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New Titles January – June 2015Welcome to the Ashgate ‘New Titles’ Catalogue for January – June 2015.

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Fan, 2001, by Tom Hammick Oil on canvas, 122 x 183 cm (48 x 72 in) Private collection

© Tom Hammick. From the forthcoming Lund Humphries book Tom Hammick: Wall, Window, World by Julian Bell (June, 2015)

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Architecture 2

Art History and Fine Art (Including Lund Humphries) 4

Business, Management and Training 8

History (Including Variorum) 13

Human Factors, Aviation and Ergonomics 20

Human Geography 22

Information and Cultural Management 26

Law and Legal Studies 27

Literary Studies 34

Music Studies 38

Politics and International Relations 42

Religion and Theology 49

Sociology, Social Work and Social Policy 51

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Studies in Art Historiography 7

Finance, Governance and Sustainability: Challenges to Theory and Practice 12

Controversies in American Constitutional Law 29

Green Criminology 30

Cultural Diversity and Law in Association with Religare 31

The Library of Essays on Law and Privacy 31

Juris Diversitas 32

The Library of Essays on International Human Rights 33

Music and Change: Ecological Perspectives 41

Contemporary African Politics 48

Interdisciplinary Disability Studies 58

The Library of Essays in Theoretical Criminology 59

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Architecture

Courtyard Housing for Health and Happiness Architectural Multiculturalism in North AmericaDonia Zhang

Identifying four key themes in Chinese philosophy to promote health and happiness at home, this book links architecture with Chinese philosophy, social sciences and the humanities, and in doing so, argues that Architectural Multiculturalism is a vital ideology to guide housing design in North America. Using both qualitative and quantitative evidence gathered from ethnic Chinese and non-Chinese living in the USA and Canada, the study proposes that the Courtyard is a central component to promote social and cultural health and happiness of residents.

March 2015 171 pagesHardback 978-1-4724-4911-5 £60.00 $109.95ebook PDF 978-1-4724-4912-2ebook ePUB 978-1-4724-4913-9

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From Formalism to Weak Form: The Architecture and Philosophy of Peter Eisenman Stefano Corbo, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain and Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura

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Eisenman has always been deeply interested in the problem of form in architecture and has constantly challenged the classical concept of it. He tried to connect his own work with the cultural manifestations of the time: firstly under the influence of Colin Rowe and his formalist studies; secondly, by re-interpreting Chomsky’s linguistic theories; in the 80’s, by collaborating with Derrida and his de-constructivist approach; more recently by discovering Henry Bergson’s idea of Time. Taking a multi-disciplinary approach based on the intersections between architecture and philosophy, this book investigates all these definitions and, in doing so, provides new insights into and a deeper understanding of the complexity of Eisenman’s work.

December 2014 146 pagesHardback 978-1-4724-4314-4 £60.00 $109.95ebook PDF 978-1-4724-4315-1ebook ePUB 978-1-4724-4316-8


Hero Buildings: An Architecture of National Identity in Scotland Johnny Rodger, Glasgow School of Art, UK

This book explores a vital theme in current affairs in Scotland and the wider UK – identity and nationality – by examining architecture built to express these themes. In doing so, it makes an exciting and original scholarly contribution to those debates taking place every day in the mainstream press, in homes, schools, universities and on the streets of current day Britain.

May 2015 220 pagesHardback 978-1-4724-5271-9 £55.00 $99.95ebook PDF 978-1-4724-5272-6ebook ePUB 978-1-4724-5273-3


In-Between: Architectural Drawing and Imaginative Knowledge in Islamic and Western Traditions Hooman Koliji, University of Maryland, USA


This book argues that design drawings should be recognised as intermediaries, mediating between the world of ideas and the world of things, spanning the intangible and tangible. The book argues that this ‘in-between’ quality to architectural drawing is essential and that it is critical to perceive drawings as subtle bodies that hold physical attributes (e.g. form, proportion, colour), highly evocative, yet with no matter. Focusing on Islamic geometric architectural drawings, both historical and contemporary, it draws on key philosophical and conceptual notions of imagination from the Islamic tradition as these relate to the creative act. It also adds to debates on philosophies of the imagination, linking both Western and Islamic traditions.



The Architecture of Home in Cairo Mohamed Gamal Abdelmonem, Queen’s University Belfast, UK

This book firstly describes the historical development of the domestic spaces (indoor and outdoor), and provides an inclusive analysis of spaces of everyday activities in the hawari of old Cairo. It then broadens its analysis to other parts of the city, highlighting different customs and representations of home in the city at large. Cairo, in the context of this book, is represented as the most sophisticated urban centre in the Middle East with different and sometimes contrasting approaches to the architecture of home, as a practice and spatial system.

January 2015 320 pagesHardback 978-1-4094-4537-1 £70.00 $124.95ebook PDF 978-1-4094-4538-8ebook ePUB 978-1-4724-0614-9


The Architecture of the Illusive Distance Amir H. Ameri, University of Colourado, USA

Focusing on three secular, institutional building types: libraries, museums and cinemas, this book explores the intricate interplay between culture and architecture. It explores the cultural imperatives which have seen to the formation of these institutions, the development of their architecture, and their transformations over time.

February 2015 204 pagesHardback 978-1-4724-3318-3 £60.00 $109.95ebook PDF 978-1-4724-3319-0ebook ePUB 978-1-4724-3320-6


The Changing Image of Affordable Housing Design, Gentrification and Community in Canada and EuropeUlduz Maschaykh, University of Bonn, Germany

This book examines the liveability and affordability of twenty-first century residential architecture. Focusing on the architects’ and communities’ commitment to these housing programmes, as well as that of the private building sector, it stresses the importance of the context of the neighbourhoods in which they are placed, which are either in the process of urban transition or already gentrified. In doing so, the book shows how, and to what extent, twenty-first century dwelling architecture developments can help to create an integrated sense of community, diminish social and demographic exclusions in a neighbourhood and incorporate people’s desires as to what their buildings should look like.

April 2015 208 pagesHardback 978-1-4724-3779-2 £65.00 $119.95ebook PDF 978-1-4724-3780-8ebook ePUB 978-1-4724-3781-5


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Infrastructure and the Architectures of Modernity in Ireland 1916–2016 Edited by Gary A. Boyd, Queen’s University Belfast, UK and John McLaughlin, John McLaughlin Architects, Ireland

Infrastructure and the Architectures of Modernity in Ireland 1916–2016 provides critical insights and narratives on what is a complex and hitherto overlooked landscape, one which is often as much international as it is Irish. In doing so, it explores the interaction between the universalising and globalising tendencies of modernisation on one hand and the textures of local architectures on the other.

April 2015 230 pagesHardback 978-1-4724-4686-2 £45.00 $79.95


The Material Imagination Reveries on Architecture and MatterEdited by Matthew Mindrup, University of Canberra, Australia


In recent years architectural discourse has witnessed a renewed interest in materiality under the guise of such familiar tropes as ‘material honesty,’ ‘form finding,’ or ‘digital materiality.’ As an alternative to a formal approach in architectural design, this book challenges readers to rethink the reverie of materials in architecture through an examination of historical precedent, architectural practice, literary sources, philosophical analyses and everyday experience. Focusing on matter as the premise of an architect’s imagination, each chapter identifies and graphically illustrates how material imagination defines the conceptual premises for making architecture.



Modern Architecture and its Representation in Colonial Eritrea An In-visible Colony, 1890–1941Sean Anderson, The University of Sydney, Australia

Drawing together imperial projects, modernist aesthetics, and fascist motives, this book examines how the merger of these three significant influences yielded a complex built environment that served to emulate, if not redefine, Italian colonial pursuits. Exploring discourses of modernity in Africa, this book moves between histories of architecture, urbanism and media to describe how Eritrea and Asmara became a crucial fulcrum for Italy’s ill-fated pursuits in Ethiopia and other neighboring countries and illustrates how architecture in Asmara reshaped the creation and reception of Italian East Africa.



Phenomenologies of the City Studies in the History and Philosophy of ArchitectureEdited by Henriette Steiner and Maximilian Sternberg


This book brings architecture and urbanism into dialogue with phenomenology. The contributors are architects and scholars of urbanism with backgrounds in literature, history, religious studies, and art history. Rather than developing a single theoretical statement, the book addresses architecture’s relationship with the city in a wide range of historical and contemporary contexts. The chapters trace hidden genealogies, and explore the ruptures as much as the persistence of recurrent cultural motifs. Together, these interconnected phenomenologies of the city raise simple but fundamental questions: What is the city for, how is it ordered, and how can it be understood?



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Practical Building Conservation, 10-volume set English Heritage

PRACTICAL BUILDING CONSERVATION

Since the original series of Practical Building Conservation appeared in 1988, it has become a standard reference for those caring for historic buildings large and small: essential reading for architects, surveyors and building managers, as well as conservators. This new and much expanded set of 10 volumes has been updated to provide a fully comprehensive reference featuring the latest techniques and materials. English Heritage is remowned for its expertise in the conservation of buildings, gardens and archaeological sites and these books are an accessible distillation of many years of experience. They look in detail at building materials ranging from the ancient to the modern and are studded throughout with practical advice.

April 2015 5018 pagesHardback Set 978-1-4094-0944-1 £500.00 $975.00


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Practical Building Conservation: Earth, Brick and Terracotta English Heritage

PRACTICAL BUILDING CONSERVATION

Earth, Brick and Terracotta deals with fired and unfired clay products. It considers their technological evolution, the processes causing deterioration and how these should be assessed, and the methods used for their repair and maintenance.

March 2015 520 pagesHardback 978-0-7546-4553-5 £65.00 $119.95


Setting the Scene Perspectives on Twentieth-Century Theatre ArchitectureEdited by Alistair Fair, University of Edinburgh, UK

During the twentieth century, an increasingly diverse range of buildings and spaces was used for theatre. Theatre architecture was re-formed by new approaches to staging and performance, while theatre was often thought to have a reforming role in society. Innovation was accompanied by the revival and reinterpretation of older ideas. The contributors to this volume explore these ideas in a variety of contexts, from detailed discussions of key architects’ work (including Denys Lasdun, Peter Moro, Cedric Price and Heinrich Tessenow) to broader surveys of theatre in West Germany and Japan. Together these essays shed new light on this complex building type and also contribute to the wider architectural history of the twentieth century.



Spatial Design Education New Directions for Pedagogy in Architecture and BeyondAshraf M. Salama, University of Strathclyde, UK

In this book, design education is dealt with as a paradigm whose evolutionary processes, underpinning theories, contents, methods, tools, are questioned and critically examined. Building on twenty-five years of research and explorations into design pedagogy in architecture and urban design, this book authoritatively offers a critical analysis of a continuously evolving profession, its associated societal processes and the way in which design education reacts to their demands. Innovative teaching practices in lecture-based and introductory design courses are identified and characterised including inquiry-based, active and experiential learning. These investigations are all interwoven to elucidate a comprehensive understanding of contemporary design education in architecture and allied disciplines.




Art History and Fine Art

Anthony McCall Notebooks and ConversationsGraham Ellard and Stephen Johnstone

Charting the development of the studio practice of artist Anthony McCall (b. 1946), this publication features facsimile reproductions of pages from McCall’s extensive archive of notebooks, which are supported by production scores and installation photographs. It was formed out of a series of discussions that took place over the last decade between McCall and the artists Graham Ellard and Stephen Johnstone.

Includes 160 colour illustrations


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Barbara Hepworth: The Plasters The Gift to WakefieldEdited by Sophie Bowness with contributions by David Chipperfield, Frances Guy, Jackie Heuman, Tessa Jackson, Simon Wallis and Gordon Watson

Newly published in paperback to coincide with the Barbara Hepworth retrospective exhibition at Tate Britain in 2015, this fascinating book combines a fully illustrated catalogue of the sculptor’s surviving prototypes in plaster (and a number also in aluminium and wood), generously gifted to The Hepworth Wakefield by the Hepworth Estate, with a detailed analysis of her working methods and a comprehensive history of her work in bronze. Drawing extensively on archival records and photographs, the publication is an important source of information about a significant collection of work, the gallery which houses it and Hepworth in general. It provides a much-needed account of Hepworth’s studio practice, her relations with foundries, and the evolution of her public commissions

Includes 85 colour and 115 b&w illustrations

May 2015 200 pagesPaperback 978-1-84822-085-0 £19.99 $40.00


Conscience and Conflict: British Artists and the Spanish Civil War Conscience and ConflictSimon Martin, with a Foreword by Paul Preston

The Spanish Civil War (July 1936 to April 1939) was arguably one of the most politically and socially significant conflicts of the 20th century. Conscience and Conflict, accompanying a ground-breaking exhibition at Pallant House Gallery, Chichester and Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, is the first book to consider the fascinating and wide-ranging responses of British artists to the war in Spain. It focuses on work by British visual artists such as Edward Burra, Wyndham Lewis, Henry Moore and John Armstrong, examining them alongside international figures such as Pablo Picasso and Joan Miró.


November 2014 160 pagesHardback 978-1-84822-175-8 £35.00 $70.00


The Drawings of Barbara Hepworth Alan Wilkinson

Barbara Hepworth (1903−1975), to many the greatest female sculptor in the history of Western art, is widely considered to be one of the most important British artists of the 20th century and a key figure in the development of British modernism. As the first in-depth and fully illustrated survey of Hepworth’s drawings and oil paintings in nearly fifty years, which features the most comprehensive selection to date of works from all periods, many of which are reproduced in colour, this book will fill a conspicuous gap in Hepworth scholarship.


May 2015 136 pagesHardback 978-1-84822-164-2 £40.00 $80.00


Philip Reeves Christopher Andreae, with a Foreword by Duncan Macmillan

Artist Philip Reeves (b. 1931, Cheltenham) has lived and worked in Glasgow since the mid-1950s. Landscape and cityscape underpin his artistic vision, which has explored varying degrees of representation and realism, as well as an ever-evolving abstraction. This long overdue book is the first to survey his entire career, covering his printmaking, watercolour painting, drawing, collage and reliefs. The breadth of Reeves’s work, illustrated extensively here for the first time, may surprise even those who know and like his art. Those who are yet to encounter the oeuvre will find in Philip Reeves a fascinating introduction to a highly inventive artist.


June 2015 128 pagesHardback 978-1-84822-167-3 £40.00 $80.00


Piero di Cosimo The Poetry of Painting in Renaissance FlorenceEdited by Gretchen A. Hirschauer and Dennis Geronimus with contributions by Virginia Brilliant, David Franklin, Alison Luchs, Serena Padovani and Elizabeth Walmsley

Born in 1462, an auspicious time for hopeful young painters in Renaissance Florence, Piero di Cosimo left the city’s artistic landscape forever changed upon his death in 1522. The singular vision of this highly esteemed painter is beautifully presented in this important publication, which accompanies the first-ever retrospective of di Cosimo’s astonishing career.


January 2015 240 pagesHardback 978-1-84822-173-4 £45.00 $75.00


Ruskin’s Venice The Stones Revisited New ediTioN

Sarah Quill

In Ruskin’s Venice: The Stones Revisited, newly published in a revised, extended and re-designed edition, photographer Sarah Quill has selected passages from Ruskin’s The Stones of Venice and has linked them to her own photographs of Venetian architecture, so creating a fascinating guide that fuses Ruskin’s vision of the city with images of the present day. This new edition incorporates up-to-date views of buildings which have been cleaned since originally photographed. Several of Ruskin’s watercolours are included, with extracts and reproductions from his Venetian notebooks, now publicly available, and some of his original daguerreotype photographs of Venice. Sarah Quill’s expert editorial annotations and commentary, incorporating extracts from Ruskin’s letters from Venice, enhance our understanding of Ruskin’s text and provide an essential linking thread throughout. The book has been completely re-designed to be even more user-friendly as both a reference book and a guide for travellers to Venice.

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Tom Hammick Wall, Window, WorldJulian Bell

This is the first book to survey the work of painter and printmaker Tom Hammick (b.1963). It sets Hammick’s art within the context of contemporary debates about painting while relating it to the two-centuries-old Romantic tradition. Informed by the author’s sustained contact with Hammick over many years, illustrated with over 120 carefully selected images, and produced in close collaboration with the artist, Tom Hammick: Wall, Window, World will appeal to the artist’s collectors and wide popular audience, as well as students, art-world professionals and painting enthusiasts. It is available also in a special edition incorporating the three-part colour etching Fallout, created by the artist specially for this publication in an edition of 60.




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Tom Hammick Wall, Window, WorldJulian Bell

This special edition of Tom Hammick: Wall, Window, World incorporates the three-part colour etching Fallout, created specially for this book, which is packaged with the book in a slipcase designed by the artist himself. Informed by the author’s sustained contact with Hammick over many years, illustrated with over 120 carefully selected images, and produced in close collaboration with the artist, Tom Hammick: Wall, Window, World will appeal to the artist’s collectors and wide popular audience, as well as students, art-world professionals and painting enthusiasts.




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Académie Royale A History in PortraitsHannah Williams, University of Oxford, UK

From its establishment in 1648 until its disbanding in 1793 after the French Revolution, the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture was the centre of the Parisian art world. Taking the reader behind the scenes of this elite bastion of French art theory, education, and practice, and drawing on both art-historical and anthropological frames of analysis, this engaging study uncovers the fascinating histories – official and unofficial – of that artistic community.




Artistic Practices and Cultural Transfer in Early Modern Italy Essays in Honour of Deborah HowardEdited by Nebahat Avcioglu, City University of New York, USA and Allison Sherman, Queen’s University, Canada

Showcasing both the diversity within and the porosity between the ‘centre’ and ‘periphery’ in Renaissance art, this volume explores the material mechanisms for the transmission and evolution of ideas, artistic training and networks, as well as the dynamics of collaboration and exchange between artists, theorists and patrons. The chapters, each with a wealth of ground-breaking research and previously unpublished documentary evidence, as well as innovative methodologies, offer new interpretations of Italian art.




Arts of the Medieval Cathedrals Studies on Architecture, Stained Glass and Sculpture in Honor of Anne PracheEdited by Kathleen Nolan, Hollins University, USA and Dany Sandron, Paris-Sorbonne University and Centre André-Chastel, France

AVISTA STUDIES IN THE HISTORY OF MEDIEVAL TECHNOLOGY, SCIENCE AND ART

The touchstones of Gothic monumental art in France – the abbey church of Saint-Denis and the cathedrals of Chartres, Reims, and Bourges – form the core of this collection. The essays reflect the impact of Anne Prache’s career, as a scholar of wide-ranging interests and as a builder of bridges between French and American academic communities. The authors include scholars in France and the United States, both academics and museum professionals, while the book’s thematic matrix, divided into architecture, stained glass and sculpture, reflects the multiple media explored by Prache during her career.




Between Art Practice and Psychoanalysis Mid-Twentieth Century Anton Ehrenzweig in ContextBeth Williamson, Tate, UK

The work of art theorist Anton Ehrenzweig is explored in this original and timely study. An analysis of the dynamic and invigorating intellectual influences, institutional framework and legacy of his work, this book uses previously unexamined archival material and unseen artworks to reveal the context within which Ehrenzweig worked, and how that influenced him and those artists with whom he worked closely.




The Cristos yacentes of Gregorio Fernández Polychrome Sculptures of the Supine Christ in Seventeenth-Century SpainIlenia Colón Mendoza, University of Central Florida, USA

VISUAL CULTURE IN EARLY MODERNITY

Analyzing seventeenth-century images of the dead Christ produced by Gregorio Fernández, author Ilenia Colón Mendoza reveals hitherto unnoticed connections between the sculptures and contemporary liturgical sources. She investigates how and why Fernández and his patrons manipulated these images in connection with the religious literature of the time to produce striking images that moved the faithful to devotion.




Cultures of International Exhibitions 1840–1940 Great Exhibitions in the MarginsEdited by Marta Filipová, University of Birmingham, UK

Beyond the world fairs in London, Paris or Chicago, numerous smaller, ambitious exhibitions took place in provincial cities and towns worldwide. This volume takes a novel look at the exhibitionary cultures of the period 1840–1940. By examining the motivations, scope, and impact of lesser-known exhibitions in, for example, Australia, Japan, Brazil, as well as a number of European countries, the volume opens up new angles in the way the global phenomenon of a great exhibition can be examined through the prism of the regional.

Includes 51 b&w illustrations



Death, Torture and the Broken Body in European Art, 1300–1650 Edited by John R. Decker, Georgia State University, USA and Mitzi Kirkland-Ives, Missouri State University, USA


Bodies mangled, limbs broken, skin flayed, blood spilled: the art of the late medieval and early modern periods contains myriad examples of spectacular unmaking. The martyrdoms of saints, stories of justice, and reports of the atrocities of war provided fertile ground for scenes of bodily desecration. Contributors to this volume explore the larger social functions that pain, suffering, and the desecration of the human form played in European society.




Elizabeth Robins Pennell, Nineteenth-Century Pioneer of Modern Art Criticism Kimberly Morse Jones, Sweet Briar College, USA

Mining various archives and newspaper repositories, Morse Jones provides the first full-length study of this remarkable woman. Pennell, a ‘New Art Critic’, helped develop formalist methodology in Britain, which she applied to her mostly anonymous or pseudonymous reviews. Pennell used her platform to promote the work of ‘new’ artists, including Manet and Degas, as well as championing the work of Whistler for whom she wrote a biography. Her contributions to the art world highlight the pivotal role of criticism in the production and consumption of art in the late-nineteenth century.




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The Ethics of Ornament in Early Modern Naples Fashioning the Certosa di San MartinoJ. Nicholas Napoli, Pratt Institute, USA


The Carthusian monks at San Martino began a series of decorative campaigns in the 1580s, transforming their church into a jewel of marble revetment, painting, and sculpture. These aesthetic qualities generate a moral conflict: few religious orders honored the ideals of poverty so ardently yet decorated so sumptuously. In this, the first English-language study of a key monument in Naples, Napoli explores this conflict and how it sought resolution amidst the realities of early modern Naples, shedding new light on the Neapolitan baroque, industries of art in the age before capitalism, and the relation of art, architecture and ornament.

Includes 36 colour and 66 b&w illustrations and 6 plans



Exhibiting Outside the Academy, Salon and Biennial, 1775-1999 Alternative Venues for DisplayEdited by Andrew Graciano, University of South Carolina, USA

In recent years, there has been increasing scholarly interest in the history of museums, academies and major exhibitions. There has been, however, little sustained interest in the histories of alternative exhibitions. The present volume contextualizes eleven case studies to advance overarching themes among alternative exhibitions from the late-eighteenth century to the late-twentieth century. These include the issue of control in the relationship between artist and curator, and the relationship of alternative exhibitions to the dominant modes, display structures and cultural ideology.


February 2015 308 pagesHardback 978-1-4724-2827-1 £70.00 $119.95


Faith, Gender and the Senses in Italian Renaissance and Baroque Art Interpreting the Noli me tangere and Doubting ThomasErin E. Benay, Case Western Reserve University, USA and Lisa M. Rafanelli, Manhattanville College, USA


Taking the Noli me tangere and Doubting Thomas episodes as a focal point, this study examines how visual representations of two of the most compelling and related Christian stories engaged with changing devotional and cultural ideals in Renaissance and Baroque Italy. By reuniting their visual examples with important, often little-known textual sources, the authors reveal a complex relationship between visual imagery, the senses, contemporary attitudes toward gender, and the shaping of belief.






Foreign Artists and Communities in Modern Paris, 1870–1914 Strangers in ParadiseEdited by Karen L. Carter, Ferris State University, USA and Susan Waller, University of Missouri, USA

Sixteen essays by a group of emerging and established international scholars examine Paris as a thriving transnational arts community during a period of burgeoning global immigration. They address the experiences of important modern artists as well as foreign exiles, immigrants, students and expatriates within the larger trends of international mobility. In doing so, they explore the structures that permitted foreign artists to forge connections within and across national communities and contribute to the development of a hybrid and multivalent modern art.




Images-within-Images in Italian Painting (1250–1350) Reality and ReflexivityPéter Bokody, Plymouth University, UK

The rebirth of realistic representation in Italy around 1300 led to the materialisation of a pictorial language which dominates global visual culture even today. This book offers the first comprehensive study of Italian meta-painting in the age of Giotto and sheds new light on the early modern and modern history of the phenomenon. The analysis of pictorial illusionism and reality effect together with the liturgical, narrative and typological role of images-within-images makes this work a pioneering contribution to visual studies and premodern Italian culture.




The Nation’s First Monument and the Origins of the American Memorial Tradition Liberty EnshrinedSally Webster, City University of New York, USA

The commemorative tradition in early American art is considered for the first time in Sally Webster’s fascinating study of public monuments and the construction of an American patronymic tradition. Until now, no attempt has been made to create a coherent early history of the carved symbolic language of American liberty and independence. Webster’s study provides a new focus on New York City as the eighteenth-century city in which the European tradition of public commemoration was reconstituted as monuments to liberty’s heroes.




Printing and Painting the News in Victorian London The Graphic and Social Realism, 1869–1891Andrea Korda, University of Alberta, Canada

BRITISH ART: HISTORIES AND INTERPRETATIONS SINCE 1700

This first in-depth study of 1860s publication The Graphic and Social Realism uses the approach of media archaeology to unearth the modernity of paintings labeled as Social Realist. Korda shows that the paintings engaged with the changing notions of objectivity and immediacy that nineteenth-century new media cultivated. In doing so, this book proposes an alternative trajectory for the development of modernism that allows for a richer understanding of nineteenth-century visual culture.




The Rise and Fall of American Art, 1940s–1980s A Geopolitics of Western Art WorldsCatherine Dossin, Purdue University, USA

This book challenges the perception of New York as the undisputed center of the art world between the end of World War II and the fall of the Berlin Wall, a position of power that brought the city prestige, money, and historical recognition. In her transnational and interdisciplinary study, Dossin analyses changing distributions of geopolitical and symbolic power in the Western art worlds – a story that spans two continents, forty years and hundreds of actors.




Sir John Soane’s Influence on Architecture from 1791 A Continuing LegacyOliver Bradbury

Through examinations of internationally-renowned architects, Bradbury demonstrates that Sir John Soane’s influence has been truly international in the pre-Modern era, reaching throughout the British Isles and beyond to North America and even colonial Australia. Through his inclusion of select, detailed case studies, Bradbury contends that Soane’s is a continuing, not negated, legacy in architecture.




The Spanish Presence in Sixteenth-Century Italy Images of IberiaEdited by Piers Baker-Bates, the Open University, UK and Miles Pattenden, University of Oxford, UK

TRANSCULTURALISMS, 1400–1700

The essays collected here evaluate the broad range of contexts in which Spaniards were present in early modern Italy. They consider diplomacy, sanctity, art, politics and even popular verse. Each essay excavates how Italians who came into contact with the Spanish crown’s power perceived and interacted with the wider range of identities brought amongst them by its servants and subjects. Together they demonstrate what influenced and what determined Italians’ responses to Spain; they show Spanish Italy in its full transcultural glory and how its inhabitants projected its culture – throughout the sixteenth century and beyond.




The Spectacle of Clouds, 1439–1650 Italian Art and TheatreAlessandra Buccheri, Fine Art University of Palermo, Italy


The Spectacle of Clouds examines the different ways Heaven has been conceived and represented from the fifteenth to the seventeenth century, crossing over into the fields of history, religion and philosophy. By examining visual sources such as paintings, frescos and stage designs, together with letters, guild-ledgers, descriptions of performances and treatises, a new methodology to approach the development of this early modern visuality is offered. The result is an historical reconstruction where multiple factors are seen as facets of a single process which led to the development of Italy’s visual culture.


December 2014 216 pagesHardback 978-1-4724-1883-8 £60.00 $104.95


Textiles, Fashion, and Design Reform in Austria-Hungary Before the First World War Principles of DressRebecca Houze, Northern Illinois University, USA

THE HISTORIES OF MATERIAL CULTURE AND COLLECTING, 1700–1950

Filling a critical gap in Vienna 1900 studies, this book offers a new reading of fin-de-siècle culture in the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy by looking at the preoccupation with embroidery, fabrics, clothing, and fashion. The author resurrects lesser known critics, practitioners, and curators, while also discussing the textile interests of better known figures. Spanning the 50-year life of the Dual Monarchy, this study uncovers new territory in art history, insists on the crucial place of women within modernism, and broadens the cultural history of Habsburg Central Europe.




Women, Patronage, and Salvation in Renaissance Florence Lucrezia Tornabuoni and the Chapel of the Medici PalaceStefanie Solum, Williams College, USA


Mapping out the cultural network of gender, piety, and power surrounding the creation of the Medici family altarpiece, Stefanie Solum challenges the received wisdom that women played little part in shaping visual culture in Quattrocento Florence. Using the altarpiece as a case study, she not only reveals Lucrezia Tornabuoni de’ Medici’s agency as an art patron and a power-broker, but offers a new paradigm for the definition of the artist-patron relationship.




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STUDIES IN ART HISTORIOGRAPHY Series Editor: Richard Woodfield, University of Birmingham, UK

The aim of this series is to support and promote the study of the history and practice of art historical writing focussing on its institutional and conceptual foundations, from the past to the present day in all areas and all periods. Besides addressing the major innovators of the past it also encourages re-thinking ways in which the subject may be written in the future. It ignores the disciplinary boundaries imposed by the Anglophone expression ‘art history’ and allows and encourages the full range of enquiry that encompasses the visual arts in its broadest sense as well as topics falling within archaeology, anthropology, ethnography and other specialist disciplines and approaches. It welcomes contributions from young and established scholars and is aimed at building an expanded audience for what has hitherto been a much specialised topic of investigation. It complements the work of the Journal of Art Historiography.

Architecture and the Late Ottoman Historical Imaginary Reconfiguring the Architectural Past in a Modernizing EmpireAhmet A. Ersoy, Bogaziçi University, Turkey

While European eclecticism is examined as a critical moment in western art history, little research has been conducted in the historicist pursuits of late Ottoman architects as they negotiated the nineteenth century’s vast inventory of styles and embarked on a revivalist/Orientalist program they identified as the ‘Ottoman Renaissance.’ Ersoy’s book examines the complex historicist discourse underlying this ‘renaissance’ through a close reading of a text conceived as the movement’s canonizing manifesto: the Usul-i Mi‘mari-i ‘Osmani.




Circulations in the Global History of Art Edited by Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann, Princeton University, USA, Catherine Dossin, Purdue University, USA and Béatrice Joyeux-Prunel, École normale supérieure, France

Essays in this volume emphasize questions of transcultural encounters and exchanges as circulations, and provide an overview of current research on issues of circulation in relation to global art history and the globalization of art past and present. They offer a variety of approaches to the treatment of different periods, regions, and objects, surveying both questions of historiography and methodology and presenting individual case studies.

Includes 16 b&w illustrations and 8 maps



Michael Baxandall, Vision and the Work of Words Edited by Peter Mack, University of Warwick, UK and Robert Williams, University of California, USA

The most important art historian of his generation’ is how some scholars have described the late Michael Baxandall (1933–2007). Baxandall’s work had a transformative effect on the study of European Renaissance and eighteenth-century art, and contributed to a complex transition in the aims and methods of art history in general during the 1970’s, ‘80s, and ‘90s. This collection endeavors to assess the nature of Baxandall’s achievement, and to address the challenges it offers to the practice of art history today.




Video Art Historicized Traditions and NegotiationsMalin Hedlin Hayden, Stockholm University, Sweden

Video art emerged as an art form that from the 1960s and onwards challenged the concept of art – hence, art historical practices. From the perspective of artists, critics and scholars engaged with this new medium, art was seen as too limiting a notion. Video Art Historicized provides a novel, insightful and also challenging re-interpretation of this field by examining the discourse and its own premises. It takes a firm conceptual approach to the material, examining the conceptual, theoretical, and methodological implications that are simultaneously contested by both artists and authors, yet intertwined in both the legitimizing and the historicizing processes of video as art.



Vladimir Markov and Russian Primitivism A Charter for the Avant-GardeJeremy Howard, University of St Andrews, UK, Irena Bužinska, Latvian National Museum of Art, and Z.S. Strother, Columbia University, USA

This volume introduces the Latvian artist and champion of artistic change in early twentieth-century Russia, Voldemars Matvejs (Vladimir Markov), as a pioneering art photographer and assembles for the first time five of his most important essays. This book challenges hardening narratives of primitivism by reexamining the enthusiasm for world art in the early modern period from the perspective of Russia rather than Western Europe. The book will appeal to students of modernism, orientalism, ‘primitivism,’ historiography, African art, and the history of the photography of sculpture.

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Business, Management and Training

Comparative Causal Mapping The CMAP3 MethodMauri Laukkanen, University of Eastern Finland and Mingde Wang, Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremburg, Germany

Comparative Causal Mapping is an essential introduction to causal (cognitive) mapping exploring the different interpretations and motives for using them, the technical aspect of using CMAP3 (a thoroughly revised version of an original 1998 CCM-CMAP3 guide ) in different research situations, and typical cases of CM/CCM-research. The book will appeal to both academic and professional audiences, in particular to doctoral students and experienced researchers looking for new topics and method approaches, but also to practitioners in fields such as management training and knowledge management.


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The Complete Guide to Business Risk Management THird ediTioN

Kit Sadgrove

This new edition reflects changes in the global environment, the new risks that have emerged and the effect of macroeconomic factors on business profitability and success. Businesses are constantly under threat from the likes of computer failure, fire, fraud, robbery, accident, environmental damage and new regulations. But how do you determine which are the most important dangers for your business? What can you do to lessen the chances of their happening – and minimize the impact if they do? In this comprehensive volume Kit Sadgrove shows how you can identify and control the relevant threats to ensure that your company will survive.



Coping, Personality and the Workplace Responding to Psychological Crisis and Critical EventsEdited by Alexander-Stamatios Antoniou, University of Athens, Greece and Cary L. Cooper, University of Lancaster, UK

PSYCHOLOGICAL AND BEHAVIOURAL ASPECTS OF RISK

Coping, Personality and the Workplace offers theory, research and practice on our ability to cope with dangerous situations, critical incidents or other work crises. The chapters include perspectives on social and health habits and risks; gender and age differences as well as a range of different sources of threat: financial, psychological and physical; those within and outside the individual’s control; immediate and chronic. For organizations, this collection provides help and advice to build into employee safety and support programmes; for policy makers, a sense of the emerging sources of risk related to occupational health and for researchers, an anthology of original applied research from some of the leading authors in three continents.

July 2015 350 pagesHardback 978-1-4724-1682-7 £70.00 $134.95ebook PDF 978-1-4724-1683-4ebook ePUB 978-1-4724-1684-1


The Creative City Vision and ExecutionEdited by James Doyle and Biljana Mickov, Institute of Culture, Republic of Serbia

The Creative City: Vision and Execution, aims to challenge the popular understanding of the Creative City, by bridging the gap between the Creative City as concept and the Creative City as practice and, in so doing, provides a contemporary template for policy makers, city planners, and citizens alike. The book will offer researchers and pragmatists a series of real-life examples of successful cultural and creative practice throughout Europe, reflecting on the analysis and thinking that forms our contemporary understanding of the creative city.



Culture and Project Management Omar Zein

Omar Zein’s Culture and Project Management provides the reader with an understanding of the main elements of cross-cultural theory within the context of projects and their management. He identifies many of the key aspects of project management and lifecycle where cultural sensitivity is essential and offers a structured plan for developing what he calls ‘cultural tuning’ within a project environment. The book draws on the author’s research, his professional practice experience of working on transnational projects and his own background. His review of the different theories alongside examples and stories of their practical application, offers project managers a new and extraordinarily rich perspective into the likely dynamics of their projects. Making appropriate adaptations to standard processes, choosing what, how and through whom you communicate with stakeholders may be signal elements in the success or failure of your projects; Culture and Project Management will show where to start.



A Practical Guide to Dealing with Difficult StakeholdersDavid Bryde, Roger Joby and Jake Holloway

ADVANCES IN PROJECT MANAGEMENT

What happens in a project when the apparent needs or aspirations on one stakeholder conflict with the needs of the project? How can you adapt your contracting procedures to make sure that subcontractors are motivated (rather than coerced)? The book goes beyond traditional stakeholder management perspectives, which very much focus on the process of stakeholder identification, analysis and management to consider the complex issue of stakeholder engagement.

