2018 History

HISTORY OF THE AMERICAS • NORTH AMERICA •
LATIN AMERICA & THE CARIBBEAN 49

A VIEW OF THE UNITED STATES LATIN AMERICA & THE CARIBBEAN
SINCE 1877
HIGHLIGHT
America After Reconstruction
Ronald K Huch MAKING
WAVES
2014 102pp
9781621317050 Paperback £38.50 / €44.00 How the West
Explores significant events in United States’culture, politics, Indies Shaped the
and society since the Civil War, and encourages students to United States
explore and reflect on important themes. Debbie Jacob

The University of Georgia Press Provides a surprising,
vivacious account of the
WHY THE SOUTH LOST THE CIVIL WAR West Indian influence in the United States, beginning
in the 17th century. From renowned West Indians
Richard E. Beringer et al such as Alexander Hamilton, Oscar de la Renta, Bob
1991 608pp, 2 maps, 38 illustrations Marley and Sidney Poitier, to famous Americans such
9780820313962 Paperback £27.95 / €31.00 as George Washington and John Hancock, stories of
Four historians consider the popularly held explanations for island power emerge.
Southern defeat in the US Civil War - state-rights disputes, Ian Randle Publishers
inadequate military supply and strategy, and the Union
blockade - supporting their discussion with a chronological
account of the war’s progress.

University Press of Kansas

THE PRESIDENCY OF HIGHLIGHT
JOHN F. KENNEDY
BRAZIL
Second Edition
James N. Giglio Essays on History
and Politics
2006 376pp, 22 photos Leslie Bethell

9780700614578 Paperback £19.50 / €22.00 Institute of Latin
American Presidency Series American Studies
This volume is the first
A book on John F Kennedy’s White House years. It shows collected compendium
Kennedy to be the most medicated, one of the most of the work of Professor Leslie Bethell and consists of
courageous, and perhaps the most self-absorbed of seven essays on major themes in modern Brazilian
American presidents. history and politics. The essays are new, but draw
from his classic published works: book chapters and
journal articles, and public lectures delivered in the
ten years since his retirement.
Brookings Institution Press

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The University of Alabama Press LAURA MÉNDEZ DE CUENCA

FACES OF RESISTANCE Mexican Feminist, 1853-1928
Mílada Bazant
Maya Heroes, Power, and Identity
Edited by S. Ashley Kistler Mar 2018 240pp, 31 b&w illustrations
9780816537631 Paperback £30.50 / €35.00
Jun 2018 256pp
9780817319878 Hardback £52.50 / €59.00 Laura Mundez de Cuenca - poet, teacher, editor, writer, and
feminist - dared to bypass the cultural traditions of her time.
Fosters a holistic understanding of the roles of Maya heroic Now, for the first time in English, Milada Bazant shares with
figures as cornerstones of cultural identity and political us the trajectory of a leading Mexican thinker who applied
resistance and power. Faces of Resistance explores the the power of the pen to human feeling, suffering, striving,
importance of heroes through the analyses of heroic figures, and achievement.
some controversial and alternative, from the Maya area.
Brookings Institution Press
The University of Arizona Press
BRAZIL
BEYOND ALTERITY
Essays on History and Politics
Destabilizing the Indigenous Other in Mexico Leslie Bethell
Paula Lopez Caballero & Ariadna Acevedo-Rodrigo
May 2018 250pp
Apr 2018 304pp, 2 b&w illustrations, 2 tables 9781908857545 Paperback £22.95 / €26.00
9780816535460 Hardback £52.50 / €59.00 Institute of Latin American Studies
For full details of this title, see page 49.
The concept of “Indigenous”has been entwined with
notions of exoticism and alterity throughout Mexico’s A NICARAGUAN EXCEPTIONALISM?
history. In Beyond Alterity, authors from across disciplines
question the persistent association between indigenous Debating the Legacy of the
people and radical difference, and demonstrate that alterity is Sandinista Revolution
often the product of specific political contexts. Edited by Hilary Francis

BIG WATER Nov 2018 250pp
9781908857576 Paperback £22.95 / €26.00
The Making of the Borderlands Between
Brazil, Argentina, and Paraguay The present Nicaraguan government has promulgated
Edited by Jacob Blanc & Frederico Freitas a discourse of Nicaraguan exceptionalism, arguing that
Nicaragua is unique thanks to heritage of the 1979
Apr 2018 336pp, 23 b&w illustrations Sandinista revolution. This volume critically interrogates
9780816537143 Hardback £52.50 / €59.00 that claim, asking whether the legacy of the revolution is
truly exceptional.
Explores four centuries of the overlapping histories of Institute of Latin American Studies
Brazil, Argentina, and Paraguay (the Triple Frontier), and the
colonies that preceded them. Examining an important area University Press of Florida
that includes some of the first national parks established in
Latin America and one of the world’s largest hydroelectric CUBAN CULTURAL HERITAGE
dams, this transnational approach illustrates how three
nation-states have interacted over time. A Rebel Past for a Revolutionary Nation
Pablo Alonso Gonzalez
CIUDAD JUÁREZ
Nov 2017 320pp, 54 b&w illustrations, 6 maps
Saga of a Legendary Border City 9780813056630 Hardback £80.95 / €91.00
Oscar J. Martinez Cultural Heritage Studies
Offers a detailed look at the function and place of cultural
Mar 2018 360pp, 51 b&w illustrations, 14 tables heritage under socialist states, and explores the role that
9780816537228 Paperback £28.50 / €32.00 cultural heritage and museums played in the construction of
9780816537211 Hardback £85.95 / €97.00 a national identity in postcolonial Cuba.

Provides a historical overview of the economic and social
evolution of this famous transnational urban centre from
the 1848 creation of the international boundary between
Mexico and the United States to the present, emphasizing
the city’s deep ties to the United States. Oscar J. Martinez also
explores major aspects of the social history of the city.

