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Asian History

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CONTENTS

EUROPEAN HISTORY 2

BRITISH & IRISH HISTORY 3

ASIAN HISTORY 3

MIDDLE EASTERN HISTORY 4

HISTORY OF THE AMERICAS 6

AUSTRALASIAN & PACIFIC HISTORY 8

CONTEMPORARY HISTORY 10

ANCIENT & CLASSICAL HISTORY 10

MEDIEVAL HISTORY 11

AMERICAN & CANADIAN HISTORY 12

HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY 14

THE HOLOCAUST 14

SPANISH CIVIL WAR 16


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EUROPEAN HISTORY

THE NIHILIST ORDERThe Intellectual Roots of TotalitarianismDavid Ohana

The explosive combination of nihilist leanings together with a craving for totalitarianism was anideal of philosophers, cultural critics, political theorists, engineers, architects and aesthetes longbefore it materialized in flesh and blood, not only in technology, but also in fascism, Nazism,bolshevism and radical European political movements.

The Nihilist Order, originally published in three hardcover volumes and now published in aconsolidated paperback edition, inspired excellent review endorsements, both amongst theacademic and public spheres – and has been heralded as a great achievement in Europeanintellectual and cultural history.

AUTHOR INFORMATION: Professor David Ohana teaches European history at the Ben-

Gurion University of the Negev, Israel.

REVIEWS: “A provocative and illuminating thesis on Totalitarianism.”

Isaiah Berlin

PB 9781845197957 £35.00 April 2016 Sussex Academic Press 660 pages

SCHLESWIG HOLSTEINContested Region(s) Through HistoryEdited by Michael Bregnsbo, Kurt Villads Jensen

Schleswig and Holstein havebeen conte place region for more than thousand years, but conteplace mellom different peoples and groups, and for very different grunner. In modern times, dehar Closely connected two the building up of national identity and the formation of the modernnation state.

Since the division in 1920 of Schleswig into a northern, Danish party and a southern, Germanparty, this region har også er an interesting example of international studies on om det possiblebevare regional cultural and Economic Cooperation across a modern state border, and on therights and Duties of linguistic minorities.

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right over a period of thousand years, and not simply as appendages two modern Danish and

German nation-building. This does not imply thatthey are seen as isolated entities, still less at de

region around themself and many strong and varied Influences from outside are ignored. Rather,

the book arbejder to Investigating how Schleswig and Holstein having Constantly er conte place

places, situated where different interesseforening and forces having collided.

PB 9788776748708 £27.00 March 2016 University Press of Southern Denmark 339 pages


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BRITISH & IRISH HISTORY

THE EXPERIENCE OF BEING POOR IN ENGLAND, 1700-1834The Interaction of Community Sentiment, Kinship & DemographySteven King

At the core of this book are the stories and life-cycles of the poor themselves. Drawing on sources(pauper letters, petitions, vestry minutes, newspaper reporting and accounts) collected over thelast twenty years, Steven King poses three key questions: How did the dependent poorexperience and talk about such variables as housing, family, medical care, or the makeshifteconomy? How were such experiences related to situational matters such as ethnicity,belonging, kinship, family size and structure, and the relative wealth or poverty of thecommunities in which they found themselves? And to what extent did the poor themselves haveagency in the poor law systems with which they engaged?

While practice and experience varied markedly within and between areas and between rural andurban contexts, the author suggests that paupers under the mature Old Poor Law had gainedconsiderable agency in their dealings with officials. They learnt to navigate rules and systems ofentitlement, became expert at rhetoricising their stories and problems, and adopted the samelinguistic platform as the overseers with whom they engaged. Such strategies, it is argued, meansthat it is necessary to look beyond the scandals, penny-pinching and negative sentiments ofparticularly well-documented parishes and adopt a much more complex view of the intent,sentiment and outcomes of the Old Poor Law.

AUTHOR INFORMATION: Steven King is Professor of History and Director of the Centre for

Health, Medicine and Society at Oxford Brookes University.

HB 9781845194338 £60.00 May 2016 Sussex Academic Press 320 pages

ASIAN HISTORY

MATTEO RICCI AND THE CATHOLIC MISSION TO CHINA, 1583-1610A Short History with DocumentsRonnie Po-Chia Hsia

" Here at last is the text that many college teachers of Chinese, Asian, and world history havebeen waiting for an accessible collection of primary sources on the life of the Italian Jesuit MatteoRicci and the Catholic mission that he helped establish in China. Ricci's missionary career indeedconstituted a key moment in modern history, for it was through his examples andrecommendations that the Jesuits in China collectively adopted an accommodative approach toChinese culture and embarked on various projects of cultural translation that resulted in the firstwave of sustained interactions between Chinese and European civilizations.

