History
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Conduct Books and the History of the Ideal Woman
Tabitha Kenlon
“Conduct Books and the History of the Ideal Woman” examines six centuries of conduct manuals and other instructive writing, analyzing the history of gendered expectations that have been debated in print from the fourteenth century and continue to influence our present thinking about women’s roles and abilities.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785273148
March 2020
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£125.00 / $125.00“Conduct Books and the History of the Ideal Woman” examines six centuries of conduct manuals and other instructive writing, analyzing the history of gendered expectations that have been debated in print from the fourteenth century and continue to influence our present thinking about women’s roles and abilities.
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British Battles 493–937
Mount Badon to Brunanburh
Andrew Breeze
British Battles 493–937 revolutionizes our understanding of early British history by correctly locating for the first time conflicts from Mount Badon to Brunanburh.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785272233
February 2020
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£125.00 / $125.00British Battles 493–937 revolutionizes our understanding of early British history by correctly locating for the first time conflicts from Mount Badon to Brunanburh.
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Revising History in Communist Europe
Constructing Counter-Revolution in 1956 and 1968
David A.J. Reynolds
Both Hungary’s 1956 uprising and the Prague Spring took place when regimes tentatively revised recent history. This process of remembering and forgetting shook the legitimacy, and shaped the actions, of communist party-states because their control of the past was central to their grasp of the present.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785272080
January 2020
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£125.00 / $125.00Both Hungary’s 1956 uprising and the Prague Spring took place when regimes tentatively revised recent history. This process of remembering and forgetting shook the legitimacy, and shaped the actions, of communist party-states because their control of the past was central to their grasp of the present.
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Planting the Seeds of Research
How America’s Ultimate Investment Transformed Agriculture
Louis A. Ferleger
‘Planting the Seeds of Research’ explores why by the beginnings of the twentieth century the United States dominated agricultural production worldwide.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785272622
January 2020
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£125.00 / $125.00‘Planting the Seeds of Research’ explores why by the beginnings of the twentieth century the United States dominated agricultural production worldwide.
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Approaches to the Study of Intercultural Transfer
Thomas Adam
“Approaches to the Study of Intercultural Transfer” explores the intricacies and mechanisms of intercultural transfers.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785271656
October 2019
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£125.00 / $125.00“Approaches to the Study of Intercultural Transfer” explores the intricacies and mechanisms of intercultural transfers.
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The Spanish Frustration
How a Ruinous Empire Thwarted the Nation-State
Josep M. Colomer
Old troubles persist in modern Spain, including huge public debts, extensive corruption, widespread unlawfulness, oligarchical politics, territorial splits, and permanent protests and riots. The origins of these problems are remote: the ruinous Spanish Empire made a weak state, which built an incomplete nation, which sustains a minority democracy. "The Spanish Frustration" provides an interpretation of several important aspects of present-day Spain and its past stories.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781783089888
June 2019
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£125.00 / $125.00Old troubles persist in modern Spain, including huge public debts, extensive corruption, widespread unlawfulness, oligarchical politics, territorial splits, and permanent protests and riots. The origins of these problems are remote: the ruinous Spanish Empire made a weak state, which built an incomplete nation, which sustains a minority democracy. “The Spanish Frustration” provides an interpretation of several important aspects of present-day Spain and its past stories.
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Adult Responses to Popular Music and Intergenerational Relations in Britain, c. 1955–1975
Gillian A. M. Mitchell
‘Adult Reactions to Popular Music and Inter-generational Relations in Britain, 1955–1975’ constitutes a thematic examination of the pervasive assumption that ‘the older generation’ reacted in a largely negative fashion to music styles popular with British young people from the 1950s to the mid-1970s (including rock ’n’ roll, skiffle, ‘beat’ and rock music) and that the music invariably exacerbated inter-generational tensions.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781783089000
February 2019
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£115.00 / $115.00‘Adult Reactions to Popular Music and Inter-generational Relations in Britain, 1955–1975’ constitutes a thematic examination of the pervasive assumption that ‘the older generation’ reacted in a largely negative fashion to music styles popular with British young people from the 1950s to the mid-1970s (including rock ’n’ roll, skiffle, ‘beat’ and rock music) and that the music invariably exacerbated inter-generational tensions.
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The British National Daily Press and Popular Music, c.1956–1975
Gillian A.M. Mitchell
‘The British National Daily Press and Popular Music, c.1956–1975’ examines the reactions of the national daily press to music styles popular with British youth from the mid-1950s to the early 1970s (including rock ’n’ roll, skiffle, ‘beat group’ and rock music) and challenges the perception that a one-dimensionally negative and inflammatory reaction contributed to the generation of ‘moral panic’ around popular music.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781783089093
February 2019
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£79.95 / $79.95‘The British National Daily Press and Popular Music, c.1956–1975’ examines the reactions of the national daily press to music styles popular with British youth from the mid-1950s to the early 1970s (including rock ’n’ roll, skiffle, ‘beat group’ and rock music) and challenges the perception that a one-dimensionally negative and inflammatory reaction contributed to the generation of ‘moral panic’ around popular music.