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FIRST ENCOUNTERS THE RISE OF CHARISMATIC
CATHOLICISM IN LATIN AMERICA
Spanish Explorations in the Caribbean and
the United States, 1492-1570 Edward L. Cleary
Edited by Jerald T. Milanich & Susan Milbrath Aug 2018 324pp
9780813064765 Paperback £25.95 / €29.00
Nov 2017 232pp
9781947372665 Paperback £25.95 / €29.00 Much has been made of the dramatic rise of Protestantism
Florida and the Caribbean Open Books Series in Latin America. Overlooked by journalists and scholars
has been the parallel growth of Charismatic, or Pentecostal,
Describes the period of early Spanish contact with New Catholicism in the region. Edward Cleary offers the first
World peoples. This series of essays reports original research comprehensive treatment of this movement, revealing its
mounted over the last ten years, a decade of remarkable importance to the Catholic Church as well as the people of
breakthroughs in knowledge about significant events in the Latin America.
first decades after 1492. 
TRANSNATIONAL HISPANIOLA
IN DEFIANCE OF BOUNDARIES
New Directions in Haitian and
Anarchism in Latin American History Dominican Studies
Edited by Geoffroy de Laforcade & Kirwin R. Shaffer Edited by April J. Mayes & Kiran C. Jayaram

Aug 2017 388pp Jul 2018 272pp
9780813064543 Paperback £28.50 / €32.00 9781683400387 Hardback £85.95 / €96.00

In this groundbreaking collection of essays, anarchism An edited volume that seeks to elaborate new
in Latin America becomes much more than a prelude to methodologies and forge new questions in research about
populist and socialist movements. The contributors illustrate Haiti and the Dominican Republic.
a much more vast, differentiated, and active anarchist
presence in the region that evolved on simultaneous - VOICES FROM MARIEL
transnational, national, regional, and local - fronts.
Oral Histories of the 1980 Cuban Boatlift
KEY TO THE NEW WORLD Jose Manuel Garcia

A History of Early Colonial Cuba Dec 2017 192pp
Luis Martínez-Fernández 9780813056661 Hardback £23.95 / €27.00

Feb 2018 192pp Between April and September 1980, more than 125,000
9781683400325 Hardback £71.50 / €80.00 Cuban refugees fled their homeland, seeking freedom
from Fidel Castro’s dictatorship. Told in the words of the
Scholarly and popular attention tends to focus heavily on immigrants themselves, the stories in Voices from Mariel
Cuba’s recent history: its notoriety as the world’s largest offer an up-close view of this international crisis, the largest
exporter of sugar and the Western hemisphere’s first socialist oversea mass migration in Latin American history.
nation. Key to the New World fills the gap in our knowledge
of the island before 1700, examining Cuba’s formative The University of Georgia Press
centuries in depth.
ENTERPRISING WOMEN
MESTIZO MODERNITY
Gender, Race, and Power in the
Race, Technology, and the Body in Revolutionary Atlantic
Post-Revolutionary Mexico Kit Candlin & Cassandra Pybus
David S. Dalton
Mar 2018 256pp
Aug 2018 240pp 9780820353876 Paperback £23.95 / €27.00
9781683400394 Hardback £80.95 / €91.00 Race in the Atlantic World, 1700-1900 Series
Reframing Media, Technology, and Culture in
Latin/o America As the microbiographies in this book reveal, free women
of colour in Britain’s Caribbean colonies were not merely
After the end of the Mexican Revolution in 1917, post- the dependent concubines of the white male elite, as is
revolutionary leaders hoped to assimilate the country’s commonly assumed. In the capricious world of the slave
racially diverse population into one official mixed-race colonies during the age of revolutions, some of them were
identity - the mestizo. This book shows that as part of this able to rise to dizzying heights of success.
vision, the Mexican government believed it could modernize
“primitive”indigenous peoples through education, modern
medicine, industrial agriculture, and factory work.

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Ian Randle Publishers University of New Mexico Press

MAKING WAVES CYNICAL CITIZENSHIP

How the West Indies Shaped the Gender, Regionalism, and Political
United States Subjectivity in Porto Alegre, Brazil
Debbie Jacob Benjamin Junge

Oct 2017 340pp May 2018 288pp
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For full details of this title, see page 49. This anthropological study of grassroots community leaders
in Porto Alegre, Brazil’s leftist hotspot, focuses on gender,
University Press of Mississippi politics, and regionalism during the early 2000s, when
the Workers’Party was in power. The author explores the
CARIBBEAN MASALA ways community leaders make sense of official notions of
citizenship and how gender, politics, and regional identities
Indian Identity in Guyana and Trinidad shape these interpretations.
Dave Ramsaran & Linden F. Lewis
MURDER IN MÉRIDA, 1792
Jul 2018 144pp
9781496818041 Hardback £60.95 / €69.00 Violence, Factions, and the Law
Caribbean Studies Series Mark W. Lentz

In 1833, the abolition of slavery in the British Empire led to Feb 2018 256pp
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in the Caribbean. Dave Ramsaran and Linden F. Lewis 9780826359605 Hardback £90.50 / €102.00
concentrate on the Indian descendants’processes of mixing, Dialogos Series
assimilating, and adapting while trying desperately to hold
on to that which marks a group of people as distinct. During the summer of 1792, a man wearing the rough
garb of a vaquero stepped out of the night shadows of
THE INDIAN CARIBBEAN Mérida, Yucatan, and murdered the province’s top royal
official, don Lucas de Gálvez. This book recounts the mystery
Migration and Identity in the Diaspora of the Gálvez murder and its resolution, an event that
Lomarsh Roopnarine captured contemporaries’imaginations throughout the
Hispanic world.
Nov 2017 160pp
9781496814388 Hardback £56.50 / €64.00 SOCIAL SKINS OF THE HEAD
Caribbean Studies Series
Body Beliefs and Ritual in Ancient
Tells a distinct story of Indians in the Caribbean - one Mesoamerica and the Andes
concentrated not only on archival records and institutions, Edited by Vera Tiesler & Maria Cecilia Lozada
but also on the voices of the people and the ways in which
they define themselves and the world around them. May 2018 288pp
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The meanings of ritualized head treatments among ancient
Mesoamerican and Andean peoples is the subject of this
book. Heads are sources of power that protect, impersonate,
emulate sacred forces, distinguish, or acquire identity within
the native world. The essays in this book examine these
themes in a wide array of indigenous head treatments.

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University of Notre Dame Press University of Pittsburgh Press

AFTER INSURGENCY CUBAN STUDIES 46

Revolution and Electoral Politics in Edited by Alejandro de la Fuente
El Salvador Feb 2018 416pp, 58 b&w illustrations
Ralph Sprenkals 9780822945123 Hardback £47.95 / €54.00
Pittsburgh Cuban Studies
Apr 2018 492pp, 5 tables, 16 figures
9780268103255 Hardback £47.95 / €54.00 The preeminent journal for scholarly work on Cuba. Cuban
Studies 46 includes a critical dossier on poet Lourdes Casal,
El Salvador’s 2009 presidential elections marked a historical with individual essays viewing the issues of race, feminism,
feat: Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional and diaspora in her work.
(FMLN) became the first former Latin American guerrilla
movement to win the ballot after failing to take power by MODERNITY AT GUNPOINT
means of armed struggle. After Insurgency focuses on
the development of El Salvador’s FMLN into a strong and Firearms, Politics, and Culture in Mexico and
competitive political party. Central America
Sophie Esch
BEYOND HIGH COURTS
May 2018 296pp, 7 b&w illustrations
The Justice Complex in Latin America 9780822965381 Paperback £27.95 / €31.00
Edited by Matthew C. Ingram & Diana Kapiszewski Pitt Illuminations