Instructors and students alike will benefit greatly from Hsia's lucid introduction, which sets Ricci'slife story against the broader background of Portuguese Asia, Catholic renewal, and late MingChina; the pithy, informative introductory statements preceding each document; a chronologicalchart of major relevant events; and an excellent annotated bibliography of primary andsecondary sources in multiple languages. This is a very affordable text produced at the highestacademic standards ."Qiong Zhang, Associate Professor of History, Wake Forest University

REVIEWS: "An unparalleled window into this crucial encounter between multiple worlds."

Joanna Waley-Cohen, Julius Silver Professor of History, New York University

HB 9781624664335 £40.99 March 2016 Hackett Publishing 176 pagesPB 9781624664328 £15.00 March 2016 Hackett Publishing 176 pages


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THE DESCRIPTION OF THE WORLDMarco PoloEdited and translated by Sharon Kinoshita

Composed in a prison cell in 1298 by Venetian merchant Marco Polo and Arthurian romancewriter Rustichello of Pisa, The Description of the World relates Polo's experiences in Asia and atthe court of Qubilai, the Great Khan of the Mongol Empire.

In addition to a new translation based on the Franco-Italian "F" manuscript of Polo's text, thisedition includes genealogies of the Mongol rulers and nine maps of Polo's journey, as well asthorough annotation and an extensive bibliography.

REVIEWS: "Marco Polo's account provided both what was thought to be a reliable guide to

East Asia—Columbus carried with him a heavily annotated copy of Marco Polo's work during hisown expedition to the Americas—and an intriguingly fantastical account that for centuries hascontinued to fuel the imagination of poets and artists.

Kinoshita's superb, groundbreaking translation brilliantly renders into modern English this crucialtext of the Middle Ages . Indispensable in the undergraduate and graduate classroom, TheDescription of the World will also appeal to a wide range of readers curious about the medievalencounter of East and West."Suzanne Conklin Akbari, University of Toronto


MIDDLE EASTERN HISTORY

APARTHEID IN PALESTINEHard Laws and Harder ExperiencesEdited by Ghada Ageel

"Of all the crimes to which Palestinians have been subjected through a century of bitter tragedy,perhaps none are more cruel than the silencing of their voices. The suffering has been mostextreme, criminal, and grotesque in Gaza, where Ghada Ageel was one of the victims fromchildhood. This collection of essays is a poignant cry for justice, far too long delayed."Noam Chomsky

There are more than two sides to the conflict between Palestine and Israel. There are millions.Millions of lives, voices, and stories behind the enduring struggle in Israel and Palestine. Yet, theeasy binary of Palestine vs. Israel on which the media so often relies for context effectivelysilences the lived experiences of people affected by the strife. Ghada Ageel sought leadingexperts--Palestinian and Israeli, academic and activist--to gather stories that humanize thehistoric processes of occupation, displacement, colonization, and, most controversially,apartheid. Historians, scholars and students of colonialism and Israel-Palestine studies, andanyone interested in more nuanced debate, will want to read this book.

AUTHOR INFORMATION: Ghada Ageel is Visiting Professor in the Department of Political

Science at the University of Alberta and a columnist for the Middle East Eye, an online newsportal based in London, England.

PB 9781772120820 £42.99 January 2016 University of Alberta Press 312 pages


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ISRAEL & THE MEDITERRANEANFive Decades of Uneasy CoexistenceMichael M. Laskier, Ronen Yitzhak

In this path-breaking study about Israel's position vis-à-vis the Mediterranean Arab states of theMiddle East and Maghreb, Turkey, Greece, Cyprus, as well as the France, Italy, and Spain, wideregional neighboring relationships are analyzed and defined by dominant factors such as"fluctuating relations", "confrontation and realpolitik", "radicalism versus moderation", and the"complexities of political, military, intelligence, economic, and cultural connections." A centralmotif is the challenge of "uneasy coexistence".

The work is based on extensive archival and other primary source documentation, includingnewspapers and Internet sites in English, Hebrew, Arabic, Turkish, Greek, French, Italian, andSpanish. Some of the most vital source material is found in the U.S. National Archives and RecordsAdministration, the U.S. Department of State-Office of the Historian, the Central IntelligenceAgency data released recently through the Freedom of Information Act, the Americanpresidential libraries, especially of Richard M. Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, and RonaldReagan, the Israel State Archives, and the Central Zionist Archives. Selected documentsinvaluable for understanding the major problems affecting the Mediterranean region arepublished in an appendix. Much of the source material is hitherto untapped or has received scantattention from researchers. This book will emerge as the standard work on Israel's coexistencein the Mediterranean basin during her first fifty years of nationhood, an indispensable source forscholars of Israeli history, political scientists specializing in regional conflicts and conflictresolution, inter-Arab affairs, and Israel alignment with its non-Arab and EuropeanMediterranean neighbours.