July 2015 130 pagesPaperback 978-1-4094-0737-9 £26.50 $49.95ebook PDF 978-1-4094-0738-6ebook ePUB 978-1-4724-0166-3


A Short Guide to Climate Change Risk Nigel Arnell

SHORT GUIDES TO BUSINESS RISK

Climate change poses a risk to business operations and to markets – but at the same time, it can bring opportunities for some businesses. With chapters on the nature, science and politics of climate change risk, as well as how to assess, then how to cope with it, and recommendations for incorporating climate change risks into a Company Climate Risk System, this concise guide serves the needs of business students and practitioners across a wide range of sectors, public and private.

January 2015 226 pagesPaperback 978-1-4094-5352-9 £17.99 $34.95ebook PDF 978-1-4094-5353-6ebook ePUB 978-1-4724-0803-7


Agile Readiness Four Spheres of Lean and Agile TransformationThomas P. Wise and Reuben Daniel

Agile Readiness is designed to provide guidance to the manager or business leader in establishing a successful environment to enable fast moving agile and lean project methods focused on business systems transformation. The struggle that managers and executives face is how to make agile and lean methods successful when working beyond software development; this book uses simple ground floor experiences to illustrate the practices and behaviors necessary for success. The reader will discover organizational strategies that build strong teams, an environment of trust, and project selection and planning strategies to create an environment of enablement in which agile and lean teams thrive.





Cyberconnecting The Three Lenses of DiversityPriya E. Abraham

Cyberconnecting: The Three Lenses of Diversity by Priya E. Abraham explains how to establish connections across technological, cultural, and social boundaries, mirrored in organisations succeeding in today’s hybrid business world. Abraham shows how seemingly opposing domains (technology, business anthropology and diversity) best leverage interactions for the benefit of organisation development, using findings from practitioner-focused research. The book presents a much-needed strategic framework required for cyberconnecting: ‘The Three Lenses of Diversity’, designed to organise thinking in the navigation of technological, cultural, and social boundaries.



Delivering Successful PMOs How to Design and Deliver the Best Project Management Office for your BusinessPeter Taylor and Ray Mead

Delivering Successful PMOs is intended to be the companion book to Leading Successful PMOs which was a guide to all project based organisations providing a common language to describe the variety of possible PMOs, explaining how to do the right things, in the right way, in the right order, with the right team, and identifying what made a good PMO leader. Delivering Successful PMOs take this to the next level and provides a clear framework to conceive, design, build, prove and embody an enterprise PMO inside an organisation, dealing with the strategic intentions, the politics, the people and the projects.

June 2015 200 pagesHardback 978-1-4724-1379-6 £35.00 $64.95ebook PDF 978-1-4724-1380-2ebook ePUB 978-1-4724-1381-9


Design Attitude Kamil Michlewski

Design Attitude makes the compelling argument that any firm in any profession in any land will be better equipped for the 21st century world of business if they introduce into their organizations the attitudes, behaviours, skills, and mindset – in sum, the culture – of the design profession. Kamil Michlewski describes the rise of the design profession and its impact on organizational cultures; at the heart of the book, however, are the five design profession behaviours that offer a blueprint for transforming the traditional company into an innovative, daring, and growing organization.



Design Pedagogy Developments in Art and Design EducationEdited by Mike Tovey

Design Pedagogy explains why it is vital that design students education helps them construct a ‘passport’ to enter the professional sphere. This collection explores how design education is, in itself, a passport to practice and showcase how some of the key developments in education use techniques related to collaboration, case studies and experience to motivate students, enable them to express their identity, reflect and learn.



Designs, Methods and Practices for Research of Project Management Edited by Beverly Pasian, Utrecht University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands

In Designs, Methods and Practices for Research of Project Management, Beverly Pasian has brought together original chapters from a veritable who’s who of project management research including authors such as Harvey Maylor, Christophe Bredillet, Derek Walker, Miles Shepherd, Janice Thomas, Naomi Brookes and Darren Dalcher. The collection looks at research strategy, management, methodology, techniques as well as emerging topics such as social network analysis. The 38 chapters offer an international perspective with examples from a wide range of project management applications; engineering, construction, mega-projects, high-risk environments and social transformation.

March 2015 500 pagesPaperback 978-1-4094-4880-8 £70.00 $119.95ebook PDF 978-1-4094-4881-5ebook ePUB 978-1-4724-0799-3


Digital Enterprise Transformation A Business-Driven Approach to Leveraging Innovative ITEdited by Axel Uhl and Lars Alexander Gollenia

In order to embrace recent challenges and changes in the governance of IT strategies, SAP and its think tank – the Business Transformation Academy (BTA) – have jointly developed the Digital Capability Framework (DCF). Digital Enterprise Transformation: A Business-Driven Approach to Leveraging Innovative IT outlines this framework which supports companies in analyzing their business potential generated by systematic usage of innovative technologies. The book presents how companies such as Samsung, IBM, Disney and Google take advantage of innovative IT and how they develop their digital capabilities.

November 2014 314 pagesHardback 978-1-4724-4854-5 £65.00 $119.95ebook PDF 978-1-4724-4855-2ebook ePUB 978-1-4724-4856-9


Enterprise Relationship Management A Paradigm For Alliance SuccessRichard Gibbs and Andrew Humphries

Richard Gibbs and Andrew Humphries provide a practical guide to the management process needed for co-ordinating all the business activities that are essential to the success of a joint/multi-party endeavour. The eight partnership types that the authors have developed from their research will help readers adapt their relationship strategies to the different opportunities that present themselves and focus their greatest time and resources on the collaborations that offer the greatest value. Enterprise Relationship Management will help ensure organisations have the requisite ability to form, manage, retire and exit partnerships in a fluid and agile way, thus getting the most from these partnerships.



Exercising Agency Decision Making and Project InitiationMark Mullaly

Exercising Agency lifts the lid on many of the important behavioural factors that inform project decisions: power and politics, personality, the ‘rules’ of an organization. If you are involved in framing or making decisions about the future of your organization; the projects that you do or don’t decide to initiate, then read this book. It won’t make the decisions any easier but it will help you improve the quality of the decisions you make and over time, the effectiveness of your organizational decision making.



Exploring Internal Communication Towards Informed Employee VoiceTHird ediTioN

Edited by Kevin Ruck

This third edition of Exploring Internal Communication includes new chapters on the history of internal communication, the evolution of employee engagement, the current state of practice, change communication, storytelling, research and measurement, an internal communication measurement dashboard, intranet management, and internal social media. It argues that internal communication practice is about keeping employees informed and at the same time giving them a voice that is treated seriously. The book is both a companion for internal communication courses and an exploration of key concepts for a strategic approach to practice that underpins employee engagement.

March 2015 250 pagesPaperback 978-1-4724-3067-0 £30.00 $54.95ebook PDF 978-1-4724-3068-7ebook ePUB 978-1-4724-3069-4




Forecasting for the Pharmaceutical Industry Models for New Product and In-Market Forecasting and How to Use ThemSecoNd ediTioN

Arthur G. Cook

Forecasting for the Pharmaceutical Industry is a definitive guide for forecasters as well as the multitude of decision makers and executives who rely on forecasts in their decision making. The author explores the pharmaceutical forecasting process; the varied tools and methods for new product and in-market forecasting; how they can be used to communicate market dynamics to the various stakeholders; and the strengths and weaknesses of different forecast approaches. The second edition has been updated throughout and includes a brand new chapter focussing on specialized topics such as forecasting for orphan drugs and biosimilars.



The Future of Health Economics Edited by Ulf Staginnus and Olivier Ethgen

The Future of Health Economics offers a window into some of the most influential emerging issues in pharmacoeconomics; issues such as risk-sharing and alternative pricing models or the potential impact of radical new approaches such as personalized medicine; as well as exploring the changing role of government and regulators.

August 2015 200 pagesHardback 978-1-4094-4543-2 £85.00 $154.95ebook PDF 978-1-4094-4544-9ebook ePUB 978-1-4724-0168-7


Inclusive Organizational Transformation An African Perspective on Human Niches and Diversity of ThoughtRica Viljoen

TRANSFORMATION AND INNOVATION

In Inclusive Organizational Transformation, Rica Viljoena acknowledges that diversity of thought presents both gifts and challenges to leadership in multi-national organizations. Here, Inclusivity is positioned as a radical transformational methodology with the purpose of unleashing the benefits of engagement and diversity of thought. Case studies from Ghana, South Africa, Australia, Peru and Tanzania are included and insights gained from the dynamics observed are shared. A synthesis of Inclusivity is presented in a model, meta-insights are derived and the prerequisites for Inclusivity on individual, group and organizational domain are illustrated.



Innovating Professional Services Transforming Value and EfficiencyAlastair Ross

Innovating Professional Services is a practical guide to planning, implementing and sustaining innovation in professional service firms. Multiple case studies are used to help demonstrate the opportunities – and challenges – of driving major improvement through innovation. Ross draws heavily on his practical experience in working with leading law firms and business service and consulting firms over the past ten years in which he and his firm have applied best practice techniques and methods to create measurable improvements. This book can be used by leaders and change agents to explore the opportunities for innovation in their firms and to construct and implement a transformation programme within their organizations.



Integral Polity Integrating Nature, Culture, Society and EconomyRonnie Lessem with Ibrahim Abouleish, Marko Pogacnik and Louis Herman


Integral spirituality, integral philosophy and the integral age, at an overall or holistic level of consciousness, has become a strong enough idea to form the genesis of a movement over the course of the last half century – and Integral Polity applies this notion to business, economics and enterprise. Using case studies ranging across the globe this review of a newly integral theory and practice provides a new lease on life to what may increasingly be perceived as the self-seeking, insulated and occasionally violent and corrupt realm of the political.



Integral Renewal A Relational and Renewal perspectiveRonnie Lessem and Alexander Schieffer, Co-founders of Trans4m Center for Integral Development


While Lessem and Schieffer’s Integral Research and Innovation book still provides the research foundation for the four southern and eastern, northern and western paths, the latest book in the Transformation and Innovation Series, Integral Renewal, focuses on relational (southern) and renewal (eastern) paths. The core question ‘how can social research be turned into social or indeed ‘integral’ innovation?’, still applies but in focusing on integral renewal, the authors include integral research, as process, and economic as well as enterprise development, as content, leading to integral development of self to society.



Management Science, Operations Research and Project Management Modelling, Evaluation, Scheduling, MonitoringJosé Ramón San Cristóbal Mateo, University of Cantabria, Spain

Due to its societal and economic relevance, Project Management has become an important discipline and a concept critical to modern organizations, public and private. With his focus on the quantitative models of Operations Research and Management Science applied to Project Management, José Ramón San Cristóbal Mateo fills the gap between scientific research and the practical application of that research, and provides project managers with the tools and methods necessary to manage projects successfully.



Man-Made Why So Few Women Are in Positions of PowerEva Tutchell and John Edmonds

Man-Made looks at women in business, government and not-for-profit organizations to explore the reasons behind – and the solutions to – the gross underrepresentation of women in leadership positions. The authors look at the value of work for women and vice versa; how women are seen and how they are expected to behave; the impact of prejudice and discrimination; how some women have succeeded against the odds. The text draws on the authors’ interviews with over 100 successful UK and international business women from across sectors, academic research, and the authors’ own experience to offer a rigorous and convincing analysis, along with a pragmatic set of recommendations for change.



Occupational Risk Control Predicting and Preventing the UnwantedDerek Viner

In Occupational Risk Control, Derek Viner brings together the theoretical aspects of his subject into a coherent whole and then connects them with the needs both of practitioners and educators. Viner argues that amongst the observable consequences of the absence of a holistic approach, is the tendency for regulators to form (misinformed) theory on which to base legislation and the prevalence of commercial systems leading to disparate efforts by different industries. The net effect of all this, he suggests, is seen in the disasters of the magnitude of the Gulf of Mexico explosion and oil spill.



The Price of Global Health Drug Pricing Strategies to Balance Patient Access and the Funding of Innovation SecoNd ediTioN

Ed Schoonveld

The Price of Global Health is a unique, much-needed and invaluable resource for anybody interested or involved in, or affected by, the development, funding and use of prescription drugs. The second edition includes new chapters on payer value story development, oncology, orphan drugs and payer negotiations. Country chapters have also been updated to reflect changes in healthcare systems, including the Affordable Care Act in the US, AMNOG in Germany, and medico-economic requirements in France. Almost every chapter has been updated with new examples and illustrations.



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The Principles of Islamic Marketing SecoNd ediTioN

Baker Ahmad Alserhan, United Arab Emirates University, UAE

The Principles of Islamic Marketing provides a complete guide to the requirements an organization needs to follow when managing its entire marketing function within the Muslim market or when adapting part of its offering to that market. This is not a religious book. It’s a marketing book that represents the values behind a business model adopted by nearly one fifth of the world population; the Islamic Economic System.



Project Life Cycle Economics Cost Estimation, Management and Effectiveness in Construction ProjectsEdited by Massimo Pica

Massimo Pica explains the fundamentals of project life cycle economics and how they apply in the context of complex modern construction. This is an essential guide for those involved in construction project design, tendering and contracting; to help ensure the sustainability of the project or their contribution to it, from the start. It is also important for those involved in the delivery of the project to help them make the choices to keep the project on a financial even keel.



Project Management for Supplier Organizations Harmonising the Project Owner to Supplier RelationshipAdrian Taggart

Project Management for Supplier Organizations offers an explanation of the key processes from the perspective of the project contractor. Adrian tackles key issues such as: how a well thought-out procurement process seeks to maximise those interests that client and supplier have in common and diminish the consequences of those that are not; the commercial and practical importance of managing change; the risks that face supplier organizations when addressing project related work; the implications for other organizational disciplines of the Supplier when embracing project work and areas of additional expertise that may be required. Adrian Taggart’s book turns the stakeholder perspective on its head. In doing so, he offers readers, from contract organizations, a real story and urgent set of priorities when it comes to managing a project and, those from client organizations, with an understanding of how best they can work with their suppliers to mutual benefit.



Religious Diversity in the Workplace Lessons from Around the WorldEdited by Stefan Gröschl, ESSEC Business School, Paris, France and Regine Bendl, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria

The editors present a selection of essays, conceptual papers, empirical studies and case studies about how religious diversity and spirituality are managed in the workplace. The book explores how firms address organizational and managerial challenges deriving from the religion diverse backgrounds of their employees. The different contributions discuss policies and practices of firms addressing the religious and spiritual beliefs of their employees, how implicit and unmarked religious norms influence the ‘managing’ of religious issues in organizations, and what the benefits of a religion diverse workforce are. It also includes contributions which address aspects of spirituality in the workplace, and the role of legal frameworks and their influence on organizations and their policies and practices regarding religion diversity.



Skilled Migration, Expectation and Reality Chinese Professionals and the Global Labour MarketYing Lu, Macquarie University, Australia, Ramanie Samaratunge, Monash University, Australia and Charmine E.J. Härtel, The University of Queensland, Australia

In Skilled Migration, Expectation and Reality the authors offer the findings of their research into the acculturation and integration issues confronting Professional Chinese Immigrants in the Australian labour market. This rigorous quantitative and qualitative study is one of the first systematic examinations of acculturation to focus specifically on the workplace. It reveals fascinating insights regarding the strategies that professional immigrants are forced into because they are unable to find appropriate channels through which to integrate and assimilate into the host society.



Reframing the Leadership Landscape Roger Hayes and Reginald Watts

In Reframing the Leadership Landscape, Roger Hayes and Reginald Watts argue that the interconnected and interdependent world requires leaders to adopt a more holistic and inclusive approach. The NEW normal must be navigated, negotiated, networked and a narrative built around it. Aggressive individualism is no longer a sustainable basis for companies needing to deliver social and economic value, now, enterprises must move beyond narrow self–interest and short–termism to balance stakeholder expectations. The tool kit is here, ready to be unpacked. The only question is whether aspirant leaders are sensitive enough to read the signals and develop the skills needed to create an essential collaborative paradigm, which they must do if they wish to regain trust, fill the leadership void and help reshape a sustainable future.



Temporary Agency Work and Globalisation Beyond Flexibility and InequalityEdited by Huiyan Fu, Regents University London, UK

Despite its geographic and industry expansion as part of the ongoing globalisation of service activity, temporary agency work (TAW) is relatively understudied. This edited collection provides a comprehensive overview of TAW, in an international context, revealing how the TAW industry is intertwined with the changing relationship between the state, corporations and labour unions at the institutional-structural level, and also the perceptions and experiences of ordinary workers in everyday practice. By combining global and local forces, macro and micro levels of analysis, and theoretical and empirical investigations, the book offers fresh insights into recurring issues of labour flexibility and inequality, making practical suggestions and facilitating fruitful cross-national collaborations.



Understanding and Negotiating EPC Contracts, Volume 1 The Project Sponsor’s PerspectiveHoward M. Steinberg

Understanding and Negotiating EPC Contracts explains the fundamental commercial principles and pitfalls of ‘turnkey’ contracting for major infrastructure projects anywhere. It is a comprehensive guide providing practical analysis of the issues and challenges in complex construction projects. Exhaustive in scope, the book enables professionals and non-professionals to understand the commercial, legal and financial elements of large construction projects and places readers in a stronger position to assess short and longer-term needs of clients and constituents.



Understanding and Negotiating EPC Contracts, Volume 2 Annotated Sample Contract FormsHoward M. Steinberg

Any project which involves an EPC contract is also likely to involve a number of other complicated contracts. The challenge of the parties to an EPC contract is not to try to eliminate risk but rather put into place a narrative structure that enables the parties to predict the contractual result that would obtain if a risk materializes. If the EPC contract does not allow the parties to determine the consequences of an unanticipated situation, they will have to look to an expert, mediator, tribunal, or court to impart guidance or pass judgment.



Understanding and Negotiating EPC Contracts 2 Volume SetHoward M. Steinberg

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The Tone From the Top How Behaviour Trumps StrategyIan Muir, Keeldeep Associates Ltd, UK

The Tone from the Top: How Behaviour Trumps Strategy, will convince readers that the behaviour of leaders and the signals they send are more important than strategy. In offering a model for a much more systematic approach, and first hand evidence from interviews with the chairmen of a quarter of a trillion pounds of market capitalization (FTSE200 companies), Ian Muir hopes to persuade readers that behaviour and signalling have a much greater influence on business performance and ethics than simply communicating a strategy.



Transculturalism and Business in the BRIC States A HandbookEdited by Yvette Sánchez and Claudia Franziska Brühwiler, both at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland

Transculturalism and Business in the BRIC States, is the first handbook on the BRIC States that offers a transcultural perspective, which goes beyond the typical ‘how to’ manuals or economic projections and provides an understanding of transculturalism as it is studied and practiced in the respective countries themselves. This unique reference book also offers insights into the relations between the corresponding states and the challenges facing those trying to foster more intense business exchanges. The reader learns to interpret cross-cultural issues from the perspectives of the BRIC states themselves and gains insight into the way scholars in the BRIC area reflect on transculturalism.



The Value Trail How to Effectively Understand, Deploy and Monitor Successful Business ModelsMarc Sansó

The Value Trail develops a disruptive new model of strategic analysis based around three areas of value: Appreciation, Concentration and Predation. A central issue for most managers is how to capture customer insights and use them to deliver outstanding products and services that encompass an irresistible charm for the customer with a profitable business model. This book allows the reader to understand how companies can set corporate goals and leverage internal resources to deliver successful value propositions, offering a comprehensive approach to competitive analysis and strategy. Above everything, it’s about how to become valuable.



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FINANCE, GOVERNANCE AND SUSTAINABILITY: CHALLENGES TO THEORY AND PRACTICE Series Editor: Güler Aras, Yildiz Technical University, Turkey amd Georgetown University, USA

Today’s developments within the field of sustainability and governance appeal to a growing audience in many aspects. While there are many studies on governance and finance, the focus to include sustainability is missed. The convergence between these three fields, Finance, Governance, and Sustainability, has a high potential for solutions providing a wider perspective to the issues and barriers encountered in sustainability. The aim of the Finance, Governance and Sustainability: Challenges to Theory and Practice series, edited by Güler Aras, is to fill this gap by bringing together the recent developments at the intersection of these three fields.

This series shares the studies of academics, researchers, entrepreneurs, policy makers and government officers aiming to contribute to the progress and overcome the emerging barriers in sustainability. In addition, the linkage of the series’ studies, to the newly established Center for Finance, Corporate Governance and Sustainability, will provide the most current research and debate in this field along with a global perspective.

The series combines strong conceptual analysis, with wide ranging empirical focus, and a wealth of case material. Also included are summary points, suggestions for further reading, web resources, and an extensive bibliography. The level of presentation is for graduate students, academics, as well as policy and decision-makers around the world.

Sustainable Governance in Hybrid Organizations An International Case Study of Water CompaniesLinne Marie Lauesen, Vand and Affald, Denmark

In Sustainable Governance in Hybrid Organizations, Linne Marie Lauesen explores how organizational governance and sustainability are at play within hybrid organizations, with a particular focus on water companies. Water companies are highly regulated while, at the same time, working primarily for the betterment of society and on behalf of generations to come. Lauesen explains how these organizations manage to balance their triple bottom lines in order to survive financially, socially, and environmentally. Balancing these three bottom lines in a sustainable way is explained in a clear and accessible way and the juxtaposition between non-profit and for-profit water companies will show how this model can be transferred to other business spheres.



Sustainable Markets for Sustainable Business A Global Perspective for Business and Financial MarketsEdited by Güler Aras, Yildiz Technical University, Turkey and Georgetown University, USA

Today, sustainability risks and opportunities have become a global imperative and a megatrend for business. The sustainability of markets is closely related to business and sustainable development, and environmental issues such as climate change, pollution, land degradation and biodiversity loss are, in part, the result of market failures, present in most sectors of the economy. The world’s markets have the potential to improve the lives of billions in developing countries, reducing poverty and securing environmental quality for future generations. Often they fail to capture the full value of natural resources or promote the interests of poor people. Therefore, an effective public policy framework is required. Market governance and the relationship between the market and political authority remains a core question at the heart of the sustainability debate.



Value-Creation in Middle Market Private Equity John A. Lanier

Seen as the job creating engine within the US economy, small business is often a prime target market for private equity investment. Indeed, private equity backs over six of each 100 private sector jobs. Both the small businesses in which private equity firms invest, and the private equity firms making the investments, face inter- and intra-company fiduciary leadership challenges while implementing formulated strategy. The architecture of each private equity firm-portfolio company relationship must be uniquely crafted to capitalize on projected ROI that is memorialized in the investment thesis. Given the leveraged capital structure of portfolio companies, the cost of a misstep is problematic. In Value -Creation in Middle Market Private Equity, Lanier examines relationships between middle market private equity firms and their portfolio companies.



World of Workcraft Rediscovering Motivation and Engagement in the Digital WorkplaceDale Roberts

Organizations have started to wrestle with the idea of how to engage the skills and motivation of the video game generation; as customers and as employees. Dale Robert’s World of Workcraft provides the context and background to the need for and potential benefit of gamification as a means of turning a traditional corporate culture and structure into a dynamic community. Gamification is the concept of applying engaging elements of game theory to non-game applications, and its practical application is part of the disruptive innovation that offers businesses radical new ways of working, learning and performing. World of Workcraft provides guidance on how to (and how not to) introduce these concepts successfully.




History

Affectionate Authorities Fathers and Fatherly Roles in Late Medieval BaselPhilip Grace, Grand Valley State University, USA

Situated at the intersection of social and cultural history, the study draws upon late-medieval and early-modern sources from the city of Basel, Switzerland in order to provide a nuanced view of concepts of fatherhood on the eve of the Reformation. It focuses on how people invoked ideas about fatherhood in the pursuit of various goals – not only the ideological agendas of scholarly elites, but also the more pragmatic problems of closing a business deal, claiming an inheritance, or choosing sides in a fistfight.



Anatomy and Anatomists in Early Modern Spain Bjørn Okholm Skaarup

THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE IN CONTEXT

Taking the Vesalian anatomical revolution as its point of departure, this volume charts the apparent rise and fall of anatomy studies within universities in sixteenth-century Spain, focusing particularly on primary sources from 1550 to 1600. In doing so, it both clarifies the Spanish contribution to the field of anatomy and disentangles the distorted political and historiographical viewpoints emerging from previous research. The new empirical evidence that this book brings to light suggests a far more multifaceted narrative of Iberian Renaissance anatomy than has been presented to date.



Artful Virtue: The Interplay of the Beautiful and the Good in the Scottish Enlightenment Leslie Ellen Brown, Ripon College, USA

This book reveals the history of how the vast landscape of moral philosophy was applied to the specific territories of beauty – in nature, aesthetics and ethics – during the eighteenth-century Scottish Enlightenment. The author explores a variety of sources, from academic lectures and institutional record, to popular texts such as newspapers and pamphlets, to show how the idea that beauty and art made individuals and society more virtuous was elevated and understood in Scottish society.



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The Ashgate Research Companion to Imperial Germany Edited by Matthew Jefferies, University of Manchester, UK

This companion is a significant addition to the body of scholarship on Germany’s imperial era with the emphasis very much on the present and future. Questions of continuity remain a vital line of historical enquiry and while it may have been short-lived, the Kaiserreich remains central to modern German and European history. The collection will provide a lively, personal take on this fascinating period of history, from Germany’s unification in 1871 until the end of World War I.



Aspiration, Representation and Memory The Guise in Europe, 1506–1688Edited by Jessica Munns, University of Denver, USA, Penny Richards, University of Gloucestershire, UK and Jonathan Spangler, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK

The essays in this collection approach the aims, ambitions and self-fashioning of the House in Guise using a ‘trans-national’ dimension as context. The combination of the violence and drama of their lives at the centres of European power and their adroit use of publicity ensured that versions of their strongly delineated images were appropriated by chroniclers, playwrights and artists, in which they sometimes featured as they would have wished, as heroes and heroines, frequently as villains, and ultimately as characters in the narratives of national heritage.



Australia Circumnavigated The Voyage of Matthew Flinders in HMS Investigator, 1801–1803Edited by Kenneth Morgan, Brunel University, UK

HAKLUYT SOCIETY, THIRD SERIES

This two-volume work provides the first edited publication of Matthew Flinders’s fair journals from the first circumnavigation of Australia in 1801–1803 in HMS Investigator, and of the ‘Memoir’ he wrote to accompany his journals and charts. These are among the most important primary texts in Australian maritime history and European voyaging in the Pacific. This edition has a substantial introduction and textual introduction complemented with photographic excerpts from Flinders’s survey sheets, maps of the voyage and illustrations of the botanical and artistic work undertaken.

March 2015 1040 pagesHardback Set 978-1-908145-11-6 £125.00 $225.00ebook PDF 978-1-4724-4618-3


The Bishop of Rome in Late Antiquity Edited by Geoffrey D. Dunn, Australian Catholic University

The essays in this volume examine the bishop of Rome in late antiquity from the time of Constantine in the fourth century to the death of Gregory the Great in the seventh. The volume canvasses a wide range of opinions about the nature of papal power by concentrating on how the holders of the office exercised their episcopal responsibilities and prerogatives within the city or in relation to both civic administration and churches in other areas.



Boyle Studies Aspects of the Life and Thought of Robert Boyle (1627–91)Michael Hunter, Birkbeck College, UK

Robert Boyle’s role as the most influential English scientist in the generation before Newton is now acknowledged, and the complexity of his ideas has become increasingly apparent. This volume forms a sequel to Michael Hunter’s two previous books: Robert Boyle: Scrupulosity and Science (2000) and The Boyle Papers: Understanding the Manuscripts of Robert Boyle (2007). Like them, it brings together material otherwise widely scattered in essay volumes and academic journals, while over a third of the book’s content is hitherto unpublished.



British Battle Planning in 1916 and the Battle of Fromelles A Case Study of an Evolving SkillRoger Lee, Australian Army History Unit

ASHGATE STUDIES IN FIRST WORLD WAR HISTORY

The Battle of Fromelles (19–20 July 1916) witnessed the first time Australian forces were used in offenses on the Western Front, and thus looms large in Commonwealth perceptions of ‘Bumbling British Generals’. This book follows the battle plan from the supreme commander’s strategic designs down through the commands at operational and tactical headquarters until it became the orders sending the infantry into the attack. In so doing it provides a unique insight into the strengths and weaknesses of British command structure, allowing a more scholarly judgement of its effectiveness.



British Infantry Battalion Commanders in the First World War Peter E. Hodgkinson, University of Birmingham, UK

ASHGATE STUDIES IN FIRST WORLD WAR HISTORY

Recent studies of the British Army during the First World War have fundamentally overturned historical understandings of its strategy and tactics, yet the chain of command that linked the upper echelons of GHQ to the soldiers in the trenches remains poorly understood. In order to reconnect the lines of communication between the General Staff and the front line, and to challenge lingering popular conceptions of callous incompetence, this book analyses a database of more than 4,000 officers who commanded infantry battalions during the war.



The British Pharmacopoeia, 1864 to 2014 Medicines, International Standards and the StateAnthony C. Cartwright


The British Pharmacopoeia has provided official standards for the quality of substances and articles used in medicine since its first publication. Cartwright explores how these standards have been achieved through a comprehensive review of the history and development of pharmacopoeias in the UK. The book, which places the British Pharmacopoeia in its global context as an instrument of the British Empire, will be of value to historians of medicine and pharmacy and practitioners of medicine, pharmacy and pharmaceutical analytical chemistry.




History

Ceremonial Entries in Early Modern Europe The Iconography of PowerEdited by J.R. Mulryne, University of Warwick, UK, Maria Ines Aliverti, University of Pisa, Italy and Anna Maria Testaverde, University of Bergamo, Italy

EUROPEAN FESTIVAL STUDIES: 1450–1700

The essays in this volume concentrate on festival iconography, the visual and written languages, including ephemeral and permanent structures, costume, drama, inscriptions and published festival books that ‘voiced’ the social, political and cultural messages incorporated in processional entries in Early Modern Europe. The volume includes a transcript of the newly-discovered Register of Lionardo di Zanobi Bartholini, a Florentine merchant, which details the expenses for each worker for the possesso (or entry) of Pope Leo X to Rome in April 1513.



Children and Asceticism in Late Antiquity Continuity, Family Dynamics and the Rise of ChristianityVille Vuolanto, University of Oslo, Norway and University of Tampere, Finland

This is the first book to scrutinise the interplay between family, children and asceticism in the rise of Christianity. Drawing on texts of Christian authors of the late fourth and early fifth centuries the volume approaches the study of family dynamics and childhood from both ideological and social historical perspectives. It examines the place of children in the family in Christian ideology and explores how families in the late Roman world adapted these ideals in practice.



Diplomacy, Roger Makins and the Anglo-American Relationship Richard Wevill

Roger Makins, British Ambassador to Washington 1953–1956, was one of the most prominent and powerful diplomats of his time. His career was unusual for a Foreign Office official, in that such a large part of it took place in Washington and London, and was centered on Anglo-American relationships. This book describes his life, times and the important players he dealt with on both sides of the Atlantic. It sheds light on how the ‘special relationship’ between Britain and America developed, and shows how great an impact a civil servant can have on policy.



Dying, Death and Burial in Reformation Europe Edited by Elizabeth C. Tingle, University of Plymouth, UK and Jonathan Willis, University of Birmingham, UK

ST ANDREWS STUDIES IN REFORMATION HISTORY

In recent years, the rituals and beliefs associated with the end of life have increasingly been identified as being of critical importance in understanding the social and cultural impact of the Reformation. This interdisciplinary collection draws together essays from historians, literary scholars, musicologists and others working at the cutting edge of research in this area to provide an historiographical overview of recent work on dying, death and burial in Reformation and Counter-Reformation Europe.



The Emergence of León-Castile c.1065–1500 Essays Presented to J.F. O’CallaghanEdited by James J. Todesca, Armstrong State University, USA

The Emergence of León-Castile brings together the current research of colleagues, students and friends of Joseph F. O’Callaghan, a pioneer in the study of the kingdom of León-Castile. The essays focus on the politics, law and economy of León-Castile from its first great leap forward in the eleventh century to the civil strife of the fifteenth. No other volume in English allows the reader to trace the institutional development of the kingdom over several centuries. The collection underlines the fact that León-Castile was not a backwater but a sophisticated state that had an important influence on the development of medieval and renaissance Europe.



Experiences of Charity, 1250–1650 Edited by Anne M. Scott, The University of Western Australia

In this collection, contributors explore the experience of charity towards the poor, considering it in spiritual, intellectual, emotional, personal, social, cultural and material terms. The approach is a comparative one: across different time periods, nations, and faiths. Contributors pay attention to the way faith inflected charity in England and France, as Catholicism and Calvinism became outlawed and/or minority faiths. They ask how different beliefs shaped charity, and explore whether these changed over time.



Experiencing Exile Huguenot Refugees in the Dutch Republic, 1680–1700David van der Linden, University of Cambridge, UK

POLITICS AND CULTURE IN EUROPE, 1650–1750

The persecution of the Huguenots in France, followed by the revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685, unleashed one of the largest migration waves of early modern Europe. Focusing on the fate of French Protestants who fled to the Dutch Republic, Experiencing Exile examines how Huguenot refugees dealt with the complex realities of living as strangers abroad, and how they seized upon religion and stories of their own past to comfort them in exile.



The Fate of Anatomical Collections Edited by Rina Knoeff, University of Groningen, The Netherlands and Robert Zwijnenberg, Leiden University, The Netherlands


This volume explores the changing status of anatomical collections from the early modern period to date. It is argued that anatomical and pathological collections are medically relevant for future research, and are important in the history of medicine, the cultural history of the body, and the history of the institutions to which they belong. In considering the fate of anatomical collections – and the importance of keeper’s decisions with respect to collections – this volume will make an important methodological contribution to the study of collections and to discussions on how to preserve universities’ academic heritage.



From Local Patriotism to a Planetary Perspective Impact Crater Research in Germany, 1930s to 1970sMartina Kölbl-Ebert, Jura-Museum Eichstätt, Germany

SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE, 1700–1945

The Nördlinger Ries and Steinheim Basin, two geological structures in Germany, were traditionally viewed as volcanic edifices until they were recognized as impact craters in the 1960s. The changing views about the craters’ origins mark a paradigm shift in the Earth sciences, from an Earth-centric approach to a planetary perspective that acknowledged Earth’s place in the cosmos. Drawing on a range of printed sources and archival material, Kölbl-Ebert provides a reconstruction of the sequence of events as well as the emotions and motives of the scientists involved and the social context of their research.



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History

From Rail to Road and Back Again? A Century of Transport Competition and Interdependency Edited by Ralf Roth, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Germany, and Colin Divall, University of York, UK

MODERN ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL HISTORY

In this volume, the mutual interdependence between road and rail transport is investigated, providing a fascinating reappraisal of the complex and shifting nature of European transportation over the last hundred years. The first half of the collection examines how railway companies reacted to increasing competition from road transport. The second part focuses on road mobility, a key success story of the twentieth century.



Hospitaller Piety and Crusader Propaganda Guillaume Caoursin’s Description of the Ottoman Siege of Rhodes, 1480Theresa M. Vann, St Johns University, USA and Donald J. Kagay, Albany State University Georgia, USA

Guilelmus Caoursin, Vice-chancellor of the Order of the Hospital, wrote the Obsidionis Rhodiae urbis descriptio (Description of the Siege of Rhodes) in 1480. It was the first authorized print account of the Order’s activities, and became one of the best sellers of the 15th century. With introductory chapters by Theresa Vann, this book is the first modern Latin edition with an English translation of the Descriptio. Two other eyewitness accounts: Pierre D’Aubusson’s Relatio obsidionis Rhodie and Jacomo Curte’s De urbis Rhodiae obsidione a. 1480 a Turcis tentata, also appear in modern Latin edition and English translation, as does John Kay’s Description of the Siege of Rhodes and an English translation of Ademar Dupuis’ Le siège de Rhodes.

May 2015 370 pagesHardback 978-0-7546-3741-7 £75.00 $129.95ebook PDF 978-1-4724-4906-1


Islam and Christianity in Medieval Anatolia Edited by A.C.S. Peacock, Bruno De Nicola and Sara Nur Yildiz, all at the University of St Andrews, UK

This volume offers a comparative approach to understanding the spread of Muslim culture in medieval Anatolia. It aims to reassess work in the field since the 1971 classic by Speros Vryonis, The Decline of Hellenism in Asia Minor and the Process of Islamization which treats the process of transformation from a Byzantinist perspective. Essays examine the Christian experience of living under Muslim rule, consider encounters between Christianity and Islam in art and intellectual life, and focus on the process of Islamisation as understood from the Arabic, Persian and Turkish textual evidence.