Feb 2018 344pp, 14 line drawings, 23 tables, 2 maps Provides the first study of the political and cultural
9780268102814 Hardback £52.50 / €59.00 significance of weaponry in the context of major armed
Helen Kellogg Institute for International Studies conflicts in Mexico and Central America. In this original
study, Sophie Esch approaches political violence through its
A much-needed volume that will make a significant most direct and symbolic tool: the firearm. Esch grounds her
contribution to the growing fields of comparative law and analysis in important re-readings of canonical texts by Nellie
politics and Latin American legal institutions. The book Campobello, Omar Cabezas, Gioconda Belli, and others.
offers theoretically and conceptually rich empirical analyses
of a set of critical supranational, national, and subnational POLITICS IN UNIFORM
justice sector institutions that are generally neglected in
the literature. Military Officers and Dictatorship in Brazil,
1960-80
INDIGENOUS LANGUAGES, POLITICS, Maud Chirio
AND AUTHORITY IN LATIN AMERICA
May 2018 280pp, 10 b&w Illustrations
Historical and Ethnographic Perspectives 9780822965374 Paperback £27.95 / €31.00
Edited by Alan Durston Pitt Latin American Series

May 2018 278pp, 4 Tables Between 1964 and 1985, Brazil lived under the control
9780268103699 Hardback £52.50 / €59.00 of a repressive, anticommunist regime, where generals
maintained all power. Despite these circumstances, dozens of
Offers a vital and original contribution to a topic that lies young captains, majors, and colonels believed that they too
at the intersection of the fields of history, anthropology, deserved to participate in the exercise of power. This book
and linguistics. The book is the first to consider indigenous tells their story. It is history viewed from below, that pays
languages as vehicles of political orders in Latin America from attention to the origins of these actors.
the sixteenth century to the present, across regional and
national contexts.

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RESHAPING THE The University of Utah Press
POLITICAL ARENA
IN LATIN AMERICA IMAGINING THE ATACAMA DESERT

From Resisting A Five-Hundred-Year Journey of Discovery
Neoliberalism to the Richard Francaviglia
Second Incorporation
Edited by Eduardo Silva & May 2018 336pp, 115 colour illustrations
Federico Rossi 9781607816102 Hardback £28.50 / €32.00
Widely regarded as the driest place on earth, the seemingly
Feb 2018 360pp desolate Atacama Desert of Chile is a place steeped in
9780822965121 Paperback intrigue and haunted by collective memories. This book,
£31.50 / €36.00 based on archival research and field work, brings together the
Pitt Latin American Series work of geographers, historians, anthropologists, botanists,
geologists, astronomers, novelists, and others to offer a
Examines the role played in the second wave of nuanced understanding of this complex desert landscape.
incorporation by political parties, trade unions, and social
movements in five cases: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, Vanderbilt University Press
and Venezuela. The cases shed new light on a subject critical
to understanding the change in the distribution of political NO LIMITS TO
power related to popular sectors and their interests - a key THEIR SWAY
issue in the study of post-neoliberalism.
Cartagena’s Privateers
VOICES OF CHANGE IN CUBA FROM and the Masterless
THE NON-STATE SECTOR Caribbean in the Age
of Revolutions
Edited by Carmelo Mesa-Lago Edgardo Perez Morales
Feb 2018 176pp
9780822965091 Paperback £26.95 / €30.00 Feb 2018 265pp, 8 halftones
Pitt Latin American Series 9780826521927 Paperback
£26.95 / €30.00
More than one million Cubans, representing thirty percent 9780826521910 Hardback
of the country’s labour force, currently comprise the £57.50 / €64.00
non-state sector. Based on eighty in-depth interviews In 1811, the important port town of Cartagena rejected
recently conducted in Cuba, this book captures actual Spanish authority, and declared independence. Independent
voices from this evolving economic sector. The book offers Cartagena opened its doors to privateers of colour from
fascinating insights into today’s Cuban economy from the the French Caribbean. Based on handwritten and printed
non-state sector. sources, this book tells the story of Cartagena’s multinational
and multicultural seafarers, revealing the trans-Atlantic and
The University of South Carolina Press maritime dimensions of South American independence.

THE TORRID ZONE The University of the West Indies Press

Caribbean Colonization and Cultural PORT OF SPAIN
Interaction in the Long Seventeenth Century
Edited by L.H. Roper The Construction of a Caribbean City,
1888–1962
May 2018 264pp Stephen Stuempfle
9781611178906 Hardback £47.95 / €54.00
The Carolina Lowcountry and the Atlantic World Oct 2018 600pp
9789766406639 Paperback £76.50 / €86.00
Brimming with new perspectives and cutting edge research, In this wide-ranging study, Stephen Stuempfle explores the
the essays collected in this volume explore colonization and transformation of the landscape (material environment)
cultural interaction in the Caribbean from the late 1600s to of Port of Spain from the cocoa boom era at the turn of
the early 1800s - a period known as the “long”seventeenth the twentieth century through Trinidad and Tobago’s
century - a time when these encounters varied widely and independence from Britain in 1962.
the diverse actors were not yet fully enmeshed in the culture
and power dynamics of master-slave relations.

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THE PORTUGUESE OF TRINIDAD CIVIL OBEDIENCE
AND TOBAGO
Complicity and Complacency in Chile
Portrait of an Ethnic Minority Since Pinochet
Jo-Anne S. Ferreira Michael Lazzara

Aug 2018 168pp May 2018 256pp, 9 b&w photos
9789766406608 Paperback £28.95 / €33.00 9780299317201 Hardback £69.50 / €78.00
Critical Human Rights
Traditionally a navigating and migratory people, Portuguese
settlers came to the Caribbean as early as the seventeenth Argues that today’s Chile is a product of both complicity and
century. Though few in number, the Portuguese complacency. Combining historical analysis with deft literary,
contribution to their adopted homeland is of a significance political, and cultural critique, Michael J. Lazzara scrutinizes
beyond the small size of the community. The tale of the the post-Pinochet rationalizations made by politicians,
Madeirans in Trinidad and Tobago and Luso-Trinidadians artists, intellectuals, bystanders, former revolutionaries-
and Tobagonians has gone untold. This is an attempt to tell turned-neoliberals, and common citizens.
their story.
CONFLICTED MEMORY
Wayne State University Press
Military Cultural Interventions and the
JEWISH BUENOS AIRES, 1890-1939 Human Rights Era in Peru
Cynthia E. Milton
In Search of an Identity
Victor A. Mirelman Dec 2017 296pp, 26 b&w illustrations
9780299315009 Hardback £69.50 / €78.00
Dec 2017 300pp, 14 b&w Images Critical Human Rights
9780814344576 Paperback £21.95 / €25.00
Peru has moved from the 1980s-90s conflict between its
Examines the changing facade of the Argentinean Jewish armed forces and Shining Path militants into an era of open
community from the beginning of mass Jewish immigration democracy, transitional justice, and truth and reconciliation
in 1890 to its decline in 1930. Based on research in the commissions. Cynthia Milton reveals how Peru’s military has
Argentine archives. Jewish Buenos Aires, 1890-1930 describes engaged in a tactical cultural campaign - via books, films,
the immigration and settlement process, studies the museums - to shift public opinion, debate, and memories
first generation of Argentine-born Jews, and provides an about the nation’s violent recent past and its part in it.
understanding of assimilation and acculturation.

