Regional and Area Studies
The Regional and Area Studies programme offer groundbreaking scholarship across a variety of academic disciplines, providing key insights into the historical, cultural, social, political and economic dynamics of a number of the world’s most important geopolitical regions. Titles in this programme are simultaneously historical and contemporary in focus. This programme includes a variety of book series.
Featured Books
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Planning for Water Security in Southeast Asia
Community-Based Infrastructure During the Urban Transition
September, 2022
£40.00 / $40.00
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Ralph Ellison and Cinema
Sam Halliday
The first dedicated study of the relation between cinema and the work of African American author Ralph Ellison (1913–1994).
Anthem Press
Paperback
9781785279638
June 2025
Forthcoming
£24.95 / $24.95The first dedicated study of the relation between cinema and the work of African American author Ralph Ellison (1913–1994).
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German Gothic Literature
Origins, Adaptations, Transformations
Edited by Curtis Maughan, Jeffrey High
This collection not only provides a starting point for students and researchers of Gothic Studies interested in the variations and adaptations within the German tradition, but it also serves as a primer for Germanists interested in establishing––or reevaluating––the place of the Gothic in German literary and cultural history.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839990069
March 2025
Forthcoming
£110.00 / $110.00This collection not only provides a starting point for students and researchers of Gothic Studies interested in the variations and adaptations within the German tradition, but it also serves as a primer for Germanists interested in establishing––or reevaluating––the place of the Gothic in German literary and cultural history.
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The Christian Culture of Islamic Spain
Origins, Survival and Recovery
Roger Collins
The Christian Culture of Islamic Spain is an enquiry into how and why Christian culture survived in medieval Spain in areas under Islamic rule, why it eventually disappeared there and how knowledge of it was recovered from the sixteenth century onwards.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785279218
March 2025
Forthcoming
£110.00 / $110.00The Christian Culture of Islamic Spain is an enquiry into how and why Christian culture survived in medieval Spain in areas under Islamic rule, why it eventually disappeared there and how knowledge of it was recovered from the sixteenth century onwards.
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Black Refigurations
Facing, Naming and Voicing in African-American Literature, Volume III
Kimberly W. Benston
Black Refigurations is the third volume of a three-volume study of African-American literary history, with special attention to the internal dialogues regarding concepts of “tradition,” haunting, trauma, and re-vision. Texts studied extend from slave narratives to contemporary works, including both canonical and lesser-known instances of African-American expression.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785278730
February 2025
Forthcoming
£110.00 / $110.00Black Refigurations is the third volume of a three-volume study of African-American literary history, with special attention to the internal dialogues regarding concepts of “tradition,” haunting, trauma, and re-vision. Texts studied extend from slave narratives to contemporary works, including both canonical and lesser-known instances of African-American expression.
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Critical Approaches to Fen Gothic Literature
Gina Wisker
The book defines and discusses Fen Gothic, an example of regional Gothic inflected by geography, relationships of centre and margins, history, ecology and gender and the perspectives offered by related Gothic critical approaches.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839982033
January 2025
Forthcoming
£110.00 / $110.00The book defines and discusses Fen Gothic, an example of regional Gothic inflected by geography, relationships of centre and margins, history, ecology and gender and the perspectives offered by related Gothic critical approaches.
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Conditions of Access
Licensing book rights in a global market
Airlie Lawson
Using an innovative methodological approach, Conditions of Accessexamines how novels circulate globally through the trade in publishing rights, introduces a model by which to trade these rights and assess threats, and using Australia as a case study, provides a new account of how one nation’s literature arrives onthe international stage.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839989896
January 2025
Forthcoming
£110.00 / $110.00Using an innovative methodological approach, Conditions of Accessexamines how novels circulate globally through the trade in publishing rights, introduces a model by which to trade these rights and assess threats, and using Australia as a case study, provides a new account of how one nation’s literature arrives onthe international stage.
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Legacies of Forced Removals in South Africa
Accounting for Children's Reflections of Displacement in the Western Cape
Efua Tembisa Prah
This book focuses on experiences from various backgrounds of six children who lived in temporary relocation areas in Cape Town, South Africa. Themes identified examined the effects of forced removals, displacement, and marginality on the lifeworlds of children.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839982668
December 2024
Forthcoming
£110.00 / $110.00This book focuses on experiences from various backgrounds of six children who lived in temporary relocation areas in Cape Town, South Africa. Themes identified examined the effects of forced removals, displacement, and marginality on the lifeworlds of children.
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British Entanglement with Brazilian Slavery
Masters in Another Empire, c. 1822-1888
Joseph Mulhern
This book looks beyond the British Empire and the Slavery Abolition Act to focus on Brazil as the final frontier of Britain’s centuries-long involvement with transatlantic slavery.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839984662
December 2024
Forthcoming
£110.00 / $110.00This book looks beyond the British Empire and the Slavery Abolition Act to focus on Brazil as the final frontier of Britain’s centuries-long involvement with transatlantic slavery.