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Past Forward
Essays in Korean History
Kyung Moon Hwang
A wide-ranging collection of concise essays, ‘Past Forward’ introduces core features of Korean history that illuminate current issues and pressing concerns, demonstrating how Korea’s present circumstances both reflect and shape the understanding of its past.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781783088782
January 2019
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£49.00 / $49.00A wide-ranging collection of concise essays, ‘Past Forward’ introduces core features of Korean history that illuminate current issues and pressing concerns, demonstrating how Korea’s present circumstances both reflect and shape the understanding of its past.
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British Depth Studies c500–1100 (Anglo-Saxon and Norman Britain)
For GCSE History Edexcel and AQA
Sophie Ambler, Mark Bailey, Graham E. Seel
‘British Depth Studies c500–1100 (Anglo-Saxon and Norman Britain)’ is designed for students and teachers preparing for the new GCSE ‘Anglo-Saxon and Norman England’ British Depth Study components of the Edexcel and AQA examination boards.
Anthem Press
Paperback
9781783088089
November 2018
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£26.22 / $26.22‘British Depth Studies c500–1100 (Anglo-Saxon and Norman Britain)’ is designed for students and teachers preparing for the new GCSE ‘Anglo-Saxon and Norman England’ British Depth Study components of the Edexcel and AQA examination boards.
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Eisenhower and the Art of Collaborative Leadership
Kenneth Weisbrode
‘Eisenhower and the Art of Collaborative Leadership’ is a study of the leadership style of Dwight Eisenhower with an emphasis on collaboration, team-building and empathy.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781783088386
September 2018
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£79.95 / $79.95‘Eisenhower and the Art of Collaborative Leadership’ is a study of the leadership style of Dwight Eisenhower with an emphasis on collaboration, team-building and empathy.
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Decolonizing the Diet
Nutrition, Immunity, and the Warning from Early America
Gideon Mailer, Nicola Hale
Synthesizing the science of nutrition, immunity and evolutionary genetics with a controversial new history of indigenous North America, “Decolonizing the Diet” shows how populations fail to recover from epidemics when their ability to hunt, gather and farm nutritionally dense plants and animals is diminished by war, colonization and cultural destruction.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781783087143
March 2018
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£115.00 / $115.00Synthesizing the science of nutrition, immunity and evolutionary genetics with a controversial new history of indigenous North America, “Decolonizing the Diet” shows how populations fail to recover from epidemics when their ability to hunt, gather and farm nutritionally dense plants and animals is diminished by war, colonization and cultural destruction.
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US Consular Representation in Britain since 1790
Nicholas M Keegan
foreword by Barbara Stephenson'US consular representation in Britain since 1790' is a history of US consular activities in the UK, which began in 1790 and continue to the present with consulates general in Edinburgh and Belfast. It also contains many previously unpublished illustrations.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781783087433
March 2018
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£115.00 / $115.00‘US consular representation in Britain since 1790’ is a history of US consular activities in the UK, which began in 1790 and continue to the present with consulates general in Edinburgh and Belfast. It also contains many previously unpublished illustrations.
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Holland House and Portugal, 1793–1840
English Whiggery and the Constitutional Cause in Iberia
Jose Baptista de Sousa
‘Holland House and Portugal’, a study in political and diplomatic history, focusses on the relations between Lord Holland and Portugal from 1793 to 1840. The book traces the evolution of Holland’s views on Portugal from the time of his first visit to Spain to his later contribution to the establishment of a constitutional regime in Portugal.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781783087563
February 2018
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£115.00 / $115.00‘Holland House and Portugal’, a study in political and diplomatic history, focusses on the relations between Lord Holland and Portugal from 1793 to 1840. The book traces the evolution of Holland’s views on Portugal from the time of his first visit to Spain to his later contribution to the establishment of a constitutional regime in Portugal.
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Secret Agents and the Memory of Everyday Collaboration in Communist Eastern Europe
Edited by Péter Apor, Sándor Horváth, James Mark
'Secret Agents and the Memory of Everyday Collaboration in Communist Eastern Europe' examines the ways in which post-Communist societies have sought to make sense of Communist-era collaboration. It explores the motivations for becoming an agent and the moralities of this role, as well as the personal decisions and social consequences involved in this process.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781783087235
September 2017
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£115.00 / $115.00‘Secret Agents and the Memory of Everyday Collaboration in Communist Eastern Europe’ examines the ways in which post-Communist societies have sought to make sense of Communist-era collaboration. It explores the motivations for becoming an agent and the moralities of this role, as well as the personal decisions and social consequences involved in this process.
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Iron Men
How One London Factory Powered the Industrial Revolution and Shaped the Modern World
David Waller
foreword by Lord Norman FosterA nuts and bolts history of engineering enterprise in the first half of the nineteenth century, based on the life and work of Henry Maudslay and his followers
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781783085446
September 2016
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£34.95 / $34.95A nuts and bolts history of engineering enterprise in the first half of the nineteenth century, based on the life and work of Henry Maudslay and his followers
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The Historiography of Gladstone and Disraeli
Ian St John
This book provides a comprehensive and up-to-date guide to the lively historical controversies surrounding the political careers of Gladstone and Disraeli. Organised thematically around the most contested areas of interpretation, it offers a unique insight into the politics of Victorian England.