The University of Wisconsin Press

BREAD, JUSTICE, AND LIBERTY

Grassroots Activism and Human Rights in
Pinochet’s Chile
Alison Bruey

Jul 2018 312pp, 5 maps

9780299316105 Hardback £69.50 / €78.00
Critical Human Rights

In Santiago’s urban shantytowns, a searing history of poverty
and Chilean state violence have prompted grassroots
resistance movements among the poor and working class
from the 1940s to the present. Underscoring this complex
continuity, Alison J. Bruey offers a compelling history of the
struggle for social justice and democracy during the Pinochet
dictatorship and its aftermath.

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BESTSELLERS MIDDLE EAST & AFRICAN HISTORY

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THE STORY OF THE JAMAICAN PEOPLE HIGHLIGHT

Phillips Sherlock & Hazel Bennett ISLAM
1998 448pp WITHOUT
9789768100306 Paperback £19.95 / €23.00 EUROPE
The first general history of Jamaica to be written in almost 40
years. It differs significantly from earlier “imperial”histories Traditions
which have been written from the perspective of the of Reform in
coloniser and which have relegated Jamaicans to an inferior Eighteenth-
and passive role. Century Islamic
Thought
The University of North Carolina Press Ahmad S. Dallal

MASTERY, TYRANNY, AND DESIRE Islamic Civilization and Muslim Networks
Replete with a cast of giants in Islamic thought
Thomas Thistlewood and His Slaves in the and philosophy, Ahmad S. Dallal’s ground breaking
Anglo-Jamaican World intellectual history of the eighteenth-century
Trevor Burnard Muslim world challenges stale views of this period
as one of decline, stagnation, and the engendering
2004 336pp of a widespread fundamentalism. Far from being
9780807855256 Paperback £35.95 / €41.00 moribund, Dallal argues, the eighteenth century was
Trevor Burnard provides unparalleled insight into Jamaica’s one of the most fertile eras in Islamic thought.
vibrant but harsh African and European cultures with a The University of North Carolina Press
comprehensive examination of the diary of plantation owner
Thomas Thistlewood.

THE ORIGINS OF THE CUBAN
REVOLUTION RECONSIDERED

Samuel Farber
2006 230pp
9780807856734 Paperback £30.95 / €35.00
Envisioning Cuba
Analysing the crucial period of the Cuban Revolution from
1959 to 1961, this book challenges scholarly views of the
revolution’s sources, shape, and historical trajectory.

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HIGHLIGHT Pentagon Press

POST-REVOLU- ASYMMETRIC CONFLICT
TIONARY
IRAN Israel-Lebanon War, 2006
Harjeet Singh
A Political
Handbook Apr 2018 196pp
Mehrzad Boroujerdi & 9789386618245 Hardback £27.95 / €34.00
Kourosh Rahimkhani
Examines the war between the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF),
Provides the most comprehensive collection of data and the Lebanese Shia militia Hezbollah in 2006. Unlike
on political life in post-revolutionary Iran, including conventional war, it saw the most powerful army in the
coverage of 36 national elections, more than 400 Middle East battling against a popularly-supported militant
legal and outlawed political organisations, and movement. What distinguishes this war is the question of
family ties among the elite. It provides biographical feasibility that arises over the use of conventional warfare
sketches of more than 2,300 political personalities against an insurgent group relying heavily on guerrilla
ranging from cabinet ministers to clerical, judicial, warfare and religious convictions.
and military leaders.
Syracuse University Press Salem Press

Brookings Institution Press THE MIDDLE EAST

SUEZ 1956 Salem Press
Feb 2018 800pp, two volumes
An Interactive Study in Statecraft 9781682177020 Hardback £280.00 / €315.00
Philip Zelikow & Ernest May Defining Documents in World History

Sep 2018 420pp The Middle East is the site of the first great civilizations in
9780815735724 Hardback £31.50 / €36.00 history. Today, it remains one of the most significant regions
The Suez crisis of 1956 offers a master class in statecraft. Like of the world for a variety of political, economic, and religious
an illustration that uses an exploded view of an object to reasons. This two volume set spans the history of the region
show how it works, this book uses an unprecedented design and includes a variety of documents from several eras.
to deconstruct the Suez crisis. The story is broken down into
three distinct phases. In each phase, the reader sees the issues Syracuse University Press
as they were perceived by each country involved.
EMIRATE, EGYPTIAN, ETHIOPIAN
The University of North Carolina Press
Colonial Experiences in Late
ISLAM WITHOUT EUROPE Nineteenth-Century Harar
Avishai Ben-Dror
Traditions of Reform in Eighteenth-Century
Islamic Thought Mar 2018 352pp
Ahmad S. Dallal 9780815635840 Paperback £38.50 / €43.00
9780815635666 Hardback £66.95 / €75.00
Jun 2018 424pp Modern Intellectual and Political History of the Middle East
9781469641409 Paperback £33.50 / €38.00
9781469640341 Hardback £95.50 / €107.00 In October 1875, two months after the takeover of the
Islamic Civilization and Muslim Networks Somali coastal town of Zeila, an Egyptian force numbering
For full details of this title, see page 56. 1,200 soldiers departed from the city to occupy Harar, a
prominent Muslim hub in the Horn of Africa. In Emirate,
Egyptian,Ethiopian, Ben-Dror tells the story of Turco-Egyptian
colonial ambitions and the processes that integrated Harar
into the global system of commerce.