HB 9781845194857 £69.95 May 2016 Sussex Academic Press 360 pagesPB 9781845194864 £24.95 May 2016 Sussex Academic Press 360 pages

SPANISH-ISRAELI RELATIONS, 1956-1992Ghosts of the Past & Contemporary Challenges in the Middle EastGuy Setton

Despite a common heritage dating back centuries and mutual national interests, such as theirjoint fear of Soviet influence across the Mediterranean, it took 38 years after the establishmentof the State of Israel (1948) and a decade after Franco's death (1975) for relations to beestablished between Jerusalem and Madrid (1986). The absence of ties between both countriesprior to 1986 was an anomaly that requires explanation. There was no apparent reason why bothcountries should not have established full diplomatic ties prior. Indeed, during the first years ofIsraeli statehood until 1952, Spain sought unsuccessfully to establish official ties with Israel as ameans to overcome international isolation. But adhering to a moral foreign policy standard, Israelrefused formal ties with the former Axis supporter. By 1953, however, Israel began adopting amore pragmatic view.

Five centuries after the expulsion of the Jews from Spain bilateral ties were formalised afterSpain's successful transition from Franco's dictatorship to democracy and Madrid's ascension tothe EEC in 1986. Once in the Community, Madrid had to align its foreign policy with Brusselswhich necessitated diplomatic relations with Israel. Without this systematic pressure on Madrid,the anomaly of Israeli-Spanish relations would have likely continued. Post 1986 the ties betweenthe two countries were overshadowed by strong international political forces -- the Arab-Israeliconflict and the Israeli-Palestinian struggle -- which delayed bilateral progress. Explaining theimpact of these forces is key to understanding the relationship. Although many positivemilestones have been reached there are substantive issues of concern for both sides, and afeeling that much work remains if the relationship, and indeed friendship, is to become worthyand rewarding.

HB 9781845197568 £65.00 February 2016 Sussex Academic Press 300 pages


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THE PERSIAN GULF – BUSHEHRCity, Society, & Trade, 1797-1947Willem Floor

This book discusses the political and economic history of the port of Bushehr, which by the endof the eighteenth century had become the gateway to southern Persia (Iran). It offers a detailedanalysis of Bushehr’s demography, industry, health care, education, and standard of living; aswell as its trade, and how politics impacted its well-being. Throughout this period Bushehr hadto ward off the growing competition from other Persian Gulf ports such as Bandar Abbas. It didso successfully, enjoying growing trade and wealth, despite internal and external politicalproblems. Because of its important commercial position Bushehr was also twice attacked andoccupied by the British (1856, 1915-18). What brought the port city down finally, however, wasnot the British attacks and occupations, nor the occupation and looting of the city by Tangestanitribesmen (purported protectors of the constitution) in 1909; it was the expansion of the ports,roads, and railroads of the oil-rich province of Khuzestan. This caused economic decline forBushehr, which resulted in a loss of trade and much of its population between 1920 and 1940.The World War II years did not bring much improvement to its situation either. The economicmalaise contributed to a tribal uprising in Fars in 1946, in which Bushehr played an importantrole. However, the uprising failed, and as such was but a last spasm of a bygone era.

AUTHOR INFORMATION: Dr. Willem Floor studied development economics, non-western

sociology, as well as Persian, Arabic, and Islamology from 1963-1967 at the University of Utrecht(the Netherlands).

HB 9781933823867 £116.99 March 2016 Mage Publishers 728 pages

HISTORY OF THE AMERICAS

CHASING THE CURE ON NEW MEXICOTuberculosis & the Quest for HealthNancy Owen Lewis, Joan M. Jensen

This book tells the story of the thousands of “health seekers” who journeyed to New Mexicofrom 1870 to 1940 seeking a cure for tuberculosis (TB), the leading killer in the United States atthe time. By 1920 such health seekers represented an estimated 10 percent of New Mexico’spopulation. The influx of “lungers” as they were called—many of whom remained in NewMexico—would play a critical role in New Mexico’s struggle for statehood and in its growth.Nearly sixty sanatoriums were established around the state, laying the groundwork for thestate’s current health-care system. Among New Mexico’s prominent lungers were artists WillShuster and Carlos Vierra, who “came to heal and stayed to paint.” Bronson Cutting, brought toSanta Fe on a stretcher in 1910, became the influential publisher of the Santa Fe New Mexicanand a powerful US Senator. Others included William R. Lovelace and Edgar T. Lassetter, foundersof the Lovelace Clinic, as well as Senator Clinton P. Anderson, poet Alice Corbin Henderson,architect John Gaw Meem, aviator Katherine Stinson, and Dorothy McKibben, gatekeeper for theManhattan Project. New Mexico’s most infamous outlaw, Billy the Kid, first arrived in NewMexico when his mother Catherine Antrim sought treatment in Silver City.