Juan de Valdés and the Italian Reformation Massimo Firpo, Scuola Normale Superiore, Italy

CATHOLIC CHRISTENDOM, 1300–1700

This book traces the origins of Juan de Valdés’ religious experience, and underlines the large influence of his teachings after his death all over Italy and beyond. Massimo Firpo reveals the originality of the Italian Reformation and its influence in the radicalism of religious exiles in Switzerland and Eastern Europe. The book will be welcomed by scholars wishing to further their understanding of Italian spiritual reform, and its effect upon the wider currents of the Reformation.



The Long Twelfth-Century View of the Anglo-Saxon Past Edited by Martin Brett, and David A. Woodman, both at the University of Cambridge, UK

STUDIES IN EARLY MEDIEVAL BRITAIN AND IRELAND

The essays in this volume, provided by experts in various different scholarly disciplines, scrutinize how the Anglo-Saxon past continued to be re-used and recycled throughout the longue durée of the twelfth century, as opposed to the early decades that are usually covered. The volume deals with a range of historical, linguistic, legal, artistic, palaeographical and cultic evidence and will become a standard reference point for students and scholars alike interested in the ways in which the Anglo-Saxon past continued to be of importance and interest throughout the twelfth century.



The Maligned Militia The West Country Militia of the Monmouth Rebellion, 1685Christopher L. Scott

Drawing upon private papers, letters, financial records, diaries and memoirs, this book revisits the Monmouth Rebellion of 1685 to assess the militia’s performance in helping to defeat the ‘pitchfork rebellion’. The study sets a benchmark for what could have been realistically expected of these part-time soldiers, and then sets this against the actual tasks that were asked of it. The results that emerge from this exercise paint a very different picture of the militia’s role in the rebellion than has hitherto been accepted by historians.



Medicine, Trade and Empire Garcia de Orta’s Colloquies on the Simples and Drugs of India (1563) in ContextEdited by Palmira Fontes da Costa, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal


Garcia de Orta’s Colloquies on the Simples and Drugs of India (1563) was printed in Goa, the capital of the Portuguese empire in the East and a port city that occupied a prominent role in the circuit of trade. Orta, a Portuguese physician who lived in Goa for thirty years, presents dialogues concerning more than eighty different drugs, fruits, spices, minerals and medical preparations, all of them native to India or observed in use there. This volume analyses the Colloquies, its history, context and reception, and its value to historians as a symbol of the impact of globalization in a sixteenth-century medical world.



The Medieval Way of War Studies in Medieval Military History in Honor of Bernard S. BachrachEdited by Gregory I. Halfond, Framingham State University, USA

Few historians have argued so persuasively as Bernard S. Bachrach for the study of warfare as demanding of scholarly attention. In his many publications Bachrach has established unequivocally the relevance of military activity for an understanding of medieval European societies, polities and mentalities. In so doing he has helped to define the status quaestionis for the field of medieval military history. This volume pays tribute to its honoree by gathering seventeen original studies from an international roster of leading experts in the military history of medieval Europe.



Menstruation and Procreation in Early Modern France Blood and TabooCathy McClive, Durham University, UK

WOMEN AND GENDER IN THE EARLY MODERN WORLD

Drawing on a wide range of sources, including medical, casuistic and judicial texts and manuscripts, court records and private documents, this study presents the first full-length discussion of menstruation in early modern France. By extension it is also a book about gender relations, in its exploration of how attitudes to blood and menstruation offer the historian a window into early modern concepts of the body, sexual and gender difference and procreation.



The Milne Papers Volume II: The Royal Navy and the Outbreak of the American Civil War, 1860–1862John Beeler, University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa, USA

NAVY RECORDS SOCIETY PUBLICATIONS

Centred upon a man who never participated in combat operations during his sixty-year naval career, this volume depicts the routine peacetime operations of the mid-Victorian Royal Navy. The documents that comprise this volume deal with topics of interest to scholars of international relations, Anglo-American affairs, the U.S. Civil War and the slave trade. Other aspects addressed include naval medicine, steam-era logistics and other elements of the Royal Navy’s modernization pertaining to its materiel, personnel and administration.




History

Money and the Church in Medieval Europe, 1000–1200 Practice, Morality and ThoughtEdited by Giles E. M. Gasper, Durham University, UK and Svein H. Gullbekk, UiO: Kulturhistorisk Museum, Norway

Bringing together essays from experts in a variety of disciplines, this collection focuses on the interaction between money and the church in northern Europe in order to challenge current understanding of how money was perceived, understood and used by medieval clergy in a range of contexts. It provides wide-ranging contributions to the broader economic and ethical issues of the period, demonstrating how the church became a major force in the process of monetization.



The Naval Route to the Abyss The Anglo-German Naval Race 1895–1914Edited by Matthew S. Seligmann, Brunel University, UK, Frank Nägler and Michael Epkenhans

NAVY RECORDS SOCIETY PUBLICATIONS

The Anglo-German rivalry in battleship building at the beginning of the twentieth century has been blamed by many as a major cause of the First World War, yet ‘the Great Naval Race’ has not received the attention that its notoriety would merit. This volume facilitates an understanding of how the two parties interacted by providing a comprehensive survey of existing scholarship, as well as important primary sources from a range of archives. By offering German documents in their original text and in English translation, this book makes the German role in this conflict accessible to English speakers for the first time.



The Paris Zone A Cultural History, 1840–1944James Cannon, La Trobe University, Australia

Since the mid-1970s, the term zone has often been associated with the post-war housing estates on the outskirts of large French cities. However, it once referred to a more circumscribed space: the zone non aedificandi (non-building zone) which encircled Paris (1840–1940). This unusual territory came to occupy a central place in Parisian culture. By analysing a wider range of sources from the duration of the zone’s existence, this study offers a nuanced account of how the area was perceived by successive generations of Parisian novelists, poets, songwriters, artists, photographers, film-makers, politicians and town-planners.



Polemic Language as Violence in Medieval and Early Modern DiscourseEdited by Almut Suerbaum, George Southcombe, and Benjamin Thompson, all at the University of Oxford, UK

Taking a broad European approach, this collection brings together specialists on medieval and early modern culture in order to challenge assumptions that medieval culture was homogenous and characterized by consensus, and that literary discourse is by nature ‘eirenic’. The volume more clearly shows continuities and discontinuities and provides a more nuanced view of the meaning, role, and effect of ‘polemic’ both broadly across time and space, and more narrowly within specific circumstances.



Precinct, Temple and Altar in Roman Spain Studies on the Imperial Monuments at Mérida and TarragonaDuncan Fishwick, University of Alberta, Canada

The studies included in this volume focus on the monuments of two cities in Roman Spain, Emerita (now Mérida) and Tarraco (now Tarragona). Duncan Fishwick provides historiographic surveys of the monuments before discussing the architectonic significance of the provincial forum at Emerita, the influence of the provincial governor in its construction, and the evidence for an Ara Providentiae and a templum minus. He investigates the discovery of the ‘Temple of Augustus’ in Tarragona and turns his attention to present opinion on the successive stages of construction and design.



Prester John: The Legend and its Sources Translated by Keagan Brewer, Sydney University, Australia

CRUSADE TEXTS IN TRANSLATION

The story of the mysterious oriental leader Prester John, who ruled a land teeming with marvels and might come to the aid of Christians in the Levant, held an intense grip on the medieval mind. It has received much scholarly attention, but never before have the sources been collected and coherently presented to readers. This book now brings together a fully-representative set of sources from which we get our knowledge of the legend. These texts, spanning from the Crusades to the Enlightenment, are presented in their original languages and in English translation.

July 2015 320 pagesHardback 978-1-4094-3807-6 £70.00 $119.95ebook PDF 978-1-4094-3808-3


Religion and Society in the Diocese of St Davids 1485–2011 Edited by William Gibson, Oxford Brookes University, UK and John Morgan-Guy, University of Wales Trinity St David, UK

During the medieval and early modern periods the Welsh diocese of St Davids was one of the largest in the country and the most remote. As this collection makes clear, this combination of factors resulted in a religious life which was less regulated by the institutional forces of Church and State. Addressing key ideas in the development of popular religious culture and the stubborn continuity of long-lasting religious practices into the modern era, the volume shows how the diocese was also a locus for continuing major religious controversies, especially in the nineteenth century.



Retailing and the Language of Goods, 1550–1820 Nancy Cox, University of Wolverhampton, UK

THE HISTORY OF RETAILING AND CONSUMPTION

This book explores the meanings assigned to goods sold retail from 1550 to 1820 and how their labels were understood. The first half of the book focuses on mercantile language more broadly; how it was used in trade and how lexicographers approached new vocabularies. In the second half, the author turns to the goods themselves, and their relationships with such terms as ‘luxury’, ‘choice’ and ‘love’. The study of consumables opens up new ways of looking at the everyday language of the early modern period as well as the experiences of trade and consumption for merchant and consumer.



Police Courts in Nineteenth-Century Scotland, Volume 1 Magistrates, Media and the MassesDavid G. Barrie and Susan Broomhall, both at the University of Western Australia

Taking the form of two companion volumes, Police Courts in Nineteenth-Century Scotland represents the first major investigation into summary justice in Scottish towns, c.1800 to 1892. Volume 1, with the subtitle Magistrates, Media and the Masses, provides an institutional, social and cultural history of the establishment, development and practice of police courts. It explores their rise, purpose and internal workings, and how justice was administered and experienced by those who attended them in a variety of roles.



Police Courts in Nineteenth-Century Scotland, Volume 2 Boundaries, Behaviours and BodiesDavid G. Barrie, The University of Western Australia, and Susan Broomhall, The University of Western Australia

Taking the form of two companion volumes, Police Courts in Nineteenth-Century Scotland represents the first major investigation into summary justice in Scottish towns, c.1800 to 1892. Whereas Volume 1, subtitled Magistrates, Media and the Masses, analysed the establishment, development and practice of police courts, Volume 2 explores, through themed case studies, the role of police courts in moulding cultural ideas, social behaviours and urban environments in the nineteenth century.



Police Courts in Nineteenth-Century Scotland, 2-volume set David G. Barrie and Susan Broomhall, both at the University of Western Australia

January 2015 820 pagesHardback Set 978-1-4724-4968-9 £155.00 $300.00



History

Rulership and Rebellion in the Anglo-Norman World, c.1066–c.1216 Essays in Honour of Professor Edmund KingEdited by Paul Dalton, Canterbury Christ Church University, UK and David Luscombe, University of Sheffield, UK

The importance of rulership and rebellion in the history of the Anglo-Norman world between 1066 and the early thirteenth century is incontrovertible. The power, government, and influence of kings, queens and lords dominated society and was frequently challenged and resisted. But while biographies of rulers, studies of central, local and seigniorial government, and works on political struggles abound, many aspects of rulership and rebellion remain to be explored. This volume, dedicated to the pioneering work of Edmund King, will make an original and timely contribution to our knowledge of Anglo-Norman history.



Sanitation, Latrines and Intestinal Parasites in Past Populations Edited by Piers D. Mitchell, University of Cambridge, UK

This book brings together experts from around the world to explore how sanitation affected our ancestors. By its end, readers will realise that toilets were in use in ancient Mesopotamia even before the invention of writing, and that flushing toilets with anatomic seats were a technology of ancient Greece at the time of the minotaur myth. While past views on sanitation were different to those of today, it is clear than many societies took sanitation far more seriously than previously thought.



Science, Utility and Maritime Power Samuel Bentham in Russia, 1779–91Roger Morriss, University of Exeter, UK

CORBETT CENTRE FOR MARITIME POLICY STUDIES SERIES

During the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, Samuel Bentham influenced the technology and administrative ideas employed in the management of the British navy. His influence stemmed from his passion for science, his desire to achieve improvements based on a belief in the principle of Utility, and his experience gained over eleven years in Russia. Regarded then by the Navy Board as a dangerous maverick, this book reveals the experiences, creativity and thinking that made him a major figure in British naval development.



Shifting Genres in Late Antiquity Edited by Geoffrey Greatrex, University of Ottawa, Canada and Hugh Elton, Trent University, Canada, with the assistance of Lucas McMahon

This volume examines the transformation that took place in a wide range of genres in Late Antiquity. Aspects of sacred and secular literature are discussed, alongside chapters on technical writing, monody, epigraphy, epistolography and visual representation. What emerges is the flexibility of genres in the period: late antique authors were not slavish followers of their classical predecessors, but were capable of engaging with existing models and adapting them to their own purposes.



The Singing of the Strasbourg Protestants, 1523–1541 Daniel Trocmé-Latter, University of Cambridge, UK


Drawing upon a range of sources, this book explores the part played by music, especially group-singing, in the unfolding of the Protestant Reformation in Strasbourg. It considers both ecclesiastical and ‘popular’ songs in the city, examining how both genres fitted into people’s lives during this time of strife, and how the provision and dissemination of music as a whole affected, and in turn was affected by, the new ecclesiastical arrangement.



‘And so began the Irish Nation’ Nationality, National Consciousness and Nationalism in Pre-modern IrelandBrendan Bradshaw S.M., University of Cambridge, UK

In this collection, the result of a lifetime’s study, Brendan Bradshaw provides an insight into how concepts of ‘nationalism’ and ‘national identity’ can be understood and applied to pre-modern Ireland. Drawing upon a selection of his most provocative and pioneering essays, together with three new pieces, the limits and contexts of Irish nationalism are explored and its impact on both early modern society and later generations, examined. The volume illuminates political and religious developments within Ireland, and how these affected events across the British Isles and beyond.



The Social War, 91 to 88 BCE A History of the Italian Insurgency against the Roman RepublicChristopher J. Dart, University of Melbourne, Australia

Ancient sources preserve scant information about the conflict, but the Social War is widely recognised as having been immensely important in the unification of Roman Italy. In response to the conflicting accounts and contradictory interpretations of modern scholarship, this book provides a new, comprehensive reassessment of the events surrounding the Social War, analysing the immediate context of the conflict as well as its causes, legacy, and role in reshaping Roman and Italian identity.



Supernatural and Secular Power in Early Modern England Edited by Marcus Harmes, University of Southern Queensland, Australia and Victoria Bladen, University of Queensland, Australia

Without a precise separation between ‘science’ and ‘magic’, the line between the natural and supernatural worlds in early modern England was negotiable and porous, and could be used both to bolster and challenge authority. This collection reveals intersecting early modern anxieties in relation to the supernatural, and investigates issues of control and the exercise of power at different levels of society and in various publication contexts – manuscript sources, printed prose texts and the early modern stage.



The Sacralization of Space and Behavior in the Early Modern World Studies and SourcesEdited by Jennifer Mara DeSilva, Ball State University, USA


This book explores individual and community involvement in the approbation, reconfiguration and regulation of early modern sacred spaces and the behavior (both animal and human) within them. Based on new archival research, chapters examine diverse aspects of the campaigns to transform Christian behavior within a variety of types of sacred space and through a spectrum of media. Essays give voice to the arguments and accusations that surrounded the activities taking place in sacred space and reveal much about how people made sense of these transformations.




History

The Tory World Deep History and the Tory Theme in British Foreign Policy, 1679–2014Edited by Jeremy Black, University of Exeter, UK

Working forward from the later seventeenth century, Jeremy Black explores the ‘deep history’ of the changing and competing understandings within the Tory party of the role Britain has aspired to play on a world stage. With a supporting cast from Pitt to Disraeli, Churchill to Thatcher, the book provides a fascinating insight into the influence of history over politics, and seeks to understand how the Tory party has sought to navigate its way through the difficult pathways of foreign and imperial politics.



Understanding Medieval Liturgy Essays in InterpretationEdited by Helen Gittos, University of Kent, UK and Sarah Hamilton, University of Exeter, UK

Focusing on so-called occasional rituals such as burial, church consecration, exorcism and excommunication rather than on the Mass and Office, this book provides an introduction to current work and new directions in the study of medieval liturgy. Recent research on such rites challenges many established ideas, especially about the extent to which they differed from place to place and over time, and how the surviving evidence should be interpreted. Bringing together scholars working in different disciplines, periods and intellectual traditions, the collection demonstrates the potential that liturgical evidence offers for understanding the Middle Ages.



The Use of Hereford The Sources of a Medieval English Diocesan RiteWilliam Smith

The Use of Hereford, a local variation of the Roman rite, was one of the diocesan liturgies of medieval England before their abolition and replacement by the Book of Common Prayer in 1549. Unlike the widespread Use of Sarum, the Use of Hereford was confined principally to its diocese, which helped to maintain its individuality until the Reformation. This study seeks to catalogue and evaluate all the known surviving sources of the Use of Hereford, with particular reference to the missals and gradual, which so far have received little attention. In addition to these a variety of other material has been examined, including a number of little-known or unknown important fragments of early Hereford service-books dismembered at the Reformation and now hidden away as binding or other scrap in libraries and record offices.

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The Wilson-Johnson Correspondence, 1964–69 Edited by Simon C. Smith, University of Hull, UK

To provide a better understanding of Anglo-American relations at a pivotal moment, this volume provides all the correspondence between Harold Wilson and Lyndon B. Johnson from the time Wilson became Prime Minister (October 1964) until Johnson stepped down as President (January 1969). Whilst the United States was a superpower on the rise and Britain a declining influence on the world stage, the letters reveal that Johnson was eager for international allies and that Wilson possessed an independence which belies his image as a puppet of the President.



Women and Pilgrimage in Medieval Galicia Edited by Carlos Andrés González-Paz, Instituto de Estudios Gallegos ‘Padre Sarmiento’, CSIC, Spain

COMPOSTELA INTERNATIONAL STUDIES IN PILGRIMAGE HISTORY AND CULTURE

For many in the Middle Ages, pilgrimages were seen to represent a risk of moral and religious perdition for women, who were generally discouraged from making them. Women and Pilgrimage in Medieval Galicia represents an analysis of the social history of women based on documentary sources and physical evidence, breaking away from literary and historiographical stereotypes, while at the same time contributing to a critical assessment of the myth that medieval women were kept hidden away from the world.



Women, Crime, and Forgiveness in Early Modern Portugal Darlene Abreu-Ferreira, University of Winnipeg, Canada

Looking at the experiences of women in early modern Portugal in the context of crime and forgiveness, this study uses judicial and quasi-judicial records to examine the implications of crime in women’s lives, whether as victims or culprits. Abreu-Ferreira unearths material from archival records which are not available in English, to offer a unique contribution to the history of crime and the history of women.



Women’s Voices in Tudor Wills, 1485–1603 Authority, Influence and Material CultureSusan E. James

Contributing an original dimension to the study of women in 16th-century England, this pioneering work examines the largest corpus of women’s private writings available: their wills. Through an intensive analysis of more than 1200 wills, women from all parts of the country and all strata of society are revealed as articulate, opportunistic, and capable individuals who, despite legal and cultural limitations, exercised authority over their own lives and influenced the lives of their heirs after their death.



30 Years After Issues and Representations of the Falklands WarEdited by Carine Berbéri and Monia O’Brien Castro, both at the University of Tours, France

Thirty years after the Argentinian invasion of the Falkland Islands, the war remains a source of continued debate and analysis for politicians, historians and military strategists. Not only did the conflict provide a fascinating example of modern expeditionary warfare, but it also brought to the fore numerous questions regarding international law, sovereignty, the inheritance of colonialism, the influence of history on national policy and the use of military force for domestic political uses. As the essays in this collection show, the numerous facets of the Falklands War remain current today and have ramifications far beyond the South Atlantic.



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History

Communal Identity and Self-Portrayal in the Worlds of Eastern Christianity, 300–1500 Edited by Barbara Roggema, King’s College London, UK

THE WORLDS OF EASTERN CHRISTIANITY, 300–1500: CS14

The Christian communities of the Middle East distinguish themselves through their unique languages, their ethnic identities and their doctrinal stances. Whereas the history of doctrinal disputes has been a topic of old in Western scholarship, it is only in more recent times that scholars have begun to investigate how the Christian communities of the Nile-to-Oxus region perceived themselves and how they asserted their distinct identities vis-à-vis their neighbours and maintained a sense of communal integrity in response to cultural change and foreign domination. This volume brings together a number of key studies, many specially translated into English for this volume, which deal with this question of Eastern Christian self-definition. Included in the volume is an extensive bibliography on the topic of Eastern Christian self-understanding.



John of Damascus New Studies on his Life and WorksVassa Kontouma, Ecole pratique des hautes études, France

VARIORUM COLLECTED STUDIES SERIES: CS1053

For more than five hundred years John of Damascus (c. 655–c.745) has been the subject of an extensive literature, both scholarly and popular. Through the studies included here (of which 6 have been translated into English for this volume), Vassa Kontouma provides a critical review of this literature and opens new vistas for research along four main lines: the life of John of Damascus and its sources, Neochalcedonian philosophy, systematic theology in Byzantium, and Christian practices under the Umayyads.



Languages and Cultures of Eastern Christianity: Greek Edited by Scott Fitzgerald Johnson, Georgetown University, USA

THE WORLDS OF EASTERN CHRISTIANITY, 300–1500: CS6

This volume brings together a set of fundamental contributions, many translated into English for this publication, along with an important introduction. Together these explore the role of Greek among Christian communities in the late antique and Byzantine East (late Roman Oriens), specifically in the areas outside of the immediate sway of Constantinople and imperial Asia Minor.



Law and History in the Latin East Peter W. Edbury, Cardiff University, UK


This second collection of papers by Peter Edbury focuses primarily on literature composed in the Latin East. The legal treatises from Jerusalem, Cyprus and Antioch have long been recognized as providing insights into the juridical and social history of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. The studies on historical literature are chiefly concerned with vernacular texts, most notably the Old French translation of William of Tyre and its Continuations. Other papers are concerned with the narrative traditions that furnish a significant part of our knowledge of Lusignan Cyprus.



Mutations of Hellenism in Late Antiquity Polymnia Athanassiadi, University of Athens, Greece


The studies in this volume, which deal with social and intellectual history, religion and historical methodology, explore the mutation of an anthropocentric culture into a theocentric one between the second and the fifth centuries A.D. Athanassiadi focuses on the processes of osmosis, interaction and acculturation, which shaped the change in priorities among the newly created textual communities that were spreading across the entire breadth of the late antique oecumene.



Orientations of Avicenna’s Philosophy Essays on his Life, Method, HeritageDimitri Gutas, Yale University, USA


This volume, a major new research tool, brings together seventeen studies on Avicenna by Dimitri Gutas, written over the past twenty-five years. They aim to establish Avicenna’s historical and philosophical context as a means to determining his philosophical project and the orientations of his thought. They deal with his life and works, his method, his epistemology, and his later reception in the Islamic world, ending with an essay on the state of the field of Avicennan studies and future agenda.



Studies on Plotinus and al-Kindi Peter Adamson, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Germany


This book collects papers on the greatest philosopher of late antiquity and founder of Neoplatonism, Plotinus (d.270), and the founding figure of philosophy in the Islamic world: al-Kindi (d. ca. 873). A number of the contributions focus on the text that joins the two: the Theology of Aristotle, in fact an Arabic version of Plotinus’ Enneads produced in al- Kindi’s translation circle. Adamson argues that this translation is best understood as a reinterpretation of Plotinus designed to appeal to contemporary readers in the culture of the ‘Abbasid era. Other papers look at al-Kindi’s thought, exploring his ideas concerning metaphysics, free will, astrology, and optics. The traditions of Plotinus and al-Kindi are also treated, with papers on Plotinus’ student Porphyry and his Arabic reception, and on followers of al-Kindi. Adamson argues that we can identify a ‘Kindian tradition’ in the 9th-10th centuries. He discusses the philosophical presuppositions of this movement, and the use of al-Kindi’s ideas made by one representative of the Kindian tradition, the Persian thinker Miskawayh.



Warfare, Crusade and Conquest in the Middle Ages John France, Swansea University, UK


This volume brings together articles by John France covering aspects of the military and crusading history of the Middle Ages, both in Europe and the Near East. An interest in understanding how war worked and why informs a first group of articles, ranging from Carolingian armies to the organisation of war in the 13th century. The focus then turns to the Crusades, the most ambitious conquests of the era. The volume also includes a major unpublished analysis, co-authored with Nicholas Morton, of the problems faced by the local Islamic powers in the early Crusading period.




Human Factors, Aviation and Ergonomics

The Dragon in the Cockpit How Western Aviation Concepts Conflict with Chinese Value SystemsHung-Sying Jing, National Cheng Kung University, Republic of China and Allen Batteau, Wayne State University, USA

ASHGATE STUDIES IN HUMAN FACTORS FOR FLIGHT OPERATIONS

The Dragon in the Cockpit enhances the mutual understanding between Western aviation human-factors practitioners and the Chinese aviation community by describing some of the fundamental Chinese cultural characteristics pertinent to the field of flight safety. This book provides crucial insights into Chinese culture and how it manifests itself during flight operations, as well as highlighting ways in which Western technology and Chinese culture clash within the cockpit.



Driving With Music: Cognitive-Behavioural Implications Warren Brodsky, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel

HUMAN FACTORS IN ROAD AND RAIL TRANSPORT

Does listening to music while driving a car enhance driver safety or place the driver at increased risk of accidents? This is the first full-length text to explore the subject. A great deal of work has been done to investigate and reduce driver distraction and inattention, but this book is the first to focus on in-cabin aural backgrounds of music as a contributing factor to human error and traffic violations.



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The Field Guide to Understanding ‘Human Error’ THird ediTioN

Sidney Dekker, Griffith University, Australia

This latest edition of The Field Guide to Understanding ‘Human Error’ will help you understand how to move beyond ‘human error’; how to understand accidents; how to do better investigations; how to understand and improve your safety work. You will be invited to think creatively and differently about the safety issues you and your organization face. In each, you will find possibilities for a new language, for different concepts, and for new leverage points to influence your own thinking and practice, as well as that of your colleagues and organization.

December 2014 248 pagesPaperback 978-1-4724-3905-5 £20.00 $39.95Hardback 978-1-4724-3904-8 £70.00 $124.95ebook PDF 978-1-4724-3906-2ebook ePUB 978-1-4724-3907-9


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Foundations of Aviation Law Michael W. Pearson, Arizona State University, USA and Daniel S. Riley

Foundations of Aviation Law is an easy-reading general primer into the often complex world of aviation law, written for aviation students as well as legal professionals who are looking for broad-based, introductory coverage of the subject. The book is divided into six general categories, with fifteen relevant sub-chapters, allowing focused learning into particular areas of law. Throughout it features chapter summaries, key word indices and review questions. The design easily allows instructors to develop syllabi that spotlight the specific area of law that they are interested in exploring, providing comprehensive coverage of both traditional introductory legal concepts and topical aviation subject matter.

February 2015 320 pagesPaperback 978-1-4724-4563-6 £35.00 $59.95Hardback 978-1-4724-4560-5 £70.00 $119.95ebook PDF 978-1-4724-4561-2ebook ePUB 978-1-4724-4562-9


Healthcare Reform, Quality and Safety Perspectives, Participants, Partnerships and Prospects in 30 CountriesEdited by Jeffrey Braithwaite, Macquarie University, Australia, Yukihiro Matsuyama, Canon Institute for Global Studies, Japan, Russell Mannion, University of Birmingham, UK and Julie Johnson, Northwestern University, USA

The first of its kind, here is a compendium of the current ‘state of the art’ in global healthcare reform. It looks at the ways reforms have developed in 30 countries, and specifically the impact national reform initiatives have had on the quality and safety of care. It explores how reforms drive quality and safety improvement, and equally how they act to negate such goals. This is a unique opportunity for the cross-fertilization of ideas on an international scale.



High G Flight Physiological Effects and CountermeasuresDavid G. Newman, Monash University, Australia

During the launch and re-entry phases of spaceflight pilots of military fast jets, civilian aerobatic pilots and astronauts are frequently and repetitively exposed to high G forces, for which the human body is not fundamentally designed. This unique book examines the nature of the high G environment and its physiological effects on the various systems of the human body. It draws together the accumulated knowledge of human exposure to high G, resulting in a definitive volume on its physiological effects and countermeasures.



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Air Transportation A Management PerspectiveeigHTH ediTioN

John G. Wensveen, Head of Aviation Technology, Purdue University USA and President and CEO of Airline Visions, USA

Now in its Eighth Edition, Air Transportation: A Management Perspective by John Wensveen is a proven textbook that offers a comprehensive introduction to the theory and practice of air transportation management.

May 2015 669 pagesPaperback 978-1-4724-3681-8 £45.00 $79.95Hardback 978-1-4724-3678-8 £90.00 $154.95ebook PDF 978-1-4724-3679-5ebook ePUB 978-1-4724-3680-1


Decision Making in Aviation Edited by Don Harris, Coventry University, UK and Wen-Chin Li, Cranfield University, UK

CRITICAL ESSAYS ON HUMAN FACTORS IN AVIATION

Decision making pervades every aspect of life: every person makes hundreds of decisions every day. The vast majority of these are quite trivial – choosing tea or coffee for breakfast or deciding which colour tie to wear. In many cases there is no right or wrong answer, only a preference. There is a perspective suggesting that you can make ‘poor’ or even ‘wrong’ decisions but this judgement is only possible when they are defined by the context of the activity and the required outcome. As a result there is an intimate link between the scientific study of decision making and that of human error.



Diagnostic Expertise in Organizational Environments Edited by Mark W. Wiggins and Thomas Loveday, Macquarie University, Australia

Diagnostic Expertise in Organizational Environments is designed to provide a state-of-the art foundation for a new paradigm in expertise research. The focus on diagnostic expertise highlights its important role in precipitating effective and efficient performance in the context of a range of operational contexts, including aviation, rail, forensic investigation, firefighting and medicine. The book is deliberately oriented towards the application of the principles within professions, and it reflects the combination of underlying theory and practice on which the manuscript is founded.




Human Factors, Aviation and Ergonomics

Hostile Intent and Counter-Terrorism Human Factors Theory and ApplicationEdited by Alex Stedmon, Coventry University, UK and Glyn Lawson, The University of Nottingham, UK

HUMAN FACTORS IN DEFENCE

This volume brings together research from around the world to explore a range of topics within the project of detecting terrorist activities. It is divided into six key themes: conceptualising terrorism, deception and decision making, social and cultural factors in terrorism, modelling hostile intent, strategies for counter-terrorism, and future directions. Twenty four chapters explore the spectrum of detecting terrorist activities, hostile intent, crowded public spaces and suspicious behavior. A variety of disciplines are represented, including ergonomics/human factors, psychology, criminology, cognitive science, sociology, political theory, engineering and computer science.



Human Factors in Automotive Engineering and Technology Guy Walker, Heriot-Watt University, UK, Neville A. Stanton, University of Southampton, UK and Paul Salmon, University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia

HUMAN FACTORS IN ROAD AND RAIL TRANSPORT

Offering a unique perspective on vehicle design and on new developments in vehicle technology, this book bridges the gap between engineers, who design and build cars, and human factors, as a body of knowledge with considerable value in this domain. The work that forms the basis of the book represents more than 40 years of experience by the authors. It offers actionable design guidance, combined with a set of case studies highly relevant to current technological challenges in vehicle design.



Human Factors Models for Aviation Accident Analysis and Prevention Thomas G.C. Griffin, DHL Aviation Ltd, Kingdom of Bahrain, Mark S. Young, Rail Accident Investigation Branch, UK and Neville A. Stanton, University of Southampton, UK

Aviation is a complex system, and the investigation and modelling of aviation accident causation can suffer from being artificially manipulated into non-complex models and methods. This book addresses this issue by developing a new approach to investigating aviation accident causation through information networks, which centralise communication and the flow of information as key indicators of a system’s health and risk. The book’s new model offers many potential developments and some key areas are studied in this research, maintaining firm focus on the overall health of a system.



Increasing Motorcycle Conspicuity Design and Assessment of Interventions to Enhance Rider SafetyEdited by Lars Rößger, University of Technology, Dresden, Germany, Michael G. Lenné, Monash University Accident Research Centre, Australia and Geoff Underwood, University of Nottingham, UK

HUMAN FACTORS OF SIMULATION AND ASSESSMENT

Increasing Motorcycle Conspicuity aims to illustrate how driving simulation, field studies and laboratory experiments can be used to improve rider safety through the design and evaluation of a range of safety measures. The book outlines the factors that contribute to PTW visibility and detection by car drivers, and presents case studies to illustrate how the various methods can be used to explore the contribution of these factors. The final chapter of the book highlights the utility of a simulation-based approach to improving PTW safety and discusses this method’s future applications.



Resilient Health Care, Volume 2 The Resilience of Everyday Clinical WorkSecoNd ediTioN

Edited by Robert L. Wears, University of Florida Health Science Center, USA, Erik Hollnagel, University of Southern Denmark, and Jeffrey Braithwaite, Macquarie University, Australia

ASHGATE STUDIES IN RESILIENCE ENGINEERING

Despite the common focus on deviations and failures in health systems, it is an undeniable fact that clinical work goes right far more often than it goes wrong, and that we only can make it better if we understand how this happens. This second volume of Resilient Health Care continues the line of thinking of the first book. It breaks new ground by analyzing everyday work situations in primary, secondary, and tertiary care to identify and describe the fundamental strategies that clinicians everywhere have developed and use with a fluency that belies the demands to be resolved and the dilemmas to be balanced.



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Risky Rewards How Company Bonuses Affect SafetyAndrew Hopkins and Sarah Maslen, both at The Australian National University, Australia

Financial incentives have long been used to try to influence professional values and practices. Recent events including the global financial crisis and the BP Texas City refinery disaster have been linked to such incentives, with commentators calling for a critical look at these systems given the catastrophic outcomes. Risky Rewards engages with this debate, particularly in the context of the present and potential role of incentives to manage major accident risk in hazardous industries.



Safe Design and Construction of Machinery Regulation, Practice and PerformanceElizabeth Bluff, The Australian National University, Canberra

The origin of this book is the compelling evidence that a high proportion of machinery-related deaths and injuries are attributable to genuine and serious risks originating within machine design and construction. Through a unique blending of rich empirical data coupled with safety, human factors, socio-legal and learning scholarship, Elizabeth Bluff provides both a nuanced account of firms’ performance for machinery safety, and makes conceptual and theoretical contributions to understanding and explaining their performance. These insights provide the foundations to enhance regulatory design, and the book’s conclusion recommends some innovative directions for regulatory interventions to sustain the safe design and construction of machinery.



Systems Engineering for Commercial Aircraft A Domain-Specific AdaptationSecoNd ediTioN

Scott Jackson, University of Southern California and Burnham Systems Consulting, USA

Explains the principles of systems engineering in simple, understandable terms and describes to engineers and managers how these principles would be applied to the development of commercial aircraft.



Will Sustainability Fly? Aviation Fuel Options in a Low-Carbon WorldWalter J. Palmer

International air and marine travel have been left to one side in past negotiations to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, but unless something is done, emissions from this segment of the world economy will form a progressively larger percentage of the total, especially as emissions fall in other activities. Will Sustainability Fly? broadens and contextualizes the knowledge resource available to academics, policy makers, air industry leaders and stakeholders, and interested members of the public. The book focuses on fuel, providing background in technical and policy terms, from the broadest reliable sources of information available, for the necessary discourse on society’s reaction to the evolving aviation emissions profile.




Human Geography

Carceral Geography Spaces and Practices of IncarcerationDominique Moran, University of Birmingham, UK

Carceral geography offers a geographical perspective on incarceration, and this volume accordingly tracks the ideas, practices and engagements that have shaped the development of this new and vibrant subdiscipline, and scopes out future research directions. By conveying a sense of the debates, directions, and threads within the field of carceral geography, it traces the inner workings of this dynamic field, its synergies with criminology and prison sociology, and its likely future trajectories. Synthesizing existing work in carceral geography, and exploring the future directions it might take, the book develops a notion of the ‘carceral’ as spatial, emplaced, mobile, embodied and affective.