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JEWISH LIBYA THE ISRAELI-AMERICAN CONNECTION

Memory and Identity in Text and Image Its Roots in the Yishuv, 1914-1945
Edited by Jacques Roumani, Judith Roumani & Michael Brown
David Meghnagi
Dec 2017 400pp, 15 b&w Images
May 2018 360pp 9780814344590 Paperback £23.95 / €27.00
9780815635802 Paperback £23.95 / €27.00 American Holy Land Series
9780815635628 Hardback £52.50 / €59.00 Examines the ways in which the American experience
Modern Jewish History influenced some of the major leaders of the yishuv, the
Jewish settlement in Palestine, during and between the
In June 2017, the Jews of Libya commemorated the jubilee world wars. In six biographical chapters, Michael Brown
of their complete exodus from this North African land studies Vladimir Jabotinsky, Chaim Nahman Bialik, Berl
in 1967, which began with a mass migration to Israel in Katznelson, Henrietta Szold, Golda Meir, and David Ben-
1948-49. Jewish Libya collects the work of scholars who Gurian.
explore the community’s history, its literature and dialect,
topography and cuisine, and the difficult negotiation of OVERLOOKING THE BORDER
trauma and memory.
Narratives of a Divided Jerusalem
POSTREVOLUTIONARY IRAN Dana Hercbergs

A Political Handbook Jun 2018 284pp
Mehrzad Boroujerdi & Kourosh Rahimkhani 9780814344927 Paperback £28.95 / €32.00
9780814341087 Hardback £76.50 / €86.00
Jun 2018 1000pp, 22 figures Raphael Patai Series in Jewish Folklore and Anthropology
9780815635741 Hardback £66.95 / €75.00 Continues the dialogue surrounding the social history of
Jerusalem. Based on ethnographic fieldwork, the book
For full details of this title, see page 57. juxtaposes Israeli and Palestinian personal narratives about
the past with contemporary museum exhibits, street
Wayne State University Press plaques, tourism, and real estate projects that are reshaping
the city since the decline of the peace process and the
FROM NEW ZION TO OLD ZION second intifada.

American Jewish Immigration and BESTSELLER
Settlement in Palestine, 1917-1939
Joseph B. Glass Markus Wiener Publishers

Dec 2017 432pp, 52 b&w Images THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE
9780814344231 Paperback £20.95 / €24.00
American Holy Land Series A Short History
Saraiya Faroqhi
Analyses the migration of American Jews to Palestine
between the two world wars and explores the contribution 2008 220pp, illustrations
of these settlers to the building of Palestine. From New Zion 9781558764491 Paperback £25.95 / €29.00
to Old Zion draws on international archival correspondence, Presents the history of one of the powerful empires of the
newspapers, maps, photographs, interviews, and fieldwork Late Middle Ages and Early Modern era. This text traces the
to provide a well-researched portrait of Aliyah. political history of the Ottomans from the 14th century to
the dissolution of the empires after WWI.

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REST OF AFRICA University of Pittsburgh Press

HIGHLIGHT RHETORICS OF RESISTANCE

UNSETTLED Opposition Journalism in Apartheid
HISTORY South Africa
Bryan Trabold
Making
South African May 2018 352pp, 9 b&w Illustrations
Public Pasts 9780822965442 Paperback £27.95 / €31.00
Leslie Witz, Pittsburgh Series in Composition, Literacy and Culture
Gary Minkley & The period of apartheid was a perilous time in South
Ciraj Rassool Africa’s history. This book examines the tactics of resistance
developed by those working for the Weekly Mail and New
Nation, two opposition newspapers published in South
Africa in the mid- and late-1980s.

University of Virginia Press

African Perspectives THE FINGER OF GOD
Examines how South African society and its public
pasts were constructed and presented from Nelson Enoch Mgijima, the Israelites, and
Mandela’s release in 1990 to South Africa’s hosting of the Bulhoek Massacre in South Africa,
the 2010 FIFA World Cup. Second Edition
University of Michigan Press Robert R. Edgar

University of Notre Dame Press May 2018 240pp, 20 b&w photos, 2 maps
9780813941028 Hardback £42.95 / €49.00
DREAMS FOR LESOTHO Reconsiderations in Southern African History

Independence, Foreign Assistance, On the morning of May 24, 1921, a force of eight hundred
and Development white policemen and soldiers confronted an African prophet,
John Aerni-Flessner Enoch Mgijima, and some three thousand of his followers.
In the event that has come to be known as the Bulhoek
May 2018 284pp, 10 photos massacre, police killed nearly two hundred of these ’Israelites’.
9780268103613 Hardback £52.50 / €59.00 In The Finger of God, Robert Edgar reveals how and why the
Kellogg Institute Series on Democracy and Development Bulhoek massacre occurred.
Explores the post-independence emergence of Lesotho as
an example of the uneven ways in which people experienced The University of the West Indies Press
development at the end of colonialism in Africa.
A RESPONSE TO ENSLAVEMENT

Playing Their Way to Virtue
Peter A. Roberts

Feb 2018 400pp
9789766406578 Paperback £38.50 / €43.00

Addresses the dilemma that the enslaved Africans (mostly
young people) faced and how they dealt with it. Peter
Roberts examines the critical role of play in human existence
as the basis for its role in their response to enslavement
and suggests that in a world today where people resort to
catastrophic acts of suicide to win their struggles, the choices
of the enslaved present a viable alternative.

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The University of Wisconsin Press REST OF AFRICA BESTSELLERS

FREEDOM IN WHITE AND BLACK Cognella Academic Publishing

A Lost Story of the Illegal Slave Trade and its AFRICAN HISTORY
Global Legacy
Emma Christopher Revised Edition
Edited by Chima J. Korieh & Raphael Chijioke Njoku
Jun 2018 256pp, 8 illustrations
9780299316204 Hardback £26.50 / €30.00 2013 528pp
9781621310129 Paperback £86.95 / €97.00
By 1808, both Britain and the US had passed laws outlawing Offers a rich selection of primary source materials and
the transatlantic slave trade. Yet the trade covertly carried on. excellent essays on a wide range of themes. These readings
In the summer of 1813, in what is now Liberia, a compound can either be used alone or along with supplementary
of slave pens was bursting with sick and anguished captives. materials in the teaching and learning of African history or
This story can be told because of an exceptional trove of African Studies from prehistory to the present.
court documents that provides unparalleled insight into one
small link in the great, horrific chain of slavery. HSRC Press

Wits University Press IN AND OUT OF THE MAASAI STEPPE

BETWEEN WORLDS Joy Stephens
2017 268pp
German Missionaries and the Transition from 9781928246121 Paperback £21.95 / €25.00
Mission to Bantu Education in South Africa Looks at the Maasai women in the Maasai Steppe of
Linda Chisholm Tanzania. The book explores their current plight in the
light of colonial history and post-independence history of
Feb 2018 304pp land seizures.
9781776141746 Paperback £34.95 / €39.00 Best Red

The transition from apartheid to the post-apartheid era has University of Michigan Press
highlighted questions about the past and the persistence of
its influence in present-day South Africa. This is particularly
so in education. Between Worlds scrutinises the experience of
a hitherto unexplored German mission society, probing the
complexities and paradoxes of social change in education.

UNSETTLED HISTORY

Making South African Public Pasts
Leslie Witz, Gary Minkley & Ciraj Rassool

2017 328pp, 30 halftones
9780472053346 Paperback £28.50 / €32.00
African Perspectives

For full details of this title, see page 59.

