125.00 / $125.00The book presents six articles written at intervals of about a decade between 1960 and 2020, all of which relate to the problem of representative politics. The articles are contextualised historically to document a developing presentation of self on the part of the author while also raising questions about the changing nature of political representation.
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On the Fall of the Roman Republic
Lessons for the American People
Thomas E. Strunk
On the Republic juxtaposes the fall of the Roman Republic with the contemporary political landscape of the United States: a republic in disarray, violence and corruption thwarting the will of the people, military misadventures abroad, and rampant economic inequality diminishing a shared sense of the common good.
Anthem Press
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9781839980541
January 2022
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£90.00 / $90.00On the Republic juxtaposes the fall of the Roman Republic with the contemporary political landscape of the United States: a republic in disarray, violence and corruption thwarting the will of the people, military misadventures abroad, and rampant economic inequality diminishing a shared sense of the common good.
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Collaboration in Space and the Search for Peace on Earth
Andrew L. Jenks
The book explores the peaceful exploration of space, which became a launching pad for new visions of human community and peaceful collaboration during the Cold War.
Anthem Press
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9781839980428
December 2021
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£125.00 / $125.00The book explores the peaceful exploration of space, which became a launching pad for new visions of human community and peaceful collaboration during the Cold War.
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Taiwan Straits Standoff
70 Years of PRC–Taiwan Cross-Strait Tensions
Bruce A. Elleman
Following the Nationalist defeat on the mainland in 1949, Chiang Kai-shek and his followers retreated to Taiwan, forming the Republic of China (ROC). Tensions with the People’s Republic of China (PRC) focused on control over a number of offshore islands, especially Quemoy (Jinmen) and Matsu (Mazu). Twice in the 1950s tensions peaked, during the first (1954–55) and second (1958) Taiwan Strait crises. Today, relations between the ROC and PRC depend on quelling tensions over the Taiwan Strait. This work provides a short, but highly relevant, history of the Taiwan Strait, and its significance today.
Anthem Press
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9781839980909
August 2021
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£125.00 / $125.00Following the Nationalist defeat on the mainland in 1949, Chiang Kai-shek and his followers retreated to Taiwan, forming the Republic of China (ROC). Tensions with the People’s Republic of China (PRC) focused on control over a number of offshore islands, especially Quemoy (Jinmen) and Matsu (Mazu). Twice in the 1950s tensions peaked, during the first (1954–55) and second (1958) Taiwan Strait crises. Today, relations between the ROC and PRC depend on quelling tensions over the Taiwan Strait. This work provides a short, but highly relevant, history of the Taiwan Strait, and its significance today.