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Cambridge University Press Female Religiosity in Central Asia
Book SynopsisInvites readers into the complex and little-known world of female religiosity and authority in early modern Central Asia, offering a unique analysis of the story of Agha-yi Buzurg. Intended for scholars, educators and students of Islamic studies and Central Asian history, as well as those interested in gender history and Sufism.
£80.75
Cambridge University Press Execution State and Society in England 16601900
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£31.34
Cambridge University Press Israel and its Heirs in Late Antiquity
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£17.00
Cambridge University Press Medieval Textiles across Eurasia c. 3001400
Book SynopsisConsiders the textiles made, traded, and exchanged across Eurasia from late antiquity to the late Middle Ages with special attention to the socio-political and cultural aspects of this universal medium. It presents a wide range of textiles used in both domestic and religious settings, as dress and furnishings, and for elite and ordinary owners.Table of Contents1. Introduction; 2. Materials and Techniques; 3. Industry; 4. Trade; 5. Dress; 6. Furnishing Textiles; 7. Imported Textiles in European Church Treasuries; 8. Aesthetics; Appendix: Selection of Online Databases of Textile Holdings and Research.
£17.00
Cambridge University Press The Price of Empire
Book SynopsisProviding the best coverage of the wide-ranging imperialism that began in the 1850s, this book concentrates on early American imperialism in the Pacific. It describes how the racial legacy of early cases of imperialism led to modern denial of rights claims in US Pacific territories.
£22.99
Cambridge University Press Classical Antiquity and the Cinematic Imagination
Book SynopsisDemonstrates the affinities between antiquity and today by interpreting several themes in classical literature and arts and illustrating these with numerous films, ranging from silents, classic Hollywood, and European popular and art films to documentaries, animation, and digital media and special effects.
£33.24
Cambridge University Press Hieroglyphs PseudoScripts and Alphabets
Book SynopsisIntroduces the workings and uses of Egyptian hieroglyphs, the various degrees of cultural knowledge of their makers and most importantly the influence hieroglyphs had on other scripts and notations in antiquity.Table of Contents1. Introduction; 2. Hieroglyphs, hieratic and Demotic: the work of specialists; 3. Putting up barriers: hyper-specialist writing; 4. Limited understanding and creative use of hieroglyphs; 5. Hieroglyphs abroad: non-Egyptian notations and scripts inspired by hieroglyphs; 6. Conclusion; References.
£17.00
Cambridge University Press Writing the History of Global Slavery
Book SynopsisThis Element shows that existing models of global slavery derived from sociology rather than history. It argues that we can understand the global history of slavery in ways that historicise the study of history as an institution with a history that changes over time and space. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.Table of Contents1. Models of slavery; 2. New ways of writing the history of slavery; 3. Lived experience; Bibliography.
£17.00
Cambridge University Press AngloSaxon England Volume 49
Book SynopsisContributions to the forty-ninth volume of Anglo-Saxon England focus on various aspects of Anglo-Saxon culture and history across a period from the sixth to the thirteenth century, from Anglo-Saxon wedding rites in be wifmannes beweddunge to isotopic evidence of elite diets and a reassessment of feorm. Each article is preceded by a short abstract.Table of ContentsList of illustrations; List of abbreviations; 1. Record of the nineteenth conference of the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists at the University of New Mexico, 29 July–2 August 2019 Timothy Graham; 2. Bede, bishops and Bisi of East Anglia: questions of chronology and Episcopal consecration in the Historia Ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum Calum Platts; 3. A further fragment of the abridged version of Cassiodorus's Commentary on the Psalms Helen Imhoff; 4. Be wifmannes beweddunge: betrothals and weddings in Anglo-Saxon England Samuel Cardwell; 5. Food and power in early Medieval England: rethinking Feorm Tom Lambert and Sam Leggett; 6. Food and power in early Medieval England: a lack of (isotopic) enrichment Sam Leggett and Tom Lambert; 7. The limits of Bookland John Blair; 8. Slave resistance in early Medieval England Janel M. Fontaine.
£85.50
Cambridge University Press The Cambridge History of Strategy
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£190.00
Cambridge University Press Frankish Jerusalem
Book SynopsisThis book analyzes the gradual urban transformation of Jerusalem under Frankish rule. A key text for readers interested in the Crusades and the Latin East, the history of Jerusalem, and medieval cities.
