Humanities, Literature and Arts
Featured Books
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Planning for Water Security in Southeast Asia
Community-Based Infrastructure During the Urban Transition
September, 2022
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Before Einstein
The Fourth Dimension in Fin-de-Siècle Literature and Culture
Elizabeth L. Throesch
Before Albert Einstein proposed the concept of four-dimensional spacetime, late Victorian scientists, radical philosophers and writers were discussing the possibility of a different kind of fourth dimension. ‘Before Einstein’ offers the first book-length examination of the impact of pre-Relativity four-dimensional theory on literature and culture at the turn of the twentieth century.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781783086238
January 2017
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£115.00 / $115.00Before Albert Einstein proposed the concept of four-dimensional spacetime, late Victorian scientists, radical philosophers and writers were discussing the possibility of a different kind of fourth dimension. ‘Before Einstein’ offers the first book-length examination of the impact of pre-Relativity four-dimensional theory on literature and culture at the turn of the twentieth century.
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Bestsellers in Nineteenth-Century America
An Anthology
Edited by Paul C. Gutjahr
Bestsellers in Nineteenth Century America seeks to produce for students novels, poems and other printed material that sold extremely well when they first appeared in the United States.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781783085798
November 2016
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£200.00 / $200.00Bestsellers in Nineteenth Century America seeks to produce for students novels, poems and other printed material that sold extremely well when they first appeared in the United States.
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‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ in Context
Magic, Madness and Mayhem
Keith Linley
How might Shakespeare’s audiences have responded to this enduringly popular comedy? This guide to the various contexts that situate 'A Midsummer Night’s Dream' in its time, explains the Christian ethics, the contemporary socio-political scene, the literary atmosphere and requirements of comedy that inform the background of this mad play.
Anthem Press
Paperback
9781783085552
November 2016
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£24.95 / $24.95How might Shakespeare’s audiences have responded to this enduringly popular comedy? This guide to the various contexts that situate ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ in its time, explains the Christian ethics, the contemporary socio-political scene, the literary atmosphere and requirements of comedy that inform the background of this mad play.
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‘Volpone’ in Context
Biters Bitten and Fools Fooled
Keith Linley
What would a Jacobean audience have made of this grim exposure of human greed? This guide to the various contexts that situate 'Volpone' in its time, explains the Christian ethics, the contemporary socio-political scene, the literary atmosphere and requirements of comedy that inform the background of this dark play.
Anthem Press
Paperback
9781783085583
November 2016
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£24.95 / $24.95What would a Jacobean audience have made of this grim exposure of human greed? This guide to the various contexts that situate ‘Volpone’ in its time, explains the Christian ethics, the contemporary socio-political scene, the literary atmosphere and requirements of comedy that inform the background of this dark play.
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Modernist Afterlives in Irish Literature and Culture
Paige Reynolds
Modernist Afterlives in Irish Literature and Culture explores manifestations of the themes, forms and practices of high modernism in Irish literature and culture produced subsequent to this influential movement. The interdisciplinary collection reveals how Irish artists grapple with modernist legacies and forge new modes of expression for modern and contemporary culture.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781783085736
September 2016
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£115.00 / $115.00Modernist Afterlives in Irish Literature and Culture explores manifestations of the themes, forms and practices of high modernism in Irish literature and culture produced subsequent to this influential movement. The interdisciplinary collection reveals how Irish artists grapple with modernist legacies and forge new modes of expression for modern and contemporary culture.
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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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Alternative Modernities in French Travel Writing
Engaging Urban Space in London and New York, 1851–1986
Gillian Jein
Examining the aesthetics and politics at stake in urban travel writing as spatial practice, this book explores French travellers’ representations of London and New York from 1851 to the 1980s.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781783085125
June 2016
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£115.00 / $115.00Examining the aesthetics and politics at stake in urban travel writing as spatial practice, this book explores French travellers’ representations of London and New York from 1851 to the 1980s.
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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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Patrick White Beyond the Grave
Edited by Ian Henderson, Anouk Lang
Carrying forward the momentum of the twenty-first-century ‘rediscovery’ of Patrick White (1912–1990), winner of the 1973 Nobel Prize for Literature, this book features work by White scholars aiming to stimulate future research into ‘world’ modernism, queer literature, and the ‘jittery’ modernist impulses of contemporary culture.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781783083978
August 2015
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£115.00 / $115.00Carrying forward the momentum of the twenty-first-century ‘rediscovery’ of Patrick White (1912–1990), winner of the 1973 Nobel Prize for Literature, this book features work by White scholars aiming to stimulate future research into ‘world’ modernism, queer literature, and the ‘jittery’ modernist impulses of contemporary culture.