HB 9780890136126 £29.50 May 2016 Museum of New Mexico Press 296 pages


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MABEL DODGE LUHAN & COMPANYAmerican Moderns & the WestWanda M. Corn Edited by Lois Palken Rudnick, Malin Wilson-Powell

Mabel Dodge Luhan (1879–1962) was a political, social, and cultural visionary; salon hostess;and collector of genius in almost every field of modernism—painting, photography, drama,psychology, radical politics, social reform, and Native American rights. Luhan spent her adult lifebuilding utopian communities, first, as an expatriate in Florence (1905–12) working to recreatethe Renaissance; next as a “New Woman” in Greenwich Village (1912–15), hosting one of themost famous salons in American history; and finally, in Taos, the “New World” (1918–47),bringing together a community of artists, writers, and social reformers including writers D. H.Lawrence, Jean Toomer, Mary Austin, and Frank Waters; choreographer Martha Graham; andanthropologists Elsie Clews Parsons and John Collier. With Luhan as their hostess, theseEuropean and American talents found inspiration in the mesas, mountains, Hispanic villages, andIndian pueblos of northern New Mexico. Modernist works by painters and photographers,including Marsden Hartley, John Marin, Georgia O’Keeffe, Ansel Adams, Rebecca Strand, andPaul Strand, are featured alongside indigenous art that inspired their modernist sensibilities—Native American painters like San Ildefonso Pueblo’s Awa Tsireh and Taos Pueblo’s Pop Chalee,whose work Mabel supported, and traditional Hispano devotional art collected by Luhan.

HB 9780890136140 £37.50 April 2016 Museum of New Mexico Press 296 pages

CANADIAN COUNTERCULTURES AND THE ENVIRONMENTEdited by Colin M. Coates

Studies of the radical environmental politics of the 1960s have tended to downplay the extent towhich much of that countercultural intellectual and social ferment continued into the 1970s and1980s. Canadian Countercultures and the Environment adds to our knowledge of thisunderstudied period. This collection contributes a sustained analysis of the beginning of majorenvironmental debates in this era and examines a range of issues related to broad environmentalconcerns, topics which emerged as key concerns in the context of Cold War military investmentsand experiments, the oil crisis of the 1970s, debates over gendered roles, and the increasingattention to urban pollution and pesticide use.

No other publication dealing with this period covers the wide range of environmental topics

(among others, activism, midwifery, organic farming, recycling, urban cycling, and communal

living) or geographic locales, from Yukon to Atlantic Canada. Together, they demonstrate how

this period influenced and informed environmental action and issues in ways that have had a

long-term impact on Canadian society.

AUTHOR INFORMATION: Colin Coates teaches Canadian studies and history and is the

Director of the Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies at York University.

PB 9781552388143 £24.99 February 2016 University of Calgary Press 320 pages


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HOLY WARCowboys, Indians, and 9/11sMark Cronlund Anderson

"Original and innovative."David McNab, author of No Place for Fairness and Walking a Tightrope

Noam Chomsky and George W. Bush seldom agree, but they both argued that 9/11 stood alonein American history. Although the use of airplanes as weapons of mass destruction was new,Mark Anderson maintains that the response to the attack was not: it was, in fact, as old as theRepublic itself.

Beginning with the Mexican-American War and ending with the invasion of Iraq, Holy War probespresidential speeches, news reports, editorial cartoons, television programs, and films touncover how the United States reverts back to its creation mythology of "fighting Indians" tojustify centuries of American imperialism.

"Captivatingly written, highly accessible, and engaging. This book makes a major contribution toscholarship on 9/11 by drawing parallels between these events and America's role in previousconflicts. More so, it illuminates the connection between a legacy of racist images of Indigenouspeoples in American popular culture and the use of related imagery to justify Americanimperialistic intervention."Matthew Tegelberg, Assistant Professor, York University

PB 9780889774148 £19.99 April 2016 University of Regina Press 340 pages

AUSTRALASIAN & PACIFIC HISTORY

THE PRISON DIARY OF A. C. BARRINGTONDissent & Conformity in Wartime New ZealandJohn Pratt

A C. (Archie) Barrington was a leading New Zealand pacifist during World War II. Incarcerated inMount Crawford Prison for his beliefs in 1941, he kept an illicit diary, scrawled in the margins ofbooks. Many years later his son John happened across the diary and painstakingly reconstructedit.

Such documents are exceptionally rare -- until recent times prisoners were not allowed to keepany record of their experiences and many were illiterate anyway. Barrington vividly andcompellingly recorded the squalid, rundown conditions, monotonous and exhausting labour, theintense cold from which there was little protection, and the strategies he and his fellow pacifistsadopted to enable them to cope with prison life.

John Pratt has edited the diary and provides a fascinating commentary on the issues it raises inrelation to prison life then and now. He also addresses a fundamental question: What wereBarrington and his like doing in prison, when similar expressions of dissent would almost certainlyhave been ignored in Australia or Britain? Why was New Zealand, with its ‘fair go', egalitarianreputation, so intolerant and punitive? Pratt chronicles a history of intolerance, suspicion anddeep-seated antipathies that may go some way towards explaining the current penal saturationin this ‘friendly' land.

AUTHOR INFORMATION: Professor John Pratt has spent most of his academic career at the

Institute of Criminology, Victoria University of Wellington.