£28.49
Cambridge University Press Charting Americas Cold War Waters in East Asia
Book SynopsisThis book helps us comprehend the shifting political contours in postwar East Asia from a maritime perspective. The first of its kind in the English language, this book is for students, military professionals, specialists in East Asian history, and readers interested in international history more generally.
£45.59
Cambridge University Press Charting Americas Cold War Waters in East Asia
£28.49
Cambridge University Press After Hedging
Book SynopsisThis Element introduces a preference-for-change model to explain the policy variations of states during the order transition. It suggests that policymakers will perceive a potential change in the international order through a cost-benefit prism.This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.Table of ContentsIntroduction; 1. International order transition and state policy choice; 2. Preference-for-change model: a neoclassical realist framework; 3. Singapore: hedging to cope with uncertainties; 4. Australia: balancing to resist change; 5. Thailand: bandwagoning to seek profit; 6. New Zealand: buck-passing to avoid risks; Conclusion; References.
£16.15
Cambridge University Press The Port
Book SynopsisAt the crossroads of China and Southeast Asia, The Port (present-day Hà Tiên), under the autonomous rule of the Chinese creole Mo clan, prospered as a free-trade emporium during the eighteenth century. Its remarkable story sheds fresh light on a transitional period in maritime East Asian history.
£26.96
Cambridge University Press Mandatory Madness
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£28.49
Cambridge University Press Assault Brigade
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£37.99
Cambridge University Press Plebeian Consumers
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£28.49
Cambridge University Press The Slow Death of Slavery in Dutch New York
Book SynopsisOriginal and deeply researched, this book provides a new interpretation of Dutch American slavery which challenges many of the traditional assumptions about slavery in New York. With an emphasis on demography and economics, Michael J. Douma shows that slavery in eighteenth-century New York was mostly rural, heavily Dutch, and generally profitable through the cultivation of wheat. Slavery in Dutch New York ultimately died a political death in the nineteenth century, while resistance from enslaved persons, and a gradual turn against slavery in society and in the courts, encouraged its destruction. This important study will reshape the historiography of slavery in the American North.
£47.49
Cambridge University Press Bringing War Back In
£24.69
Cambridge University Press Testimony and Historical Knowledge
£18.00
Cambridge University Press Explaining the History of American Foreign Relations
£28.50
Cambridge University Press Brotherhood of Barristers
£28.49
Cambridge University Press History in Flames
£13.49
Cambridge University Press Domestic Service in the Soviet Union
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£28.49
Cambridge University Press Heritage and Transformation of an African Popular
Book SynopsisModern popular music is closely linked to the 'traditional' heritage intangible and material of which artist-musicians have, in a way, usufruct. This Element examines the relationship between (cultural) heritage and the transformation of popular music in Côte d'Ivoire.
£17.00
Cambridge University Press What Is a Classic in History
Book SynopsisWhy do some historical works, such as those of Herodotus or Gibbon, capture the imaginations of readers across generations? This study explores the power of these so-called 'classics', investigating the construction and consolidation of historical genres while innovatively examining the historiographical canon.
£24.69
Cambridge University Press Migration at the End of Empire
£29.99
Cambridge University Press Nordic Bronze Age Economies
Book SynopsisProvides a multi-scalar synthesis of Nordic Bronze Age economies (1800/1700?500 BCE) that is organized around six sections: an introduction to the Nordic Bronze Age, macro-economic perspectives, defining local communities, economic interaction, conflict and alliances, political formations, and encountering Europe. Despite a unifying material culture, the Bronze Age of Scandinavia was complex and multi- layered with constantly shifting and changing networks of competitors and partners. The social structure in this highly mobile and dynamic macroregional setting was affected by subsistence economies based on agropastoralism, maritime sectors, the production of elaborate metal wealth, trade in a wide range of goods, as well as raiding and warfare. For this reason, the focus of this book is on the integration and interaction of subsistence and political economies in a comparative analyses between different local constellations within the macro-economic setting of prehistoric Europe. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core
£49.99
Cambridge University Press Some New World
Book SynopsisWhat was believable in one era is no longer acceptable in another. What one culture finds utterly incredible elsewhere becomes an article of faith. This disjuncture forms the basis of Peter Harrison's masterful, expansive intervention in intellectual history, as he challenges misconceptions about modernity in relation to supernaturalism and belief.