Connections Exploring Contemporary Planning Theory and Practice with Patsy HealeyEdited by Professor Jean Hillier, RMIT University, Australia, and Jonathan Metzger, KTH, Stockholm, Sweden

The title – Connections – symbolises relationality, possibly the most outstanding element linking Patsy’s ideas. The book showcases the wide international influence of Patsy’s work and celebrates the whole trajectory of work to show how many of her ideas on for instance the role of theory in planning, processes of change, networking as a mode of governance, how ideas spread, and ways of thinking planning democratically were ahead of their time and are still of importance.



The Design of Frontier Spaces Control and AmbiguityEdited by Carolyn Loeb, Michigan State University, USA and Andreas Luescher, Bowling Green State University, USA

DESIGN AND THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT

This text is unique in bringing together a number of scholarly perspectives in the arts and humanities to examine how spatial and architectural design decisions convey meaning, shape or abet specific social practices, and stage memories of frontier zones that no longer function as such. With studies from Asia, Africa, the Middle East, Europe and North America, this collection of essays casts a wide net to consider borders of diverse sorts. This range allows for reflection on shifts in how frontier zones are articulated and the impermanence of border emplacements, as well as on likely scenarios for future frontiers.



Dismantling Diasporas Rethinking the Geographies of Diasporic Identity, Connection and DevelopmentEdited by Anastasia Christou, Middlesex University, UK and Elizabeth Mavroudi, Loughborough University, UK

Re-energising debates on the conceptualisation of diasporas in migration scholarship and in geography, this work stresses the important role that geographers can play in interrupting assumptions about the spaces and processes of diaspora. The intricate, material and complex ways in which those in diaspora contest, construct and perform identity, politics, development and place is explored throughout this book. This innovative volume tackles comparative, multi-sited and multi-method research through compelling case studies in a variety of contexts spanning the Global North and South.



Economic Development in Rural Areas Functional and Multifunctional ApproachesEdited by Peter Dannenberg, University of Cologne, Germany and Elmar Kulke, Humboldt-Universität of Berlin, Germany

THE DYNAMICS OF ECONOMIC SPACE

Analysing the ongoing changes and dynamics in rural development from a functional perspective through a series of case studies from the global north and south, this volume deepens our understanding of the importance of new functional and multifunctional approaches in policy, practice and theory.



Evaluating the European Approach to Rural Development Grass-roots Experiences of the LEADER ProgrammeEdited by Leo Granberg, University of Helsinki, Finland, Kjell Andersson, Åbo Akademi University, Finland and Imre Kovách, Hungarian Academy of Sciences and Debrecen University, Hungary.

PERSPECTIVES ON RURAL POLICY AND PLANNING

This book presents up-to-date research results on LEADER’s achievements and restrictions at the local level in a comparative way in order to discuss its merits and problems. What makes LEADER important is not only that it has a major role in rural development efforts, but also that it has a pioneering role in the new type of governance, participatory democracy. Asking whether LEADER strengthens local democracy or not, this book also looks at how it affects the power balance among stakeholders, between national and local actors and between genders.



Archipelago Tourism Policies and PracticesEdited by Godfrey Baldacchino, University of Malta, Malta, University of Prince Edward Island, Canada and Università di Corsica Pasquale Paoli, France

NEW DIRECTIONS IN TOURISM ANALYSIS

Exploring the conceptual insights provided by the archipelagic ‘twist’ in the context of tourism principles, policies and practices, this volume draws on an international series of case studies to analyse best practice in branding, marketing and logistics in archipelago tourist destinations. The book asks and seeks to answer a wide range of pertinent questions and pioneers the exploration of the archipelago as tourism study focus (and not just locus); a heuristic device for rendering islands as sites of different tourism practices, industries and policies, but also of challenges and possibilities.



Bosnia and the Destruction of Cultural Heritage Helen Walasek with contributions by Richard Carlton, Amra Hadžimuhamedovic, Valery Perry and Tina Wik

HERITAGE, CULTURE AND IDENTITY

This wide-ranging book provides the first comprehensive overview and critical analysis of the destruction of Bosnia-Herzegovina’s cultural heritage and its far-reaching impact. Scrutinizing the responses of the international community during the war (including bodies like UNESCO and the Council of Europe). With numerous case studies and plentiful illustrations, this important volume considers questions which have moved to the foreground with the inclusion of cultural heritage preservation in discussions of the right to culture in human rights discourse and as a vital element of post-conflict and development aid.



Building a World Heritage City Sana’a, YemenMichele Lamprakos, University of Maryland, USA


Conservation in Sana’a raises a fundamental question: what does it mean to conserve in a place where the ‘historic past’ is still alive? How must international agencies and consultants readjust theory and practice as they interact with the living representatives of this historic past? And what are the implications of the case of Sana’a for conservation in general? Building a World Heritage City addresses these questions, drawing on the methodologies of history, architecture, and ethnography. Based on extensive fieldwork, this book looks at conservation from the ground up – through the eyes of architects, builders, residents, and officials.



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Human Geography

Geographical Aesthetics Imagining Space, Staging Encounters Edited by Harriet Hawkins, University of London, UK and Elizabeth Straughan, University of Glasgow, UK

Bringing together timely commentaries by international, interdisciplinary scholars, Geographical Aesthetics is the first volume to make questions of geographical aesthetics a substantive concern. It reworks the historical relations between geography and aesthetics, and reconsiders how it is we might understand aesthetics. It then reaffirms the value of aesthetics in relation to key intellectual concerns within Geography and explores the geographies of the aesthetic, in particular the spatialities and imaginaries that mark its theorisations. In renewing aesthetics as a site of investigation, but also an analytic object through which we can think about the encounters, the meetings and minglings of the world, what also emerges is powerful reworking of our geographical imaginary of the aesthetic.



Geographies of Health and Development Edited by Isaac Luginaah, The University of Western Ontario, Canada and Rachel Bezner Kerr, Cornell University, USA

ASHGATE’S GEOGRAPHIES OF HEALTH SERIES

This book begins by exploring some of the circumstances surrounding the distinctive health inequities currently facing many developing countries, including malaria, maternal mortality and HIV/AIDS. This is followed by a discussion of how matters of physical access and human resource issues and, perhaps most importantly, the challenges of financing, together shape the access and utilization of health care. Examining how the environment interacts to influence the health of the people that live there, the next section includes discussion around challenges of food (in)security, and the importance of clean and uncontaminated water for health. Finally, the book explores the influence of globalization on health, specifically within the urban environment, against the backdrop of global health policy.



Globalization and Europe’s Rural Regions Edited by John McDonagh, NUI Galway, Ireland, Birte Nienaber, University of Luxembourg, and Michael Woods, Aberystwyth University, Wales

PERSPECTIVES ON RURAL POLICY AND PLANNING

This book examines the multiple ways in which rural regions in Europe are being restructured through globalization and the regional development responses that they have adopted. Drawing on examples and findings from a major European research project, DERREG, the book presents detailed case studies of ten regions in different parts of Europe, exploring the factors that lead to different experiences of globalization in each of the regions, and highlighting examples of good practice in regional development responses. It is Important reading for geographers, sociologists, planners and economists interested in understanding the impact of globalization in rural regions, and for rural development professionals seeking to mobilize effective responses.



Governing Urban Regions Through Collaboration A View from North AmericaJoël Thibert

GLOBAL URBAN STUDIES

This book critically re-evaluates the fundamental premise of the New Regionalism, which is that regional problems can be solved without regional/higher government. More specifically, this research concentrates on the effect of bottom-up, state-mandated and functional collaboration, the moderating role of regional awareness, governmental initiative and civic capital on environmental preservation, socio-economic integration and economic competitiveness. In short, the book seeks to understand whether and how urban regional collaboration contributes to regional resilience.



Indigenous Studies and Engaged Anthropology The Collaborative MomentEdited by Paul Sillitoe, Durham University, UK

Advancing the rising field of engaged or participatory anthropology that is emerging at the same time as increased opposition from Indigenous peoples to research, this book offers critical reflections on research approaches to-date. The engaged approach seeks to change the researcher-researched relationship fundamentally, to make methods more appropriate and beneficial to communities by involving them as participants in the entire process from choice of research topic onwards. The aim is not only to change power relationships, but also engage with non-academic audiences.



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An Introduction to Landscape and Garden Design and Practice SecoNd ediTioN

James Blake

How do you design a landscape book suitable for its intended uses? How can the natural qualities of a landscape be enhanced with new features and focal points? How can you make pedestrians stay on the footpath? What kind of plant, path or wall should you put where, and what sort of contract should you choose for your client’s contractor? This refreshing, down-to-earth book answers these questions, guiding new students through the many facets of professional practice and welding together the artistic, legal, financial, environmental and management issues which can seem so dauntingly disconnected.

January 2015 350 pagesPaperback 978-0-7546-7486-3 £35.00 $69.95Hardback 978-0-7546-7485-6 £70.00 $119.95


Israelis and Palestinians in the Shadows of the Wall Spaces of Separation and OccupationEdited by Stéphanie Latte Abdallah, French Institute of the Near East, CNRS, Palestinian Territories and Cédric Parizot, IREMAM, CNRS, Aix Marseille Université, France

BORDER REGIONS SERIES

Shedding light on the recent mutations of the Israeli separation policy, whose institutional and spatial configurations are increasingly complex, this book argues that this policy has actually reinforced the interconnectedness of Israelis and Palestinian lives and their spaces. Instead of focusing on the over-mediatized separation wall, this book deals with what it hides: its shadows. Based on fieldwork studies carried out by French, Italians, Israelis, Palestinian and Swiss researchers on the many sides of the Israeli-Palestinian divide, it highlights a new geography of occupation, specific forms of interconnectedness and power relations between Israeli and Palestinian spaces.



Landscape and Sustainable Development The French PerspectiveEdited by Yves Luginbuhl, CNRS, Paris, France, Peter Howard, Bournemouth University, UK and Daniel Terrasson, CEMAGREF and IRSTEA, France

Previously published in French by Editions Quae, this volume presents findings of a major research programme into landscape and sustainable development. While led by French scholars, the research team and geographical scope of the project was international, collaborative and comparative. Using case studies from across Europe, the interdisciplinary team of contributors discuss the relationship between landscape as defined by the European Landscape Convention and the concept of sustainable development. This English edition has a new introduction written by Yves Luginbühl and Peter Howard. Some of the topics covered, such as wind-farm landscapes, will be familiar to English language readers, but others, are less so, such as footpath economics, non-woodland trees, inter-generational equity, and the insistence on the necessary developments in governance.



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Landscape Professional Practice Gordon Rowland Fraser

Guided by the Landscape Institute’s 2013 Pathway to Chartership syllabus, this structured, step-by-step, narrative guide sets out the documentation commonly used within the landscape profession. As an understanding of professional practice is intrinsic to all Landscape Institute accredited courses, this is an essential text for every landscape architecture student during their education and their subsequent journey into professional practice. Those undertaking Garden Design Diplomas will similarly find the book invaluable as they venture into the world of creativity and commerce, while the seasoned practitioner will find it a comprehensive point of reference to add to their bookshelf.




Human Geography

Masculinities and Place Edited by Andrew Gorman-Murray, University of Western Sydney, Australia and Peter Hopkins, Newcastle University, UK

GENDER, SPACE AND SOCIETY

Masculinities and Place brings together an impressive range of high-profile and emerging researchers to consolidate and expand new domains of interest in the geographies of men and masculinities. It is structured around key and emerging themes within recently completed and ongoing research about the intersections between men, masculinities and place. Building upon broader themes in social and cultural geographies, cultural economy and urban/rural studies, the collection is organised around the key themes of: theorising masculinities and place; intersectionality; home; family; domestic labour; work; and health and well-being.



Mobility Patterns and Urban Structure Paulo Pinho and Cecília Silva, Oporto University, Portugal

TRANSPORT AND MOBILITY

The research presented in this book highlights the relevance of centrality in travel behaviour and in more sustainable travel choices. Different operational forms of the centrality concept are revealed as important: it is shown that more sustainable travel can be influenced by several urban structure factors and that no particular combination is required as long as a certain level of centrality is provided. Finally, the book concludes that urban structure can, on one hand, constrain, and, on the other, influence travel choice.



Negotiating Water Governance Why the Politics of Scale MatterEdited by Emma S. Norman, Northwest Indian College and Michigan Technological University, USA, Christina Cook, University of Oxford, UK and Alice Cohen, Acadia University, Canada

ASHGATE STUDIES IN ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY AND PRACTICE

Recently, efforts to understand the relationship between water and political boundaries have come to the fore of water governance debates: how and why does water governance fragment across sectors and governmental departments? How can we govern shared waters more effectively? How do politics and power play out in water governance? This book brings together and connects the work of scholars to engage with such questions. Accessible, engaging, and informative, the volume offers an overview and advancement of both scalar and governance studies while examining practical solutions to the challenges of water governance.



The New American Suburb Poverty, Race and the Economic CrisisEdited by Katrin B. Anacker, George Mason University, USA

This book provides timely analyses of current suburban issues by utilizing recently published data from the 2010 Census and American Community Survey to address key themes including suburban poverty; racial and ethnic change and suburban decline; suburban foreclosures; and suburban policy.



Population Change in Europe, the Middle-East and North Africa Beyond the Demographic DivideEdited by Koenraad Matthijs, KU Leuven, Belgium, Karel Neels and Christiane Timmerman, both at the University of Antwerp, Belgium, Jacques Haers and Sara Mels, both at UCSIA, Belgium

INTERNATIONAL POPULATION STUDIES

Comparing demographic trends in Europe and the NAME-region (North Africa and the Middle East), this book demonstrates how population change interacts with changing economic landscapes, social distinctions and political realities. It also provides food for thought for those who are looking for a nuanced perspective on the background and future perspectives of demographic developments in Europe, for a discussion of recent demographic and political realities in the NAME countries, and for those who analyse the effects of contrasting demographic regimes on migration flows to and migration politics in Europe.



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Railway Management and Engineering FourTH ediTioN

V.A. Profillidis, Democritus Thrace University, Greece

This book aims to cover the need for a new scientific approach for railways and is useful for railway managers, economists and engineers, consulting economists and engineers, students of schools of engineering, transportation, economics, and management. The book is divided into three parts, which deal successively with management, track, rolling stock, and environment and safety. Each chapter contains the necessary theoretical analysis of the phenomena studied, the recommended solutions, applications, charts and design of the specific railway component. In this way, both the requirement for a theoretical analysis is met, and the need of the railway manager and engineer for tables, nomographs, regulations, etc. is satisfied.

November 2014 549 pagesHardback 978-1-4094-6463-1 £80.00 $139.95ebook ePUB 978-1-4724-0778-8


Rural Modernity, Everyday Life and Visual Culture Rosemary Shirley, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK

Through the lens of the everyday, this book explores ‘the countryside’ as an inhabited and practised realm with lived rhythms and routines. It relocates the topography of everyday life from its habitually urban focus, out into the English countryside. Combining everyday life, rural modernity and visual cultures, this book is able to uncover new and different stories about the English countryside and contribute significantly to current thinking on everyday life, rural geographies and visual cultures.



Sacred Mobilities Journeys of Belief and BelongingEdited by Avril Maddrell, Alan Terry and Tim Gale, all at the University of the West of England, UK

CURRENT DEVELOPMENTS IN THE GEOGRAPHIES OF LEISURE AND TOURISM

Drawing on rich, situated, case studies, this multi-disciplinary collection discusses what mobility in the social sciences, arts and humanities can tell us about movements and journeys prompted by religious, more broadly ‘spiritual’ and ‘secular-sacred’ practices and priorities. Problematizing the fixity of sacred places and times as territorially and temporally bounded entities that exist in opposition to ‘profane’ everyday life, this collection looks at the intersection between the embodied-emotional-spiritual experience of places, travel, belief-practices and communities. It is this geographically-informed perspective on the interleaving of religious/ spiritual/ secular notions of the sacred with the material and more-than-representational attributes of associated mobilities and related practices which constitutes this volume’s original contribution to the field.



Scientists, Experts, and Civic Engagement Walking a Fine LineEdited by Amy E. Lesen, Tulane University, USA

ASHGATE STUDIES IN ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY AND PRACTICE

How do scientists, scholars, and other experts engage with the general public and with the communities affected by their work or residing in their sites of study? Where are the fine lines between public scholarship, civic engagement, and activism? Must academics ‘give back’ once they collect data and publish results? In this volume, authors from a wide range of disciplines examine these relationships to assess how they can be fruitful or challenging. Describing the methodological and ethical issues that experts must consider when carrying out public scholarship, this book includes a checklist for critical factors of success in engagement and an examination of the role of digital social media in science communication.




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Seascapes: Shaped by the Sea Edited by Mike Brown, The University of Waikato, New Zealand and Barbara Humberstone, Buckinghamshire New University, UK

This edited collection disrupts notions of the sea as ‘other’, as foreign and featureless, through specific, situated accounts which highlight the centrality of the sea for the individuals concerned. Bringing together academics who combine scholarly expertise with lived experiences on, in and with the sea, it examines humans’ relationships with the sea. Through the use of auto-ethnographic accounting, the contributors reflect on how the sea has shaped their sense of identity, belonging and connection. They examine what it is to be engaged with the sea, and narrate their lived, sentient, corporeal experiences.



Social Networks and Travel Behaviour Edited by Matthias Kowald, Swiss Federal Office for Spatial Development and Kay W. Axhausen, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich

TRANSPORT AND SOCIETY

In aiming to understand and model peoples’ out-of-home movements, the academic field of transport planning is confronted with two major challenges; firstly, leisure travel is increasing in importance and is more complex and variable than work-related travel; and secondly, traditional aggregated transport models do not include any information on peoples’ social interactions or their personal social networks. These two main factors have driven transport planners to focus on peoples’ interaction and their social network. Providing an overview of selected exemplary studies, this volume addresses the overlap between transport planning and methods of social network analysis; applied methods of social network analysis and related empirical results; and current challenges and new research questions in this field.



Spatial Analysis in Health Geography Edited by Pavlos Kanaroglou, McMaster University, Canada, Eric Delmelle, University of North Carolina, USA and Antonio Páez, McMaster University, Canada

ASHGATE’S GEOGRAPHIES OF HEALTH SERIES

Presenting current research on spatial epidemiology, this book covers topics such as exposure, chronic disease, infectious disease, accessibility to health care settings and new methods in Geographical Information Science and Systems. For epidemiologists, and for the management and administration of health care settings, it is critical to understand the spatial dynamics of disease. Spatial epidemiology relies increasingly on new methodologies, such as clustering algorithms, visualization and space-time modelling, the domain of Geographic Information Science. Implementation of those techniques appears at an increasing pace in commercial Geographic Information Systems, alongside more traditional techniques that are already part of such systems. This book provides the latest methods in GI Science and their use in health related problems.



Stitching the World: Embroidered Maps and Women’s Geographical Education Judith A. Tyner, California State University, USA

STUDIES IN HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY

The period from the late eighteenth century until about 1840 coincided with major changes in educational theories and practices, especially for girls, and this book uses needlework maps and globes to chart a broader discussion of women’s geographic education. In this light, map samplers and embroidered globes represent a transition in women’s education from ‘accomplishments’ in the eighteenth century to challenging geographic education and conventional map drawing in schools and academies of the second half of the nineteenth century.



Sustainable Railway Futures Issues and ChallengesEdited by Becky P.Y. Loo, The University of Hong Kong and Claude Comtois, The University of Montreal, Canada

TRANSPORT AND MOBILITY

This in-depth overview places the importance of railways in the wider context of comprehensive sustainability, which encompasses sustainable development, social and economic equity and community livability. Some scholars have described the 21st Century as a period of renaissance for railways and suggest this transport mode can fulfil people’s desire for high mobility with low negative environmental, social, economic and financial impact.This book offers the latest research insights on the renewed interest about railway expansions and their wide-ranging environmental, socio-economic and even political implications.



Tourism Encounters and Controversies Ontological Politics of Tourism DevelopmentEdited by Gunnar Thór Jóhannesson, University of Iceland, Carina Ren, Aalborg University, Denmark and René van der Duim, Wageningen University, Netherlands


Focusing on ontological politics of tourism development, this book examines how different versions of tourism are enacted, how encounters between different versions of tourism orderings may result in controversies, but also on how these enactments and encounters are entangled in multiple ways to broader areas of development, conservation, policy and destination management. Inspired by post-actor-network theory and related research, the studies include the social as well as the material, but also multiplicity and ontological politics when examining controversial matters or events.



Tourism, Recreation and Regional Development Perspectives from France and AbroadEdited by Jean-Christophe Dissart, Université Grenoble Alpes, France, Jeoffrey Dehez and Jean-Bernard Marsat both at IRSTEA, France


Bringing together scholars from the fields of planning, economics, sociology, management studies and geography, this book examines cross-cutting issues in tourism and recreation with the aim of developing an extended view of leisure time. Focusing mainly on France with comparison to the experience of Northern and Southern European countries and North America, it combines a diverse range of case studies to address issues such as contrasting rural dynamics, changing public policies, sustainable development imperatives, evolving user behaviour and increasingly diverse recreation activities and stakeholder organization.



World Heritage in Iran Perspectives on PasargadaeEdited by Ali Mozaffari, Curtin University, Australia


This edited volume presents for the first time a broad, multi-disciplinary examination of Pasargadae by experts from both outside and within Iran. It specifically focuses on those disciplines that are absent from existing studies, such as ethnography, tourism and museum studies providing valuable insights into this fascinating place. In its totality, the book argues that to understand World Heritage sites and their problems fully, a holistic approach should be adopted, which considers the manifold of perspectives and issues. It also puts forward a novel approach to the question of heritage, representation and construction of collective identity from the framework of place.



World Heritage Sites and Tourism Edited by Mike Robinson, University of Birmingham, UK, Laurent Bourdeau, University of Laval, Canada, and Maria Gravari-Barbas, University of Paris 1 – Sorbonne, France


This volume, through a diverse range of international cases covering cultural, natural and mixed World Heritage Sites, covering both the developed and the developing world, examines the ways in which sites have been inscribed on the World Heritage List and what this has meant in terms of tourism relating to practical issues of management, carrying capacity and the experiences of tourists and local communities. It also looks at the way ‘being on the list’ shapes, and is shaped by, shifting values and politics at the macro and micro level.



Information and Cultural Management

Museums, Migration and Identity in Europe Peoples, Places and IdentitiesEdited by Christopher Whitehead, Katherine Lloyd, Susannah Eckersley and Rhiannon Mason, all at Newcastle University, UK

The imperatives surrounding museum representations of place have shifted from the late eighteenth century to today. The political significance of place itself has changed and continues to change at all scales, from local, civic, regional to national and supranational. At the same time, changes in population flows, migration patterns and demographic movement now underscore both cultural and political practice, be it in the accommodation of ‘diversity’ in cultural and social policy, scholarly explorations of hybridity or in state immigration controls. This book investigates the historical and contemporary relationships between museums, places and identities. It brings together contributions from international scholars, academics, practitioners from museums and public institutions, policymakers, and representatives of associations and migrant communities to explore all these issues.



Performing Digital Multiple Perspectives on a Living ArchiveEdited by David Carlin and Laurene Vaughan, RMIT University, Australia

DIGITAL RESEARCH IN THE ARTS AND HUMANITIES

There has been an exponential explosion in the production and consumption of video online and yet there is a scarcity of knowledge and cases about video and the digital archive. This book seeks to address that through the lens of the project Circus Oz Living Archive. This project provides the case study foundation for the articulation of the issues, challenges and possibilities that the design and development of digital archives afford. Drawn from eight different disciplines and professions, the authors explore what it means to embrace the possibilities of digital technologies to transform contemporary cultural institutions and their archives into new methods of performance, representation and history.



Cultural Networks in Migrating Heritage Intersecting Theories and Practices across EuropePerla Innocenti, University of Glasgow, UK

This book highlights the strengths and benefits from new cultural networking practices but also the challenges and issues that arise, how these could be addressed and what lessons can be learnt. It also sets out to answer the questions ‘how’. How can we leverage the power of cross-border cultural networks in a contested place such as Europe today? How can European cultural institutions elaborate the necessary approaches and strategies to achieve a type of cultural cooperation that is truly based on cultural practice? How can the actions of the European Commission and relevant cultural bodies in Europe be strengthened, adapted or extended to meet these goals? The book will be of interest to scholars and students in museum and cultural heritage studies, visual studies, sociology of organisations, cultural heritage management and information studies. It will also be relevant to practitioners and policymakers from museums, libraries, NGOs and cultural institutions at large.



Managing Cultural Heritage An International Research PerspectiveLuca Zan and Sara Bonini Baraldi, Maria Lusiani, Daniel Shoup, Paolo Ferri and Federica Onofri, University of Bologna, Italy

Based on fifteen years of field work done by a group of scholars at the Department of Management, University of Bologna, this book is an in-depth investigation of management practices rather than policies, based on a variety of case studies from China, Italy, Malta, Turkey, and Peru. The authors take the issue of management in heritage seriously, but also take into account the role of other disciplines within heritage organizations. In particular, they focus on sustainability in terms of financial resources, human resources, knowledge management, and the relationship with the audience and communities of scholars. This book will be of interest to management scholars interested in heritage management, to heritage professionals who face managerial issues in their daily practice, and to arts management students all over the world.



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Law and Legal Studies

Belief, Law and Politics What Future for a Secular Europe?Edited by Marie-Claire Foblets, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Germany, Katayoun Alidadi, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium, Jørgen S. Nielsen, University of Copenhagen, Denmark and Zeynep Yanasmayan, European University Viadrina, Germany

CULTURAL DIVERSITY AND LAW IN ASSOCIATION WITH RELIGARE

This edited collection gathers together the principal findings of the RELIGARE project, which dealt with the question of religious and philosophical diversity in European law. Specifically, it covers four spheres of public policy and legislation: employment, family life, use of public space and state support mechanisms. The book consists of two main parts: the first includes the principal findings of the project, while the second is a compilation of 28 short contributions from scholars, legal practitioners, policy makers and activists who respond to the report and offer views on the sensitive issue of religious diversity and the law in Europe.



Comparative Health Law and Policy Critical Perspectives on Nigerian and Global Health LawEdited by Irehobhude O. Iyioha, University of Alberta, Canada, and Remigius N. Nwabueze, University of Southampton, UK

The collection provides a comparative analysis of relevant health policies and laws in Nigeria, such as reproductive and sexual health policy, organ donation and transplantation, abortion and assisted conception, with those in the United Kingdom, United States, Canada and South Africa. It critically examines the duties and rights of physicians, patients, health institutions and organizations, and government parastatals against the backdrop of increased awareness of rights among patient populations. The subjects, which are discussed from a legal, ethical and policy-reform perspective, critique current legislation and policies and make suggestions for reform.



Consumer Debt and Social Exclusion in Europe Edited by Hans-W. Micklitz, European University Institute, Italy and Irina Domurath, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

MARKETS AND THE LAW

This study fills a vital gap in the current literature on the effects of the financial and economic crisis, and features detailed reports from six European countries which form the empirical background for five analyses of different aspects of the social inclusion-exclusion dichotomy through over-indebtedness in Europe since 2008. The account shows how the current design of the consumer credit and mortgage system in Europe has helped to produce individual over-indebtedness while disregarding the consequential danger of social exclusion.



Criminality and Criminal Justice in Contemporary Poland Sociopolitical PerspectivesKonrad Buczkowski, Beata Czarnecka-Dzialuk, Witold Klaus, Anna Kossowska, Irena Rzeplinska, Paulina Wiktorska, Dagmara Wozniakowska-Fajst, Dobrochna Wójcik, all at Institute of Legal Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland

This book offers an exhaustive and original look at the phenomenon of criminality as part of the political and social reality in Poland, the largest country in Central Europe, whose political post-war path has been similar to that of other countries in this region. The book fills a gap in the English-language criminological literature on the causes and determinants of criminality in Central Europe, and presents the views of criminologists from Central Europe in the debate over state policy on the problems of criminality and how to control it.



Cuts and Criminality Body Alteration in Legal DiscourseTheodore Bennett, University of Western Australia

This book investigates how and why the criminal law differentiates between different types of body alterations, with particular reference to how they are conceptualised within legal discourse. By drawing connections between types of body alteration that have traditionally been considered separately and discretely, the book allows analytical conclusions to be made about the law’s treatment of the general category of ‘body alteration’ rather than merely about specific types of body alteration.



Disabled Justice? Access to Justice and the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with DisabilitiesEilionóir Flynn, National University of Ireland Galway

International and comparative in scope, this book analyses the experience of people with disabilities through the entire justice system and also considers the participation of people with disabilities in a variety of roles such as witness, defendant, victim, plaintiff, lawyer, judge and juror. More broadly, it also critically examines the subtle barriers of access to justice which might exist in a given society, including barriers to grassroots disability advocacy, the right to vote and the right to stand for election which may apply to people with disabilities.



The Ethics of Personalised Medicine Critical PerspectivesEdited by Jochen Vollmann, Verena Sandow, Sebastian Wäscher and Jan Schildmann, all at the Institute for Medical Ethics and History of Medicine, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany

This book presents the views of leading researchers from across Europe and North America, from both normative and empirical disciplines, in the multidisciplinary debate on the current state of research on the ethical, legal and social implications of personalised medicine. The work partially draws on a four year collaborative research project funded by the German Ministry for Education and Research, and a time when future health care is a topic of much discussion this book provides valuable policy recommendations for the way forward.



Fundamental Principles of EU Law Against Money Laundering Emmanuel Ioannides

This book critically analyses fundamental principles of EU law for the control of international economic crime. Discussing how the reporting system and the exchange of information are at the heart of the global anti money laundering regime, the study also looks at the inferential force of financial intelligence in criminal proceedings and the responsibilities this places on prosecutors and criminals alike.



God, Schools, and Government Funding First Amendment ConundrumsLaurence H. Winer, Sandra Day O’Connor, Arizona State University, USA and Nina J. Crimm, St. John’s University School of Law, USA

In recent years, a conservative majority of the U.S. Supreme Court, over vigorous dissent, has developed circumventions to the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment that allow state legislatures to use public tax dollars to aid private elementary and secondary education, with the vast majority of that funding reaching parochial schools and other religiously-affiliated education providers. In this book Winer and Crimm clearly elucidate for readers’ greater understanding and appreciation the complex and controversial policy, legal, and constitutional issues involved in using tax expenditures – mechanisms such as exclusions, deductions, and credits that economically function essentially as government subsidies – to finance private, religious schooling.





Inspiring a Medico-Legal Revolution Essays in Honour of Sheila McLeanEdited by Pamela Ferguson, University of Dundee, UK and Graeme Laurie, University of Edinburgh, UK

As one of the pioneers of the discipline of medical law, Sheila McLean inspired a revolution in the ways in which lawyers, doctors, courts and patients perceive the relationship between medicine and the law. This collection brings together 21 leading scholars in healthcare law and ethics to honour the depth and significance of her contribution. Including authors from the US, Australia, Canada and New Zealand, the contributions cover areas as diverse as start and end of life, reproductive rights and termination of pregnancy, autonomy of patients, the protection of vulnerable patient groups, and the challenges posed by new technologies.



Intellectual Property and Genetically Modified Organisms A Convergence in LawsEdited by Charles Lawson and Berris Charnley, both at Griffith University, Australia

This volume addresses issues arising from recent developments in the enduring and topical debates over Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) and their relationship to Intellectual Property. The work examines changing responses to GMOs from a global viewpoint and draws together perspectives from leading international scholars whose contributions seek to break away from analysis of safety and regulation to examine the diversity of ways the law and GMOs have become entangled. As GMO technology becomes increasingly more complex and embedded in our lives this collection presents the start of a much broader engagement with GMOs and law.



Judgments of the European Court of Human Rights – Effects and Implementation Edited by Anja Seibert-Fohr, Göttingen University, Germany and Judge Mark E. Villiger, European Court of Human Rights, Strasbourg, France and University of Zurich, Switzerland

This volume deals with the domestic effects of judgments of the European Court of Human Rights as a challenge to the various levels of legal orders in Europe. The starting point is the divergent impact of the ECtHR’s jurisdiction within the Convention States. Distinguished Judges, academic lawyers and practitioners from many European countries are among the contributors to this volume, which succeeds in bringing divergent points of view into the discussion and in developing strategies for conflict resolution.



Justice as Friendship A Theory of LawSeow Hon Tan, Singapore Management University

The central argument of this study is that the universal phenomenon of friendship provides us with an inter-subjectively agreeable and rich conception of justice that can be transposed to the context of law. While presented as a theory of law, the work considers and traverses the fields of jurisprudence, tort law, contract law, philosophy, ethics and political theory. In dealing with substantive areas of law, the book draws upon cases from the United States, England and the Commonwealth.



Language and Culture in EU Law Multidisciplinary PerspectivesEdited by Susan Šarcevic, University of Rijeka, Croatia

LAW, LANGUAGE AND COMMUNICATION

Written by distinguished legal and linguistic scholars and practitioners from the EU institutions, the contributions in this volume provide multidisciplinary perspectives on the vital role of language and culture as key forces shaping the dynamics of EU law. Offering a good mix of theory and practice, the broad spectrum of topics addressed shed light on major Europeanization processes at work and on the impact of legal-linguistic aspects of EU law on old and new Member States and candidate countries.



Muslim Families, Politics and the Law A Legal Industry in Multicultural BritainRalph Grillo, University of Sussex, UK

CULTURAL DIVERSITY AND LAW

Islam generally and the Muslim family in particular have become highly politicised sites of contestation. This book focuses on the way in which gender relations and associated questions of (women’s) agency, consent and autonomy, have become the focus of political and social commentary, and the implications this has for British multiculturalism. The book also includes a detailed overview of the public debate about the application of Islamic legal and ethical norms (Shari’a) in family law matters, and the associated role of Shari’a councils, in a British context.



Rethinking International Law and Justice Edited by Charles Sampford, Griffith University, Australia, Spencer Zifcak, Australian Catholic University, Australia and Derya Aydin Okur, Istanbul Kültür University,Turkey

LAW, ETHICS AND GOVERNANCE

This collection considers how general principles of law and underlying theories of justice from political science and international relations make a significant contribution to our understanding of the constituent elements of global justice. The book explores justice arising in specific areas of international law, including international humanitarian law, and examines the significance of non-state actors for the development of international law. The lessons derived from this research have wide implications for both developed and emerging nation-states in rethinking sensitive issues of international law and justice.



Ritual and Rhythm in Electoral Systems A Comparative Legal AccountGraeme Orr, University of Queensland, Australia

ELECTION LAW, POLITICS, AND THEORY

Focusing on the political cultures and laws of the UK, the US and Australia, this book offers an account of the intersection of electoral systems and the concepts of ritual, rhythm and the everyday, which form the basis of how we experience elections.



Social Systems Theory and Judicial Review Taking Jurisprudence SeriouslyKatayoun Baghai, Queen Mary University of London, UK

STUDIES IN MODERN LAW AND POLICY

This book demonstrates the empirical gains and integrative potential of social systems theory for the sociology of law. The study observes judicial review as an instrument for the self-steering of a functionally differentiated legal system. This approach allows close investigation of the US Supreme Court’s jurisprudence of rights, both in legal terms and in relation to structural transformations of modern society, and of the European Court of Human Rights’ privacy jurisprudence, which suggests the pertinence of the analytic framework to other rights and jurisdictions.




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Spinoza and Law Edited by Andre Santos Campos, New University of Lisbon, Portugal

PHILOSOPHERS AND LAW

This selection of some of the best writings on Spinoza’s philosophy of law shows how Spinoza was able to deliver a revolutionary idea of natural law that breaks away from the traditions of natural law and of legal positivism. The collection includes several essays that have never been published in the English language before, and features an introduction which places Spinoza’s writing in the context of modern jurisprudence, as well as an extensive bibliography.



State and Legal Practice in the Caucasus Anthropological Perspectives on Law and PoliticsEdited by Stéphane Voell, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany and Iwona Kaliszewska, University of Warsaw, Poland

CULTURAL DIVERSITY AND LAW

Legal pluralism and the experience of the state in the Caucasus are at the centre of this edited volume. The book describes how social action and governance takes place in this region affected by a multitude of legal orders. The authors ask how conceptions of order are enforced, used, followed and staged in social networks and legal practice. Principally, how is state perceived and performed in both the North and South Caucasus?