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ASIA-PACIFIC HISTORY HIGHLIGHT

ASIA YELLOW PERILS

HIGHLIGHT China Narratives China Narratives
in the Contemporary World in the
BURNT BY Contemporary
THE SUN World
Edited by
The Koreans of the Franck Billé &
Russian Far East Sören Urbansky
Jon K. Chang

Perspectives on the Based on archival material and interviews, this
Global Past collection supplements and often challenges
Examines the history of the first Korean diaspora in a superficial journalistic accounts and top-down
Western society during the highly tense geopolitical studies by economists and political scientists. Yellow
atmosphere of the Soviet Union in the late 1930s. Peril narratives, contributors find, constitute cultural
Jon K. Chang demonstrates that the Koreans of vectors of multiple kinds of anxieties, spanning the
the Russian Far East were continually viewed as cultural, racial, political, and economic.
a problematic and maligned nationality (ethnic University of Hawai’i Press
community) during the Tsarist and Soviet periods.
University of Hawai’i Press HIGHLIGHT

HIGHLIGHT GREAT
POWERS,
WHITE MÉTISSE GRAND
STRATEGIES
Kim Lefévre
The New Game
in the South
China Sea
Anders Corr

In this evocative memoir, Focuses on grand strategic approaches to the South
Kim Lefévre recounts China Sea dispute by major powers in the region
her childhood and - those capable of projecting force to the South
adolescence growing up in colonial Viet Nam. Set China Sea and abroad. It explores international
within a tumultuous period of Franco-Vietnamese dimensions of the South China Sea dispute, and
history - resistance and revolt, World War II and the how military, diplomatic, and economic strategies of
Japanese invasion, the first war for independence global actors have both contributed to solutions and
against the French - White Métisse offers a unique exacerbated conflict.
view of watershed events.
Naval Institute Press
University of Hawai’i Press

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HIGHLIGHT Berkshire Publishing Group

TURKEY’S JULY BERKSHIRE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF CHINA
15TH COUP
Second Edition
What Happened Edited by Kerry Brown
and Why
Edited by M Hakan Jul 2018 3600pp, eight volumes
Yavuz, Bayram Balci 9781614721888 Hardback £1795.00 / €2015.00
A new edition of the Berkshire Encyclopedia of China is in
Focuses on the historical development, with print and digital publication scheduled
and sociopolitical for Spring 2018.
contexts of the Gülen Movement’s origins and
political ascendancy, along with its possible role The Chinese University Press
in the failed July 2016 coup in Turkey. This is a
comprehensive assessment of numerous dimensions STALIN AND MAO
of Gulenist activities, including its social and political
networks and the institutions that supported the A Comparison of the Russian and
movement as it became a major economic and Chinese Revolutions
educational force. Lucien Bianco
The University of Utah Press
Feb 2018 476pp
Baraka Books 9789882370654 Hardback £61.95 / €70.00
China’s ascent to the ranks of the world’s second largest
PATRIOTS, TRAITORS AND EMPIRES economic power has given its revolution a better image than
that of its Russian counterpart. Yet the two have a great deal
The Story of Korea’s Struggle for Freedom in common. This volume highlights the similarities between
Stephen Gowans the two Chinese revolutions.

Jun 2018 290pp University of Hawai’i Press
9781771861359 Paperback £21.95 / €25.00
Offers an account of modern Korean history, written from AKUTO AND RURAL CONFLICT IN
the point of view of those who fought to free their country MEDIEVAL JAPAN
from the domination of foreign empires. It traces the history
of Korea’s struggle for freedom from opposition to Japanese Morten Oxenboell
colonialism starting in 1905 to North Korea’s current efforts May 2018 240pp, 1 map
to deter the threat of invasion by the United States or 9780824872649 Hardback £60.95 / €69.00
anybody else by having nuclear weapons. Offers an in-depth analysis of an understudied phenomenon
in medieval Japanese history: the akuto (literally “evil
bands”). Employing chronicles, laws, and legal documents
from the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, and Japanese
scholarship, Morten Oxenboell examines the significance of
akuto in legal proceedings to provide an understanding of
how rural communities engaged in violent conflicts.

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BURNT BY THE SUN DOWN AND OUT IN LATE MEIJI JAPAN

The Koreans of the Russian Far East James L. Huffman
Jon K. Chang Apr 2018 472pp, 24 b&w illustrations
9780824872915 Hardback £64.95 / €73.00
Feb 2018 288pp, 18 b&w illustrations, 3 maps, 6 tables
9780824876746 Paperback £26.95 / €30.00 A sweeping work of original scholarship, Down and Out in
Perspectives on the Global Past Late Meiji Japan examines the daily lives of Japan’s hinmin
For full details of this title, see page 61. (poor people), particularly urban slum-dwellers, in the late
1800s and early 1900s. James Huffman draws on newspaper
A CHINA SCHOLAR’S LONG MARCH, articles, official surveys, and reminiscences to recreate for
1978–2015 readers life as experienced by the poor themselves.

Reflections on a Changing China FAMILIAL PROPERTIES
Charles Horner
Gender, State, and Society in Early Modern
Mar 2018 300pp Vietnam, 1463-1778
9781937385859 Paperback £27.50 / €31.00 Nhung Tuyet Tran
9781937385903 Hardback £46.95 / €53.00
May 2018 280pp
Presents a collection of fifty pieces written between 1978 9780824874827 Hardback £64.95 / €73.00
and 2015 by Charles Horner, a China Scholar, a former US Southeast Asia: Politics, Meaning, and Memory, Vol. 6
government official, and the author of the two-volume work
Rising China and Its Postmodern Fate. The pieces originally Provides the first full-length history of Vietnamese gender
appeared in general interest publications. relations in the precolonial period. Nhung Tuyet Tran shows
how, despite the bias in law and practice of a patrilineal
MerwinAsia society based on primogeniture, some women were able to
manipulate the system to their own advantage.
CONFESSIONS OF A RED GUARD
KNOWLEDGE AND PACIFICATION
A Memoir
Liang Xiao On the U.S. Conquest and the Writings of
Philippine History
Mar 2018 300pp Reynaldo C. Ileto
9781937385750 Paperback £27.50 / €31.00
9781937385781 Hardback £46.95 / €53.00 Feb 2018 376pp
9789715507783 Paperback £48.50 / €55.00
Novelist Liang Xiaosheng’s Confessions of a Red Guard relates
minor, intensely personal incidents affecting ordinary Shows us how to think about the American century in
people during this extraordinary historical period. In the the Philippines in another way. Colonial representations
author’s odyssey as a young Red Guard, he is witness of the revolution and resistance to US occupation have
to public humiliations of “counterrevolutionaries”; an been contested quite effectively. But the bigger challenge
execution; a budding romance; and stolen pleasures with is to interrogate some basic notions that undergird our
forbidden books. understanding of Philippine politics - notions that owe their
provenance to attempts by US officials and scholars to pacify
MerwinAsia the enemy.