£33.25
Cambridge University Press The Origins of Democratic Thinking
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£26.60
Cambridge University Press Immigration and Borders in Ancient Egypt
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£18.00
Cambridge University Press A History of East Asia
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£33.24
Cambridge University Press Emersons Civil Wars
Book SynopsisKenneth S. Sacks explores how America''s first public intellectual, determined to live self-reliantly, wrestled with his personal philosophy and eventually supported collective action to abolish slavery. Ralph Waldo Emerson was successful in creating a national audience for his philosophy and enjoyed the material and social rewards of that success. Contrary to most other Emerson scholars, however, Sacks argues that Emerson resisted active abolition and did not become a supporter until events forced his hand. Committing to the antislavery movement was risky and ran against his essential belief in social gradualism. Events in the mid-1850s, though, hastened Emerson''s conversion and he eventually became a leader in the movement. A study of an intellectual under the pressure to engage in political action, Emerson''s Civil Wars enriches our understanding of Emerson''s antislavery activities, life, and career.
£28.50
Cambridge University Press Americas French Orphans
Book SynopsisThis unique study explores American support of destitute French children during and after World War I. It will interest scholars and students of World War I, humanitarianism, American society, childhood, and women's studies.
£45.59
Cambridge University Press Five Innovations That Changed Human History
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£22.79
Cambridge University Press Nationalism and the Transformation of the State
£26.60
Cambridge University Press The Remarkable Life Death and Afterlife of an
Book SynopsisWhen we think of Romans, Julius Caesar or Constantine might spring to mind. But what was life like for everyday folk, those who gazed up at the palace rather than looking out from within its walls? In this book, Jeremy Hartnett offers a detailed view of an average Roman, an individual named Flavius Agricola. Though Flavius was only a generation or two removed from slavery, his successful life emerges from his careful commemoration in death: a poetic epitaph and life-sized marble portrait showing him reclining at table. This ensemble not only enables Hartnett to reconstruct Flavius'' biography, as well as his wife''s, but also permits a nuanced exploration of many aspects of Roman life, such as dining, sex, worship of foreign deities, gender, bodily display, cultural literacy, religious experience, blended families, and visiting the dead at their tombs. Teasing provocative questions from this ensemble, Hartnett also recounts the monument''s scandalous discovery and extraordinary afterlife over the centuries.
£22.79
Cambridge University Press Love Class and Empire
£29.99
Cambridge University Press Restoration Acting and Other Business
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£18.00
Cambridge University Press Bioarchaeology of Infants and Children
£17.00
Cambridge University Press From Frontiers to Borders
£28.49
Cambridge University Press Insularity and Identity
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£18.00
Cambridge University Press The China Question
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£31.50
Cambridge University Press Reading Creation Myths Economically in Ancient Mesopotamia and Israel
£18.00
Cambridge University Press Global Decolonisation and NonSovereignty
Book SynopsisNon-sovereign territories today account for more than half the states in the Caribbean but regional and global histories of the twentieth century tend to exclude them from narratives of protest and change. This book argues that our current understanding of global decolonisation is partial. We need a fuller picture which includes both independent and non-independent states, and moves beyond a focus on political independence, instead conceptualising decolonisation as a process of challenging and dismantling colonial structures and legacies. Decolonisation is neither an inevitable nor a linear process, but one which can ebb and flow as the colonial grip is weakened and sometimes restrengthened, often in new forms. Using the Cayman Islands, the British Virgin Islands, Martinique and Guadeloupe as case studies, Grace Carrington demonstrates that a focus on the processes of decolonisation in these non-sovereign states enriches our understanding of the global experience of twentieth century decolonisation.
£30.48
Cambridge University Press Pain into Purpose
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£26.59
Cambridge University Press Round Table Conference Geographies
Book SynopsisRound Table Conference Geographies explores a major international conference in 1930s London which determined India''s constitutional future in the British Empire. Pre-dating the decolonising conferences of the 1950s?60s, the Round Table Conference laid the blueprint for India''s future federal constitution. Despite this the conference is unanimously read as a failure, for not having comprehensively reconciled the competing demands of liberal and Indian National Congress politicians, of Hindus and Muslims, and of British versus Princely India. This book argues that the conference''s three sessions were vital sites of Indian and imperial politics that demand serious attention. It explores the spatial politics of the conference in terms of its imaginary geographies, infrastructures, host city, and how the conference was contested and represented. The book concludes by asking who gained through representing the conference as a failure and explores it, instead, as a teeming political, social and material space.
£21.84