Theorizing Transitional Justice Edited by Claudio Corradetti, University of Oslo, Norway, Nir Eisikovits and Jack Volpe Rotondi, both at Suffolk University, USA

With the common goal of clarifying some of the theoretical profiles of transitional justice strategies, the study is organized along crucial intersections evaluating aspects connected to the genealogy, the nature, the scope and the most appropriate methodology for the study of transitional justice. The specific transitional instruments of war crime tribunals, truth commissions, administrative purges, reparations, and historical commissions are considered. The book brings together some of the most original writings from established experts as well as from promising young scholars in the field.



Working Women and their Rights in the Workplace International Human Rights and Its Impact on Libyan LawNaeima Faraj A.A. Al-Hadad, University of Bahrain

Providing a rare insight into a region striving to find its new identity, this book addresses women’s rights to work and motherhood in Libya from a legal and international human rights perspective. In an attempt to solve the problem posed by the perception that there is an unsolvable conflict between the right of women to work and their right to motherhood, the author considers how these two sets of rights, as protected under international human rights law, can and should be recognised and promoted within the Libyan legal system.



Controversies in Equal Protection Cases in America Race, Gender and Sexual OrientationEdited by Anne Richardson Oakes, Birmingham City University, UK

CONTROVERSIES IN AMERICAN CONSTITUTIONAL LAW

This edited collection engages with current issues on equal protection in the USA, as seen from the perspectives of leading academics in this area. The themes presented and analyses developed are among some of the most contentious currently in America, and will be of interest not just to lawyers and legal academics, but also to inter-disciplinary social science researchers, including sociologists, economists and political scientists.



Controversies in Innocence Cases in America Edited by Sarah Lucy Cooper, Birmingham City University, UK


This volume brings together leading experts on the investigation, litigation and scholarly analysis of innocence cases in America, from legal, political and ethical perspectives. The contributors consider the challenges faced by the exoneration movement, causes of wrongful convictions, problems associated with investigating, proving, and defining ‘innocence’, and theories of reform. These issues are investigated from a multi-disciplinary perspective and with the aim of improving the American criminal justice system when it is faced with its most harrowing sight: an innocent defendant.



Controversies in Tax Law A Matter of PerspectiveEdited by Anthony C. Infanti, University of Pittsburgh, USA


This volume addresses the central tension in debates between ‘mainstream’ and ‘critical’ tax theorists which reflects a clash of perspectives: is taxation primarily a matter of social science or of social justice? Should tax policy debates be grounded in economics or in critical race, feminist, queer, and other outsider perspectives? With contributions from leading mainstream and critical tax scholars, this volume takes the first step toward bridging the gap between these differing perspectives on tax law and policy.



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CONTROVERSIES IN AMERICAN CONSTITUTIONAL LAW Series Editors: Jon Yorke and Anne Richardson Oakes, both at Birmingham City University, UK

Controversies in American Constitutional Law presents and engages with the contemporary developments and policies which mould and challenge U.S. constitutional law and practice. It deals with the full spectrum of constitutional issues, publishing work by scholars from a range of disciplines who tackle current legal issues by reference to their underlying legal and political histories and the philosophical perspectives that they represent. Its cross-disciplinary approach encourages analysis of past, present and future challenges to the idea of U.S. constitutionalism and the power structures upon which it rests. The series provides a forum for scholars to challenge the boundaries of U.S. constitutional law and engages with the continual process of constitutional refinement for the protection of individual rights and liberties, within an evolving framework of legitimate government.

CALS promotes research, scholarship, and educative programs in all areas of U.S. law, and is the home of the British Journal of American Legal Studies. Faculty members have extensive experience in submitting amicus curiae briefs to the United States Supreme Court and lower federal courts, and advising on criminal justice issues in many states. CALS coordinates the largest British law undergraduate internship program to the United States. Through this program, and members’ research, CALS has created relationships with over one hundred partners in over twenty-five states. CALS faculty advisse public bodies and provides professional training and speakers at conferences across the USA.



Environmental Crime and its Victims Perspectives within Green CriminologyEdited by Toine Spapens, Tilburg University, The Netherlands, Rob White, University of Tasmania, Australia and Marieke Kluin, University of Leiden, The Netherlands

This book provides a diverse and provocative array of arguments, critiques and recommendations from leading researchers and scholars in the field of green criminology. The issues addressed are three-fold: the specific characteristics of some of the major types of environmental crime and its perpetrators; the problem of victimization in cases of environmental crime; and the question of how to tackle this problem. These topics are approached from the point of view of green criminological theory, sociology, law enforcement, community wellbeing, environmental activism and victimology.

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Environmental Crime and Social Conflict Contemporary and Emerging IssuesEdited by Avi Brisman, Eastern Kentucky University, USA, Nigel South, University of Essex, UK and Rob White, University of Tasmania, Australia

This collection of original essays stimulates new understandings of the relationships between humans and nature through critical evaluation of environmental destruction and degradation associated with social conflicts occurring around the world. The chapters are largely informed by green criminology perspectives and provide a systematic and comprehensive introduction to a topic that to date has received little attention within criminology.



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Exploring Green Criminology Toward a Green Criminological RevolutionMichael J. Lynch, University of South Florida, USA and Paul B. Stretesky, Northumbria University, UK

Widespread and significant forms of harm such as green or environmental harm have generally been overlooked by criminologists. This book argues that green harm needs to become a key area of study within the discipline of criminology and considers how the discipline can be redesigned. The authors propose an environmental frame of reference which can be addressed from within criminology and which enables criminologists and environmentalists to respond and react differently to environmental crime.



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GREEN CRIMINOLOGY Series Editors: Michael J. Lynch, University of South Florida, USA and Paul B. Stretesky, University of Northumbria, UK

Now two decades old, green criminology– the study of environmental harm, crime, law, regulation, victimization, and justice– has increasing relevance to contemporary problems at local, national, and international levels. This series comes at a time when societies and governments worldwide seek new ways to alleviate and deal with the consequences of various environmental harms as they relate to humans, non-human animals, plant species, and the ecosystem and its components. Green criminology offers a unique theoretical perspective on how human behavior causes and exacerbates environmental conditions that threaten the planet’s viability. Volumes in the series consider such topics and controversies as corporate environmental crime, the complicity of international financial institutions, state-sponsored environmental destruction, and the role of non-governmental organizations in addressing environmental harms. Titles also examine the intersections between green criminology and other branches of criminology and other areas of law, such as human rights and national security. The series is international in scope, investigating environmental crime in specific countries as well as comparatively and globally. In sum, by bringing together a diverse body of research on all aspects of this subject, the series makes a significant contribution to our understanding of the dynamics between the natural world and the quite imperfect human world, and sets the stage for the future study in this growing area of concern.

Governance of the Illegal Trade In E-Waste and Tropical Timber Case Studies on Transnational Environmental CrimeLieselot Bisschop, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, USA and Ghent University, Belgium

This book investigates the illegal trade in electronic waste and tropical timber, major forms of transnational environmental crime. The author employs a qualitative multi-method research approach combining document analysis, interviews with key informants and field visits, and focusses on the flows that pass through the research setting of the Port of Antwerp in Belgium and those between Europe and West and Central Africa. The study examines the emergence and social organization of these flows, the range of factors that together provide the motivations and opportunities, and their governance.



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Family, Religion and Law Cultural Encounters in EuropeEdited by Prakash Shah, Queen Mary University of London, UK, Marie-Claire Foblets, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, and Mathias Rohe, University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany

This collection discusses how official legal systems respond to the reality of a plurality of family types and origins within their jurisdictions. Presenting empirical research which includes legal and sociological data of unprecedented comparative depth, the volume addresses issues such as how minority families respond to the need to organise their legal relationships and resolve their disputes in the shadow of official legal systems which differ from those of their familial and communal traditions. The book invites reflection and demonstrates the urgency and complexity of the questions regarding the search for justice in the field of family life in Europe today.



Funding Religious Heritage Edited by Anne Fornerod, National Centre for Scientific Research, University of Strasbourg, France

This collection explores the funding of religious heritage in the context of state support for religions. The importance of this state support is that on the one hand it illustrates the potential tensions between secular and religious values, whilst on the other it constitutes a relevant tool for investigating the question of the legitimacy of such financial support. The funding varies according to the national system of state religion relationships and this is reflected in the range of countries studied, including: Belgium, Bulgaria, Denmark, France, Italy, The Netherlands, Spain, Turkey and the United Kingdom.



Public Funding of Religions in Europe Edited by Francis Messner, University of Strasbourg, France

This collection brings together legal scholars, canonists and political scientists to focus on the issue of public funding in support of religious activities and institutions in Europe. The study looks at the various mechanisms put in place by the domestic legal systems, as well as those resulting from the European law of human rights and the law of the European Union, and then goes on to look at state support and particular religious groups. This collection is essential reading for those studying law and religion, with particular focus on the countries of the UK, France, Belgium, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain and Turkey.



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CULTURAL DIVERSITY AND LAW IN ASSOCIATION WITH RELIGARE Series Editor: Prakash Shah, Queen Mary University of London, UK

RELIGARE was a project on Religious Diversity and Secular Models in Europe funded by the European Commission under the 7th Framework programme. The project brought together an interdisciplinary team of high profile researchers and 13 academic institutions to collaborate on examining how existing policy and practice is suited to the demands of religious diversity within Europe and what legal models could be recommended to accommodate such diversity in the future. Cultural Diversity and Law in Association with RELIGARE provided an outlet for the results of specific research undertaken within the RELIGARE project.

The views expressed during the execution of the RELIGARE project, in whatever form and or by whatever medium, are the sole responsibility of the authors. The European Union is not liable for any use that may be made of the information contained therein.

THE LIBRARY OF ESSAYS ON LAW AND PRIVACY Series Editor: Philip Leith, Queen’s University of Belfast, UK

Each of the three volumes in this series has a theme: an anthropological approach to what privacy means in a cultural context; the issue of state surveillance where the state must both protect the individual and protect others from that individual and also protect itself; and, finally, what privacy might mean in a world where government and commerce collect data incessantly. The regulation of privacy is continually being called for and these papers help enable understanding of the ethical rationales behind the choices made in the sphere of regulation of privacy.

The articles presented in each of these collections have been chosen for the quality of their scholarship and their utility to the researcher, and feature a variety of approaches. The articles which debate the technical context of privacy are accessible to those from the arts and humanities; overall, the breadth of approach taken in the choice of articles has created a series which is an invaluable and important resource for lecturers, researchers and student.

The Individual and Privacy Volume IEdited by Joseph A. Cannataci, University of Malta and University of Groningen, The Netherlands

This collection of essays reflects the many paths followed to develop a new, more robust methodology (idMAPPING) for investigating privacy. The volume offers a multi-disciplinary overview of the subject and brings together different approaches by different scholars at different times with different points of view. The detailed introduction brings clarity to the picture and concludes by challenging internet-era fallacies. Taken together, the articles demonstrate an innovative approach to evidence-based policy-making, and show privacy scholarship at its best.



Privacy in the Information Society Volume IIEdited by Philip Leith, Queen’s University of Belfast, UK

As paper recedes into the background and digital data becomes the primary resource in the information society, what does this mean for privacy? Can there be privacy when every communication made through ever-developing ubiquitous devices is recorded? What factors should underpin the creation of new means of regulation? The papers in this collection have been drawn together to develop the positive and negative affects upon the information society which privacy regulation implies.



Security and Privacy Volume IIIEdited by Joseph Savirimuthu, University of Liverpool, UK

The challenges posed for privacy by the new technologies have been the subject of increased scholarship in recent decades. This volume of essays reflects the range of discussions currently conducted at scholarly and policy levels and illustrates the value of viewing privacy concerns not only in terms of the means by which information is communicated but also in terms of the political processes that are inevitably engaged and the institutional, regulatory and cultural contexts within which meanings regarding identity and security are constituted.



Buy the 3-volume set and save money! Edited by Philip Leith, Queen’s University of Belfast, UK

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Concepts of Law Comparative, Jurisprudential, and Social Science PerspectivesEdited by Seán Patrick Donlan, University of Limerick, Ireland and Lukas Heckendorn Urscheler, Swiss Institute of Comparative Law, Switzerland

In this study international legal experts explore legal concepts and contexts from diverse national and disciplinary perspectives. Themes range from legal and normative pluralism to the development of state law and legal systems, and from law’s rhetoric and the potential utility of alternative vocabularies to the polyjurality of the present. The study combines theoretical analyses and case studies to create a rich picture of present scholarship on laws and norms and the state of contemporary legal complexity, each crossing traditional boundaries.

October 2014 270 pagesHardback 978-1-4094-5526-4 £70.00 $119.95ebook PDF 978-1-4094-5527-1ebook ePUB 978-1-4724-0154-0


Mixed Legal Systems, East and West Edited by Vernon Valentine Palmer, Tulane University, USA, Mohamed Y. Mattar and Anna Koppel, both at Johns Hopkins University USA

This book takes us far beyond the usual focus of comparative law with analysis of a broad range of jurisdictions, including mixtures of common and civil law, and also those mixing Islamic and/or traditional legal systems with those derived from common and/or civil law traditions. The discussion is situated within the broader context of the continuing tides of globalization, the emergence of Islamic governments in some parts of the Middle East, the calls for a legal status for Islamic law in some European countries, and the increasing focus on traditional and customary norms of governance in post-colonial contexts.



Of Doubt and Proof Ritual and Legal Practices of JudgmentEdited by Daniela Berti, CNRS/Centre for Himalayan Studies, Villejuif, France, Anthony Good, Edinburgh University, UK and Gilles Tarabout, Nanterre University, France

All institutions concerned with the process of judging – whether it be deciding between alternative courses of action, determining a judge’s professional integrity, assigning culpability for an alleged crime, or ruling on the credibility of an asylum claimant – are necessarily concerned with the question of doubt. By putting ritual and judicial settings into comparative perspective, in contexts as diverse as Indian and Taiwanese divination and international cricket, as well as legal processes in France, the UK, India, Denmark and Ghana, this book offers a comprehensive and novel perspective on techniques for casting and dispelling doubt, and the roles they play in achieving verdicts or decisions that appear both valid and just.



Stateless Law Evolving Boundaries of a DisciplineEdited by Helge Dedek, McGill University, Canada and Shauna Van Praagh, McGill University, Canada

This volume offers a critical analysis and illustration of the challenges and promises of ‘stateless’ law thought, pedagogy and approaches to governance – that is, understanding and conceptualizing law in a post-national condition. Confronting the ‘transnational challenge’ posed to the traditional theoretical and institutional structures that underlie the teaching and study of law in the university, the book brings new insight to the ongoing and crucial conversation about the future shape of legal scholarship, education and practice that is emblematic of the early twenty-first century.



A Study of Mixed Legal Systems: Endangered, Entrenched or Blended Edited by Sue Farran, Northumbria University, UK, Esin Örücü, University of Glasgow, UK, Seán Patrick Donlan, University of Limerick, Ireland

This book includes case studies of a number of systems from across the globe and explores the manner in which the elements of these mixed systems may be seen to be ‘entrenched’, ‘endangered’, or ‘blended’. The studies involve consideration of the colourful histories of the jurisdictions, of their complex relationships to parent legal systems and traditions, and of language, legal education and legal actors. They explore how the process of legal change happens, questions whether some systems are at greater risk than others, and details the strategies that have been adopted to accelerate or counteract change.

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Rooted in comparative law, the Juris Diversitas series focuses on the interdisciplinary study of legal and normative mixtures and movements. The interest is in comparison broadly conceived, extending beyond law narrowly understood to related fields. Titles might be geographical or temporal comparisons and could focus on theory and methodology, substantive law, or legal cultures. They could investigate official or unofficial ‘legalities’, past and present and around the world. And, to effectively cross spatial, temporal, and normative boundaries, inter- and multi-disciplinary research is particularly welcome.


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The Development of International Human Rights Law Volume IEdited by David Weissbrodt, Fionnuala D. Ní Aoláin and Mary Rumsey, all at University of Minnesota, USA

The essays selected for this volume encompass the development of human rights law from its philosophical underpinnings and address many of its current controversies. The introductory essay provides a roadmap of the collection’s major themes and traces the relationship between those themes. Taken together, the essays emphasize the legal underpinnings of the human rights regime and as such, the collection provides an essential, wide-ranging account of this important part of international law, procedure and practice.



Equality and Non-Discrimination under International Law Volume IIEdited by Stephanie Farrior, Vermont Law School, USA

This volume contains selected articles by leading authors on the subject of equality and non-discrimination under international law. The essays explore theoretical concepts of equality and non-discrimination; address the development of international legal standards on the subject; analyse how those standards have been interpreted and applied by UN and regional human rights bodies; and discuss what options are available to the State, apart from legal action, in order to achieve equality and non-discrimination.



Challenges in International Human Rights Law Volume IIIEdited by Menno T. Kamminga, Maastricht University, The Netherlands

This volume identifies and contributes to the mainstream challenges within international human rights law, such as transitional justice, non-state actors, terrorism and development, as well as to the wider and more systematic range of challenges such as justiciability of social and economic rights, extraterritoriality, health care and investment arbitration. The articles include both long-standing essays and more recently published material and are put into context by the specially commissioned introduction.

July 2014 820 pagesHardback 978-1-4094-4436-7 £255.00 $500.00


The United Nations System for Protecting Human Rights Volume IVEdited by Dinah L. Shelton, George Washington University, USA

This volume brings together the leading research articles on the development of human rights law by the United Nations. It includes articles on the law of the Charter and its evolution; the UN law-making process; an assessment of the UN efforts to strengthen the ability of individuals and groups to exercise their human rights and fundamental freedoms; and the work of the Charter-based organs, institutions and procedures. It also includes essays on issues relating to standard-setting, institutional evolution, and the creation of monitoring procedures.



Regional Human Rights Systems Volume VEdited by Christina M. Cerna, Georgetown University Law Centre, USA

The essays selected for this volume examine the structure and functioning of the principal regional human rights systems in the world today. These systems guarantee primarily civil and political rights, although not all governments and parties to these regional treaties are democracies. These articles trace the history of these systems, in particular, the expansion of their membership to include almost all independent countries in the region, and their evolution towards recognition of a ‘right to democracy’.

August 2014 592 pagesHardback 978-1-4094-3911-0 £185.00 $350.00


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Although human rights were initially conceived as rights of the individual in relation to the state, there is growing recognition that human rights must also be respected in the international arena. This series brings together the most important and influential scholarship on issues around human rights in the area of international law.

The volumes include a wide range of essays selected from an international search of print and electronic content and feature a substantial introduction by the volume editor which provides an overview of the topic of each volume. The series includes foundational articles on the development of international human rights law and covers issues on the current challenges facing international human rights lawyers and scholars, the UN system of rights, regional human rights systems and the fundamental principles of equality and non-discrimination under international law.

The five volumes in this series are edited by leading scholars in the field and taken together provide an invaluable research tool for scholars and students interested in the growing field of international human rights.


Literary Studies

Affective Landscapes in Literature, Art and Everyday Life Memory, Place and the SensesEdited by Christine Berberich, University of Portsmouth, UK, Neil Campbell and Robert Hudson, both at the University of Derby, UK

Bringing together literary and cultural studies scholars, historians, artists and creative writers, this collection examines the different ways in which human beings respond to, debate and interact with landscape. While the essays most often begin with the broadly literary – the memoir, the travelogue, the novel, poetry – the contributors approach the topic in diverse and innovative ways. Taken together, the essays interrogate important issues about how we live now and might live in the future.



African Immigrants in Contemporary Spanish Texts Crossing the StraitEdited by Debra Faszer-McMahon, Seton Hill University, USA and Victoria L. Ketz, Iona College, USA

NEW HISPANISMS: CULTURAL AND LITERARY STUDIES

How African immigrants represent themselves and are represented in contemporary Spanish texts is the subject of this interdisciplinary collection. Analyzing novels, poetry, films, online forums and other genres, the contributors shed light on Spain’s racial and sexual boundaries and the appeal of images of Africa in the contemporary marketplace. The collection is a convincing reminder that cultural texts provide a mirror into the perceptions of society during times of change.



Anglo-Saxon Emotions Reading the Heart in Old English Language, Literature and CultureEdited by Alice Jorgensen, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, Frances McCormack, National University of Ireland and Jonathan Wilcox, University of Iowa, USA

STUDIES IN EARLY MEDIEVAL BRITAIN AND IRELAND

In order to integrate early medieval Britain into the wider scholarly research into the history of emotions, this volume brings together established and younger scholars in order to stimulate further study within the discipline. With a tight focus on emotion, on Anglo Saxon England, and on language and literature, the volume considers a range of methodologies and theoretical perspectives, examines the interplay of emotion and textuality, explores how emotion is conveyed through gesture, interrogates emotions in religious devotional literature, and considers the place of emotion in heroic culture.



Autobiographical Writing by Early Modern Hispanic Women Elizabeth Teresa Howe, Tufts University, USA


Women’s life writing in general has too often been ignored, dismissed, or relegated to a separate category in those few studies of the genre that include it. The present work addresses these issues and offers a countervailing argument that focuses on the contributions of women writers to the study of autobiography in Spanish during the early modern period, both in Spain and in Mexico.



Baptist Women’s Writings in Revolutionary Culture, 1640–1680 Rachel Adcock, Loughborough University, UK


Baptist Women’s Writings in Revolutionary Culture, 1640–1680 explores how female Baptists played a crucial role in the group’s formation and growth during the 1640s and 50s by contributing to Baptist theology and politics, and evangelising their followers. Adcock considers and analyses writings by little-studied Baptist as well as separatist women writers, to challenge the assumption that because Baptist women were prevented from speaking in individual congregations they were not able to write with authority.



The Beach in Anglophone Literatures and Cultures Reading Littoral SpaceEdited by Ursula Kluwick and Virginia Richter, University of Bern, Switzerland

Conceptualising the beach as a creative trope and as a socio-cultural site, this collection examines its multiplicity of meanings and functions as a natural environment engendering both desire and fear in the human imagination from the Victorian period to the present. The contributors examine literature, film and art, as well moments of encounter and environmental crisis, highlighting the beach as a social space and vacationscape, as a geographical frontier between land and water, and as an historical site of contact and conflict.



Bluestockings Now! The Evolution of a Social RoleEdited by Deborah Heller, Western New Mexico University, USA

BRITISH LITERATURE IN CONTEXT IN THE LONG EIGHTEENTH CENTURY

Challenging the theory that the Bluestockings spanned only the period from the 1750s through the 1790s, this collection argues for a new vision of the Bluestockings as belonging to a chain of interconnected networks that can be traced from the early eighteenth century to the present. The contributors explore the activities of the Bluestockings in a variety of cultural and social realms, trace their influence through the nineteenth century, and propose that Bluestocking practice be reinvented in the present.



The Books and the Life of Judith of Flanders Mary Dockray-Miller, Lesley University, USA

Through analysis of the books and art objects Judith of Flanders commissioned and collected, Dockray-Miller demonstrates that Judith consciously deployed patronage as a cultural strategy in her political and marital maneuvers. Including full-colour reproductions from Monte Cassino MS 437 and Fulda Landesbibliothek MS Aa.21, this book is a fascinating account of a woman who thrived in spite of being on the losing side of the Norman Conquest and the Investiture Controversy.



Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations A Cultural Life, 1860–2012Mary Hammond, University of Southampton, UK

ASHGATE STUDIES IN PUBLISHING HISTORY: MANUSCRIPT, PRINT, DIGITAL

As Mary Hammond observes in her wide-ranging publishing history of the novel, Great Expectations’ life has extended far beyond the literary Anglophone world and owes a great deal to a particular moment in the mid-Victorian publishing industry. Her book features an exhaustive survey of the novel’s different appearances in serial, book and dramatic form and is enhanced by appendices with archival information, contemporary reviews and a comprehensive bibliography of editions and adaptations.



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Christopher Marlowe at 450 Edited by Sara Munson Deats, University of South Florida, USA and Robert A. Logan, University of Hartford, USA

Commemorating the 450th birthday of a major, powerfully influential English poet and dramatist, Christopher Marlowe at 450 presents a comprehensive, up-to-date appraisal of the Marlovian scholarly landscape. An international group of acknowledged Marlowe experts evaluates the scholarship and criticism of all the individual works, various critical approaches, performances, theatre history, electronic resources, and biographies to reveal where we have arrived after 450 years and where scholarship might go next.



The Circulation of Knowledge in Early Modern English Literature Edited by Sophie Chiari, Aix-Marseille University, France

The Circulation of Knowledge in Early Modern English Literature examines the question of transmission and of the educational procedures in16th- and 17th-century England by emphasizing deviant practices that questioned, reassessed or even challenged pre-established cultural norms and traditions. The contributors analyse how the interrelated processes of initiation, transmission and transgression operated at the heart of early modern culture, and how poets and playwrights appropriated these cultural processes in their works.



The Culture of Equity in Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Britain and America Mark Fortier, University of Guelph, Canada

Extending the chronological and cultural scope of Fortier’s book on equity, which focuses on early modern England, this interdisciplinary study draws on politics, religion, law, literature, and philosophy to argue that equity continued to be a key word throughout the Restoration and 18th century in Britain and America. Fortier asserts that equity is used and contested in many of the major social and political events of the period.



Dickens and the Imagined Child Edited by Peter Merchant, Canterbury Christ Church University, UK and Catherine Waters, University of Kent, UK

In Dickens and the Imagined Child, leading scholars explore the function of the child and childhood within Dickens’s imagination and reflect on the cultural resonance of his engagement with this topic. Part I begins by proposing a typology of the Dickensian child that is followed by discussions of specific child characters, while Part II focuses on the relationship between childhood and memory and Part III addresses childhood reading and writing.



Dickens, Reynolds, and Mayhew on Wellington Street The Print Culture of a Victorian StreetMary L. Shannon, University of Roehampton, UK

THE NINETEENTH CENTURY SERIES

Between 1843 and 1853, Household Words, Reynolds’s Weekly Newspaper, the Examiner, Punch and the serial edition of London Labour and the London Poor were all published from Wellington Street off the Strand, which housed the offices of Charles Dickens, G.W.M. Reynolds and Henry Mayhew. Shannon examines the implications of their close proximity for the editors themselves, for nineteenth-century publishing, and for the reading public.



Economic Investigations in Twentieth-Century Detective Fiction Expenditure, Labor, ValueYan Zi-Ling, National University of Tainan, Taiwan

In his study of Golden Age and hard-boiled detective fiction, Yan Zi-Ling argues that these two subgenres can be distinguished not only by theme and style, but by the way they structure knowledge, value, and productive labour. He analyzes texts by Arthur Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie, Dashiell Hammett, Dorothy Sayers and Mickey Spillane, among others, to demonstrate that the detective’s truth-generating function is crucial to the institutional and class-based interests that he or she serves.



George Augustus Sala and the Nineteenth-Century Periodical Press The Personal Style of a Public WriterPeter Blake, University of Brighton, UK

In his study of the journalist George Augustus Sala, Peter Blake shows how Sala’s personal style and innovations in form influenced the New Journalism at the end of the nineteenth century. Blake’s book expands our understanding of one of the more prominent and interesting journalists and personalities of the nineteenth century, while also shedding light on prominent nineteenth-century writers and artists such as Charles Dickens, Mathew Arnold, William Powell Frith, Henry Vizetelly and Mary Elizabeth Braddon.



Heteronormativity in Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture Edited by Ana de Freitas Boe, Baldwin Wallace University, USA and Abby Coykendall, Eastern Michigan University, USA

Understanding heteronormativity is imperative for understanding the culture of the eighteenth century writ large, as well as the imaginaries of sex and sexuality that it bequeaths to the present. This collection foregrounds British, European, and transatlantic heteronormativities to pose vital, if vexing, questions about the degree of continuity subsisting between heteronormativities past and present, questions compounded by the aura of transhistoricity lying at the heart of heteronormativity as an ideology.



Home in British Working-Class Fiction Nicola Wilson, University of Reading, UK

Home in British Working-Class Fiction offers a fresh take on British working-class writing that turns away from a masculinist, work-based understanding of class in favour of home, gender, domestic labour and the family kitchen. Examining key works by Robert Tressell, Alan Sillitoe, D. H. Lawrence, Buchi Emecheta, Pat Barker, Jeanette Winterson and James Kelman, among many others, Nicola Wilson demonstrates the importance of home’s role in the making and expression of class feeling and identity.



Kazuo Ishiguro in a Global Context Edited by Cynthia F. Wong, University of Colourado, USA and Hülya Yildiz, Middle East Technical University, Turkey

Bringing together an international group of scholars, this collection offers a fresh assessment of Kazuo Ishiguro’s evolving significance as a contemporary world author. The contributors take on a range of the aesthetic and philosophical themes that characterize Ishiguro’s work, attending to Ishiguro’s own self-identification as an international writer and making a case for his global significance.




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Literature and Moral Economy in the Early Modern Atlantic Elegant SufficienciesHillary Eklund, Loyola University–New Orleans, USA

Grounded in the literary history of early modern England, this study explores the intersection of cultural attitudes and material practices that inform the acquisition, circulation, and consumption of resources at the turn of the seventeenth century. Considering a rich array of texts – including drama, poetry, and prose, among other genres – this book considers what it means to have enough in the moral economies of eating, travel, trade, land use, and public policy.



Literature and the Idea of Luxury in Early Modern England Alison V. Scott, University of Queensland, Australia

Exploring the idea of luxury in relation to a series of neighbouring but distinct concepts including avarice, licentiousness, indulgence, vitality, abundance and waste, this study combines intellectual and cultural historical methods to trace discontinuities in the conceptual development of extravagance in seventeenth-century England. Scott traces how ‘luxury’ developed encompassing meanings that connect with eighteenth-century debates even as they oppose their so-called demoralizing thrust.



Mapping Gendered Routes and Spaces in the Early Modern World Edited by Merry Wiesner-Hanks, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA

How did gender figure in the routes and spaces of the early modern world, both real and imagined, from the inner spaces of the body to the furthest reaches of the globe? Essays in this volume address this question from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, with topics key to the ‘spatial turn’, such as borders and their permeability, actual and metaphorical spatial crossings, travel and displacement, and the built environment.



Masculine Virtue in Early Modern Spain Shifra Armon, University of Florida, USA

NEW HISPANISMS: CULTURAL AND LITERARY STUDIES

Culling genres as diverse as emblem books, poetry, drama, courtesy treatises and prose-fiction, this study extricates the history of masculinity in early modern Spain from the narrative of Spain’s fall from imperial power after 1640. Drawing on recent developments in gender theory, Masculine Virtue shows the inception of courtiership at the Spanish Hapsburg court generated new models of masculine virtue that to continue to resonate today.



Memorializing Animals during the Romantic Period Chase Pielak, Ashford University, USA

In his study of the presence of animals in early nineteenth-century works by Charles and Mary Lamb, John Clare, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Lord Byron, Chase Pielak observes that images of dead and deadly animals coincided with questions about what constitutes human life and its boundaries. He argues that each author uses language that ultimately betrays itself to expose beastly disruptions that not only startle the authors themselves but serve as landmarks within Romantic literature.



Memory and Community in Sixteenth-Century France Edited by David P. LaGuardia, Dartmouth College, USA and Cathy Yandell, Carleton College, USA

Memory and Community in Sixteenth-Century France demonstrates that memory and community interacted constantly in 16th-century France, producing conceptual frames that defined the conflicting groups to which individuals belonged, and from which they derived their identities. Focusing on the period’s continuous reformulations of the present as it was related to the past, these essays examine memory as one of the intellectual foundations of the late French Renaissance and its distinct communities.



Men and Women Making Friends in Early Modern France Edited by Lewis Seifert, Brown University, USA and Rebecca Wilkin, Pacific Lutheran University, USA


These essays tell the story of the declining intelligibility of classical models of (male) friendship and of the rising prominence of women as potential friends. Contributors reveal how men and women fashioned gendered selves, and also circumvented gender norms through concrete friendship practices. By showing that the benefits and the risks of friendship are magnified when gender roles and relations are unsettled, the volume highlights the relevance of early modern friend-making to friendship in the contemporary world.



Mermaids and the Production of Knowledge in Early Modern England Tara Pedersen, University of Wisconsin-Parkside, USA

Addressing epistemological questions about embodiment and perception, author Tara Pedersen furthers research about early modern theatrical culture by focusing on under-theorized representations of mermaids in English locations and texts. This study positions the mermaid as a lens through which to reexamine historically specific debates about gender, sexuality, religion, the marketplace, the new science, and the culture of curiosity and travel.



Milton and the Politics of Public Speech Helen Lynch, University of Aberdeen, UK

Using Hannah Arendt’s account of the Greek polis to explain Milton’s fascination with the idea of public speech, this book reveals what is distinctive about his conception of a godly, republican oratory and poetics. Setting Milton’s poetry and prose in the context of Civil War polemic; classical political theory and its early modern reinterpretations; and Renaissance writing on rhetoric and poetic language, the volume culminates in an Arendtian reading of his ‘Greek’ drama Samson Agonistes.



Place and Progress in the Works of Elizabeth Gaskell Edited by Lesa Scholl, Emmanuel College, University of Queensland, Australia, Emily Morris, St. Thomas More College, University of Saskatchewan, Canada and Sarina Gruver Moore, Calvin College, USA

Building on theories of space and place, this collection examines the global reach of Elizabeth Gaskell’s influence and places her work within the narrative of British letters and narrative identity. In keeping with the theme of progress and change, the essays follow parallel narratives that acknowledge both the angst and nostalgia produced by industrial progress and the excitement and awe occasioned by the potential of the empire.




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The Player Piano and the Edwardian Novel Cecilia Björkén-Nyberg, Halmstad University, Sweden

In her study of music-making in the Edwardian novel, Cecilia Björkén-Nyberg examines works by authors such as Dorothy Richardson, E. M. Forster, Henry Handel Richardson, and Compton Mackenzie to show that the invention and development of the player piano had a significant effect on the perception, performance and appreciation of music during the period. She draws on archival materials to place the player piano in the context of Edwardian commercial and technical discourse.



The Postcolonial Intellectual Ngugi wa Thiong’o in ContextOliver Lovesey, University of British Columbia, Canada

Oliver Lovesey examines the conundrum of the postcolonial intellectual, a central yet critically overlooked figure in the postcolonial project. He focuses on Ngugi wa Thiong’o within his cultural, historical, and intellectual contexts, primarily with respect to his non-fictional prose writings, including his neglected early journalism and his most recent autobiographical and theoretical work. Lovesey argues for Ngugi’s position as a major postcolonial theorist who helped establish postcolonial studies.



Reading and the Victorians Edited by Matthew Bradley, University of Liverpool, UK and Juliet John, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK


Bringing together historians, literary scholars, theorists, librarians and historians of the book, Reading and the Victorians examines the era when reading underwent a swifter and more radical transformation than at any other moment in history. The contributors stress the continuities and the conflicts between the Victorian period and our own, in essays that examine nineteenth-century reading in all its personal, historical, literary, and material contexts, and also ask questions about how we read the Victorians’ reading in the present day.



Renaissance Mad Voyages Experiments in Early Modern English TravelAnthony Parr, University of the Western Cape, South Africa

CULTURES OF PLAY, 1300–1700

The first full length scholarly work to focus on the travel ‘stunts’ that flourished in England between 1590 and the 1620s, this study shows that the phenomenon of the ‘mad voyage’ had deep and diverse roots in traditional travel practices, in courtly play and mercantile custom, and in literary culture. Parr explores the role of these exploits in a world of growing social mobility, increasing tourism, and interest in experiment.



Returning to John Donne Achsah Guibbory, Columbia University, USA

Guibbory collects here her most important and frequently cited essays on Donne, which, taken together, present her distinctive and evolving vision of the poet. Combining previously published work with an original and substantive introduction and three new essays, the author illuminates Donne’s understanding that erotic, spiritual and political issues are often intertwined, and reveals how this understanding resonates in our own times.



Serialization and the Novel in Mid-Victorian Magazines Catherine Delafield


Examining the Victorian serial as a text in its own right, Catherine Delafield analyzes five novels by Elizabeth Gaskell, Anthony Trollope, Dinah Craik and Wilkie Collins in the context of periodical publication. Her book addresses the material conditions of production, illustrates the collective and collaborative creation of the text, and offers fresh readings of novels that appeared in Household Words, Cornhill Magazine, Good Words, All the Year Round and Cassell’s Magazine.



