Academic History
7th August, vol 1, hb, eb, £20, 9781350512580
The story of the Kennedy family leading up to Joe Jr’s death, a turning point for a family on the cusp of political greatness.
The Secret Life of the Hotel Eloise Moss
22nd January, hb, eb, £20, 9781350535701
How Britain’s hotels changed the nature of sex, crime and civil rights. Stories told through the voices of those who worked and stayed in them.
Empires of Violence Philip Dwyer, Barbara Alice Mann, Nigel Penn and Lyndall Ryan
30th October, pb, eb, £21.99, 9781350538634
Global study of violence on four colonial frontiers explores the dynamics of massacre in a comparative perspective. Rethinks past oppression and exploitation of colonised peoples.
Series
Revelations 13th November, pb, eb, £25.99, 97813505 Bringing together books and thinkers that have opened up startling new ways of looking at the world, this series celebrates the originality and excellence of Bloomsbury Academic’s non- fiction publishing. The Nazi Dictatorship Ian Kershaw 37996 A Concise History of Byzantium Warren Treadgold 41337
Thunder Through the Realms Lauren Mackay
8th January, hb, eb, £20, 9781788310420
Engaging account of the most important royal kingdoms in the 16h century.
Bloomsbury Continuum
Buy, Run, Build Charles Skinner 9th October, hb, £25, 9781399427128
Detailed analysis of how entrepreneurs can often have more success—financial and operational— with buying an established, growing company rather than creating a start-up.
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Bloomsbury Wildlife
Marine Life of the Caribbean Lawson Wood 27th November, pb, £20, 9781399419352
With new photos and fully updated text and layouts this practical guidebook unravels the wealth of marine life in the region .
Cambridge University Press
The University of Cambridge in the Age of Atlantic Slavery Nicolas Bell-Romero 30th September, hb, £35, 9781009652544
This first history of the university’s links to slavery and abolition highlights a vast spectrum of institutional connections.
Dedalus
Emperor of Dreams: Drugs in the Nineteenth Century Mike Jay 7th November, pb, eb, £12.99, 9781915568847 Study that has been greatly acclaimed by both critics and parliamentarians.
Edinburgh University Press
Changing Scotland David McCrone 31st October, pb, eb, £19.99, 9781399534017
Traces how social change transformed Scotland from the 1970s, expressed through politics, culture, class and identity.
Gorgias Press
Challenges for Ancient and Modern Bible Translators Juliane Eckstein (ed), Peter Juhas (ed), Robert Lapko (ed), Reinhard Muller (ed)
1st October, hb, £85, 9781463248277
Collects studies on Bible translations from antiquity to the present. The book stems from a series of international conferences held in Kosice, Slovakia, in 2021 and 2022.
The Man of Opened Eye Benjamin Wiggershaus 1st October, hb, £85, 9781463248451
Utilising primary sources and recent studies, this work highlights conventions of supernatural revelation that were common throughout the ancient Near East.
The Bookseller Buyer’s Guide Non-Fiction Ivy Press
The Mathematicians’ Library
Thomas K Briggs 11th September, hb, £28, 9781836004851
Lavishly illustrated compendium of the most significant publications that have informed mathematical knowledge throughout history.
John Donald
Earth Hall, Ring Gift and Heaven’s Field: Early Medieval Northumbria, 367-867 Colm O’Brien, Max Adams
2nd October, hb, £30, 9780859767422
Crucial new book provides a long-overdue appraisal of Northumbrian history and archaeology during a period which has fired the popular imagination in TV series.
Liveright
American Zion Benjamin E Park 15th August, pb, £15.99, 9781324096689
The first major history of Mormonism in a decade draws on newly available sources to reveal a profoundly divided faith that has nevertheless shaped the nation.
Mr Churchill in the White House Robert Schmuhl
28th October, pb, £15.99, 9781324097075
“Schmuhl admirably captures the vitality and cunning of Churchill’s DC residency with consummate skill, colourful anecdotes and crisp historical analysis”— Douglas Brinkley.
Oxford University Press
The Oxford Handbook of Midwestern History Jon Lauck (ed)
9th August, hb, £127.50, 9780190933012
Explores the region’s pivotal heritage as it ranges across topics including indigenous and Native history and modern-day culture.
The History and Pre- history of Hertford College, Oxford Christopher Tyerman 19th September, hb, £143, 9780192845597
Through a detailed study of hitherto neglected Oxford institutions and the people who ran and
inhabited them this book has wide relevance for the history of higher education in England.