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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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Christos Tsiolkas and the Fiction of Critique
Politics, Obscenity, Celebrity
Andrew McCann
This is the first theoretically informed study of Tsiolkas’s work. It follows the arc of his controversial career, and explores the tensions between political radicality, transgressive sexuality and his more recent commercial success.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781783084036
June 2015
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£115.00 / $115.00This is the first theoretically informed study of Tsiolkas’s work. It follows the arc of his controversial career, and explores the tensions between political radicality, transgressive sexuality and his more recent commercial success.
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The Poverty of Television
The Mediation of Suffering in Class-Divided Philippines
Jonathan Corpus Ong
Based on an ethnographic study of television and audiences in class-divided Philippines, this is the first book to take a bottom-up approach in considering how people respond to images and narratives of suffering and poverty on television.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781783084067
May 2015
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£115.00 / $115.00Based on an ethnographic study of television and audiences in class-divided Philippines, this is the first book to take a bottom-up approach in considering how people respond to images and narratives of suffering and poverty on television.
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Performing Noncitizenship
Asylum Seekers in Australian Theatre, Film and Activism
Emma Cox
This exacting study examines the role that theatre, film and activism responsive to asylum seekers has played in the emergence of ‘irregular’ noncitizenship as a cornerstone idea in contemporary Australian political and social life.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781783084005
May 2015
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£115.00 / $115.00This exacting study examines the role that theatre, film and activism responsive to asylum seekers has played in the emergence of ‘irregular’ noncitizenship as a cornerstone idea in contemporary Australian political and social life.
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The Films of Adoor Gopalakrishnan
A Cinema of Emancipation
Suranjan Ganguly
The first comprehensive study of the feature films of India’s most distinguished contemporary filmmaker. This work offers a compelling analysis of the director’s treatment of guilt, redemption and hope within their socio-historical contexts.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781783084098
May 2015
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£115.00 / $115.00The first comprehensive study of the feature films of India’s most distinguished contemporary filmmaker. This work offers a compelling analysis of the director’s treatment of guilt, redemption and hope within their socio-historical contexts.
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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.
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Gamle Norge and Nineteenth-Century British Women Travellers in Norway
Kathryn Walchester
‘Gamle Norge and Nineteenth-Century British Women Travellers in Norway’ explores the surprising significance of Norway in the writing of British women during the nineteenth century, the country offering a place of freedom and possibility beyond Victorian Britain.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781783083657
December 2014
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£115.00 / $115.00‘Gamle Norge and Nineteenth-Century British Women Travellers in Norway’ explores the surprising significance of Norway in the writing of British women during the nineteenth century, the country offering a place of freedom and possibility beyond Victorian Britain.
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The New Olive Branch (1820) and Selected Essays
Mathew Carey
Edited by Lawrence A. PeskinOne of the most important and neglected works of early American economics, Mathew Carey’s “The New Olive Branch” offers insight into political economy as it happened in early America, and provides an excellent example of resistance to Adam Smith and classical economics.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781783081554
October 2014
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£115.00 / $115.00One of the most important and neglected works of early American economics, Mathew Carey’s “The New Olive Branch” offers insight into political economy as it happened in early America, and provides an excellent example of resistance to Adam Smith and classical economics.
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Unhomely Cinema
Home and Place in Global Cinema
Dwayne Avery
Representations of troubled and inhospitable domestic places are a common feature of many cinematic narratives. “Unhomely Cinema” explores how the unhomely nature of contemporary film narrative provides an insight into what it means to dwell in today’s global societies.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781783083022
October 2014
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£115.00 / $115.00Representations of troubled and inhospitable domestic places are a common feature of many cinematic narratives. “Unhomely Cinema” explores how the unhomely nature of contemporary film narrative provides an insight into what it means to dwell in today’s global societies.
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The Significant Hamlin Garland
A Collection of Essays
Donald Pizer
This book collects the best of Donald Pizer’s essays dealing with Hamlin Garland’s early work and activities in to re-establish the importance of this formative stage in his career.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781783083053
October 2014
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£115.00 / $115.00This book collects the best of Donald Pizer’s essays dealing with Hamlin Garland’s early work and activities in to re-establish the importance of this formative stage in his career.