CULTIVATING FEMININITY Ateneo De Manila University Press

Women and Tea Culture in Edo and
Meiji Japan
Rebecca Corbett

Dec 2017 208pp, 10 b&w illustrations, 3 colour plates
9780824872076 Hardback £64.95 / €73.00

The overwhelming majority of tea practitioners in
contemporary Japan are women, but there has been little
discussion on their historical role in tea culture (chanoyu).
Rebecca Corbett writes women back into this history
and shows how tea practice for women was understood,
articulated, and promoted in the Edo and Meiji periods.

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LAND, POWER, AND THE SACRED PRODUCING HIROSHIMA
AND NAGASAKI
The Estate System in Medieval Japan
Edited by Janet R. Goodwin, Joan R. Piggott Literature, Film, and Transnational Politics
Yuko Shibata
Jul 2018 464pp, 62 illustrations, 29 in colour
9780824872939 Hardback £70.50 / €79.00 Aug 2018 216pp
9780824867775 Hardback £59.50 / €67.00
From the tenth to sixteenth centuries, landed estates served
as sites of de facto government, trade network nodes, Juxtaposes literary and cinematic texts usually considered
developing agricultural technology, and centres of religious separately to highlight the “connected divides”in the
practice in Japan. This volume examines the system from production of knowledge on Hiroshima and Nagasaki,
three perspectives: the land itself; the power derived from shedding new light on both texts and contexts in
and exerted over the land; and the religious institutions and the process.
individuals involved in landholding practices.
SEOUL
NEGOTIATING RURAL LAND
OWNERSHIP IN SOUTHWEST CHINA Memory, Reinvention, and the Korean Wave
Ross King
State, Village, Family
Yi Wu Feb 2018 336pp, 60 b&w illustrations
9780824872052 Hardback £56.50 / €63.00
Apr 2018 296pp, 10 b&w illustrations, 2 maps, 2 tables
9780824876807 Paperback £26.95 / €30.00 Interrogates the contested history and physical remnants
Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, of Seoul, tacking between the city’s historiography and
Columbia University architecture, with attention to monuments, streets,
and other urban spaces. The book’s structuring device
Offers the first comprehensive analysis of how China’s is the dichotomy of erasure and memory as necessary
current system of land ownership has evolved over the preconditions for reinvention.
past six decades. Based on extended fieldwork in Yunnan
Province, the author explores how the three major rural SOUTHEAST ASIA’S COLD WAR
actors - local governments, village communities, and rural
households - have contested and negotiated land rights at An Interpretive History
the grassroots level. Ang Cheng Guan

THE POLITICS OF PAINTING Jan 2018 320pp
9780824872571 Hardback £64.95 / €73.00
Fascism and Japanese Art During the
Second World War The historiography of the Cold War has long been dominated
Asato Ikeda by American motivations and concerns, with Southeast
Asian perspectives largely confined to the Indochina wars
May 2018 192pp, 33 colour, 12 b&w illustrations and Indonesia under Sukarno. Southeast Asia’s Cold War
9780824872120 Hardback £57.50 / €65.00 corrects this situation by examining the international politics
of the region from within rather than without.
Examines a set of paintings produced in Japan during the
1930s and early 1940s that have received little scholarly SPECTACULAR ACCUMULATION
attention. Asato Ikeda views the work of four prominent
artists of the time - Yokoyama Taikan, Yasuda Yukihiko, Material Culture, Tokugawa Ieyasu, and
Uemura Shoen, and Fujita Tsuguharu - through the lens Samurai Sociability
of fascism, showing how their seemingly straightforward Morgan Pitelka
paintings supported the war by reinforcing state ideology.
Jun 2018 240pp, 39 colour illustrations
9780824876814 Paperback £26.95 / €30.00

Investigates the significance of material culture and
sociability in late sixteenth-century Japan, focusing in
particular on the career and afterlife of Tokugawa Ieyasu
(1543-1616), the founder of the Tokugawa shogunate.
The story of Ieyasu illustrates the close ties between
people, things, and politics and offers us insight into the
role of material culture in the shift from medieval to early
modern Japan.

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WHITE MÉTISSE Naval Institute Press

Kim Lefévre GREAT POWERS, GRAND STRATEGIES
May 2018 352pp
9780824872670 Paperback £23.95 / €27.00 The New Game in the South China Sea
9780824872663 Hardback £59.50 / €67.00 Anders Corr
For full details of this title, see page 61.
Dec 2017 336pp, 1 map
YELLOW PERILS 9781682472354 Hardback £30.50 / €35.00
For full details of this title, see page 61.
China Narratives in the Contemporary World
Edited by Franck Billé & Sören Urbansky The University of North Carolina Press

Jul 2018 280pp, 6 b&w illustrations RUBBER AND THE MAKING
9780824875794 Hardback £64.95 / €73.00 OF VIETNAM

For full details of this title, see page 61. An Ecological History, 1897-1975
Michitake Aso
McFarland
Apr 2018 320pp, 20 illustrations
NORTH KOREA 9781469637150 Paperback £31.50 / €36.00
AND MYANMAR 9781469637143 Hardback £85.95 / €97.00
Flows, Migrations, and Exchanges
Divergent Paths In this ground breaking study, Michitake Aso narrates
Andray Abrahamian how rubber plantations came to dominate the material
and symbolic landscape of Vietnam and its neighbours,
Dec 2017 170pp structuring the region’s environment of conflict and violence.
9781476673707 Paperback Aso demonstrates how postcolonial socialist visions of
£38.50 / €43.00 agriculture and medicine were informed by their colonial and
capitalist predecessors in important ways.
North Korea and Myanmar
(Burma) are Asia’s most NUS Press
mysterious, tragic stories.
They were the region’s most STUDYING SINGAPORE BEFORE 1800
militarized and repressed societies, sitting out the greatest
wealth creation project in the history of the world, one that Edited by Kwa Chong Guan & Peter Borschberg
created a belt of middle classes, comfort and security from May 2018 600pp
Singapore to Japan. How did Myanmar find its way out of 9789814722742 Paperback £49.50 / €56.00
this isolation? Why does North Korea remain stuck? This volume collects studies about Singapore before 1800,
bringing together different efforts across the 20th century at
University of Michigan Press reconstructing Singapore’s “missing years”. 

TRANSGRESSION IN KOREA UNCERTAINTY, ANXIETY, FRUGALITY

Beyond Resistance and Control Dealing With Leprosy in the
Juhn Young Ahn Dutch East Indies, 1816–1942
Leo van Bergen
Feb 2018 264pp, 13 b&w photos, 1 map
9780472053773 Paperback £28.50 / €32.00 Jun 2018 344pp, 4 bar graphs, 6 tables
9780472073771 Hardback £71.50 / €81.00 9789814722834 Paperback £34.50 / €39.00
Perspectives on Contemporary Korea The story of leprosy in the Dutch East Indies from the
Challenges the popular conceptions of transgression as beginning of the 19th century to the middle of the 20th
resistance to authority, the collapse of morality, and an reveals important themes in the colonial enterprise across
attempt at self-empowerment. Examples of transgression the territory that is today’s Indonesia. 
from premodern, modern, and contemporary Korea are
examined side by side to underscore the possibility of reading
transgression in more ways than one.