Shakespeare and the Italian Renaissance Appropriation, Transformation, OppositionEdited by Michele Marrapodi, University of Palermo, Italy

ANGLO-ITALIAN RENAISSANCE STUDIES

This book investigates the drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries in the European Renaissance, in the context of Italian cultural, dramatic and literary traditions. Contributors perceive the Italian presence in early modern England not as a traditional treasure trove of influence and imitation, but as a potential cultural force, consonant with complex processes of appropriation, transformation, and ideological opposition through a continuous dialectical interchange of compliance and subversion.



Space and Place in Children’s Literature, 1789 to the Present Edited by Maria Sachiko Cecire, Bard College, USA, Hannah Field, University of Lincoln, UK, Kavita Mudan Finn, Southern New Hampshire University, USA and Malini Roy

ASHGATE STUDIES IN CHILDHOOD, 1700 TO THE PRESENT

Focusing on questions of space and locale in children’s literature, this collection explores how metaphorical and physical space can create landscapes of power, knowledge, and identity in texts from the early nineteenth century to the present. The contributors, who include Philip Pullman discussing his relationship to space and locale, analyze works from a range of sources and traditions by Sylvia Plath, Gloria Anzaldúa, Jenny Robson, C.S. Lewis and Elizabeth Knox, among others.



Travel, Modernism and Modernity Robert Burden

Focusing on the significance of travel in Joseph Conrad, E.M. Forster, D.H. Lawrence, Henry James and Edith Wharton, Robert Burden shows how travel enabled a new consciousness of mobility and borders during the modernist period. Burden argues that the greater awareness of cultural difference that characterizes both the travel writing and fiction of these expatriate writers became a defining feature of literary modernism that challenged the ethnographic project of empire.



The Vocation of Evelyn Waugh Faith and Art in the Post-War FictionD. Marcel DeCoste, University of Regina, Canada

Arguing against the critical commonplace that Evelyn Waugh’s post-war fiction represents a decline in his writerly powers, D. Marcel DeCoste analyzes Waugh’s major works from Brideshead Revisited to Unconditional Surrender. As DeCoste shows, Waugh offers in these later works an under-remarked meditation on the dangers of aestheticism in the context of modern secularism, forging in the second half of his career a literary achievement that both narrates and enacts a more Catholic literary vocation.




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Critical Music Historiography: Probing Canons, Ideologies and Institutions Edited by Vesa Kurkela and Markus Mantere, Sibelius Academy, Finland

Contributors in this edited collection argue that the radical view of the ‘impossibility of history’, as well as the unavoidable ideology of any history, are counter-productive points of departure for historical scholarship. It is argued that metanarratives in history are still possible but systematized viewpoints and methods for a more critical and multi-faceted re-evaluation of the past through research are needed. The chapters tackle under-researched and non-conventional domains of music history as well as rethinking older historiographical concepts. The result is a challenging collection that stakes out a unique territory for itself among the growing body of work on critical music history.



Damnable Practises: Witches, Dangerous Women, and Music in Seventeenth-Century English Broadside Ballads Sarah Williams, University of South Carolina, USA

Recent scholarship has explored the representations of witchcraft and malfeasance in English street literature; but until now the role of music and embodied performance in communicating female transgression has not been accounted for. Sarah Williams carefully considers the broadside ballad as a dynamic performative work situated in a unique cultural context. Employing techniques drawn from music analysis, gender studies, performance studies, and the histories of print and theater, she contends that broadside ballads and their music made connections between various degrees of female crime, the supernatural, and cautionary tales about and for women.



The Disciplines of Vocal Pedagogy: Towards an Holistic Approach Karen Sell

Karen Sell examines the disciplines pertinent to vocal pedagogy, tracing the lineage of views from the ancient world to the present day. In the process, important diverse roots are exposed, yielding differing and even conflicting tonal ideals that have a bearing on the consideration of different singing methods and the interpretation of songs and arias.

November 2014 266 pagesPaperback 978-1-4724-5249-8 £25.00 $44.95


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Eroticism in Early Modern Music Edited by Bonnie J. Blackburn, Oxford University, UK and Laurie Stras, University of Southampton, UK

This collection contributes to a small but significant literature on music, sexuality, and sex in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Europe. Contributors employ a variety of different approaches to the repertoire: musical and visual analysis; archival and cultural history; gender studies; philology; and performance. By confronting musical, literary, and visual sources with historically situated analyses, the book shows how erotic life and sensibilities were encoded in musical works. It will be of value to scholars of early modern European history and culture, and more widely to a readership interested in the history of eroticism and sexuality.



Fiesta de diez pesos: Music and Gay Identity in Special Period Cuba Moshe Morad

SOAS MUSICOLOGY SERIES

The ‘Special Period’ in Cuba was an extended era of economic depression starting in the early 1990s, characterised by the collapse of revolutionary values and social norms, and a way of life conducted by improvised solutions for survival, including hustling and sex-work. During this time there developed a thriving, though constantly harassed and destabilised, clandestine gay scene (known as the ‘ambiente’). In the course of eight visits to the city between 1995 and 2007, the last dozen years of Fidel Castro’s reign, Moshe Morad became absorbed in Havana’s gay scene, where he created a wide social network, attended numerous secret gatherings– from clandestine parties to religious rituals– and observed patterns of behaviour and communication. He discovered the role of music in this scene as a marker of identity, a source of queer codifications and identifications, a medium of interaction, an outlet for emotion and a way to escape from a reality of scarcity, oppression and despair.



Gender, Age and Musical Creativity Edited by Catherine Haworth and Lisa Colton, both at the University of Huddersfield, UK

This collection takes an interdisciplinary approach to issues of identity and its representation, examining intersections of age and gender in relation to music and musicians across a wide range of periods and places. Drawing together the work of musicologists and practitioners, it offers new ways in which to conceptualise the complex links between age and gender in both individual and collective practice and their reception: essays explore juvenilia and ‘late’ style in composition and performance, the role of institutions in fostering and sustaining creative activity throughout musical careers, and the ways in which genres and scenes themselves age over time.



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Applying Karnatic Rhythmical Techniques to Western Music Rafael Reina, Amsterdam Conservatoire, The Netherlands

Rafael Reina argues that today’s music demands a new approach to rhythmical training that will provide musicians with the necessary tools to face more varied and complex rhythmical concepts. Reina uses the architecture of the South Indian Karnatic rhythmical system to enhance and radically change the teaching of rhythmical solfege at a higher education level. The book is a clear and complete guide that will enable future solfege teachers and students to use these techniques and their methodology to greatly improve their rhythmical skills. An accompanying website of audio examples helps to explain each technique.

April 2015 472 pagesPaperback 978-1-4724-5150-7 £30.00 $54.95Hardback 978-1-4724-5149-1 £85.00 $149.95ebook PDF 978-1-4724-5151-4ebook ePUB 978-1-4724-5152-1


The ‘Ars musica’ Attributed to Magister Lambertus/Aristoteles Christian Meyer, CNRS, France and Karen Desmond, University College, Cork, Ireland

ROYAL MUSICAL ASSOCIATION MONOGRAPHS

The treatise on musica plana and musica mensurabilis written by Lambertus/Aristoteles is our main witness to thirteenth-century musical thought in the decades between the treatises of Johannes de Garlandia and Franco of Cologne. This treatise presents both the rudiments of the practice of liturgical chant and the principles of polyphonic notation in a dense and rigorous manner like few music treatises of its time. This new edition of Lambertus’s treatise is the first since Edmond de Coussemaker’s of 1864. Christian Meyer’s meticulous edition is displayed on facing pages with Karen Desmond’s English translation, and the treatise and translation are prefaced by a substantial introduction.



Artistic Practice as Research in Music: Theory, Criticism, Practice Edited by Mine Dogantan-Dack, University of Oxford, UK

SEMPRE STUDIES IN THE PSYCHOLOGY OF MUSIC

Internationally renowned scholars and practitioners come together in this volume to provide fresh insights into the cultural, institutional, theoretical, methodological, epistemological, ethical and practical aspects and implications of the rapidly evolving area of artistic research in music.



Being Musically Attuned The Act of Listening to MusicErik Wallrup, Stockholm University, Sweden

Listening according to mood is likely to be what most people do when they listen to music. We want to take part in, or even be part of, the emerging world of the musical work. Erik Wallrup explores this vague and elusive phenomenon, which is held to be fundamental to musical hearing. He unfolds the untold musical history of the German word for ‘mood’, Stimmung. Heidegger’s philosophy of Stimmung is introduced into the field of music, allowing Wallrup to realise fully the potential of the concept. Mood in music, or musical attunement, should not be seen as a peculiar kind of emotionality, but that which constitutes fundamentally the relationship between listener and music.



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Music Studies

The German Symphony between Beethoven and Brahms The Fall and Rise of a GenreChristopher Fifield

It was Carl Dahlhaus who coined the phrase ‘dead time’ to describe the state of the symphony between Schumann and Brahms. Christopher Fifield argues that many of the symphonies dismissed by Dahlhaus made worthy contributions to the genre. He looks at the non-programmatic works of the five decades between the mid-1820s and mid-1870s. Composers who lead to Brahms are frequently dismissed as epigones of Beethoven, Mendelssohn and Schumann but by investigating their symphonies, Fifield reveals their respective brands of originality and in so doing, shines a light into a half-century of neglected nineteenth century German symphonic music.



Grainger the Modernist Edited by Suzanne Robinson, University of Melbourne, Australia and Kay Dreyfus, Monash University, Australia

Percy Grainger has remained on the margins of American music history and twentieth-century modernism. This volume reveals him to be a self-described ‘hyper-modernist’ who composed works of uncompromising dissonance, challenged the conventions of folk song collection and adaptation, re-visioned the modern orchestra, experimented with ‘ego-less’ composition and designed machines intended to supersede human application. By reappraising Grainger’s social and historical connectedness and exploring the variety of aspects of modernity seen in his activities, the authors create a profile of a composer whose modernist aesthetic paralleled that of the most advanced composers of his day.



Iranian Classical Music The Discourses and Practice of CreativityLaudan Nooshin, City University London, UK


This book interrogates musicological discourses of creativity from the perspective of critical theory and postcolonial studies, examining their ideological underpinnings and the relationships of alterity which they sustain. The repertoire which forms the book’s main focus is Iranian classical music, a tradition in which the performer plays a central creative role. Addressing a number of central issues regarding the nature of musical creativity, the author explores both the discourses through which ideas about creativity are constructed, exchanged and negotiated within this tradition, and the practices by which new music comes into being.

February 2015 259 pagesHardback + CD 978-0-7546-0703-8 £65.00 $119.95


Japanese Singers of Tales: Ten Centuries of Performed Narrative Alison McQueen Tokita, Kyoto City University of Arts, Japan


Alison Tokita presents a series of case studies that demonstrate the persistence of Japanese sung narratives in a multiplicity of genres over ten centuries together with factors contributing to change in narrative performance. Narratives that were continually re-told and recycled in different versions and formats over a long period of time served to build people’s sense of a common identity over space (the geographical extent of ‘Japan’) and time (the enduring power of many specific narratives). The elements of variation and change relate to the move away from oral narrative to text-based performance, and from a simple narrative situation with one performer to complex theatrical narratives with dancers, singers and other musicians. Tokita includes substantial musical analysis and exploration of theoretical issues, as well as documentation of important performance traditions, all of which are extant.

March 2015 288 pagesHardback + CD 978-0-7546-5379-0 £70.00 $124.95


Korea and the Western Drumset: Scattering Rhythms Simon Barker, University of Sydney, Australia


Simon Barker sets out the developmental processes he has followed creating an improvisational language for the drumset utilizing Korean rhythm/sticking cells, aesthetic conceptions, improvisatory codes, and developmental procedures. He offers historical overviews of Korean traditional rhythmic forms, analysis of rhythmic structures, an account of his development of a ‘Koreanized’ approach to the drumset, a methodology for performing p’ansori accompaniment on the drumset, an introduction to Korean extended techniques, and a large collection of drumset studies based on Korean traditional forms. The book includes a CD featuring recordings of developmental exercises, solo drumset improvisations, and ensemble performances, each track representing a subject of discussion within the volume.

April 2015 150 pagesHardback + CD 978-1-4724-1897-5 £50.00 $89.95


The Life and Works of Andrzej Panufnik (1914–1991) Beata Boleslawska, translated by Richard J. Reisner

Beata Boleslawska presents the first book on the life and artistic output of one Poland’s leading composers. The account of the composer’s life is based on numerous archival documents as well as the personal accounts contributed by his family and friends. Panufnik’s compositional style and techniques are also analysed. This book will be of interest not only to those devoted to Panufnik, but also those interested in the relationship between music and politics in the former communist regimes in Eastern Europe.



Michael Costa: England’s First Conductor The Revolution in Musical Performance in England, 1830–1880John Goulden

MUSIC IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY BRITAIN

Among the major changes that swept through the music industry during the mid-nineteenth century was how musical performances were managed and directed. From a loose control shared between the violin-leader, musical director and maestro al cembalo to a system of tight and unified control under a professional conductor-manager. This process brought with it not only baton conducting in its modern form, but also higher standards, a new orchestral lay-out and a more focused rehearsal regime. The key figure in this process was Michael Costa whose uniquely powerful position in the operatic, symphonic and choral worlds provide a fascinating insight into the politics and changing aesthetics of the Victorian musical landscape.



The Mystery of Chopin’s Préludes Anatole Leikin, University of California, USA

Chopin’s twenty-four Préludes remain as mysterious today as when they were newly published, raising questions about sources, compositional intention and aesthetic appeal. In this monograph, richly illustrated with musical examples, Anatole Leikin combines historical perspectives, hermeneutic and thematic analyses, and a range of practical implications for performers to explore these questions and illuminate the music of one of the best loved collections of music for the piano.



Performing Nostalgia: Migration Culture and Creativity in South Albania Eckehard Pistrick, Martin-Luther-University, Germany


How do migrants express and imagine themselves through musical practice? How does music help them to construct social imaginaries and to cope with longings and belongings? In this study of migration music in postsocialist Albania, Eckehard Pistrick identifies links between sound, space, emotionality and mobility in performance, provides new insights into the controversial relationship between sound and migration, and sheds light on the cultural effects of migration processes. Central to Pistrick’s approach is the essential role of emotionality for musical creativity which is highlighted throughout the volume.

June 2015 267 pagesHardback + DVD 978-1-4724-4953-5 £65.00 $119.95



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The Politics of Musical Identity Selected EssaysAnnegret Fauser, University of North Carolina, USA

ASHGATE CONTEMPORARY THINKERS ON CRITICAL MUSICOLOGY SERIES

The essays selected for this volume – three of which are presented for the first time in English translation – reflect the work in both musical and cultural studies of a distinguished scholar whose international career spans the Atlantic and beyond. The articles explore how composers, performers and critics shaped individual and collective identities in music from Europe and the United States from the 1860s to the 1950s and focus on how music permits new ways of considering issues of nationality, class, race and gender.



Postopera: Reinventing the Voice-Body Jelena Novak, New University of Lisbon, Portugal

ASHGATE INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES IN OPERA

Both in opera studies and in most operatic works, the singing body is taken for granted. Jelena Novak reintroduces an awareness of the physicality of the singing body to opera studies. Arguing that the body-voice relationship itself is a producer of meaning, she furthermore posits this relationship as one of the major driving forces in recent opera. She takes as her focus six contemporary operas – La Belle et la Bête, Writing to Vermeer, Three Tales, One, Homeland and La Commedia and dissects the singing body as a set of rules, protocols, effects, strategies.



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Punk Rock Warlord: the Life and Work of Joe Strummer Edited by Barry J. Faulk, Florida State University and Brady Harrison, University of Montana, USA

ASHGATE POPULAR AND FOLK MUSIC SERIES

This collection explores the relevance of Joe Strummer within the continuing legacies of both punk rock and progressive politics. It is aimed at those interested in The Clash, punk culture, and the intersections between pop music and politics, on both sides of the Atlantic. Contributors represent a wide range of disciplines and their work examines all phases of Strummer’s career, from his early days as ‘Woody’ the busker to the whirlwind years as front man for The Clash, to the ‘wilderness years’ and final days with the Mescaleros. Punk Rock Warlord offers an engaging survey of its subject, while at the same time challenging some of the historical narratives that have been constructed around Strummer the Punk Icon.

April 2015 214 pagesPaperback 978-1-4724-6106-3 £25.00 $44.95ebook PDF 978-1-4724-1056-6ebook ePUB 978-1-4724-1057-3


Singing the Body Electric: The Human Voice and Sound Technology Miriama Young, University of New South Wales, Australia

Miriama Young explores the relationship between the human voice and recording technology, offering startling insights into the ways in which recording affects our understanding of the human voice, and more generally, the human body. She discusses a selection of musical works in which the human voice is captured, transformed or synthesized using technology. This book transcends time and musical style to reflect on the larger way in which ‘the machine’ transforms our comprehension and experience of the human voice. The book is an interdisciplinary enterprise that combines music aesthetics and musical analysis with literature and philosophy.



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Song Interpretation in 21st-Century Pop Music Edited by Ralf von Appen and André Doehring, both at the University of Gießen, Germany, Dietrich Helms, University of Osnabrück, Germany and Allan F. Moore, University of Surrey, UK


Existing books on the analysis of popular music focus on theory and methodology and normally discuss parts of songs briefly as examples. In this book the obverse is true: songs take centre stage. The authors analyse them from a variety of theoretical positions, compare their different hearings and discuss the ways in which they make sense of specific songs. By concentrating on 13 well-known and recent songs, this book offers some model analyses that can be studied at home or used in seminars and classrooms for students of popular music at all academic levels.



This is the Sound of Irony: Music, Politics and Popular Culture Edited by Katherine L. Turner, University of Houston, USA


The use of irony in music is just beginning to be defined and critiqued, irony in popular music being especially worthy of study because it is pervasive, even fundamental to the music, the business of making music and the politics of messaging. Contributors to this collection address a variety of musical ironies found in the ‘notes themselves,’ in the text or subtext, and through performance, reception and criticism. This interdisciplinary volume creates new methodologies and applies existing theories of irony to musical works that have made a cultural or political impact through the use of this most multifaceted of devices.



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Traditional Music and Irish Society: Historical Perspectives Martin Dowling, Queen’s University of Belfast, UK


These essays investigate the relation of traditional music to Irish modernity. The author integrates a survey of the early sources of Irish music with recent work on Irish social history in the eighteenth century to explore the question of the antiquity of the tradition and the class locations of its origins and he argues that the formation of Irish traditional music occurred alongside the economic and political modernization of European society in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Dowling concludes with an assessment of the current state of traditional music and cultural negotiation in Northern Ireland.

June 2015 368 pagesPaperback 978-1-4724-6098-1 £30.00 $59.95ebook PDF 978-1-4094-3511-2ebook ePUB 978-1-4724-0335-3


Tuk Music Tradition in Barbados Sharon Meredith, University of York, UK


Barbadian tuk music, a type of fife and drum music, has been transformed in the post-independence period from a working class music associated with plantations and rum shops to a signifier of national culture, played at official functions and showcased to tourists. Based on ethnographic and archival research, Sharon Meredith considers the social, political and cultural developments in Barbados that led to the evolution, development and revival of tuk as well as cultural traditions associated with it. She places tuk in the context of other music in the country, and examines similar musics elsewhere that, whilst sharing some elements with tuk, have their own individual identities.

April 2015 172 pagesHardback + CD 978-1-4724-4027-3 £55.00 $99.95


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Ubiquitous MusicsThe Everyday Sounds That We Don’t Always NoticeEdited by Marta García Quiñones, University of Barcelona, Spain, Anahid Kassabian, University of Liverpool, UK and Elena Boschi, Liverpool Hope University, UK


Ubiquitous Musics offers a multidisciplinary approach to the pervasive presence of music in everyday life. The essays address a variety of situations in which music is present alongside other activities and does not demand focused attention from (sometimes involuntary) listeners. The contributors present different theoretical perspectives on the increasing ubiquity of music and its implications for the experience of listening.

May 2015 228 pagesPaperback 978-1-4724-6097-4 £25.00 $44.95ebook PDF 978-1-4094-5134-1ebook ePUB 978-1-4724-0036-9



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How Music Helps in Music Therapy and Everyday Life Gary Ansdell, Nordoff Robbins Music Therapy, UK

How Music Helps is not just a book about music therapy. It has the more ambitious aim to promote (from a music therapist’s perspective) a better understanding of ‘music and change’ in our personal and social life. Ansdell’s theoretical synthesis links the tradition of Nordoff-Robbins music therapy and its recent developments in Community Music Therapy to contemporary music sociology and music studies. This book will be relevant to practitioners, academics and researchers looking for a broad-based theoretical perspective to guide further study and policy in music, well-being, and health.

March 2015 376 pagesPaperback 978-1-4724-5805-6 £18.99 $34.95Hardback 978-1-4094-3414-6 £55.00 $99.95ebook PDF 978-1-4094-3415-3ebook ePUB 978-1-4724-0571-5


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Music Asylums: Wellbeing Through Music in Everyday Life Tia DeNora, University of Exeter, UK

Taking a cue from Erving Goffman’s classic work, Asylums, Tia DeNora develops a novel interdisciplinary framework for music, health and wellbeing. Adopting a holistic, interactionist focus, Music Asylums reconnects states of wellness and wellbeing to encounters with others and– critically – to opportunities for aesthetic experience. The book presents music as an active ingredient of action, identity, capacity and consciousness. Intended for scholars and practitioners in psychiatry and psychology, palliative care, socio-music studies, music psychology and the allied health professions, Music Asylums showcases music’s role in the existential project of being and staying well, mentally and physically.

February 2015 178 pagesPaperback 978-1-4724-5598-7 £16.99 $29.95ebook PDF 978-1-4094-3760-4ebook ePUB 978-1-4724-0032-1


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The Passion for Music: A Sociology of Mediation Antoine Hennion, Centre de Sociologie de l’Innovation, MINES-Paris Tech – CNRS, Paris Sciences et Lettres Research University, France, Translated by Margaret Rigaud and Peter Collier

Music is an accumulation of mediators: instruments, languages, sheets, performers, scenes, media and so on. Learning from music – this art of infinite mediations – allows us to confront sociology with a different way of considering objects. For this task, Hennion draws on aesthetics, art history, science, technology and popular music studies. He shows us that music is a collective process, which must always be performed again and again. As part of that project, he presents a wide-ranging series of case studies, restoring attention to the rich and varied intermediaries through which music is brought to life. This is the first English translation of one of the most important works of French scholarship on music and society.



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MUSIC AND CHANGE: ECOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES

Series Editor: Gary Ansdell, Nordoff Robbins Music Therapy, UK and Tia DeNora, University of Exeter, UK

Music and Change: Ecological Perspectives, is a cross-disciplinary, topic-led series for scholars and practitioners. Its aim is to explore the question of how, where and when music makes a difference. If music is a dynamic ingredient of change, what are the processes and mechanisms associated with music’s powers, and how can ecological perspectives help us to understand music in action? Book proposals are welcome in any of the following areas: healthcare, social policy, political activism, psychiatry, embodiment, mind and consciousness, community relations, education and informal learning, management and organizational cultures, trauma, memory and commemoration, theories of action, self-help, conflict and conflict resolution, the life course, spirituality and religion, disability studies, palliative care, social criticism, governance, resistance, protest, and utopian communities.


Politics and International Relations

Autocratic and Democratic External Influences in Post-Soviet Eurasia Edited by Anastassia Obydenkova, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain and Alexander Libman, German Institute for International and Security Affairs SWP, Germany

POST-SOVIET POLITICS

Bringing together literatures on the external influences of democratization, the post-Soviet space and support for autocracy Obydenkova and Libman provide a comprehensive overview of the interaction of domestic and international politics during times of regime transition. Demonstrating the interplay of these forces the book explores the rich variation in motives and channels of autocratic and democratic influences. International scholars consider two channels of external influence on regime transition; the role of supranational organizations established by non-democracies and the role of non-governmental organizations and through a set of carefully chosen case studies offer a new theoretical discussion on the phenomenon of multi-level regime transition.



Beppe Grillo’s Five Star Movement Organisation, Communication and IdeologyEdited by Filippo Tronconi, University of Bologna, Italy

Drawing on an extensive array of data and face-to-face interviews, this volume offers an empirically grounded explanation of the surprising electoral success of the Five Star Movement and presents a realistic picture of this party in its manifold aspects: organisational structure, communication style, linkages with civil society, ideological nature and positioning in the Italian political system.



The China-Japan Border Dispute Islands of Contention in Multidisciplinary PerspectiveEdited by Tim F. Liao, University of Illinois, USA, Kimie Hara, University of Waterloo, Canada and Krista Wiegand, University of Tennessee, USA

RETHINKING ASIA AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

Crossing disciplinary boundaries, this volume offers a rare forum for a serious analysis of the territorial dispute over the Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands between China and Japan. The volume deconstructs conflicting perspectives on the two sides of the dispute. Cutting through the political rhetoric on both sides of the controversy, this book analyzes the relevant history, international law, multilateral relations, political agendas, and social and collective memory, to shed light on this difficult dispute. Taken together, the chapters of the book propose short-term, medium-term, and long-term peaceful solutions for going beyond the impasse of the current territorial dispute.



Comparative Health Care Federalism Edited by Katherine Fierlbeck, Dalhousie University Canada and Howard A. Palley, University of Maryland, USA

FEDERALISM STUDIES

Complementing the theoretical and methodological objectives, this book provides a detailed, empirical description of the challenges faced by different states and the ways in which health policy-making works within each of the federal and quasi-federal systems presented. In chapters on the United States, Australia, Canada, Germany, Spain, Italy, Austria, the United Kingdom, the EU, India, China, Brazil and the Russia Federation the authors consider what variables contribute to, and stand in the way of, the formation of robust and sustainable health care systems.



Contemporary Regional Development in Africa Edited by Kobena T. Hanson

THE INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL ECONOMY OF NEW REGIONALISMS SERIES

Interrogating well-known concerns in the areas of regionalism and economic integration in contemporary Africa, Contemporary Regional Development in Africa offers an added uniqueness by highlighting the capacity imperatives of the issues, and proposing critical policy guideposts. The volume juxtaposes a set of ‘dynamic’ entanglement – new and micro regionalism, informal cross-border trade, intra-African and African FDI plus cross-border investments, infrastructure development, science and technology, regional value-chains, conflict management and regional security – with fluid interpretations of regional development.



Africa in the Age of Globalisation Perceptions, Misperceptions and RealitiesEdited by Edward Shizha and Lamine Diallo, both at Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada


This is a collection of bold and visionary scholarship that reveals an insightful exposition of re-visioning African development from African perspectives. It provides an interdisciplinary conceptual base that can effectively guide the planning and implementing of programs for socio-economic development in Africa. The book provides up-to-date scholarly research on continental trends on various subjects and concerns of paramount importance to globalisation and development in Africa (politics, democracy, education, gender, technology, global relationships and the role of non-governmental organisations).



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The Ashgate Research Companion to Military Ethics Edited by James Turner Johnson, Rutgers University, USA and Eric D. Patterson, Regent University, USA

JUSTICE, INTERNATIONAL LAW AND GLOBAL SECURITY

This companion provides scholars and graduates, serving and retired military professionals, members of the diplomatic and policy communities concerned with security affairs, and legal professionals who deal with military law and with international law on armed conflicts, with a comprehensive and authoritative state-of-the-art review of current research in the area of military ethics. Topics in this volume reflect both perennial and pressing contemporary issues in the ethics of the use of military force and are written by established professionals and respected commentators.



The Authoritarian Interlude Democracy, Values and the Politics of HubrisPeter Marden, RMIT University, Australia

The Authoritarian Interlude extends debates on democracy by critically examining the key role of values often associated with neo-liberalism and the traditions of thought concerning public conceptions of democratic life. Within the volume various normative arguments from prominent political theorists are addressed, particularly those associated with deliberative approaches to the study of contemporary democracy. Throughout the book examples are taken from the Australian, United Kingdom and United States democratic experience post-9/11 to explore the dimensions of democratic culture, the nuanced tensions between the individual as an autonomous reflective subject, and conceptions of the common good.



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Cultures of Democracy in Serbia and Bulgaria How Ideas Shape PublicsJames Dawson, University College London, UK

SOUTHEAST EUROPEAN STUDIES

Starting from the premise that citizens can only uphold the institutions of liberal democracy when they understand and identify with the principles enshrined in them, the author applies normative public sphere theory to the analysis of political discourse and everyday discussion in Serbia and Bulgaria. Moving beyond the narrow focus on institutions that currently prevails in studies of democratization, this book demonstrates the value of a more ethnographic and society-oriented approach.



The Defense Industrial Base Strategies for a Changing WorldNayantara D. Hensel, National Defense University, USA

International defense industrial sectors have faced many challenges over the last twenty years, and in the current environment they struggle with the need to maintain critical aspects of the defense industrial base. Because the defense sector in the US is interconnected with other global defense and industry sectors, decisions made in one sector impact those of other countries and other areas of the economy. Hensel examines the interrelationship between these forces both historically and in the current environment, assessing the implications for the future global defense industrial base.



A Discourse Analysis of Corruption Instituting Neoliberalism Against Corruption in Albania, 1998–2005Blendi Kajsiu, University of New York in Tirana, Albania

SOUTHEAST EUROPEAN STUDIES

Why did Albania enjoy some of the most successful anti-corruption programs and institutions along with what appeared to be growing levels of corruption during the period 1998–2005? Looking at corruption through a post-structuralist discourse analysis perspective this book argues that the dominant corruption discourse in Albania served primarily to institute the neoliberal order rather than eliminate corruption. As a rare example of post-structuralist discourse analysis of corruption this book can be useful for future research on discourses of corruption in other countries of the region and beyond.



The Eastern Mediterranean in Transition Multipolarity, Politics and PowerEdited by Spyridon N. Litsas, University of Macedonia, Greece and Aristotle Tziampiris, University of Piraeus, Greece


The wider region of the Eastern Mediterranean is in transition. This collective project by leading experts represents a unique combination of International Theory and International Politics analysis that deals exclusively with the wider Eastern Mediterranean. It scrutinizes in a multidimensional manner the current geostrategic and geopolitical conditions that include the latest domestic socio-political events, as well as the active involvement of the Great Powers in the region. This book should be of interest to academics, decision-makers and a general reading public focusing on a significant and influential region in flux.



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Encounters with World Affairs An Introduction to International RelationsEdited by Emilian Kavalski, Australian Catholic University

This book is designed to familiarise students with leading International Relations theories and their explanation of political events, phenomena, and processes which cross the territorial boundaries of the state. Thus, students will be exposed to the interplay between power, interest, ideas, identity, and resistance, in explaining continuity and change in international relations. Developed to provide students with the analytical tools and intellectual frameworks needed to understand the behaviour of different international actors in contemporary global affairs. This textbook responds to the challenges of a dynamic job market by assisting students to gain both thorough theoretical knowledge and training them to apply this knowledge to real world problems.



Entrepreneurship in the Polis Understanding Political EntrepreneurshipEdited by Inga Narbutaité Aflaki, Karlstad University, Sweden, Evangelia Petridou, Mid-Sweden University, Sweden and Lee Miles, Loughborough University, UK, and Karlstad University, Sweden

Drawing upon an international cast of senior academics and cutting edge young researchers, the volume takes a closer look at key aspects of political entrepreneurship, such as, defining political entrepreneurs, how it relates to change, decision-making and strategies, organizational arrangements, institutional rules, varying contexts and future research agendas. By highlighting the political aspects of entrepreneurship, the volume presents new exciting opportunities for understanding entrepreneurial activities at regional, national and international levels. The volume will be of particular relevance to scholars and students of political science, policy studies, public administration, planning, international relations and business studies as well as practitioners interested in the nexus and utility of entrepreneurship in the modern-day political world.



Eurasian Regionalisms and Russian Foreign Policy Mikhail A. Molchanov, St.Thomas University, Canada


Bridging foreign policy analysis and international political economy, this volume offers a new look at the problem of agency in comparative regional integration studies. It examines evolving regional integration projects in the Eurasian space, defined as the former Soviet Union countries and China, and the impact that Russian foreign policy has had on integration in the region. By combining foreign policy studies with an examination of the international political economy of regionalism in Eurasia the author furthers our understanding of new regionalism, both theoretically and empirically.



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The European External Action Service and National Foreign Ministries Convergence or Divergence?Edited by Rosa Balfour, European Policy Centre, Belgium, Caterina Carta, Vesalius College, Belgium, and Kristi Raik, Finnish Institute of International Affairs, Finland

GLOBALISATION, EUROPE, MULTILATERALISM SERIES

Based on extensive empirical work by a cross-European group of researchers, this book assesses the impact of the creation of the European External Action Service (EEAS) on the national foreign policy-making processes and institutions of the EU member states. As such, the contributions cover both the involvement of the national diplomatic and foreign policy actors in shaping the outlook of the EEAS and its mission, as well as the changes (or not) it has produced for those actors of the member states. The analysis draws in theoretical frameworks from Europeanization and socialization, but also from intergovernmental frameworks of policy-making within the European Union.

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The European Union and Japan A New Chapter in Civilian Power Cooperation?Edited by Paul Bacon, Waseda University, Japan, Hartmut Mayer, University of Oxford, UK and Hidetoshi Nakamura, Waseda University, Japan


The EU and Japan have one of the most important trade relationships in the world. Fittingly, this book presents a detailed analysis of their bilateral regulatory environment and negotiation processes. Moreover, the two polities have also co-operated extensively in bilateral and multilateral contexts on a range of global governance issues. Nevertheless, the relationship is widely acknowledged to have significant untapped potential. Deploying the concept of civilian power, the book takes a fresh, honest and provocative look at this important relationship, in a post-Fukushima, post-sovereign debt crisis world.



The Europeanisation of Contested Statehood The EU in northern CyprusGeorge Kyris, University of Birmingham, UK

The Europeanisation of Contested Statehood: The EU in northern Cyprus acts as a case study of the impact of the EU on institutions, political parties and civil society in ‘contested states’, self-declared states which remain unrecognised in world politics. Research drawn from qualitative analysis of official documents, public discourse and interviews with various officials and political and so cial elites within the EU and at a local level provides new insights as to the impact of the EU on northern Cyprus as well as a fresh understanding of the relevance of the EU to contested states in general. By doing so, the book reflects on what contested statehood means for Europeanisation and lays out a conceptual template for the study of contested states of the wider European periphery.



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The Eurozone Crisis and the Transformation of EU Governance Internal and External ImplicationsEdited by Maria João Rodrigues and Eleni Xiarchogiannopoulou, both at Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium


Research on European governance is central to understanding both the process of European integration and its external influence as a laboratory for multilateralism. This volume focuses on the impact of the recent Eurozone crisis and its far-reaching implications for European governance both inside and outside the EU borders. Ideal for classroom use, this volume covers European modes of governance; the transformation of European economic governance; the transformation of European social policy governance; and the international implications of the transformation of EU governance.

August 2014 282 pagesPaperback 978-1-4724-3310-7 £25.00 $44.95Hardback 978-1-4724-3307-7 £65.00 $119.95ebook PDF 978-1-4724-3308-4ebook ePUB 978-1-4724-3309-1


The Failure to Prevent World War I The Unexpected ArmageddonHall Gardner, American University of Paris, France

MILITARY STRATEGY AND OPERATIONAL ART

This book refines and expands points made in the author’s earlier work on the failure to prevent World War I. It provides an alternative viewpoint to the thesis of Paul Kennedy, Fritz Fischer, among others, as to the war’s long-term origins. By starting its analysis with the causes and consequences of the 1870–71 Franco-Prussian war, the study systematically explores the key geo-strategic, political-economic and socio-cultural-ideological disputes between France, Germany, Austria-Hungary, Russia, the United States and Great Britain, the nature of their foreign policy goals, alliance formations, arms rivalries, as well as the dynamics of the diplomatic process, so as to better explain the deeper roots of the war.



G20 Governance for a Globalized World John J. Kirton, University of Toronto, Canada

GLOBAL FINANCE

This study mobilizes classic and contemporary international relations theory to explain the causes of observed G20 governance, and on this basis offers some concluding predictions about its future course. In particular it offers an account grounded in the competitive dynamics among international institutions in a crowded world, rather than one based merely on the older model of forum-shopping among states in an anarchic system.