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Pursuits of Settler Belonging in Australian Post-Millennial Memoirs
Martina Horáková
This book examines Australian memoirs of settler belonging written by public intellectuals—writers, historians, academics, journalists—which attempt to come to terms with the history of colonial violence and dispossession of Indigenous people, and articulate new perspectives on how to belong ethically in a settler colony of the 21st century.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839990571
December 2024
Forthcoming
£110.00 / $110.00This book examines Australian memoirs of settler belonging written by public intellectuals—writers, historians, academics, journalists—which attempt to come to terms with the history of colonial violence and dispossession of Indigenous people, and articulate new perspectives on how to belong ethically in a settler colony of the 21st century.
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Living with Poverty and Dependence in England
Katherine Smith
This book addresses the effects of poverty on multiple interdependencies in kinship, neighbourly and friendship relations. It explores how interpersonal relationships are made, unmade, recuperated or ended by people who are living with poverty in one of England’s most deprived neighbourhoods.
Hardback
9781839991783
December 2024
Forthcoming
£110.00 / $110.00This book addresses the effects of poverty on multiple interdependencies in kinship, neighbourly and friendship relations. It explores how interpersonal relationships are made, unmade, recuperated or ended by people who are living with poverty in one of England’s most deprived neighbourhoods.
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Art, Politics and the Environment in Bangladesh
50 Years On
Edited by Nusrat S Chowdhury, Lotte Hoek
‘Art, Politics and the Environment in Bangladesh’ features original research of a new generation of scholars of Bangladesh. The chapters collectively engage with many enduring topics of academic interest, such as violence, poverty, environment, development, democracy, religion and human rights from the vantage point of Bangladesh.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785273414
November 2024
Forthcoming
£110.00 / $110.00‘Art, Politics and the Environment in Bangladesh’ features original research of a new generation of scholars of Bangladesh. The chapters collectively engage with many enduring topics of academic interest, such as violence, poverty, environment, development, democracy, religion and human rights from the vantage point of Bangladesh.
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Transforming Healthcare in Africa
A Comparative Analysis
Edited by Robert Dibie
The current available books and literature that shed light on health policies in many African countries are limited. This book examines the key players in the health system game in many African countries. It explores the regulatory regimes that impact the health systems, such as the Ministry of Health. It also provides few case studies of the relationship between the government, the public health environment, and their citizens.
Hardback
9781839991202
November 2024
Forthcoming
£110.00 / $110.00The current available books and literature that shed light on health policies in many African countries are limited. This book examines the key players in the health system game in many African countries. It explores the regulatory regimes that impact the health systems, such as the Ministry of Health. It also provides few case studies of the relationship between the government, the public health environment, and their citizens.
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Black Hauntologies
Slavery, Modernity and Spectral Re-Vision, Volume II
Kimberly W. Benston
Black Hauntologies is the second volume of a three-volume study of African-American literary history, with special attention to the internal dialogues regarding concepts of “tradition,” haunting, trauma, and re-vision. Texts studied extend from slave narratives to contemporary works, including both canonical and lesser-known instances of African-American expression.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785278709
November 2024
Forthcoming
£110.00 / $110.00Black Hauntologies is the second volume of a three-volume study of African-American literary history, with special attention to the internal dialogues regarding concepts of “tradition,” haunting, trauma, and re-vision. Texts studied extend from slave narratives to contemporary works, including both canonical and lesser-known instances of African-American expression.
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Love in India
Politics, Desires, and Sexualities
Henrike Donner, Parul Bhandari
This book focuses on the multiple sites and articulations through which “love” is constructed, articulated and experienced in contemporary India.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839988899
November 2024
Forthcoming
£110.00 / $110.00This book focuses on the multiple sites and articulations through which “love” is constructed, articulated and experienced in contemporary India.
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The Petersburg Noverre, Volume: 1
Marius Petipa in Russia
Edited by Roland John Wiley
The Petersburg Noverre is an account of Marius Petipa’s career in Russia that focuses on the description and reception of his ballets.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839984167
September 2024
Forthcoming
£250.00 / $250.00The Petersburg Noverre is an account of Marius Petipa’s career in Russia that focuses on the description and reception of his ballets.
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The Petersburg Noverre, Volume: 2
Marius Petipa in Russia
Edited by Roland John Wiley
The Petersburg Noverre is an account of Marius Petipa’s career in Russia that focuses on the description and reception of his ballets.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839990762
September 2024
Forthcoming
£250.00 / $250.00The Petersburg Noverre is an account of Marius Petipa’s career in Russia that focuses on the description and reception of his ballets.