PB 9781927322314 £17.95 February 2016 Otago University Press 280 pages


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PUSHING BOUNDARIESNew Zealand Protestants & Overseas Missions 1827–1939Hugh Morrison

We know a lot about the early missionaries who came to New Zealand from 1814 and howChristianity developed through their complex interactions with Māori. Less well known are the ways in which settler churches of Aotearoa New Zealand reached out to engage in missionaryactivity in other parts of the world.

Pushing Boundaries is the first book-length attempt to tell the story of the evolution of overseasmissionary activity by New Zealand’s Protestant churches from the early nineteenth century upto World War II.

In this thought-provoking book, Hugh Morrison outlines how and why missions becameimportant to colonial churches – the theological and social reasons churches supported missions,how their ideas were shaped, and what motivated individual New Zealanders to leave theseshores to devote their lives elsewhere.

Secondly, he connects this local story to some larger historical themes – of gender, culture,empire, childhood and education. This book argues that understanding the overseas missionaryactivity of Protestant churches and groups can contribute to a more general understanding ofhow New Zealand has developed as a society and nation.

AUTHOR INFORMATION: Hugh Morrison is a senior lecturer in the College of Education at

the University of Otago, where he has taught since 2008 in both initial teacher education andeducation studies programmes.

PB 9781927322178 £19.95 February 2016 Otago University Press 340 pages

RUSHING FOR GOLDLife & Commerce on the Goldfields of New Zealand & AustraliaEdited by Lloyd Carpenter, Lyndon Fraser

Rushing for Gold is the first book to take a trans-Tasman look at the nineteenth-centuryphenomenon that was the gold rushes in Australia and New Zealand. It explores links betweenthe rushes, particularly those in Victoria and Otago, to show that they were strongly intertwinedaffairs.

The book brings together contributions from both experienced and newly emergent researchers,who together provide a close examination of miners’ migration patterns, ethnicities andmerchant networks.

The contributors’ insightful analyses and narrative accounts of the places, commerce andheritage of the rushes reveal a pantheon of characters, from merchants, hoteliers, financiers andpolicemen to vagrants, sly-groggers and entertainers, not to mention women, all of whomprompted and populate the mythology of the era, which this book does much to unravel andrewrite.

AUTHOR INFORMATION: Lloyd Carpenter is a former teacher, insurance manager, sales

manager and Salvation Army officer, he returned to the University of Canterbury in 2008 andemerged with a PhD on a subject he has loved since his youth: the Central Otago gold rush.Lyndon Fraser is an associate professor of history at the University of Canterbury and a researchfellow at the Canterbury Museum.

PB 9781877578540 £19.95 March 2016 Otago University Press 344 pages


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CONTEMPORARY HISTORY

FROM KINSHASA TO KANDAHARCanada and Fragile States in Historical PerspectiveEdited by Michael K. Carroll, Greg Donaghy

Failed or fragile states are those that are unable or unwilling to provide a socio-politicalframework for citizens and meet their basic needs. They are a source of terrorism andinternational crime, as well as incubators of infectious disease, environmental degradation, andunregulated mass migration. Canada's engagement with countries such as the Congo, East Timor,Bosnia, and Afghanistan underlines the commitment of successive Canadian governments toaddressing the threats posed to Western security by state fragility.

From Kinshasa to Kandahar: Canada and Fragile States in Historical Perspective brings togetherleading Canadian historians and political scientists to explore Canada's historic relationship withfragile states. The collection spans the period from the 1960s to the present and covers ageographical range that stretches from the Middle East to Latin America to Southeast Asia.Authors embrace a variety of approaches and methodologies, including traditional archivalhistorical research, postmodern textual analysis, oral history, and administrative studies tochronicle and explain Canada's engagement with fragile and failed states.

This collection reflects the growing public interest in the issue of failed states, which are ofincreasing concern to Canadian policymakers and are making headlines on the world stage. Ithelps explain the historic forces that have shaped Canadian policy towards failed and fragilestates, and provides a platform for a national discussion about Canada's future role addressingstate fragility.

AUTHOR INFORMATION: Michael K. Carroll is a Professor of History at Grant MacEwan

University.Greg Donaghy is Head of the Historical Section at the Department of Foreign Affairs andInternational Trade, and General Editor of its series, Documents on Canadian External Relations.

PB 9781552388440 £24.99 April 2016 University of Calgary Press 256 pages

ANCIENT & CLASSICAL HISTORY

DEMOTIC LITERATURE TEXTSFrom Tebtunis & BeyondEdited by Kim Ryholt

The Tebtunis temple library is the only ancient Egyptian temple library of which substantialremains are still preserved. It is by far the richest single source of Egyptian literary texts. Thisbook contains a wide selection of demotic texts from its stores that have never previously beenbrought together in an edited volume, including a theological treatise; manuals on dreaminterpretation and one on birth prognosis; several lists of professions, plant life, and titles ofcultic treatises; newly discovered fragments of the Great Demotic Book of Wisdom; and anastronomical text.