Germany After the 2013 Elections Breaking the Mould of Post-Unification Politics?Edited by Gabriele D’Ottavio, Italian-German Historical Institute, Italy and Thomas Saalfield, Univeristy of Bamberg, Germany

Germany After the 2013 Elections provides a comprehensive analysis of the German elections of 2013, and their wider consequences for both German and European politics. International specialists on German and EU politics provide expert analysis on the election result and its consequences. Germany’s European policy and the potential consequences of the election for European and international politics are also explored along with Germany’s long term approach to European integration, its role in the management of the Euro crisis and its changing relations with its main partners in the EU. The final part of the volume is devoted to some of the key challenges faced and changing modes of governance in times of crisis.



Governing Europe’s Marine Environment Europeanization of Regional Seas or Regionalization of EU Policies?Edited by Michael Gilek, Södertörn University, Sweden, and Kristine Kern, Leibniz Institute for Regional Development & University of Potsdam, Germany

CORBETT CENTRE FOR MARITIME POLICY STUDIES SERIES

This edited volume offers a multidisciplinary analysis of current approaches and challenges to the sustainable governance of Europe’s marine environment. Structured in three parts, Part I outlines general theoretical ideas about governance, governing, and governability and serves as a starting point for analysing the development of marine governance in Europe. Part II includes studies of EU marine governance. Part III focuses on Europe’s regional seas, namely the Baltic Sea, the North Sea, the Black Sea and the Mediterranean Sea.



Government of Peace Social Governance, Security and the Problematic of PeaceEdited by Ranabir Samaddar, Calcutta Research Group, India

Government of Peace addresses a major question in world politics today: how does post-colonial democracy produce a form of governance that copes with conflicts, insurgencies, revolts, and acute dissents? The contributors view social governance as a crucial component in answering this question and their narratives of governance aim to show how certain appropriate governing modes make social conflicts more manageable or at least also occasions for development. The idea of a government of peace sits at the core of the interlinked issues of social governance, peace-building, and security. By exploring this idea and analysing the Indian experience of insurgencies and internal conflicts the contributors collectively show how rules of social governance can and have evolved.



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How the EU Really Works Olivier Costa, CNRS, Bordeaux, France and College of Europe, Belgium and Nathalie Brack, University of Oxford, UK and Cevipol, Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium

This book provides a concise analysis of the EU and its dynamics by paying particular attention to its day to day operation. It proposes to help students and scholars understand its evolution, its institutions, its decision-making and the interactions between the EU and various actors. Avoiding abstract theorizing, the authors propose an easy to read analysis of how the Union works while recognizing the complexity of the situation. Throughout the book, the key issues of European integration are addressed: democratic deficit, politicization, the role of member states, institutional crisis and citizen involvement.




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Inside Cambodian Insurgency A Sociological Perspective on Civil Wars and ConflictDaniel Bultmann, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany


Within the field of insurgency there are many different types of power practice directed towards making soldiers obedient and disciplined. This book puts forth that the type of power being utilised depends on the habitus of the respective commander and, as a result, becomes socially differentiated. Furthermore, power practices are shaped by the classificatory discourse of commanders (and their soldiers) on good soldierhood and leadership. This book helps professionals in this area to understand better the types of power practice inside insurgencies. It is also a useful guide to students and academics interested in peace and conflict studies, sociology and Southeast Asia.



An Introduction to European Intergovernmental Organizations Marc Cogen, Ghent University and Vesalius College, Belgium

An Introduction to European Intergovernmental Organizations provides an up-to-date and accessible reference to European intergovernmental organizations other than the European Union. The specialized character of these organizations adds value to cooperation in Europe as a whole, creates permanent channels of communication regardless of EU membership and allows the possibility for non-European involvement through organizations such as the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and NATO. It also allows sub regional groups of states, such as the Nordic countries or the Benelux countries to exist and express their own identity via their own organizations.



Limits to Regional Integration Edited by Søren Dosenrode, Aalborg University, Denmark


This comprehensive volume, written by high profiled academics, covers themes within regional integration by examining eleven cases ranging from the lack of integration in the Arctic and the Middle East, to ongoing or progressing integration in Europe in an effort to uncover what ‘blocks’ regional integration. The results of this discussion are used for developing new theoretical insights.



The Microfinance Mirage The Politics of Poverty, Social Capital and Women’s Empowerment in EthiopiaEsayas Bekele Geleta, Kwantlen Polytechnic University, Canada

Making a unique contribution to our further understanding of the microfinance industry this book shows that, in some cases, microfinance can result in the disintegration of pre-existing relationships and in the disruption and destruction of the livelihoods of the poor. Exploring the impact of microfinance in one of the poorest regions of sub-Saharan Africa this book demonstrates its potential and problems and shows the complex and contradictory social and cultural environments in which projects are often located.



Military Robots Mapping the Moral LandscapeJai Galliott, Macquarie University, Australia

MILITARY AND DEFENCE ETHICS

Philosophers have wrestled over the morality and ethics of war for nearly as long as human beings have been waging it. The death and destruction that unmanned warfare entails magnifies the moral and ethical challenges we face in conventional warfare and everyday society. This book provides a comprehensive and unifying analysis of the moral, political and social questions concerning the rise of drone warfare.



The Neighbours of the European Union’s Neighbours Diplomatic and Geopolitical Dimensions beyond the European Neighbourhood PolicyEdited by Sieglinde Gstöhl, College of Europe, Belgium and Erwan Lannon, College of Europe and Ghent University, Belgium

What instruments does the EU have at its disposal and how can it link them in order to respond to the challenges and overcome the current fragmentation? How can the EU create bridges between the neighbours of its neighbours? This timely book takes stock of the state of the EU’s co-operation with these regions and explores how the concept might help promote security, stability and prosperity beyond the countries which are formally part of the European Neighbourhood Policy.



The New Nuclear Disorder Challenges to Deterrence and StrategyStephen J. Cimbala, Penn State Brandywine, USA

In the twenty-first century, the United States confronts an international system of great complexity and shifting security challenges. This book’s relevance lies in its assessment of certain large-looming cases, including the possible acquisition and deployment of nuclear weapons by Iran and the continuing tensions created by North Korea’s nuclear arsenal. The Obama ‘pivot’ of national security and defense emphasis to Asia reflects not only the growing economic importance of that region, but also the growing number of security dilemmas in a region that is already awash in nuclear forces. The management of nuclear crises and even the possible need to terminate nuclear wars before they expand beyond a single region are among the possible challenges facing future U.S. and allied policy makers and military leaders.



A New Scramble for Africa? The Rush for Energy Resources in Sub-Saharan AfricaEdited by Sören Scholvin, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany


This book is the first to bring together comparative perspectives on the strategies of state and non-state actors involved in the exploitation of Sub-Saharan energy resources; the potential and pitfalls of new forms of cooperation on energy southwards of the Sahara and the domestic opportunities and challenges of the present energy resource boom. It also advances a materialist approach applicable in geographical and political-scientific research, showing that much insight can be gained by concentrating on the material environment that shapes economic and political phenomena.



Non-Western Encounters with Democratization Imagining Democracy after the Arab SpringEdited by Christopher K. Lamont, Jan van der Harst, Frank Gaenssmantel all at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands

Non-Western Encounters with Democratization offers diverse perspectives on democracy and transition spanning the Middle East and North Africa to East Asia. This unique collection of essays, drawn from contextually rich case studies, presents readers with a variety of non-western encounters with democracy and provides important insights into the dramatic political and social transformations in these regions over the past decades. The book offers a deeper understanding of democratization and challenges the image of western democracy as a universal model to which non-western societies aspire.





Northern Europe and the Making of the EU’s Mediterranean and Middle East Policies Normative Leaders or Passive Bystanders?Edited by Timo Behr and Teija Tiilikainen, both at The Finnish Institute of International Affairs

What drives European foreign policy towards the wider Mediterranean and Middle East region? This collection takes an innovative approach to answering this question, by considering the impact of intra-European divisions on European polices towards this crucial region. It also seeks to answer the questions of which factors are shaping the foreign policies of these countries in the Mediterranean and Middle East, what has been their contribution to common EU polices, and whether their growing activism signal an end to old geo-clientalistic division as a core driver of European foreign policy.



Obama’s Challenge to China The Pivot to AsiaChi Wang, U.S.-China Policy Foundation, USA

This book explores U.S.-China relations under the leadership of President Barack Obama. And discusses how his decisions set the stage for a new era in U.S.-China relations. The book outlines Barack Obama’s own personal worldview and the backgrounds of the advisors that made up his China team; it details the major events in U.S.-China relations from 2009 to 2014; and addresses Sino-U.S. relations and interactions with regards to various issues: economics, military relations, climate change, human rights, and multilateral cooperation in regional and international organizations. Finally, the book ends with timely suggestions for how to improve the U.S.-China relationship and ensure a peaceful future.



Peaceful Intervention in Intra-State Conflicts Norwegian Involvement in the Sri Lankan Peace ProcessChanaka Talpahewa

Peaceful Intervention in Intra-State Conflicts: Norwegian Involvement in the Sri Lankan Peace Process is an in-depth, impartial discussion on the background, decision making processes and procedures and related actions in the Norwegian facilitated peace process in Sri Lanka that gradually shifted towards a military solution. It provides the reader with evidence based comprehensive analysis on the attempts of peaceful third party intervention in a complex ethno-separatist intra-state conflict.



The Politics of Energy and Memory between the Baltic States and Russia Agnia Grigas


The Baltic states share similar histories and resources, and face the same geopolitical challenges. All are dependent on Russia for energy yet, as this fascinating study reveals, they have pursued very different foreign policies towards their powerful neighbour. In The Politics of Energy and Memory between the Baltic States and Russia Agnia Grigas provides an unprecedented analysis of contemporary Baltic-Russian relations and identifies the causal factors that drive the foreign policies of the Baltic states in such divergent routes. Supported by case studies on the oil and gas sectors as well as the tug of history, this book is an invaluable resource for scholars and policy makers.

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The Politics of Surveillance and Response to Disease Outbreaks The New Frontier for States and Non-state ActorsEdited by Sara E. Davies, Queensland University of Technology, Australia and Jeremy R. Youde, University of Minnesota Duluth, USA

GLOBAL HEALTH

Despite all the rhetoric about the importance of infectious disease surveillance, the concept itself has received relatively little critical attention from academics, practitioners, and policymakers. This book asks leading contributors in the field to engage with five key issues attached to international disease outbreak surveillance – transparency, local engagement, practical needs, integration, and appeal – to illuminate the political effect of these technologies on those who use surveillance, those who respond to surveillance, and those being monitored.



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The Politics of Transatlantic Trade Negotiations TTIP in a Globalized WorldEdited by Jean-Frédéric Morin, Laval University, Canada,Tereza Novotná, Frederic Ponjaert and Mario Telò, all at Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium


By focusing on the wider process of negotiations, this novel volume presents the first systematic analysis of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP). The authors include scholars and practitioners from across disciplines and various academic institutions around Europe and North America, but also from outside of the transatlantic basin. While presenting a thorough examination of the process of TTIP negotiations, the volume is divided into four parts with each part examining a broader theme and offering three or four shorter exploratory chapters that are accessible to academics, students, policy-makers and a wider audience.



The Powell Doctrine and US Foreign Policy Luke Middup, Portsmouth Business School at the Royal Air Force College Cranwell, UK


The Vietnam War is one of the longest and most controversial in US history. This book seeks to explore what lessons the US military took from that conflict as to how and when it was appropriate for the United States to use the enormous military force at its disposal and how these lessons have come to influence and shape US foreign policy in subsequent decades. In particular this book will focus on the evolution of the so called ‘Powell Doctrine’ and the intellectual climate that lead to it.



Religion, Politics and Nation-Building in Post-Communist Countries Edited by Greg Simons, Uppsala University, Sweden and David Westerlund, Södertörn University, Sweden


Leading international scholars consider the religious and political role of Christian Orthodoxy in the Russian Federation, Romania, Georgia and Ukraine alongside the revival of old, indigenous religions, often referred to as ‘shamanistic’ and look at how, despite Islam’s long history and many adherents in the south, Islamophobic attitudes have increasingly been added to traditional anti-Semitic, anti-Western or anti-liberal elements of Russian nationalism.



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Remapping Gender, Place and Mobility Global Confluences and Local Particularities in Nordic PeripheriesEdited by Stine Thidemann Faber and Helene Pristed Nielsen, both at Aalborg University, Denmark

GENDER IN A GLOBAL/LOCAL WORLD

Enhancing our understanding of how people and places are affected by globalization at the level of everyday interactions within ‘Nordic Peripheries’, this book sheds light on local particularities as well as global confluences, by illuminating how gender, mobility and belonging contribute to ruptures and/or stability in the lives of men and women living in and/or moving within these northern localities. Crossing disciplinary and geographical boundaries the focus of the book is specifically on how global processes shape and influence the Nordic countries at the social level: Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Iceland, Finland, as well as the Faroe Islands.



Risk State Japan’s Foreign Policy in an Age of UncertaintyEdited by Sebastian Maslow, German Institute for Japanese Studies Tokyo, Ra Mason, University of Central Lancashire, UK and Paul O’Shea, Aarhus University, Denmark

RETHINKING ASIA AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

The increase of new complex security challenges and the heightening significance of a diverse array of actors has simultaneously posed a challenge to traditional perspectives on international relations and foreign policy and created an opportunity for new concepts to be applied. Conventional explanations of Japan’s foreign policy have provided us with theoretically predetermined understandings and fallacious predictions. Reformulating risk in its application to the study of international relations and foreign policy, this volume promises new insights into the analysis of contemporary foreign policy in East Asia and Japan’s post-Cold War international relations in particular.



The Search for Lasting Peace Critical Perspectives on Gender-Responsive Human SecurityEdited by Rosalind Boyd, McGill University, Canada


Presenting the human security agenda as a policy response to the changing nature of violent conflicts and war, this collection traces its evolution in relation to conflicts in different contexts (Burma, India, Palestine, Canada, East Timor, Guatemala, Peru and African countries) and from the perspective of gender, addresses initiatives for peace with justice. Cases are analysed when the human security agenda, including UNSC resolution 1325, was in its initial phase and point to both the weakness of the concept and the unexpected direction it has taken.



State, Society and Information Technology in Asia Alterity Between Online and Offline PoliticsEdited by Alan Chong, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Singapore and Faizal Bin Yahya, Institute of Policy Studies, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore

Calling attention to the unique social and political uses being made of IT in Asia, in the service of offline and online causes predominantly filtered by pre-existing social milieus, the contributors examine the multiple dimensions of Asian differences in the sociology and politics of IT and show how present trends suggest that advanced electronic media will not necessarily be embraced in a smooth, unilinear fashion throughout Asia. This book will appeal to any reader interested in the nexus between society and IT in Asia.



The Transformation of Politicised Religion From Zealots into LeadersEdited by Harmut Elsenhans, University of Leipzig, Germany, Rachid Ouissa, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany, Sebastian Schwecke University of Göttingen, Germany and Mary Ann Tetreault, Trinity University, USA

Including the contributions of leading scholars from Algeria, France, Germany, India and the United States, this book traces the rise and turn to moderation of the New Cultural Identitarian Political Movements, often labelled in the West as fundamentalists. The Transformation of Politicised Religion traces the rise of these movements to the changes in their respective countries’ political economy and class structures, explaining why, as a result of an ongoing contestation and recreation of bourgeois values, the more powerful of these movements tend towards moderation.



Under Weber’s ShadowModernity, Subjectivity and Politics in Habermas, Arendt and MacIntyre Keith Breen, Queen’s University Belfast, UK

Engaging with important current debates and literature, Keith Breen provides a rigorous analysis of the work of Habermas, Arendt, MacIntyre and Weber and a highly accessible and original intervention within contemporary social and political thought. Under Weber’s Shadow will therefore be of interest to students and researchers alike within the areas of social and political theory, as well as those within the disciplines of ethics, sociology and philosophy.



Virtue and Economy Essays on Morality and MarketsEdited by Andrius Bielskis, Mykolas Romeris University, Lithuania and Kelvin Knight, London Metropolitan University, UK

RETHINKING POLITICAL AND INTERNATIONAL THEORY

Interest in Aristotelianism and in virtue ethics has been growing for half a century but as yet the strengths of the study of Aristotelian ethics in politics have not been matched in economics. This ground-breaking text fills that gap. Challenging the premises of neoclassical economic theory, the contributors take issue with neoclassicism’s foundational separation of values from facts, with its treatment of preferences as given, and with its consequent refusal to reason about final ends. Contributions critically engage with aspects of corporate capitalism, managerial power and neoliberal economic policy, and reflect on the recent financial crisis from the point of view of Aristotelian virtue ethics. Containing a new chapter by Alasdair MacIntyre, and deploying his arguments and conceptual scheme throughout, the book critically analyses the theoretical presuppositions and institutional reality of modern capitalism.



WMD Arms Control in the Middle East Prospects, Obstacles and OptionsEdited by Harald Müller, Goethe University and Peace Research Institute Frankfurt, Germany and Daniel Müller, Peace Research Institute Frankfurt, Germany

The Middle East is a hot spot of proliferation and it is the world region that witnessed the most frequent and severe employment of chemical weapons since the end of World War I. Notwithstanding, not a single arms control regime concerning weapons of mass destruction (WMD) covers the region as a whole. This volume, written under the auspices of the EU Consortium for Non-Proliferation and Disarmament determines the current state of diplomatic efforts to establish a weapons of mass destruction (WMD) free zone in the Middle East. In doing so, it provides insights into central actors’ conflicting political positions, thereby explaining the stalemate of efforts to negotiate a WMD-free zone.



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Women, Gender, Remittances and Development in the Global South Edited by Ton van Naerrsen, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands, Lothar Smith, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands, Tine Davids, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands and Marianne H. Marchand, Universidad de las Américas Puebla, Mexico


Developing the conceptualisation of the relationship between transnational remittance exchanges and gender, this book provides a number of case studies of relationships between gender and remittances from around the world, highlighting different processes and practises. This book provides conceptual insights to better understand how remittances affect gender identity, roles and relations (at both the receiving and sending end) and give specific attention to the roles of various actors directly and indirectly involved in remittance sending in current collectively organized remittance schemes from around the world. This adds a wealth of insights to a field that is remarkably understudied despite a volume of studies on gender and the feminization of migration in developing contexts.

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African Youth Cultures in a Globalized World Challenges, Agency and ResistanceEdited by Paul Ugor, Illinois State University, USA and Lord Mawuko-Yevugah, Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration, Ghana

All over the world, there is growing concern about the ramifications of globalization, late-modernity and general global social and economic restructuring on the lives and futures of young people. Bringing together a wide body of research to reflect on youth responses to social change in Africa, this volume shows that while young people in the region face extraordinary social challenges in their everyday lives, they also continue to devise unique ways to reinvent their difficult circumstances and prosper in the midst of seismic global and local social changes.



Ethnicity, Democracy and Citizenship in Africa Political Marginalisation of Kenya’s NubiansSamantha Balaton-Chrimes, Deakin University, Australia

This book explores two kinds of citizenship deficits: those experienced by the Nubians in Kenya and, more centrally, those which represent the limits of citizenship theories. The author argues for an understanding of citizenship as made up of multiple component parts: status, rights and membership, which are often disaggregated through time, across geographic spaces and amongst different people. This departure from a unitary language of citizenship allows a novel analysis of the central role of ethnicity in the recognition of political membership and distribution of political goods in Kenya. Such an analysis generates important insights into the risks and possibilities of a relationship between ethnicity and democracy that is of broad, global relevance.



Reinventing Development Aid Reform and Technologies of Governance in GhanaLord Mawuko-Yevugah, Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration, Ghana

This book shows how the new architecture of aid has important implications in three distinct but related ways: the discursive construction and production of post-colonial societies; the changing focus of Western aid and development policy interventions; and the reproduction of the politics of inclusive exclusion. The author provides detailed and original research on the new development paradigm and develops a critical theoretical approach to re-think conventional analyses of the new discourses on aid reform whilst offering a fresh, alternative interpretation of changes in international aid relations.



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CONTEMPORARY AFRICAN POLITICS Series Editor: Nana K. Poku, Health Economics and AIDS Research Division (HEARD), South Africa

Africa is in a rapid period of change. A cursory review of the headline data suggests a trend break may have taken place around the mid-1990s arising from a decade of intense pressure for political and economic reforms demanded by the international community. Across the continent processes shaped by African actors are generating new forms of complexities in political, social and economic life of ordinary Africans; in the process liberating social forces to demand representative governance without fear of repression. Today, some two-thirds of countries on the continent have embarked on comprehensive democratic transitions, in diverse forms, with varying degrees of maturation. Crucially, there is broad recognition among African elites that participatory and democratic processes are standards or benchmarks for judging them, as shown by the establishment of the African Union, the New Partnership for African Development, and the African Peer Review Mechanism. The improved political climate reflects important economic and social changes as well. Since the mid-1990s, economic growth in the majority of African countries has been strong, surpassing 5% per year in fifteen countries on the continent. For a number of these, higher growth has been accompanied by diversification of their economies and exports.


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Approaching Jonathan Edwards The Evolution of a PersonaCarol Ball

Approaching Jonathan Edwards offers a new theoretical approach to the study of Edwards, with an emphasis on his writing activity as the key strategy in shaping his legacy. This book analyses the ways in which Jonathan Edwards’ intense personal piety and deep experience of divine sovereignty drove an introverted intellectual along a course that would eventually develop into a mature and respected public intellectual.



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Archbishop Ramsey The Shape of the ChurchPeter Webster

THE ARCHBISHOPS OF CANTERBURY SERIES

Drawing from unique source material in the Lambeth Palace Library archives and reproducing many original writings of Ramsey for the first time, Webster explores key questions which surround Ramsey’s tenure. How did Ramsey react to the rapid hollowing-out of the regular constituency of the church whilst at the same time seeing sweeping changes in the manner in which the church tried to minister to those members? What was his role in the widening of the church’s global vision, and how did the nature of the role of archbishop as figurehead change in this period?



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Dialogue in Early South Asian Religions Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain TraditionsEdited by Brian Black, Lancaster University, UK and Laurie Patton, Duke University, USA

DIALOGUES IN SOUTH ASIAN TRADITIONS: RELIGION, PHILOSOPHY, LITERATURE AND HISTORY

Dialogue between characters is an important feature of South Asian religious literature: entire narratives are often presented as a dialogue between two or more individuals, or the narrative or discourse is presented as a series of embedded conversations from different times and places. Including some of the most established scholars of South Asian religious texts, this book examines the use of dialogue in early South Asian texts with an interdisciplinary approach that crosses traditional boundaries between religious traditions. The contributors shed new light on the cultural ideas and practices within religious traditions, as well presenting an understanding of a range of dynamics – from hostile and competitive to engaged and collaborative. This book is the first to explore the literary dimensions of dialogue in South Asian religious sources, helping to reframe the study of other literary traditions around the world.



English Cathedral Music and Liturgy in the Twentieth Century Martin Thomas, Church of England parish priest and former Canon Precentor, St Edmundsbury Cathedral, UK

Examining the development of English cathedral music during a period of liturgical upheaval, Martin Thomas demonstrates that stylistic change in cathedral music was impeded by leading church music figures and organisations resulting in its becoming an identifiable, consistent, and archaic genre. Drawing on primary sources from libraries and archives of cathedrals, Thomas explores contemporary press coverage and the records of church music bodies, publishing practices, secondary literature, and the music itself. This book offers an important resource for music, theology, and liturgy students and ministry teams worldwide.



Karl Barth and Post-Reformation Orthodoxy Rinse H. Reeling Brouwer, Protestant Theological University, The Netherlands

BARTH STUDIES

In this book, Rinse Reeling Brouwer identifies the sources of Barth’s conversation and analyses Barth’s use and his (mis)understandings of them. He sketches Barth’s treatment of some authors that are representative for successive stages of the elder protestant theology. Each chapter focuses on one of the topics in Christian Dogmatics, with the last chapter exploring the way in which Barth’s role as a pupil of Heppe influenced the ultimate shaping of the Church Dogmatics.



Methodism in Australia A HistoryEdited by Glen O’Brien, Sydney College of Divinity, Australia and Hilary M. Carey, University of Bristol, UK

ASHGATE METHODIST STUDIES SERIES

Drawing together a team of historical experts, Methodism in Australia presents a critical introduction to one of the most important religious movements in Australia’s settlement history and beyond. Offering ground-breaking regional studies of the development of Methodism, this book considers a broad range of issues including Australian Methodist religious experience, worship and music, Methodist intellectuals and missions to Australia and the Pacific.



Methodists and their Missionary Societies 1900–1996 John Pritchard, Methodist Minister, UK


This book examines the contribution of the Methodist Missionary Society (and its predecessors before 1932) to world-changing movements, from the remarkable mass conversions in south-west China and west Africa early in the century to the controversy over grants to liberation movements in the 1970s and 1980s. This is a ground-breaking study of the Methodist Missionary Societies in the twentieth century, how it adjusted to changing circumstances – including the forced withdrawals from China and Burma – and developed new initiatives and partnerships.



Methodists and their Missionary Societies, 2-volume set John Pritchard, Methodist Minister, UK


Methodism played an important part in the spread of Christianity from its European heartlands to the Americas, Asia, Africa and the Pacific. From John Wesley’s initial reluctance, via haphazard ventures and over-ambitious targets, a well-organized and supported Wesleyan Society developed. Smaller branches of British Methodism undertook their own foreign missions. This book offers an account of the overseas mission activity of British and Irish Methodists, its roots and fruits. Necessarily selective in the personalities and events it describes, this book offers a comprehensive overview of a world-changing movement– a story packed with heroism, mistakes, achievements, frustrations, arguments, personalities, rascals and saints.

August 2014 684 pagesHardback Set 978-1-4724-0917-1 £100.00 $190.00


A Philosophy of Christian Materialism Entangled Fidelities and the Public GoodChristopher Baker, William Temple Foundation and University of Chester, UK, Thomas A. James, Covenant Presbyterian Church, USA and John Reader, Ironstone Benefice, Diocese of Oxford and William Temple Foundation, UK

INTENSITIES: CONTEMPORARY CONTINENTAL PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION

Baker, James and Reader offer new religious engagement with the public sphere via means of interdisciplinary analysis and empirical examples, developing what we call a Relational Christian Realism building upon interaction with contemporary Philosophy of Religion. This book represents an exciting contribution to philosophy and practice of religion on both sides of the Atlantic and aspires to be sufficiently interdisciplinary to also appeal to readerships engaged in the study of modern political and social trends.




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Poetry and the Religious Imagination The Power of the WordEdited by Francesca Bugliani Knox and David Lonsdale, both at Heythrop College, University of London, UK

What is the role of spiritual experience in poetry? How do poetic imagination and religious beliefs interact? Exploring such questions through the concept of the religious imagination, this book integrates interdisciplinary research in the area of poetry on the one hand, and theology, philosophy and Christian spirituality on the other. Established theologians, philosophers, literary critics and creative writers explain the primary role of imagination in the writing and reading of poetry.



Popular Religion in Modern China The New Role of NuoLan Li, University College Dublin, Ireland

This book examines the role popular religion has played in modern Chinese politics. The popular religion of Nuo will be used as an example of how the new role has enabled the religion to be directly incorporated into the Chinese Community Party’s policies, to be viewed as supporting the legitimacy of the regime, and to function as a tool to enhance national cohesion and safeguard national unification. This volume provides new material on the interplay between contemporary Chinese politics, popular religion and economic development in a rapidly changing society of Mainland China.



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Ashgate Research Companion to Theological Anthropology Edited by Joshua R. Farris, Houston Baptist University and Trinity School of Theology, USA and Charles Taliaferro, St. Olaf College, USA

Philosophers and theologians address the relationship between body and soul and its implications for theological anthropology, interacting with cognitive science, biological evolution, psychology, and sociology. Reflecting these exciting new developments, The Ashgate Research Companion to Theological Anthropology is a resource for philosophers and theologians, students and scholars, interested in the constructive, critical exploration of a theology of human persons. Throughout this collection of newly authored contributions, key themes are addressed: human agency and grace, the soul, sin and salvation, Christology, glory, feminism, the theology of human nature, and other major themes in theological anthropology in historic as well as contemporary contexts.

March 2015 384 pagesPaperback 978-1-4724-1094-8 £19.99 $39.95Hardback 978-1-4724-1093-1 £90.00 $149.95ebook PDF 978-1-4724-1095-5ebook ePUB 978-1-4724-1096-2

Sacred Selves, Sacred Settings Reflecting Hans MolEdited by Douglas J. Davies, Durham University, UK and Adam J. Powell, Lenoir-Rhyne University, USA

As a sociologist, Hans Mol significantly influenced the sociological study of religion by developing ideas of identity. This biography brings current social-religious topics to sharp focus as international scholars analyse, challenge, and apply Mol’s theoretical assertions. This biographical material supports the overall content by describing Mol’s key intellectual influences, and the way they offer a fresh perspective upon popular subjects such as secularization, pluralism, and the place of religion in the public sphere.



Shamanism, Discourse, Modernity Thomas Karl Alberts, University of Cape Town, South Africa

VITALITY OF INDIGENOUS RELIGIONS

Shamanism, Discourse, Modernity considers indigenous peoples’ struggles for human rights, anxieties about anthropocentric mastery of nature, neoliberal statecraft and entrepreneurialism of the self. In doing so, it engages with shamanism’s manifold meanings in a world increasingly sensitive to indigenous peoples’ practices of territoriality, increasingly concerned about humans’ integral relationship with natural environments, and increasingly encouraged and coerced to adjust self-conduct to comport with and augment government conduct.



Sharing Friendship Exploring Anglican Character, Vocation, Witness and MissionJohn B. Thomson, Bishop of Selby, Diocese of York, UK

EXPLORATIONS IN PRACTICAL, PASTORAL AND EMPIRICAL THEOLOGY

Drawing on the theological ethics of Stanley Hauerwas, this book explores the way friendship for the stranger emerges from contextually grounded reflection and conversations with contemporary Anglican theologians within the English tradition, including John Milbank, Oliver O’Donovan, Rowan Williams, Daniel Hardy and Anthony Thiselton. Avoiding abstract definitions of character, mission or friendship, John Thomson explores how the history of the English Church reflects a theology of friendship and how discipleship in the New Testament, the performance of worship, and the shape of Anglican ecclesiology are congruent with such a theology. The book concludes by rooting the theme of sharing friendship within the self-emptying kenotic performance of Jesus’ mission, and looks at challenges to the character of contemporary Anglican ecclesiology represented by secularization and globalization as well as by arguments over appropriate new initiatives such as Fresh Expressions.



Shi’i Reformation in Iran The Life and Theology of Shari’at SangelajiAli Rahnema, The American University of Paris, France

ASHGATE NEW CRITICAL THINKING IN RELIGION, THEOLOGY AND BIBLICAL STUDIES

In Shi’i Reformation in Iran, Rahnema offers a fresh understanding of Sangelaji’s reformist discourse from a theological standpoint, and takes readers into the heart of the key religious debates in Iran in the 1940s. Drawing on the writings of Sangelaji, as well as interviews with his son, the book provides a comprehensive introduction to the reformist’s ideas. As such it offers scholars of religion and Middle Eastern politics alike a penetrating insight into the impact that these ideas have had on Shi’ism – an impact which is still felt today.



Technofutures, Nature and the Sacred Transdisciplinary PerspectivesEdited by Celia Deane-Drummond, University of Notre Dame, USA, Sigurd Bergmann, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway and Bronislaw Szerszynski, University of Lancaster, UK

How do the powerful driving forces of religion and technology interact in the way that humans act towards and within the natural world? Deane-Drummond, Bergmann and Szerszynski are concerned with understanding the complex relation between technology and religious belief in their intersections with the natural world. Working from both theoretical and practical contexts by using newly emerging case studies, including geo-engineering and soil carbon technologies, this volume breaks new ground by engaging theological, scientific, philosophical and cultural aspects of the technology/religion/nature nexus.



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Towards a Theology of Church Growth Edited by David Goodhew, Cranmer Hall, Durham, UK

ASHGATE CONTEMPORARY ECCLESIOLOGY

Concern about church growth and decline is widespread and contentious, yet theological reflection on church growth is scarce. Reflecting on the Bible, dogmatic theology and church history, this book situates the numerical growth of the church within wider Christian theology. Leading international scholars, including Alister McGrath, Benedicta Ward and C. Kavin Rowe, contribute a spectrum of voices from evangelical, charismatic, liberal and anglo-catholic perspectives. All contributors unite around the importance of seeking church growth, provided this is situated within a nuanced theological framework. This book offers a critique of ‘decline theology’, which has been influential amongst theologians and churches, and which assumes church growth is impossible and/or unnecessary. The contributors provide rich resources from scripture, doctrine and tradition, to underpin action to promote church growth and to stimulate further theological reflection on the subject. The Archbishop of Canterbury provides the Foreword.



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Using the Bible in Practical Theology Historical and Contemporary PerspectivesZoë Bennett, Cambridge Theological Federation, UK and Anglia Ruskin University, UK

EXPLORATIONS IN PRACTICAL, PASTORAL AND EMPIRICAL THEOLOGY

Exploring how the Bible may be appropriately used in public theology, this book looks at types of modern practical theology with specific emphasis on the use of the Bible. Drawing on the lessons learned through the study of Ruskin, and the case study of the Kairos Palestine Document, this book invites readers to examine the nature and relevance of biblical engagement, and to apply and test what has been learned.



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Sociology, Social Work and Social Policy

Action Research for Sustainability Social Imagination Between Citizens and ScientistsJonas Egmose, Roskilde University, Denmark

How can action research further new research orientations towards sustainability? This book, empirically situated in the field of upstream public engagement, involving local residents, researchers and practitioners in bottom-up processes deliberating on urban sustainability, answers this question by analysing processes of social learning. Through analyses of a three year action research programme, aiming to provide local citizens with a greater say in the future of urban sustainability research, this book shows how action research can make important methodological contributions to processes of social learning between citizens and scientists by enabling free spaces in peoples everyday life and within academia, where aspects of un-sustainability can be addressed and new imaginations of more sustainable futures emerge.



Actor-Network Theory and Crime Studies Explorations in Science and TechnologyEdited by Dominique Robert and Martin Dufresne, both at the University of Ottawa, Canada

Developed by Bruno Latour and his collaborators, actor-network theory (ANT) offers crimes studies a worthy intellectual challenge. It requires us to take the performativity turn, consider the role of objects in our analysis and conceptualize all actants (human and non-human) as relational beings. Thus power is not the property of one party, but rather it is an effect of the relationships among actants. Students, academics and policy-makers will benefit from reading this collection in order to explore criminology-related topics in a different way.



An Anthropology of Lying: Information in the Doctor-Patient Relationship Sylvie Fainzang, National Institute for Health and Medical Research (INSERM), France

With attention to the manner in which information of various types is withheld and the truth concealed on both sides of the doctor-patient relationship, the author explores the boundaries between what is said and what is left unsaid, and between those who are given information and those who are lied to. Considering the misunderstandings that occur in the course of medical exchanges and the differences between the lies told by doctors and patients, An Anthropology of Lying: Information in the Doctor-Patient Relationship analyses the role of lies in the exercise of, and resistance to power.



The Applied Ethics of Emerging Military and Security Technologies Edited by Braden R. Allenby, Arizona State University, USA

THE LIBRARY OF ESSAYS ON THE ETHICS OF EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES

The complex ethical issues which arise from accelerating technological change in the military and security domains are the focus of this collection. The essays take account of the context of rapidly shifting geopolitical and strategic frameworks as well as the spread of many technologies from military and security arenas to civil society, with consequences for core values such as privacy, security, criminal behaviour and state police power. Specific technologies and issues are highlighted, ranging from autonomous robotic systems and unmanned aerial vehicles to cybersecurity, cyberconflict and biotechnology.



Arendt Contra Sociology Theory, Society and its SciencePhilip Walsh, York University, Canada

CLASSICAL AND CONTEMPORARY SOCIAL THEORY

Arendt Contra Sociology re-assesses the relationship between Hannah Arendt’s work and the theoretical foundations of sociology, bringing her insights to bear on key themes within contemporary theoretical sociology. Departing from the view of Arendt as a political theorist who sought to rescue politics from society, and political theory from the social sciences, this book re-examines her distinctions between labour, fabrication and action as a theory of the fundamental ontology of human societies, revisiting her criticism of the tendency of many sociological paradigms to conflate the activity of fabrication with that of action.