Oberammergau Robert Priest 23rd October, hb, £75, 9780192886613
First transnational history of one of the world’s oldest continuously performed dramas: the passion play at Oberammergau in Bavaria.
Jorge Luis Borges: A Very Short Introduction Ilan Stavans
7th August, pb, £9.99, 9780197761380
Stavans givies an engaging overview of Borges’ writings, from his beginnings in Buenos Aires through the Dirty War in Argentina, showing how he redefined Latin American and global literature.
1626: A Year in the Life of the Roman Inquisition Stefania Tutino
28th August, hb, £86, 9780197806852
Drawing on an extraordinarily large body of hitherto unexamined archival material.
The London Private Banker Perry Gauci
21st August, hb, £84, 9780198923886
A social history of London’s private bankers between 1660 and 1825.
Disability Publics: Making Accessibility in Modern Japan Mark R Bookman , Carolyn S Stevens (ed) 30th September, pb, £25, 9780198979739
Over the last 150 years activists and policymakers in Japan have tried to improve access for disabled persons but their attempts have frequently excluded as many impaired individuals as they have empowered.
Forming Aristocracy Hamish Scott 1st September, vol 1, hb, £45, 9780199274598
The deeds and misdeeds of aristocrats never lose their appeal. But who are they? Forming Aristocracy explores the origins and development of early- modern elites to reveal similarities between Europe’s leading families.
Making Ireland Modern Enda Delaney 2nd October, hb, £30, 9780199569823
Radical interpretation of the course of modern Irish history, which explores the Irish encounter with the modern world.
Princeton University Press
Worlds of Unfreedom Roquinaldo Ferreira 2nd September, hb, eb, £30, 9780691177588
African-centred account of the protracted battle to end the slave trade connects local and global histories.
Becoming Arab Yossef Rapoport 13th January, hb, eb, £38, 9780691210636
How late-medieval Middle Eastern peasants adopted Arab cultural identities and formed village clans.
Pox Romana Colin Elliott 5th August, pb, eb, £16.99, 9780691220703
Wide-ranging and dramatic account of the Antonine plague, the mysterious disease that struck the Roman Empire at its peak.
A Jew in the Roman Bathhouse Yaron Eliav
5th August, pb, eb, £22, 9780691243450
Provocative account of Jewish encounters with the public baths of Ancient Rome.
Knowledge Lost Martin Mulsow, HC Erik Midelfort (tr)
19th August, pb, eb, £22, 9780691244112
Compelling alternative account of the history of knowledge from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment.
Classicism and Other Phobias Dan-el Padilla Peralta
9th September, hb, eb, £22, 9780691266183
Provocative case for why immortalising Greek and Roman culture as “classical” marginalises and devalues Black life.
Surviving Rome Kim Bowes 2nd December, hb, eb, £35, 9780691273334
A radical revision—and worker’s-eye view—of everything we thought we knew about the Ancient Roman economy.
Exemplary Things: Meibutsu in
Premodern Japan Christine ME Guth
9th September, pb, eb, £50, 9780691274478
Beautifully illustrated history of one of the most important cultural categories in Japan.
The Measure of Merit John Carson 28th October, pb, eb, £22, 9780691277738
Broad account of American and French understandings of merit, talent and intelligence over the past two centuries.
Modern Arab Kingship Adam Mestyan 9th December, pb, eb, £20, 9780691278322
How the “recycling” of the Ottoman Empire’s uses of genealogy and religion created new political orders in the Middle East.
Roli Books
Everyday Indian Aesthetics Sayali Goyal
2nd October, pb, £25, 9788196643546
Fresh documentation of India through its architecture, adornments, objects, textures, patterns and typography.
Sceptre
The Adventure of English Melvyn Bragg 23rd October, pb, £10.99, 9780340829936
The story of the English language, from its beginnings as a minor, guttural Germanic dialect to its position today as a truly established global language.
Stolpe
Axel Oxenstierna Wetterberg Gunnar 23rd October, hb, £30, 9789189882454
Axel Oxenstierna, chancellor of Sweden from 1612 to 1654, wielded unprecedented power and constructively shaped Sweden’s modern state, remaining the nation’s sole prominent European statesman.
Unicorn
Being Victorian Jamie Camplin 11th September, hb, eb, £25, 9781917458283
Shows how the Victorian approach to change remains relevant to a high-tech, digital world.
University of California Press
Manga’s First Century Andrea Horbinski
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