ACADEMIC HISTORY
offers compelling stories of abandoned places, the important events punc- tuating their history, and lessons we can learn from them today.
The Sassoons Esther da Costa Meyer, Claudia J Nahson 14th March, hb, £45, 9780300264302 Tracing the global history of the Sassoon family, entrepreneurs and patrons of remarkable art and architecture, from Baghdad to Mumbai, Shanghai, Hong Kong and London.
The Stories Old Towns Tell Marek Kohn 25th April, hb, eb, £20, 9780300267846 Fascinating journey through Europe’s old towns asks why we trea- sure them and what they hide about a continent’s fraught history.
Tudor Children Nicholas Orme 28th February, hb, eb, £20, 9780300267969 The first history of childhood in Tudor England.
Our NHS Andrew Seaton 13th June, hb, eb, £20, 9780300268270 Engaging history explores the surprising survival of the National Health Service and talks to the people who have kept it running.
The Normans Judith A Green 28th February, pb, eb, £11.99, 9780300270372 Bold history of the rise and expansion of the Norman dynasty across Europe from Byzantium to England.
The Women Who Saved the English Countryside Matthew Kelly 25th April, pb, eb, £10.99, 9780300270396 Vibrant history of English landscape preservation over the last 150 years, told through the lives of four remarkable women.
The Georgians Penelope J Corfield 14th March, pb, eb, £12.99, 9780300270563 Comprehensive history compares past views of these exciting, turbulent and controversial times with our attitudes today.
Y Lolfa
The Lord Rhys—Prince of Deheubarth Roger Turvey
38 The Bookseller Buyer’s Guide Non-fiction
10th February, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781800993143 Rhys ap Gruffydd was an astute politician, a reformer, a patron of the arts, a distinguished warrior, a peacemaker and one of the most remarkable figures in medieval Wales.
Llywelyn the Great Roger Turvey 10th February, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781800993150 Fascinating story of Wales’ greatest prince, who was once a penniless exile. At a turbulent time in Welsh history, he proved himself on the battlefield before establishing control over warring factions.
Tryweryn: A New Dawn? Wyn Thomas 31st March, pb, eb, £19.99, 9781912631353 Comprehensive account of the flooding of the Tryweryn valley and its impact on Wales’ culture and politics: militant activism and eventual devolution.
Academic history
Gibb Memorial Trust and Its Trustees Charles Melville 31st March, hb, £50, 9781399516259 Unusual history of impor- tant institution which promotes Islamic scholar- ship in Britain.
Agenda
A Short History of Conservatism Mark Garnett 27th April, pb, eb, £18.99, 9781788215046 A history of both the ideology and the chang- ing positions of a British party which prides itself on an ability to change its views.
A Short History of Thatcherism Peter Dorey 27th April, pb, eb, £18.99, 9781788215480 Lively analysis of how Margaret Thatcher’s ideas became an ideology, its relationship with the Conservative party and the long-term implications for the British people.
Bloomsbury Academic
The History of Birobidzhan Gennady Estraikh 23rd February, pb, eb, £12.99, 9781350296244 Exploration of the Birobid- zhan Jewish Autonomous Region project in Siberia from its inception to the present day.
Sources of the Holocaust Steve Hochstadt 9th February, 2nd edn, pb, eb, £28.99, 9781350328044 Comprehensive and contextualised primary- sources reader on the Holocaust.
Broadview Press
Irish-English Relations: A History in Documents Karren Sonnelitter (ed) 28th February, pb, £26.95, 9781554815708 Includes 75 primary- source documents.
DS Brewer
Margery Kempe’s Spiritual Medicine Laura Kalas 9th May, pb, eb, £18.99, 9781843846840 The Book of Margery Kempe set in the context of medieval medical discourse.
Edinburgh University Press
A Short History of the
Age of Rogues Ramazan Öztan, Alp Yenen 28th February, pb, £29.99, 9781474462631 Studies the frontier cultures of revolution that shaped the making of the modern Middle East.
Bullets to Ballots Omar Ashour 19th May, pb, £24.99, 9781474467124 Investigates how and why armed organisations transform into unarmed activist movements.
The Scottish Enlightenment RJW Mills, Craig Smith 28th February, pb, £24.99, 9781474467322 Examines the achieve- ments and legacy of the Scottish Enlightenment in specially commissioned essays.