AUTHOR INFORMATION: Kim Ryholt is professor of Egyptology in the Department of Cross-

Cultural and Regional Studies, Carsten Niebuhr Department, at the University of Copenhagen.

HB 9788763526074 £57.99 May 2016 Museum Tusculanum Press 500 pages


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DAILY LIFE IN ANCIENT ROMEA SourcebookBrian K. Harvey

"One really must admire Harvey’s achievement in this sourcebook. With just 350 passages (morethan half of them consisting of Latin inscriptions, from all over Rome’s empire), Harvey managesto give his readers a real sense of Roman private values and behaviors. His translations of theoriginal texts are superb—both accurate and elegant. And he contextualizes his chosen passageswith a series of remarkably economical but solidly reliable introductions. In a word, Harvey’ssourcebook strikes me as the best now available for a single-semester undergraduate course."T. Corey Brennan, Rutgers University–New Brunswick

PB 9781585107957 £20.99 March 2016 Hackett Publishing 296 pages

MEDIEVAL HISTORY

THE MYTHICAL INDIES & COLUMBUS’S APOCALYPTIC LETTERImagining the Americas in the Late Middle AgesElizabeth Moore Willingham

With his Letter of 1493 to the court of Spain, Christopher Columbus heralded his first voyage tothe present-day Americas, creating visions that seduced the European imagination and birthinga fascination with those “new” lands and their inhabitants that continues today. Columbus’sepistolary announcement travelled from country to country in a late-medieval media event —and the rest, as has been observed, is history.

The Letter has long been the object of speculation concerning its authorship and intention:British historian Cecil Jane questions whether Columbus could read and write prior to the firstvoyage while Demetrio Ramos argues that King Ferdinand and a minister composed the Letterand had it printed in the Spanish folio. The Letter has figured in studies of Spanish Imperialismand of Discovery and Colonial period history, but it also offers insights into Columbus’s passionsand motives as he reinvents himself and retails his vision of Peter Martyr’s Novus orbis to menand women for whom Columbus was as unknown as the places he claimed to have visited.

The central feature of the book is its annotated variorum edition of the Spanish Letter, togetherwith an annotated English translation and word and name glossaries. A list of terms from earlyprint-period and manuscript cultures supports those critical discussions. In the context of hertext-based reading, the author addresses earlier critical perspectives on the Letter, exploresfoundational questions about its composition, publication and aims, and proposes a theory ofauthorship grounded in text, linguistics, discourse, and culture.

AUTHOR INFORMATION: Elizabeth Moore Willingham is associate professor in the

Department of Modern Foreign Languages at Baylor University where she teaches Old Spanish,Romance linguistics, Hispanic Women Writers, and Hispanic literature and film.

PB 9781845197018 £45.00 February 2016 Sussex Academic Press 416 pages


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AMERICAN & CANADIAN HISTORY

THE ESSENTIAL DOUGLASSSelected Writings and SpeechesFrederick Douglass Edited by Nicholas Buccola

In addition to a thoughtful selection of the essays, speeches, and autobiographical writings ofFrederick Douglass, this anthology provides an illuminating Introduction; a timeline of Douglass'life; footnotes that introduce individuals, quotations, and events; and a selected bibliography.

REVIEWS: "For years I have wanted a compact, carefully edited collection of Frederick

Douglass' writings and speeches spanning his whole career—from the antebellum years to theCivil War and Reconstruction to the retreat from racial democracy in the 1870s, '80s, and '90s.Finally, in Nicholas Buccola's expertly edited The Essential Douglass: Selected Writings &Speeches , I have it. Buccola has done teachers and scholars of American political thought atremendous service by making a truly representative selection of Douglass' achievementavailable in an affordable volume. I am excited to assign this book to my students and share withthem the full breadth of Douglass' intellectual fire."Jack Turner, University of Washington


NUCLEAR ENERGY & THE LEGACY OF HARRY S. TRUMANJ. Samuel Walker

Harry S. Truman’s nuclear policies and programs are probably the most significant andcontroversial aspects of his presidency. The essays in this volume examine Truman’s decision touse atomic weapons against Japan in 1945, one of the most contentious issues in all of Americanhistory, and the use of atomic energy after the war, both as an important weapon in the armsrace of the cold war era, and as a subject for research into its applications to medicine, industry,agriculture, and power production.

In this volume, seven prominent historians offer valuable perspective on these issues, using newinformation from Japanese sources and a wealth of primary source material to examine thedecision to use the atomic bomb, as well as important questions relating to the nuclear armsrace, the benefits and hazards of radioactive isotopes, and the development of nuclear power.Many of these issues that had their origins in the Truman era are still of great importance to theworld today as well as to future generations.

AUTHOR INFORMATION: J. Samuel Walker is a prize-winning historian and author of

several books on the history of nuclear energy.