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The Ashgate Research Companion to Anthropology Edited by Pamela J. Stewart and Andrew J. Strathern, University of Pittsburgh, USA

Although anthropology has expanded greatly over time in terms of the diversity of topics in which its practitioners engage, many of the broad themes and topics at the heart of anthropological thought remain perennially vital, such as understanding order and change, diversity and continuity, and conflict and co-operation in the reproduction of social life. Bringing together leading scholars in the field, the contributors to this volume provide us with thoughtful and fruitful ways of thinking about a number of contemporary and long-standing arenas of work where both established and more recent researchers are engaged.



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The Ashgate Research Companion to Memory Studies Edited by Siobhan Kattago, Tallinn University, Estonia

Memory has long been a subject of fascination for poets, artists, philosophers and historians. This timely volume, edited by Siobhan Kattago, examines how past events are remembered, contested, forgotten, learned from and shared with others. Featuring contributions from key thinkers in the field, this comprehensive volume will be a valuable resource for all academics and students working within this area of study.



Being Human in a Consumer Society Edited by Alejandro Néstor García Martínez, University of Navarra, Spain


This book offers a new perspective on sociological studies of the consumer society, introducing neglected normative questions relating to the good life and human flourishing – subjects more commonly discussed in fields of moral, political, and social philosophy. With attention to a wide range of subjects, including postemotional law and responsibility, dehumanised consumption and prosumerism, fashion, embodiment, conspicuous consumption, and sustainability, this book analyzes the structural and cultural transformations that can be identified in consumer society. It also offers a critical view of whether consumption is leading to an increased isolation, individualization or commodification of human beings, suggesting an analytical framework for understanding consumer culture and human praxis.





Clarity and Confusion in Social Theory Taking Concepts SeriouslyLeonidas Tsilipakos, University of Edinburgh, UK

PHILOSOPHY AND METHOD IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES

Making use of the insights and practice of Ordinary Language Philosophy, understood as encompassing the work of Wittgenstein, Ryle, Austin and their followers, Clarity and Confusion in Social Theory reveals the profound logical flaws in some of the central methodological procedures often employed in social theory for dealing with concepts, offering alternative approaches to social scientists and philosophers for tackling the conceptual issues that have so bedevilled social science from its inception.



Collaboration across Health Research and Medical Care Healthy CollaborationEdited by Bart Penders, Maastricht University, The Netherlands, Niki Vermeulen, University of Edinburgh, UK and John N Parker, Arizona State University, USA

Health research and health care practice are radically transforming as governments invest more in large scale, national and international health projects with increasing levels of interdisciplinarity as populations age and as nations grow wealthier. This volume examines the structures and dynamics of scientific collaboration in health research and health care. Bringing together detailed research from the US, Canada, Europe and Japan, Collaboration Across Health Research and Medical Care sheds light on the features, environments and relationships that characterise collaboration in health care and research, exploring changing patterns of collaboration and examining the causes and consequences of team work in the health domain.



The Dark Side of Prosperity Late Capitalism’s Culture of IndebtednessMark Horsley, University of the West of England, UK

A rich and original qualitative study of the close relationship between financial capitalism, consumer aspirations, social exclusion and the proliferation of personal indebtedness, The Dark Side of Prosperity examines questions of social identity, subjectivity and consumer motivation in close connection with the socio-cultural ideals of an ‘enjoyment society’. Critically engaging with the work of Giddens, Beck and Bauman, this volume draws on the thought of contemporary philosophers including Žižek, Badiou and Rancière to consider the possibility that the expansion of outstanding consumer credit, despite its many consequences, may be integral to the construction of social identity in a radically indeterminate and increasingly divided society.



David Riesman’s Unpublished Writings and Continuing Legacy Edited by Keith Kerr, Quinnipiac University, USA, B. Garrick Harden, Lamar University, USA and Marcus Aldredge, Iona College, USA


This volume recasts and reintroduces Riesman by presenting newly discovered and unpublished manuscripts of his work, including excerpts from a previously unpublished critical biography of Freud that Riesman began with this assistant at the time, Philip Rieff, an interview in which Riesman describes in detail his early biography and his route into the social sciences, and other research notes and memoranda. With additional chapters analysing the unpublished works, as well as discussions of Riesman as a public intellectual, his multi-disciplinary method of understanding society and his connections with figures such as Goffman and Fromm, this book will appeal to scholars of sociology, social theory and the history of American social science.



Diasporas and Homeland Conflicts A Comparative PerspectiveBahar Baser, Coventry University, UK

RESEARCH IN MIGRATION AND ETHNIC RELATIONS SERIES

As violent conflicts become increasingly intra-state rather than inter-state, international migration has rendered them increasingly transnational, as protagonists from each side find themselves in new countries of residence. In spite of leaving their homeland, the grievances and grudges that existed between them are not forgotten and can be passed to the next generation. This book explores the extension of homeland conflicts into transnational space amongst diaspora groups, with particular attention to the interactions between second-generation migrants. Comparative in approach, Diasporas and Homeland Conflicts focuses on the tensions that exist between Kurdish and Turkish populations in Sweden and Germany, examining the effects of hostland policies and politics on the construction, shaping or elimination of homeland conflicts.



Disability and Popular Culture Focusing Passion, Creating Community and Expressing DefianceKatie Ellis, Curtin University, Australia

THE CULTURAL POLITICS OF MEDIA AND POPULAR CULTURE

As a response to real or imagined subordination, popular culture reflects the everyday experience of ordinary people and has the capacity to subvert the hegemonic order. Drawing on central theoretical approaches in the field of critical disability studies, this book examines disability across a number of internationally recognised texts and objects. While acknowledging that disability features in popular culture in ways that reinforce stereotypes and stigmatise, Disability and Popular Culture celebrates and complicates the increasing visibility of disability in popular culture, showing how popular culture can focus passion, create community and express defiance in the context of disability and social change.



Employers, Agencies and Immigration Paying for CareEdited by Anna Triandafyllidou, European University Institute, Italy and Sabrina Marchetti, European University Institute, Italy


Exploring the performance by immigrants of domestic and care work in European households, this book places the employer centre-stage, examining the role of the employer and his or her agents in securing the balance between work, family and welfare needs, as well as investigating both who the employers are and the nature of their relationships with migrant workers. Bringing together the latest empirical work from across Europe, Employers, Agencies and Immigration will appeal to social scientists with interests in migration, ethnic and class relations, immigrant labour and domestic work and the sociology of the family.




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Ethnic Stratification and Economic Inequality around the World The End of Exploitation and Exclusion?Max Haller in collaboration with Anja Eder, both at the University of Graz, Austria

A systematic examination of the interaction between class structures, social stratification and ethnic differentiation, Ethnic Stratification and Economic Inequality around the World sheds light on the manner in which social structures produce different levels of economic inequality, offering a fivefold typology of patterns of ethnic stratification, which can be applied to present-day world regions.



Gender and Sexuality in Muslim Cultures Edited by Gul Ozyegin, The College of William and Mary, USA

A must read for anyone interested in Muslim cultures, this volume not only explores Muslim identities through the lens of sexuality and gender – their historical and contemporary transformations and local and global articulations – but also interrogates our understanding of what constitutes a ‘Muslim’ identity in selected Muslim-majority countries at this pivotal historical moment, characterized by transformative destabilizations in which national, ethnic, and religious boundaries are being re-imagined and re-made. Contributors take on the most fundamental questions at the intersections of gender, sexuality, and the body.



Gender, Health and Healthcare Women’s and Men’s Experience of Health and Working in Healthcare RolesJacqueline H. Watts, The Open University, UK

Taking a social constructionist perspective, Gender, Health and Healthcare considers the ways in which gender impacts upon health in all its elements including access, technology, professionalisation, health promotion and health as an important sector of the labour market. Watts discusses gender as a developing and diversified category, exploring ideas about masculinity and the fluidity of gender boundaries in determining individual identity.



Genes and the Bioimaginary Science, Spectacle, CultureDeborah Lynn Steinberg, University of Warwick, UK

Genes and the Bioimaginary reflects on the rise and cultural apotheosis of the gene, examining the ‘genetification’ of culture and shedding light on emergence of the gene at the intersection of science and culture and as a product of science as culture. Employing a distinctive array of interdisciplinary analytic tools, it explores the rise of the gene in several respects: as a site of knowledge production crossing boundaries between the clinical-scientific and the popular; as a gateway technology and locus of transforming bioethical values and modes of bodily governance; and as site of spectacle, projective fantasy and attachment.



Global Inequalities Beyond Occidentalism Manuela Boatca, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany

GLOBAL CONNECTIONS

Based on theoretical developments in research on world-systems analysis, transnational migration, postcolonial and decolonial perspectives, whilst considering continuities of inequality patterns in the context of colonial and postcolonial realities, Global Inequalities Beyond Occidentalism proposes an original framework for the study of the long-term reproduction of inequalities under global capitalism. With attention to the critical assessment of both Marxist and Weberian perspectives, this book examines the wider implications of transferring classical approaches to inequality to a twenty-first century context, calling for a reconceptualization of inequality that is both theoretically informed and methodologically consistent, and able to cater for the implications of shifts from national and Western structures to global structures.



Gramsci and Foucault: A Reassessment Edited by David Kreps, University of Salford, UK

Mapping the resonances, dissonances, and linkages between the thought of Gramsci and Foucault to uncover new tools for socio-political and critical analysis for the twenty-first century, this book reassesses the widely-held view that their work is incompatible. With discussions of Latin American revolutionary politics, indigenous knowledges, technologies of government and the teaching of paediatrics in post-invasion Iraq, complexity theory, medical anthropology and biomedicine, and the role of Islam in the transition to modern society in the Arab world, this interdisciplinary volume presents the latest theoretical research on different facets of these two thinkers’ work, as well analyses of the specific linkages that exist between them in concrete settings.



Hegel’s Phenomenology and Foucault’s Genealogy Evangelia Sembou


Previously considered two different strands within continental thought, this book compares and contrasts Hegel’s ‘phenomenology’ and Foucault’s ‘genealogy’, contending that in spite of their differences, these approaches share important commonalities. Considering the possibility of developing a dialectical approach of ‘phenomenology’ and ‘genealogy’, this volume develops our understanding of critical theory, whilst engaging in debates concerning truth and knowledge in the philosophy of the social sciences.



Honour-Based Violence Experiences and Counter-Strategies in Iraqi Kurdistan and the UK Kurdish DiasporaNazand Begikhani, University of Bristol, UK, Aisha K. Gill, University of Roehampton, UK and Gill Hague, University of Bristol, UK

Over the last decade, national and international efforts, including new policy development and activist campaigns, have begun to challenge the practice of honour-based violence and honour killing. Based on a pioneering and unique study, conducted collaboratively by the Centre for Gender and Violence Research, University of Bristol, the University of Roehampton and Kurdish Women’s Rights Watch, this book is at the forefront of this new and challenging policy direction.



Human Exhibitions Race, Gender and Sexuality in Ethnic DisplaysRikke Andreassen, Roskilde University, Denmark

STUDIES IN MIGRATION AND DIASPORA

From the 1870s to the second decade of the twentieth century, more than fifty exhibitions of so-called exotic people took place in Denmark. This book draws on unique archival material newly discovered in Copenhagen, including photographs, documentary evidence and to offer new insights and perspectives on the exhibitions both in Copenhagen and in other European cities. Employing post-colonial and feminist approaches to the material, the author sheds fresh light on the staging of exhibitions, the daily life of the exhibitees, the wider connections between shows across Europe and the thinking of the time on matters of race, science, gender and sexuality. A window onto contemporary racial understandings, Human Exhibitions presents interviews with the descendants of displayed people, connecting the attitudes and science of the past with both our (continued) modern fascination with ‘the exotic’, and contemporary language and popular culture.





The Individual and Utopia A Multidisciplinary Study of Humanity and PerfectionEdited by Clint Jones, Eastern Kentucky University, USA and Cameron Ellis, Trent University, Canada

Interdisciplinary in scope and bringing together work from around the world, The Individual and Utopia enquires after the nature of the utopian as citizen, demonstrating the inherent value of making the individual central to utopian theorizing and highlighting the methodologies necessary for examining the utopian individual. The various approaches employed reveal what it is to be an individual yoked by the idea of citizenship and challenge the ways that we have traditionally been taught to think of the individual as citizen. As such, it will appeal to scholars with interests in social theory, philosophy, literature, cultural studies, architecture and feminist thought, whose work intersects with political thought, utopian theorizing, or the study of humanity or human nature.



Innovation in Social Services The Public-Private Mix in Service Provision, Fiscal Policy and EmploymentEdited by Tomáš Sirovátka, Masaryk University, Czech Republic and Bent Greve, Roskilde University, Denmark

Through exploring patterns in the recent development of financing and governance of social services and developments of social services and employment in the Czech Republic, Denmark, Germany and the UK, this volume provides readers with new knowledge and evidence of the options regarding social innovation in social services. Furthermore, it provides a comparative European perspective on how the interplay between a public and private mix of social service on the one hand might help in creating jobs, and, on the other, be a way of coping with the needs and expectations of higher level of services in the core areas of the welfare state.



Intercultural Education in the European Context Theories, Experiences, ChallengesEdited by Marco Catarci and Massimiliano Fiorucci, both at Roma Tre University, Italy


This book offers a comparative analysis of the intercultural theories and practices developed in the European context. Bringing together work on the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Greece, The Netherlands and Sweden, it examines specific approaches to intercultural education. Offering a broad framework for the study of intercultural education as adopted in European settings, the book highlights the contribution of education to the development of a fair, democratic and pluralistic Europe.



Israeli-Palestinian Activism Shifting ParadigmsAlexander Koensler, Queen’s University Belfast, UK

THE MOBILIZATION SERIES ON SOCIAL MOVEMENTS, PROTEST, AND CULTURE

When do words and actions empower? When do they betray? Based on ethnographic fieldwork, this volume tracks the repercussions of advocacy activism against house demolitions in ‘unrecognised’ Arab-Bedouin villages in Israel’s southern ‘internal frontier’. Koensler outlines an ethnographic approach for the study of social movements that follows multiple relations around mobilisations rather than studying activism in itself. This perspective thus becomes relevant for scholars and activists engaged with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and those interested in global rights discourses.



Life Phases, Mobility and Consumption An Ethnography of Shopping RoutesHelene Brembeck, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, Niklas Hansson, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, Michèle Lalanne, University of Toulouse and Centre Universitaire, Jean-François Champollion of Albi, France and Jean-Sébastien Vayre, University of Toulouse, France

In today’s consumer society, shopping is the kind of mundane and routine kind of mobility that we all engage in. Yet having a first child or growing old radically changes people’s logistical habits as consumers, what the authors of this book call consumer logistics. Exploring consumer mobility through the lens of life phase and age will deepen the understanding of hitherto under-researched aspects of the ageing process and of mobility, knowledge that is of vital importance for societies striving for sustainable mobility and sustainable cities.



The Making of a Postsecular Society A Durkheimian Approach to Memory, Pluralism and Religion in TurkeyMassimo Rosati, University of Rome ‘Tor Vergata’, Italy


Based on a rigorous construction of theoretical categories and on a close scrutiny of the common challenges confronting Europe and its Turkish neighbour long considered ‘other’ with regard to the accommodation of religious difference, this book sheds light on the possibilities for Europe to find new ways of arranging the relationship between the secular and the religious. As such, it will appeal to scholars of social theory, the sociology of religion, secularisation and religious difference, and social change.



Masculinity in Contemporary Quality Television Michael Mario Albrecht, Eckerd College, USA

THE CULTURAL POLITICS OF MEDIA AND POPULAR CULTURE

Recent years have seen a rise in the popularity and quantity of ‘quality’ television programs, many of which featuring complicated versions of masculinity that are informed not only by the women’s movement of the sixties and seventies, but also by several decades of backlash and debate about the effects of women’s equality on men, masculinity, and the relationship between men and women. Drawing upon studies of contemporary television programs, including popular series viewed internationally such as Mad Men, The League, Hung, Breaking Bad, Louie, and Girls, this book explores the ways in which popular cultural texts address widely circulating discourses of the ostensible ‘crisis of masculinity’ in contemporary culture.



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Mediating and Remediating Death Edited by Dorthe Refslund Christensen, Aarhus University, Denmark and Kjetil Sandvik, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

STUDIES IN DEATH, MATERIALITY AND THE ORIGIN OF TIME

Presenting rich, new interdisciplinary empirical case studies and fieldwork from the US and Europe, Asia, The Middle East, Australasia and Africa, Mediating and Remediating Death shows how different media forms contribute to the shaping and transformation of various forms of death and commemoration, whether in terms of their range and distribution, their relation to users or their roles in creating and maintaining communities.



Money Machines Electronic Financial Technologies, Distancing, and Responsibility in Global FinanceMark Coeckelbergh, De Montfort University, UK

Money Machines focuses on the role of technology in global finance and reflects on the ethical and societal meaning and impact of financial information and communication technologies (ICTs). Exploring the history, metaphysics, and geography of money, algorithms, and electronic currencies, the author argues that financial ICTs contribute to impersonal, disengaged, placeless, and objectifying relations, and that in the context of globalisation these ‘distancing’ effects render it increasingly difficult to exercise and ascribe responsibility. The book also examines the ways in which contemporary techno-financial developments can be resisted or re-oriented in a morally and socially responsible direction– not without, but with technology.



New Reproductive Technologies and Disembodiment Feminist and Material ResolutionsCarla Lam, University of Otago, New Zealand

THEORY, TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIETY

A rich exploration of birth appropriation in the West, New Reproductive Technologies and Disembodiment investigates the assimilation of women’s embodied power into patriarchal systems of symbolism, culture and politics through the inversion of women’s and men’s reproductive roles. Contending that new reproductive technologies represent another world historical moment, both in their forging of novel social relations and material processes of reproduction, and their manner of disembodying women in unprecedented ways – a disembodiment evident in recent visual and literary, popular and academic texts – this volume locates the roots of this disembodiment in western political discourse.



Our Children and Other Animals The Cultural Construction of Human-Animal Relations in ChildhoodMatthew Cole, Open University, UK and Kate Stewart, University of Nottingham, UK

Focusing on the socialisation of the human use of other animals as resources in contemporary Western society, this book explores the cultural reproduction of human-nonhuman animal relations in childhood. With close attention to the dominant practices through which children encounter animals and mainstream representations of animals in children’s culture – whether in terms of the selective exposure of children to animals as ‘pets’ or as food in the home or in school, or the representation of animals in mass media and social media – Our Children and Other Animals reveals the interconnectedness of studies of childhood, culture and human-animal relations.



Pan-African Issues in Drugs and Drug Control An International PerspectiveEdited by Anita Kalunta-Crumpton, Texas Southern University, USA

Drawing on contributions from seven countries in Africa; two countries in Europe; and seven countries in the Americas, this volume examines the relationships between drug use, drug trafficking, drug controls and the black population of a given society. Each chapter examines the nature and pattern of drug use or abuse; the effects of drug use or abuse (illegal or/and legal) on other areas such as health and crime; the nature, pattern, and perpetration of trafficking and sale of illegal or/and legal drugs; and past and current policies and control of illegal and /or legal drugs. It will be essential reading for all students, academics and policy-makers working in the area of drug control.



Preventing Human Trafficking Education and NGOs in ThailandRobert W. Spires, Valdosta State University, USA

SOLVING SOCIAL PROBLEMS

This book explores human trafficking, examining the work of grass-roots, non-profit organizations who educate and rehabilitate human trafficking victims and at-risk youth. Through interviews with staff and children, the author compares the work of two NGOs on-the-ground in Thailand with the work of similar organizations overseas, shedding light on the ways in which they combine educational work with shelter settings to prevent human trafficking, protect young people and attempt to provide a future free of exploitation.



Reflections on Imagination Human Capacity and Ethnographic MethodEdited by Mark Harris, University of St Andrews, UK and Nigel Rapport, University of St Andrews, UK

ANTHROPOLOGICAL STUDIES OF CREATIVITY AND PERCEPTION

In this innovative volume, anthropologists turn their attention to a topic that has rarely figured as a focus of concerted investigation. Yet it can be described as an intrinsic aspect of all human knowing. The imagination is part of all processes by which human beings process information about themselves, their identities, their environments and their relations. How do anthropologists use imagination in coming to know their research subjects? How might they, and how should they, use their imagination? And how do research subjects themselves understand, describe, justify and limit their use of the imagination?



Religion and LGBTQ Sexualities Critical EssaysEdited by Stephen Hunt, University of the West of England, UK

This compiled and edited volume engages with a theme which is increasingly attracting scholarly attention, namely, religion and LGBTQ sexuality. Each section of the volume provides perspectives to understanding academic discourse and wide-ranging debates around LGBTQ sexualities and religion/spirituality. The essays represent contributions from a number of disciplines including sociology, anthropology, psychology, history, religious studies and theology. The volume provides a timely teaching resource for educators and students in an era when LGBTQ topics are increasingly finding their way onto numerous undergraduate, post-graduate and profession orientated programmes.



Researching Values with Qualitative Methods Empathy, Moral Boundaries and the Politics of ResearchAntje Bednarek-Gilland, The Social Sciences Institute of the Evangelical Church in Germany

Engaging with theories of value formation and the role of values in everyday life found in ethics, classical sociology and contemporary social theory and their implications for empirical work, Researching Values with Qualitative Methods argues for a pragmatist approach both to understanding values and the manner in which they are formed, as well exploring the ways in which they can be studied empirically, using qualitative research methods.





Reviewing Political Criticism Journals, Intellectuals, and the StateElisabeth K. Chaves, Virginia Tech, USA

PUBLIC INTELLECTUALS AND THE SOCIOLOGY OF KNOWLEDGE

To understand critical activity, one must reflect on where this activity takes place – on the institutions of criticism that sustain it. Referred to by some as the ‘natural habitat’ of intellectuals, journals, as the institutionalized sites of theoretical discourse, are often overlooked. Examining the rise of the ‘review’ form of journal publication, from the early eighteenth to the early twenty-first centuries, this ground-breaking book offers a concentrated critique of the review form of journal publication as a medium for political thought and action, as a decisive site for political judgment by the state’s conservers and critics.



Secularism and Identity Non-Islamiosity in the Iranian DiasporaReza Gholami, Middlesex University, UK


Within western political, media and academic discourses, Muslim communities are predominantly seen through the prism of their Islamic religiosities, yet there exist within diasporic communities unique and complex secularisms. Drawing on detailed interview and ethnographic material gathered in the UK, this book examines the ways in which a form of secularism – ‘non-Islamiosity’ – amongst members of the Iranian diaspora shapes ideas and practices of diasporic community and identity, as well as wider social relations.



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Sex, Gender and Society Ann Oakley, Institute of Education, UK

What are the differences between the sexes? That is the question that Ann Oakley set out to answer in this pioneering study, now established as a classic in the field. Now newly reissued with a substantial introduction which highlights its continuing relevance, this work will continue to inform and shape dialogues around sex and gender for a new generation of scholars and students.

March 2015 170 pagesPaperback 978-1-4724-3562-0 £25.00 Hardback 978-1-4724-5353-2 £60.00 ebook PDF 978-1-4724-3563-7ebook ePUB 978-1-4724-3564-4


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Social Media as Surveillance Rethinking Visibility in a Converging WorldDaniel Trottier, The University of Westminster, UK

This book develops a surveillance studies approach to social media by presenting first hand ethnographic research with a variety of personal and professional social media users. Using Facebook as a case-study, it describes growing monitoring practices that involve social media. What makes this study unique is that it not only considers social media surveillance as multi-purpose, but also shows how these different purposes augment one another, leading to a rapid spread of surveillance and visibility.

February 2015 222 pagesPaperback 978-1-4724-5578-9 £30.00 $54.95ebook PDF 978-1-4094-3890-8ebook ePUB 978-1-4094-8426-4


The Somatechnics of Whiteness and Race Colonialism and Mestiza PrivilegeElaine Marie Carbonell Laforteza, Macquarie University, Australia


Investigating the emergence of a specific mestiza/mestizo whiteness that facilitates relations between the Philippines and Western nations, this book examines the ways in which the construction of a particular form of Philippine whiteness serves to deploy positions of exclusion, privilege and solidarity. The Somatechnics of Whiteness and Race sheds light on the impact of colonial and imperial histories on contemporary international relations, and calls for a ‘queering’ or resignification of whiteness, which acknowledges permutations of whiteness fostered within national boundaries, as well as through various nation-state alliances and fractures. As such, it will appeal to scholars of cultural studies, sociology and politics with interests in whiteness, postcolonialism and race.



Suspect Families DNA Analysis, Family Reunification and Immigration PoliciesEdited by Torsten Heinemann, University of Hamburg, Germany, Ilpo Helén, University of Eastern Finland, Thomas Lemke, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany, Ursula Naue, University of Vienna, Austria, Martin G. Weiss, University of Klagenfurt, Austria


Suspect Families is the first book to investigate the social, political, and ethical implications of parental testing for family reunification in immigration cases. Drawing on policy documents, legal frameworks, case study material and interviews with representatives of governmental and non-governmental organisation and immigration authorities, immigration lawyers, geneticists and applicants for family reunification, the book analyses the different political regimes and social arrangements in which DNA analysis is adopted for decision-making on family reunification in three distinct European countries: Austria, Finland and Germany.



Universities and Innovation Economies The Creative Wasteland of Post-Industrial SocietyPeter Murphy, James Cook University, Australia

Universities and Innovation Economies examines the rise and fall of the mass university and post-industrial society, considering how we might revitalize economic and intellectual creativity. Looking to a much more inventive social and economic paradigm to drive long-term growth, the author argues for a smaller, leaner, more effective university model – one capable of delivering a greater degree of high-level discovery and creative power.



Unsafe Abortion and Women’s Health Change and LiberalizationColin Francome, Middlesex University, UK

Each year an estimated 21 million abortions occur causing around 47,000 deaths, virtually all in the developing countries. Bringing together a wealth of information from around the world, this book argues that the time has come for a second great change in legislation, advocating a shift towards the legalisation of abortion to improve the health of women in poorer countries. With attention to circumstances in each of the major continental regions, an outline of the global situation is provided to reveal the major trends in the provision and procurement of abortion, as well their effects.




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Urban Constellations Spaces of Cultural Regeneration in Post-Industrial BritainZoë Thompson, Leeds Beckett University, UK

THEORY, TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIETY

This book investigates the iconic architectural cultural spaces of the contemporary cityscape as engines of regeneration. Promising much to their fading locales, these spaces locate culture in the space where production once ruled in order to revitalise post-industrial urban provinces. With close attention to four sites across the UK, Urban Constellations engages with the work of Walter Benjamin and Jean Baudrillard, to read these spaces and in so doing, offer a critical intervention into the theory and experience of contemporary cityscapes.



Urban Mobilizations and New Media in Contemporary China Edited by Lisheng Dong, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, China, Hanspeter Kriesi, European University Institute, Italy, and Daniel Kübler, University of Zurich, Switzerland

THE MOBILIZATION SERIES ON SOCIAL MOVEMENTS, PROTEST, AND CULTURE

The question of how and to what extent the internet can be used for mobilizing popular resistance in China is hotly debated. The government, virtual social organizations, and individual netizens both cooperate and compete with each other on the web. New media both increases the scope of the mobilizers and the mobilized (thereby creating new social capital), and provides the government with new means of social control (thereby limiting the political impact of the growing social capital). This volume is the first of its kind to assess the ways new media influence the mobilization of popular resistance and its possible effects in China today.



Urban Politics and Cultural Capital The Case of Chinese OperaMa Haili, University of Chester, UK

This is the first book to take an interdisciplinary approach to the story of the Shanghai Yue Opera, bringing history, arts management, central and regional government policy, urbanisation, gender, media, and theatre artistic development in one. Through the story of the Shanghai Yue Opera House market reform this book facilitates an understanding of the complex Chinese political economic situation in post-socialist China. This book suggests that as state art institutions are key organs of the Communist party gaining legitimacy, the vigorous evolution and struggle of the Shanghai Yue Opera house in fact directly mirrors the Communist Party internal turmoil in the new millennium to gain its own legitimacy and survival.



War, Violence and Social Justice Theories for Social WorkMasoud Kamali, Mid Sweden University, Sweden

This book analyses the role of war and violence (in both its physical and symbolic forms) for social work in a time of neoliberal globalisation from a social justice perspective. It argues that the consequences of wars, in both their old and new forms, and the exercise of symbolic violence for the practices of social work at national and global levels have been ignored. The analytical approach of the book, based on the theories of multiple modernities and symbolic violence, is unique since no other work has applied such theoretical perspectives for analysing inequalities in relation to the condition of lives of non-Western people living in Western and non-Western countries.



Women, Disability and Mental Distress Julia L.T. Smith

Over recent decades an increasing amount of attention has been paid to identifying and meeting the individual support needs of mental health service users and people with physical impairments in the UK. However, the support needs of individuals who fall into both categories have largely been overlooked by social care and health service providers, practitioners, and organisations for whom the main focus is either mental health or physical impairment. Writing from her position as both a social worker and a service user, Julia Smith has written an innovative and important text which both discusses a neglected area of personal experience and makes an original contribution to knowledge with regard to both policy and practice.



Workplace Equality in Europe The Role of Trade UnionsAnna Paraskevopoulou and Sonia McKay, London Metropolitan University, UK

Drawing on data from a Europe wide project, together with existing data on equality and diversity initiatives, this book explores the work of trade unions in supporting equality and anti-discrimination policies across Europe and, in particular, the processes and collaborations involved in incorporating equality and diversity policies into trade union agendas. It considers theoretical issues of equality and diversity, the role of EU legislation, multiple discrimination and exclusion and disadvantage in the labour market in relation to the role of trade unions, and addresses central questions about the actions and challenges faced by trade unions in promoting equality in the workplace and in implementing anti-discrimination policies at local, national and European levels.



Young People’s Understandings of Men’s Violence Against Women Nancy Lombard, Glasgow Caledonian University, UK

Globally, nationally and locally men’s violence against women is an endemic social problem and an enduring human rights issue. While men are more likely to be victims of stranger assaults and violence, official data shows that women most likely to be attacked, beaten, raped and killed by men known to them – either partners or family members. Through challenging the perception that young people are too young to ‘know’ about violence or to offer opinions on it, Nancy Lombard demonstrates the ways to talk to younger people about men’s violence. By confronting preconceptions of younger people’s existing knowledge, capabilities and understanding, the book demonstrates that this is a subject which young people can discuss confidently.



Youth Cultures and Subcultures Australian PerspectivesEdited by Sarah Baker, Griffith University, Australia, Brady Robards, University of Tasmania, Australia and Bob Buttigieg, Griffith University, Australia

This volume critically examines ‘subculture’ in a variety of Australian contexts, exploring the ways in which the terrain of youth cultures and subcultures has changed over the last two decades and considering whether ‘subculture’ still works as a viable conceptual framework for studying youth culture. Bringing together the latest interdisciplinary research to combine theoretical considerations with recent empirical studies of subcultural experience, Youth Cultures and Subcultures will appeal to scholars and students across the social sciences.





Communication, Sport and Disability The Case of Power SoccerMichael S. Jeffress, Nicholls State University, USA

INTERDISCIPLINARY DISABILITY STUDIES

Sports are ubiquitous in American society, and given their prominence in the culture, it is easy to understand how most youth in the United States face pressure to participate in organized sports. Using ethnographic research conducted while attending practices, games, and social functions of power soccer – the first competitive team sport specifically designed for electric wheelchair users, now played in more than 30 countries – Jeffress builds a strong case that electric wheelchair users deserve more opportunity to play sports.



Disability and Discourse Analysis Jan Grue, University of Oslo, Norway


Although efforts have been made to integrate disability into the discourse analysis and conversation analysis canon, the link between the two fields needs to be strengthened. This ground-breaking volume contributes to this link by thoroughly applying the analytical vocabulary of discourse analysis to issues that are central to the field of disability studies. It strengthens disability studies by supplying case studies of representations and constructions of disability and disabled people in discourse, theorizes the role played by language in the social construction of disability, and makes disability a more salient topic for discourse analysts.



Disability, Human Rights and the Limits of Humanitarianism Edited by Michael Gill, Grinnell College, USA and Cathy J. Schlund-Vials, University of Connecticut-Storrs, USA


Contemporary human rights discourses problematically co-opt disabled bodies as ‘evidence’ of harms done under capitalism, war, and other forms of conflict, while humanitarian non-governmental organizations often use disabled bodies to generate resources for their humanitarian projects. It is the connection between civil rights and human rights, and the concomitant relationship between national and global, which foregrounds this book’s contention that disability studies productively challenge such human rights paradigms, which troublingly eschew disability rights in favor of exclusionary humanitarianism.



Youth and Disability A Challenge to Mr ReasonableJenny Slater, Sheffield Hallam University, UK


In this ground-breaking book, Jenny Slater uses the lens of ‘the reasonable’ to explore how normative understandings of youth, dis/ability and the intersecting identities of gender and sexuality impact upon the lives of young dis/abled people. Although youth and disability have separately been thought within socio-cultural frameworks, rarely have sociological studies of ‘youth’ and ‘disability’ been brought together. By taking an interdisciplinary, critical disability studies approach to explore the socio-cultural concepts of ‘youth’ and ‘disability’ alongside one-another, Slater convincingly demonstrates that ‘youth’ and ‘disability’ have been conceptualised within medical/psychological frameworks for too long.



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INTERDISCIPLINARY DISABILITY STUDIES Series Editor: Mark Sherry, The University of Toledo, USA

Disability studies has made great strides in exploring power and the body. This series extends the interdisciplinary dialogue between disability studies and other fields by asking how disability studies can influence a particular field. It will show how a deep engagement with disability studies changes our understanding of the following fields: sociology, literary studies, gender studies, bioethics, social work, law, education or history. This ground-breaking series identifies both the practical and theoretical implications of such an interdisciplinary dialogue and challenges people in disability studies as well as other disciplinary fields to critically reflect on their professional praxis in terms of theory, practice, and methods.

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Developmental and Life-course Criminological Theories Edited by Tara Renae McGee and Paul Mazerolle, Griffith University, Australia

The developmental and life-course perspective in criminology came to prominence during the late 1980s and this was followed in the 1990s by more theories to explain offending behavior. This volume brings together selected articles from the debates of these major theories, including key theoretical statements and empirical tests of these theories undertaken by researchers other than the original theorists. The collection surveys debates within the developmental and life-course perspective as well as between this perspective and others within criminology.



Social Constructionist Theories of Crime Edited by Stuart Henry, San Diego State University, USA and Ross L. Matsueda, University of Washington, USA

This volume applies social constructionist theory to crime and justice and allows us to see how crime, justice and penalty emerge as anchoring concepts, while also showing the arbitrary nature of social formations that have such an important impact on everyday people’s lives. Selected articles examine the classical roots of constructionist theory; its applications to the sociology of deviance; important deviations into the methodology; and reflections on its current standing in criminological theory.



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THE LIBRARY OF ESSAYS IN THEORETICAL CRIMINOLOGY Series Editor: Stuart Henry, San Diego State University, USA

Criminological theory is a rapidly growing field within the discipline of criminology, which seeks to identify the causes or etiology of crime. While there are numerous criminological theories, most can be grouped into broad theoretical frameworks which are rooted in major academic disciplines, such as economics, anthropology, biology, psychology, geography, sociology, politics, history and philosophy, as well as the more recent multi-disciplinary fields such as gender studies, critical race studies and postmodernist social theory. However, criminological theories are rarely discrete and a major recent development in criminological theory has been the emergence of explicitly integrative theoretical approaches which draw on aspects of other disciplines to strengthen their explanatory power.

This series is designed to capture the range and depth of the key theoretical perspectives on crime causation for an international audience. Each volume is edited by a renowned criminologist and has as its theme a specific theoretical approach. The introduction to each volume provides a context to the history of ideas in the field and an overview of the papers selected. The series represents the state-of-the-art in research to better understand and explain crime and those who commit it, and provides an invaluable reference resource for libraries.


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