Regional and Area Studies
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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The Dao of Civilization
A Letter to China
Freya Mathews
The book sets out a prospectus for a new form of civilization patterned at every level to serve and sustain the biosphere. It calls on China to lead the world towards this new era by re-crafting its own civilization in accordance with its indigenous tap-root: Dao.
Anthem Press
Paperback
9781839984853
February 2023
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£24.95 / $24.95The book sets out a prospectus for a new form of civilization patterned at every level to serve and sustain the biosphere. It calls on China to lead the world towards this new era by re-crafting its own civilization in accordance with its indigenous tap-root: Dao.
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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contraband trade with Tierra Firme and Hispaniola in the early seventeenth century as documented in the Engel Sluiter Historical Documents Collection.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
Hardback
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contraband trade with Tierra Firme and Hispaniola in the early seventeenth century as documented in the Engel Sluiter Historical Documents Collection.
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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
Hardback
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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Joycean Possibilities: A Margot Norris Legacy
Edited by Joseph Valente, Vicki Mahaffey, Kezia Whiting
Inspired by the work of Margot Norris, this volume takes up her theme of how James Joyce’s works open up a host of new possibilities: for interpretation, for stylistic “iridescence,” for narrative, for other possible worlds, and for gender equality.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839981005
December 2022
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£125.00 / $125.00Inspired by the work of Margot Norris, this volume takes up her theme of how James Joyce’s works open up a host of new possibilities: for interpretation, for stylistic “iridescence,” for narrative, for other possible worlds, and for gender equality.
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Pastoral Cosmopolitanism in Edith Wharton’s Fiction
The World is a Welter
Margarida Cadima
One of the goals of this book is to demonstrate that while the pastoral seems to portray troubling fractures between the social self and native soil, Wharton is more struck by how these ostensibly divergent cultural categories superimpose and interpenetrate to form an ecocritical palimpsest.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839988431
November 2022
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£110.00 / $110.00One of the goals of this book is to demonstrate that while the pastoral seems to portray troubling fractures between the social self and native soil, Wharton is more struck by how these ostensibly divergent cultural categories superimpose and interpenetrate to form an ecocritical palimpsest.
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Politics, Inequality and the Australian Welfare State After Liberalisation
Ben Spies-Butcher
Neoliberalism has made Australia less equal and our welfare system more brutal. But it has also changed the politics of inequality. Using examples from health to housing, unemployment to universities, this book identifiesopportunities to make a more equal Australia.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839988400
November 2022
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£115.00 / $115.00Neoliberalism has made Australia less equal and our welfare system more brutal. But it has also changed the politics of inequality. Using examples from health to housing, unemployment to universities, this book identifiesopportunities to make a more equal Australia.
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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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Swedish Gothic
Landscapes of Untamed Nature
Yvonne Leffler
The monograph gives an overview of the development and characteristic features of Swedish Gothic from the Romantic age until today.
Anthem Press
Paperback
9781839980336
November 2022
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£24.95 / $24.95The monograph gives an overview of the development and characteristic features of Swedish Gothic from the Romantic age until today.
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Gulf Gothic
Mexico, the U.S. South and La Llorona’s Undead Voices
Dolores Flores-Silva, Keith Cartwright
Gulf Gothic examines haunted, secret-laden narratives that emerge from the gulfs between peoples all along the Gulf of Mexico and on both sides of the Rio Grande. The Gulf is presented as a unified region and as dynamic ground zero of North American (and global) cross-culturality and traumas.
Anthem Press
Paperback
9781839980367
November 2022
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£24.95 / $24.95Gulf Gothic examines haunted, secret-laden narratives that emerge from the gulfs between peoples all along the Gulf of Mexico and on both sides of the Rio Grande. The Gulf is presented as a unified region and as dynamic ground zero of North American (and global) cross-culturality and traumas.
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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
Hardback
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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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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Wildlife Documentaries in Southern Africa
Ian Glenn
This is the first study of wildlife filmmaking in Southern Africa with particular emphasis on the relationship between trends there and elsewhere.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839981500
October 2022
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£125.00 / $125.00This is the first study of wildlife filmmaking in Southern Africa with particular emphasis on the relationship between trends there and elsewhere.