Salafi Social and Political Movements Masooda Bano 19th May, pb, £19.99, 9781474479134 The impact of reforms within Saudi Arabia on Salafi intellectual thought, daw’wah movements and Jihadi groups.
Deindustrialisation and the Moral Economy in Scotland Since 1955 Jim Phillips, Valerie Wright, Jim Tomlinson 19th May, pb, £24.99, 9781474479257 Exploring the social, cultural and political implications of deindustri- alisation in 20th-century Scotland.
The Decline of the Ottoman Empire and the Rise of the Turkish Republic Hakan Özoğlu 28th February, pb, £19.99, 9781474480383 Examines Rear Admiral Mark Bristol’s diplomatic correspondence at a criti- cal moment in Ottoman and Turkish history.
SERIES
Scottish Religious Cultures 28th February, pb, 978147448 Historical Perspectives uncover legacy of Scot- land’s religious traditions. Dissent After Disruption Ryan Mallon vol 19 £24.99, 2806 Scottish Liturgical Traditions and
Religious Politics Kieran German, Patricia Barton, Allan I. Macinnes vol 18 £19.99, 3063
After the Arab Revolutions Abdelwahab El-Affendi, Khalil Al Anani 19th May, pb, £19.99, 9781474483223 Incorporates the lessons learned from the 2011 Arab revolutions into demo- cratic transition theory.
Equinox
The US Constitution in Five Minutes Joseph L Smith (ed), David Klein (ed) 12th April, pb, eb, £18.99, 9781800502857 Fifty-nine essays on subjects central to the meaning and application of the Constitution.
Giles
Global Lives of Objects: Celebrating 100 Years of the National Museum of Asian Art Massumeh Farhad (ed), Sana Mirza (ed) 4th April, pb, £29.95, 9781913875329 Range of artistic, historical,and technical exchanges that shaped the arts of Asia and late 19th-century America through the juxtaposition of object-based, localised micro-histories.
IB Tauris
Women in the Ottoman Empire Suraiya Faroqhi 23rd February, pb, eb, £21.99, 9780755638260 Weaves the social history of the Ottoman Empire and the experiences of women from a diverse range of class, religious, ethnic and geographic backgrounds.
Oxford University Press
Waiting: A History of Travelling Ayahs in Britain Arunima Datta 1st July, hb, £35, 9780192848239 Unique history gives a voice to the South Asian women who travelled as ayahs (servants and nannies) in the British empire but who often found themselves aban- doned in Britain.
Deniable Contact Niall Ó Dochartaigh 6th April, pb, £30, 9780192887535 Ó Dochartaigh combines documentary evidence with original interviews to create a vivid picture
of the secret negotiations and back channels used in repeated efforts to end the Northern Ireland conflict.
The Amazing Iroquois and the Invention of the Empire State John C Winters 20th February, hb, £22.99, 9780197578223 Story of an Iroquoian family from the American Revolution to the Cold War who used their peoples’ history and culture to shape how New Yorkers viewed themselves.
Victims’ State Ke-Chin Hsia 23rd February, hb, £35.99, 9780197582374 How Imperial Austria and the successor Austrian Republic responded to the needs of citizen-soldiers and their families in the age of mass politics and the First World War.
Gods of Thunder Timothy R Pauketat 2nd March, hb, £19.99, 9780197645109 Rewrites the history of a critical if poorly known epoch—the Medieval period in North America (800-1300 CE).
The Battle of the Classics Eric Adler 5th February, pb, £14.99, 9780197680810 Analyses crucial episodes in the history of American higher education in order to discover the best way to rescue the humanities.
Love, Madness, and Scandal: The Life of Frances Coke Villiers, Viscountess Purbeck Johanna Luthman 9th February, pb, £16.99, 9780198754664 A story of love, sex and high drama set against the backdrop of a tumul- tuous and formative period of English history.
Me, Me, Me: The Search for Community in Post-war England Jon Lawrence 9th February, pb, £16.99, 9780198779544 Lawrence argues that while community has changed, it is far from dead. He says it is time to embrace new communities and let go of nostalgia.
Enlightened Oxford Nigel Aston 22nd March, hb, £120, 9780199246830 Fresh look at the 18th-century University of Oxford and its relation to the state, society and reli- gion of the time.
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