PB 9781612481593 £29.50 February 2016 Truman State University Press 200 pages


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SHACKLES OF IRONSlavery Beyond the AtlanticStewart Gordon Edited by Alfred J. Andrea

"Gordon’s survey of the topic makes it clear that slavery in the Americas can be understood muchbetter if we put it in this larger context, in terms of both time and place. His chapters on EastAfrican and Mediterranean slavery are especially valuable, since these were contemporary withso-called Atlantic slavery and can provide students with valid points of comparison, revealingboth the similarities and the variable nature of early-modern bondage."The final chapter is especially timely, reminding readers that much of what we think of asenslavement hasn’t really gone away, but simply slipped below the radar of the world media. Allin all, Gordon makes it clear that, though it has arisen in different guises and at many differenttimes and places, slavery has been and remains deeply rooted in human society."A rewarding introduction for anyone looking to better understand slavery as a world-wideinstitution."Robert Davis, The Ohio State University


HUMAN RIGHTS IN CANADAA HistoryDominique Clement

This book shows how human rights became the primary language for social change in Canadaand how a single decade became the locus for that emergence. The author argues that the 1970swas a critical moment in human rights history—one that transformed political culture, socialmovements, law, and foreign policy. Human Rights in Canada is one of the first sociologicalstudies of human rights in Canada. It explains that human rights are a distinct social practice, andit documents those social conditions that made human rights significant at a particular historicalmoment.

A central theme in this book is that human rights derive from society rather than abstract legalprinciples. Therefore, we can identify the boundaries and limits of Canada’s rights culture atdifferent moments in our history. Until the 1970s, Canadians framed their grievances withreference to Christianity or British justice rather than human rights. A historical sociologicalapproach to human rights reveals how rights are historically contingent, and how new rightsclaims are built upon past claims. This book explores governments’ tendency to suppress rightsin periods of perceived emergency; how Canada’s rights culture was shaped by state formation;how social movements have advanced new rights claims; the changing discourse of rights indebates surrounding the constitution; how the international human rights movement shapeddomestic politics and foreign policy; and much more. In addition to drawing on secondaryliterature in law, history, sociology, and political science, this study looked to publishedgovernment documents, litigation and case law, archival research, newspapers, opinion polls,and materials produced by non-governmental organizations.

AUTHOR INFORMATION: Dominique Clément is an associate professor in the Department

of Sociology at the University of Alberta.

PB 9781771121637 £17.99 February 2016 Wilfrid Laurier University 200 pages


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HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY

METHODS IN WORLD HISTORYA Critical ApproachEdited by Arne Jarrick, Janken Myrdal, Maria Wallenberg Bondesson

Methods in World History is the first international volume that systematically addresses anumber of methodological problems specific to the field of world history. Prompted by a lack ofapplicable works, the authors advocate a considerable sharpening of the tools used within thefield of study. Theories constructed on poor foundations run an obvious risk of reinforcing flawedassumptions, and of propping up other, more ideological, constructions. The dedicated criticalapproach outlined in this volume helps to mitigate such risks.

Each author addresses a particular issue of method – for source criticism, archaeologicalevidence or estimates of economies for example – discussing the problems, giving practicalexamples, and offering solutions and ways of overcoming the difficulties involved. Theperspectives are varied, the criticism focussed, and a common theme of coalescence ismaintained throughout. This unique anthology will be of great use to advanced scholars of worldhistory, and to students entering the field for the first time.

AUTHOR INFORMATION: Janken Myrdal is Professor of Agrarian History, Swedish

University of Agricultural Science, Uppsala.

HB 9789187675584 £30.95 April 2016 Nordic Academic Press 256 pages

THE HOLOCAUST

THE BELZEC DEATH CAMPHistory, Biographies, RemembranceChris Webb

This book is a comprehensive account of the Belzec death camp in Poland which was the firstdeath camp using static gas chambers as part of the Aktion Reinhardt mass murder program. Thisstudy covers the construction and the development of the mass murder process. The story ispainstakingly told from all sides, the Jewish inmates, the perpetrators and the Polish inhabitantsof Belzec village, who lived near the factory of death. A major part of this work is the Jewish Rollof Remembrance, that covers the few survivors and details of some of the Jews among the manyhundreds of thousands who perished in Belzec.

This book is richly illustrated with historical and modern photographs, as well as documents anddrawings, some of the photographs have never before been seen in public.

PB 9783838208268 £29.00 March 2016 Ibidem Press 314 pages


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SAVED TO REMEMBERRaoul Wallenberg, Budapest 1944 & AfterFrank Vajda

Frank Vajda, a major figure in Australian neurology, was a boy in Budapest, Hungary, during theSecond World War. In the care of his courageous and ever-resourceful mother, he survived theattempt by Hitler’s Nazis and a fascist Hungarian militia to murder him, his family and the rest ofthe Jews of this nation.

In Saved to Remember Vajda vividly and matter-of-factly conveys what life was like for Jews tryingto stay alive in a world where the law of the land, backed up by brute soldierly force, suddenlydetermined that they were to be killed, and how they hid, bluffed, and fought to avoid that fate.