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Dramatic Movement of African American Women
The Intersections of Race, Gender, and Class
Yuvraj Nimbaji Herode
This book intends to explore the nature, scope, and features of African American women’s theatre and dramas. It exhibits African American women dramatists’ expertise, mechanics, methods, and artistic elements as well as the major themes projected in their dramas. The book is about a dramatic movement of African American women who write plays to protest against racism, sexism, and classism. It challenges the oppressive ideology of white patriarchy and African American male dominance. Therefore, the book enables the audience in understanding the dramas and theatre movements of all the oppressed sections of society from across the globe.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839988257
September 2022
Active
£110.00 / $110.00This book intends to explore the nature, scope, and features of African American women’s theatre and dramas. It exhibits African American women dramatists’ expertise, mechanics, methods, and artistic elements as well as the major themes projected in their dramas. The book is about a dramatic movement of African American women who write plays to protest against racism, sexism, and classism. It challenges the oppressive ideology of white patriarchy and African American male dominance. Therefore, the book enables the audience in understanding the dramas and theatre movements of all the oppressed sections of society from across the globe.
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Complex Solutions to Local Problems
The Dilemma of the African Union in Somalia
Jude Cocodia
This book questions the dominant narrative used in stereotyping Africa and the status of Al-Shabaab in Somalia’s quest for peace. It trumps up local alternatives to solving conflicts on the continent and avers that it is possible to revert to these local mechanisms of governance and conflict resolution as has been done in Somaliland with positive results.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839988196
September 2022
Forthcoming
£110.00 / $110.00This book questions the dominant narrative used in stereotyping Africa and the status of Al-Shabaab in Somalia’s quest for peace. It trumps up local alternatives to solving conflicts on the continent and avers that it is possible to revert to these local mechanisms of governance and conflict resolution as has been done in Somaliland with positive results.
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Decisionmaking in an enlarged European Union
Dr. Axel Hülsemeyer
This book discusses EU member state institutions that vote either by unanimity or by two-thirds majority
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839988226
September 2022
Forthcoming
£110.00 / $110.00This book discusses EU member state institutions that vote either by unanimity or by two-thirds majority
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Kunqu Masters on Chinese Theatrical Performance
created by Yip Siu Hing
Edited by Josh StenbergKunqu is among the oldest and most refined traditions of the family of genres known as xiqu (music-drama or “Chinese opera”). This book consists of translated performer narrations that illuminate how one of the major Chinese theatrical forms has been taught and transmitted over the past century.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785278075
September 2022
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£195.00 / $195.00Kunqu is among the oldest and most refined traditions of the family of genres known as xiqu (music-drama or “Chinese opera”). This book consists of translated performer narrations that illuminate how one of the major Chinese theatrical forms has been taught and transmitted over the past century.
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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
Paperback
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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Planning for Water Security in Southeast Asia
Community-Based Infrastructure During the Urban Transition
James Nguyen H. Spencer
This book examines how four communities in the rapidly developing cities of Southeast Asia have creatively solved growing environmental problems. It’s description of how community-level collaboration in Vietnam, Cambodia and Indonesia provide new ways for thinking about how marginalized people can co-create their own equitable and efficient infrastructure.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839984013
September 2022
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£125.00 / $125.00This book examines how four communities in the rapidly developing cities of Southeast Asia have creatively solved growing environmental problems. It’s description of how community-level collaboration in Vietnam, Cambodia and Indonesia provide new ways for thinking about how marginalized people can co-create their own equitable and efficient infrastructure.
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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
Hardback
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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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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Culture and Conflicts in Sierra Leone Mining
Strangers, Aliens, Spirits
Fenda Akiwumi
This book argues that mining area conflicts of Sub-Saharan African countries, like Sierra Leone, and their impacts on mineral development and policy stem from cultural differences in land governance. Extractive industries operating under state laws, which have roots in colonial policies, clash with customary land governance system through landlord-stranger relations.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839988097
August 2022
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£110.00 / $110.00This book argues that mining area conflicts of Sub-Saharan African countries, like Sierra Leone, and their impacts on mineral development and policy stem from cultural differences in land governance. Extractive industries operating under state laws, which have roots in colonial policies, clash with customary land governance system through landlord-stranger relations.
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Belarusian Theatre and the 2020 Pro-Democracy Protests
Documenting the Resistance
Valleri J Robinson
This book highlights the important creative work of Belarusian theatre and filmmakers seeking to raise awareness of the Pro-democracy movement and human rights abuses in Belarus and to build communities of care and mourning following the fraudulent 2020 presidential elections in Belarus.
Anthem Press
Paperback
9781839987953
August 2022
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£24.95 / $24.95This book highlights the important creative work of Belarusian theatre and filmmakers seeking to raise awareness of the Pro-democracy movement and human rights abuses in Belarus and to build communities of care and mourning following the fraudulent 2020 presidential elections in Belarus.
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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.