Anthem Press
Paperback
9781783085286
August 2016
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£37.95 / $37.95This book provides a comprehensive and up-to-date guide to the lively historical controversies surrounding the political careers of Gladstone and Disraeli. Organised thematically around the most contested areas of interpretation, it offers a unique insight into the politics of Victorian England.
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American Arabists in the Cold War Middle East, 1946–75
From Orientalism to Professionalism
Teresa Fava Thomas
This book examines US State Department’s Middle East area experts during the Cold War, known as Arabists or Middle East hands, showing how their backgrounds and education differed crucially from that of their predecessors. This study focuses on these individuals’ transformative role in US foreign relations from the Eisenhower through the Ford administrations.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781783085088
July 2016
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£115.00 / $115.00This book examines US State Department’s Middle East area experts during the Cold War, known as Arabists or Middle East hands, showing how their backgrounds and education differed crucially from that of their predecessors. This study focuses on these individuals’ transformative role in US foreign relations from the Eisenhower through the Ford administrations.
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The Creation of Modern China, 1894–2008
The Rise of a World Power
Iain Robertson Scott
No country has undergone a greater period of sustained and convulsive change than China in the twentieth century. This is its story, tracing the emergence of a modern China.
Anthem Press
Paperback
9781783084975
June 2016
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£37.95 / $37.95No country has undergone a greater period of sustained and convulsive change than China in the twentieth century. This is its story, tracing the emergence of a modern China.
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Australian Literature in the German Democratic Republic
Reading through the Iron Curtain
Edited by Nicole Moore, Christina Spittel
Exploring the imaginative construction of the post-colonial South by the communist East, this collaborative study of the reception of Australian literature in the German Democratic Republic has resonance for all newly global reckonings of the cultural Cold War.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781783085231
June 2016
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£115.00 / $115.00Exploring the imaginative construction of the post-colonial South by the communist East, this collaborative study of the reception of Australian literature in the German Democratic Republic has resonance for all newly global reckonings of the cultural Cold War.
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On Commerce and Usury (1524)
Martin Luther
introduction and notes by Philipp Robinson RössnerThis volume presents Martin Luther’s contribution to the modern economic sciences, providing a detailed introduction and revised translation of his 1524 pamphlet, ‘On Commerce and Usury’ (‘Von Kauffshandlung vnd Wucher’).
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781783083855
September 2015
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£115.00 / $115.00This volume presents Martin Luther’s contribution to the modern economic sciences, providing a detailed introduction and revised translation of his 1524 pamphlet, ‘On Commerce and Usury’ (‘Von Kauffshandlung vnd Wucher’).
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Bread, Politics and Political Economy in the Reign of Louis XV
Second Edition
Steven L. Kaplan
foreword by Sophus A. ReinertA new edition of Kaplan’s landmark study on eighteenth-century French political economy, reissued with a new Foreword by Sophus A. Reinert. Based on comprehensive archival, Kaplan’s classic work constitutes a major contribution to the study of the subsistence problem before the French Revolution and the political economy of deregulatory reform.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9780857285102
September 2015
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£145.00 / $145.00A new edition of Kaplan’s landmark study on eighteenth-century French political economy, reissued with a new Foreword by Sophus A. Reinert. Based on comprehensive archival, Kaplan’s classic work constitutes a major contribution to the study of the subsistence problem before the French Revolution and the political economy of deregulatory reform.
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The Stakes of Regulation
Perspectives on 'Bread, Politics and Political Economy' Forty Years Later
Steven L. Kaplan
This engaging work functions as extended critical essay in dialogue with the republication of ‘Bread, Politics and Political Economy’ (1976), focused on 18th-century France, dealing with the fraught question of regulation in its multiples guises: economic, social, political, cultural and psychological.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781783084760
August 2015
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£130.00 / $130.00This engaging work functions as extended critical essay in dialogue with the republication of ‘Bread, Politics and Political Economy’ (1976), focused on 18th-century France, dealing with the fraught question of regulation in its multiples guises: economic, social, political, cultural and psychological.
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Globalization, History, Historiography
The Making of a Modern Indian Theatre
Rakesh H. Solomon
'Globalization, History, Historiography: The Making of a Modern Indian Theatre' examines how global economic, cultural, and political forces created a new 'Modern Indian theatre' during the two sequences of globalization that occured between the mid-eighteenth and the mid-twentieth centuries.
Anthem Press
E-Book (Missing)
9780857289209
January 2015
Forthcoming
£99.00 / $99.00‘Globalization, History, Historiography: The Making of a Modern Indian Theatre’ examines how global economic, cultural, and political forces created a new ‘Modern Indian theatre’ during the two sequences of globalization that occured between the mid-eighteenth and the mid-twentieth centuries.