Vajda pays tribute to those who did not survive, including his father, and to those who did theirbest to save them, amongst whom the name of Raoul Wallenberg, Swedish diplomat, shines mostbrightly. Saved to Remember is also an account of Vajda’s ongoing campaign to publicly recogniseand honour those, particularly Wallenberg, who risked their own lives in the attempt to saveJewish lives.

At a time when the memory of this period of Hungarian history is increasingly contested, FrankVajda’s memoir is important both for what it reveals of what happened and for what it says ofhow these happenings should be remembered.

AUTHOR INFORMATION: Frank Vajda AM, Officer 1st.cl. Royal Order of Polar Star

(Sweden), MD FRCP FRACP, is a consultant neurologist, Professorial Fellow, University ofMelbourne, Director of the Australian Pregnancy Register of Antiepileptic Drugs, Past Presidentof Epilepsy Society of Australia, International Ambassador for Epilepsy, Member of theInternational Pregnancy Register Board, Head of the Free Wallenberg Australian Committee andFounder of Raoul Wallenberg Centre of Clinical Neuropharmacology.

REVIEWS: “This is a compelling book...and one in particular, on an intimate and utterly

convincing and riveting scale. I hope the world reads this book and absorbs the message."Thomas Keneally, author of Schindler's Ark

PB 9781925377088 £21.99 May 2016 Monash University Publishing 240 pages


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SPANISH CIVIL WAR

NOW AVAILABLE IN PAPERBACKTHE BLUE DIVISIONSpanish Blood in Russia, 1941–1945Xavier Moreno Julia

This book, translated from the original Spanish, is the primary academic and historical study ofthe Blue Division – a Falangist initiative involving the dispatch of some forty-thousand Spanishcombatants (more than a half of whom paid with their lives, health, or liberty) to the RussianFront during the Second World War.

Xavier Moreno Juliá does not limit himself to relating their deeds under arms, but also analyses– for the first time – the political background in detail: the complex relations between the Spanishgovernment and Hitler’s Germany; the internal conflicts between the Falangists and the Army;the rise and fall of Franco’s brother-in-law, Minister Ramón Serrano Suñer, who inspired the BlueDivision and became the second most powerful person in Spain; and the attitude of GeneralAgustín Muñoz Grandes, commander of the Blue Division, who was encouraged by Berlin toseriously consider the possibility of taking over the reins of Spanish power.

In the end, there were 45,500 reasons that led to joining the Blue Division – one for each youngman who decided to enlist. To understand all of the complex reasons behind their military serviceunder German command is impossible at this juncture. It is an irrecoverable past that lies inSpanish cemeteries and on the Russian steppes.

This book, based on massive documentation in German, British and Spanish archives, is anessential source of information to understand Spain in the 1940s – an epoch when the Caudillo’spower and the regime’s good fortune were less secure than is often believed.

Published in association with the Cañada Blanch Centre for Contemporary Spanish Studies

AUTHOR INFORMATION: Xavier Moreno Juliá is professor of Contemporary History in

Rovira i Virgili University (Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain). This book is the first volume of his trilogyabout Spain and the Second World War.

PB 9781845197681 £35.00 April 2016 Sussex Academic Press 552 pages


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NOW AVAILABLE IN PAPERBACKMEXICO & THE SPANISH CIVIL WARDomestic Politics & the Republican CauseMario Ojeda Revah

Based on first-hand diplomatic, political and journalistic sources, most unpublished, Mexico andthe Spanish Civil War investigates the backing of the Second Republic by Mexico during theSpanish Civil War. Significant military, material and financial aid was given by the government ofLázaro Cárdenas (1934–1940) to the Republic, which involved not only direct sales of arms, butalso smuggling operations covertly undertaken by Mexican diplomatic agents in order tocircumvent the embargo imposed by the London Committee of Non Intervention.

This path-breaking account reveals the operations in Spain of Mexican workers, soldiers, artistsand intellectuals – such as later Nobel Laureate Octavio Paz and the Muralist David AlfaroSiqueiros – as volunteers and propagandists for the Republican cause. Engagement with theSpanish Civil War also had a profound impact upon Mexico’s domestic politics as support for theRepublic was equated by Cárdenas with his own revolutionary project. The defeat of the Republicin 1939 therefore had far-reaching repercussions for the post-1940 governments. Originallypublished to critical acclaim in Spanish, the work has been quoted and reviewed by many leadingspecialists on the Civil War, including Anthony Beevor, Ángel Viñas, Santos Juliá, and Pedro PérezHerrero. This book is essential reading for students and scholars specializing in contemporaryEuropean history and politics, Latin American studies, and all those with an interest in the SpanishCivil War and the Mexican Revolution.

AUTHOR INFORMATION: Mario Ojeda Revah is Research Fellow at the Centre for Research

on Latin America and the Caribbean of the National University of Mexico (CIALC–UNAM).

PB 9781845197728 £25.00 March 2016 Sussex Academic Press 272 pages

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