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Poetry of the Civil Rights Movements in Australia and the United States, 1960s–1980s
Ameer Chasib Furaih
This book scrutinizes the poetries of Aboriginal poets Oodgeroo Noonuccal (formerly Kath Walker; 1920–1993) and Lionel Fogarty (1958–), and African American poets Amiri Baraka (formerly LeRoi Jones; 1934–2004), and Sonia Sanchez (1934–) and aims to show how these poets collaborated with other civil rights activists in voicing the demands of their people, and how they used their poetry to reflect the realities they experienced and to imagine new possibilities.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839982170
September 2024
Forthcoming
£110.00 / $110.00This book scrutinizes the poetries of Aboriginal poets Oodgeroo Noonuccal (formerly Kath Walker; 1920–1993) and Lionel Fogarty (1958–), and African American poets Amiri Baraka (formerly LeRoi Jones; 1934–2004), and Sonia Sanchez (1934–) and aims to show how these poets collaborated with other civil rights activists in voicing the demands of their people, and how they used their poetry to reflect the realities they experienced and to imagine new possibilities.
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The (Latin) American Scene, Present and Future (Im-)Perfect
Five Critical Conversations
Fernando G Herrero
The author converses with five noted scholars who have done important academic work in the United States since the 1980s. The conversations address academic agendas and university life dilemmas in the vicinity of the signs “Latin” and “Hispanic” in the United States. The volume addresses Spanish / English relations, literature and culture, history and theory (post-colonial, subaltern, etc.).
Hardback
9781839991622
August 2024
Forthcoming
£110.00 / $110.00The author converses with five noted scholars who have done important academic work in the United States since the 1980s. The conversations address academic agendas and university life dilemmas in the vicinity of the signs “Latin” and “Hispanic” in the United States. The volume addresses Spanish / English relations, literature and culture, history and theory (post-colonial, subaltern, etc.).
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Kenya and the Politics of a Postcolony
Wanjala S. Nasong’o
This book examines the governance and politics of Kenya since independence with a particular focus on the betrayal by the political class of the aspirations of anticolonial nationalism.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839980275
July 2024
Forthcoming
£110.00 / $110.00This book examines the governance and politics of Kenya since independence with a particular focus on the betrayal by the political class of the aspirations of anticolonial nationalism.
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Confronting the Irish Past
The 1912-1924 Decade in Light of the 1998 Good Friday Agreement
Edited by James G. Murphy
Building peace in Northern Ireland today, which involves Ireland as a whole, requires confronting the violence and intolerance of Ireland’s 1912–1923 decade.
Hardback
9781839991103
July 2024
Forthcoming
£110.00 / $110.00Building peace in Northern Ireland today, which involves Ireland as a whole, requires confronting the violence and intolerance of Ireland’s 1912–1923 decade.
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Refugee Support and Moral Practice in Slovakia
An Ethnographic Study
Eva-Maria Walther
This ethnography accompanies people who support refugees in Slovakia—outlining the personal and political dilemmas that complicate refugee care in Central Eastern Europe and beyond.
Hardback
9781839991240
June 2024
Forthcoming
£110.00 / $110.00This ethnography accompanies people who support refugees in Slovakia—outlining the personal and political dilemmas that complicate refugee care in Central Eastern Europe and beyond.
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Reading Greek Australian Literature through the Paramythi
Bridging Multiculturalism with World Literature
Anna Dimitriou
This book explores Greek Australian literature through its paramythic tropes and focuses on reading it as a bridge between multiculturalism and world literature.
Hardback
9781839991714
June 2024
Forthcoming
£110.00 / $110.00This book explores Greek Australian literature through its paramythic tropes and focuses on reading it as a bridge between multiculturalism and world literature.
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Strongman Eugen Sandow’s World Tour of 1904-1905
The ‘Perfect Man’ in Colonial India and Afro-Asia
Carey Watt
Strongman Eugen Sandow (1867–1925) was renowned as the world’s “perfect man” at the turn of the 20thcentury. This book examines his fascinating 2-year “world tour” of South Africa, India, Southeast Asia, and China in 1904–1905, at the peak of European imperialism and rising Asian confidence and nationalism.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839990670
June 2024
Forthcoming
£110.00 / $110.00Strongman Eugen Sandow (1867–1925) was renowned as the world’s “perfect man” at the turn of the 20thcentury. This book examines his fascinating 2-year “world tour” of South Africa, India, Southeast Asia, and China in 1904–1905, at the peak of European imperialism and rising Asian confidence and nationalism.
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Black Configurations
The Ethos of “Tradition” from Sterling Brown to Toni Morrison, Volume I
Kimberly W. Benston
Black Configurations is the first volume of a three-volume study of African-American literary history, with special attention to the internal dialogues regarding concepts of “tradition,” haunting, trauma, and re-vision. Texts studied extend from slave narratives to contemporary works, including both canonical and lesser-known instances of African-American expression.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785278679
May 2024
Forthcoming
£110.00 / $110.00Black Configurations is the first volume of a three-volume study of African-American literary history, with special attention to the internal dialogues regarding concepts of “tradition,” haunting, trauma, and re-vision. Texts studied extend from slave narratives to contemporary works, including both canonical and lesser-known instances of African-American expression.