66 ASIA-PACIFIC HISTORY • ASIA

WORLD WAR II SINGAPORE The University of Wisconsin Press

The Chosabu Reports on Syonan EXPRESSIONS OF SUFI CULTURE
Edited by Greg Huff & Shinobu Majima IN TAJIKISTAN

Feb 2018 520pp Benjamin Gatling
9789814722629 Hardback £57.50 / €65.00 Jul 2018 216pp, 9 b&w illustrations
9780299316808 Hardback £60.95 / €69.00
For forty-four months during World War II, the Japanese Folklore Studies in a Multicultural World
occupied Singapore, setting out to drastically change life Reveals the daily lives and religious practice of ordinary
on the island. As part of the occupation, the Japanese Muslim men in Tajikistan as they aspire to become Sufi
produced detailed reports on the economy. The reports mystics. Benjamin Gatling describes in vivid detail the range
were notoriously difficult to read, and so this exceptional of expressive forms - memories, stories, poetry, artifacts,
translation by Gregg Huff and Shinobu Majima is a true rituals, and other embodied practices - employed as they try
linguistic accomplishment. to construct a Sufi life in twenty-first-century Central Asia.

University of Pittsburgh Press IN PLAIN SIGHT

LEARNING TO BECOME TURKMEN Impunity and Human
Rights in Thailand
Literacy, Language, and Power, 1914-2014 Tyrell Haberkorn
Victoria Clement
Oct 2017 312pp, 1 table
Jun 2018 302pp, 16 b&w Illustrations 9780299314408 Hardback
9780822964636 Paperback £27.95 / €31.00 £69.50 / €78.00
Central Eurasia in Context New Perspectives in South East
Asian Studies
Examines the ways in which the iconography of everyday Following a 1932 coup d’état in
life - in dramatically different alphabets, multiple languages, Thailand that ended absolute
and shifting education policies - reflects the evolution monarchy and established a
of Turkmen society in Central Asia over the past century. constitution, the Thai state that emerged has suppressed
Learning to Become Turkmen is the first book in a Western political dissent through detention, torture, forced
language to draw on Turkmen archives, as it explores how reeducation, disappearances, assassinations, and massacres.
Eurasia has been shaped historically. In Plain Sight shows how these abuses, both hidden and
occurring in public view, have become institutionalized.
STALIN’S NOMADS
BESTSELLERS
Power and Famine in Kazakhstan
Robert Kindler Cognella Academic Publishing

Jun 2018 328pp, 14 b&w Illustrations THE HISTORY OF JAPAN
9780822965435 Paperback £27.95 / €31.00
Central Eurasia in Context Ura and Omote
Edited by Eric Messersmith
Provides a comprehensive and unsettling account of the
Soviet campaign to forcefully sedentarize and collectivize 2012 218pp
the Kazakh clans. Viewing the nomadic life as unproductive, 9781609272654 Paperback £125.00 / €141.00
and their lands unused and untilled, Stalin and his inner circle An anthology that provides readers with a fresh and
pursued a campaign of violence and subjugation, rather than interesting look at Japanese history. It brings together, in one
attempting any dialogue or cultural assimilation. The results volume, the narratives not typically included in academic
were catastrophic. texts and the familiar stories that are covered repeatedly
by scholars.
The University of Utah Press

TURKEY’S JULY 15TH COUP

What Happened and Why
Edited by M Hakan Yavuz & Bayram Balci

Mar 2018 360pp
9781607816065 Paperback £23.95 / €27.00

For full details of this title, see page 62.

ASIA-PACIFIC HISTORY • ASIA 67

JAPANESE SOCIETY AND HISTORY SUPERFLUOUS THINGS

John McKinstry & Harold Kerbo Material Culture and Social Status in Early
2011 274pp Modern China
9781609278854 Paperback £16.95 / €19.00 Craig Clunas

Japan has always seemed a puzzle to most westerners – so 2004 219pp, 8 illustrations
modern, so industrialized, yet somehow so different. This 9780824828202 Paperback £22.95 / €26.00
book seeks to initiate westerners to the learning process of Craig Clunas analyses “superfluous things”- the paintings,
making Japan seem a little less mysterious and a little more calligraphy, bronzes, ceramics, carved jade, and other
understandable. objects owned by the elites of Ming China - and describes
contemporary attitudes to them.
University of Hawai’i Press
The University of North Carolina Press
JAPANESE CULTURE
MAO’S CHINA AND THE COLD WAR
Fourth Edition
H. Paul Varley Jian Chen
2001 416pp
2000 400pp, 72 illustrations 9780807849323 Paperback £35.95 / €41.00
9780824821524 Paperback The New Cold War History
£23.95 / €27.00 This comprehensive study of China’s Cold War experience
reveals the crucial role Beijing played in shaping the
An introduction to Japanese orientation of the global Cold War and the confrontation
history and culture. This fourth between the United States and the Soviet Union.
edition includes expanded
sections on samurai values, Zen NUS Press
Buddhism, the tea ceremony,
Confucianism in the Tokugawa A HISTORY OF MODERN SINGAPORE,
period, the story of the 47 “ronin”, and mass culture in 1819-2005
contemporary times.
C. Mary Turnbull
JAPAN TO 1600 2009 520pp, illustrations, maps
9789971693435 Paperback £28.95 / €33.00
A Social and Economic History Seeks to provide a general framework, giving due weight
William Wayne Farris to the origins, early development and each of the various
periods of Singapore’s history.
2009 264pp, 29 illustrations, 6 maps
9780824833794 Paperback £24.95 / €28.00 Pentagon Press

Traces Japanese historical development from the first KISHTWAR CAULDRON
evidence of human habitation in the archipelago to the
consolidation of political power under the Tokugawa The Struggle Against ISI’s Ethnic Cleansing
shogunate at the beginning of the seventeenth century. G.D. Bakshi

KOREA’S TWENTIETH-CENTURY 2013 180pp
ODYSSEY 9788182747364 Hardback £24.50 / €30.00
This is an explosive and insightful account of Pakistan`s
A Short History Proxy War in Jammu and Kashmir in general and the
Michael Edson Robinson counter-terrorist operations in the killing fields of Kishtwar,
in particular.
2007 232pp, 30 illustrations
9780824831745 Paperback £23.95 / €27.00

Beginning with a description of late-nineteenth-century
imperialism, this work shows how traditional Korean political
culture shaped the response of Koreans to multiple threats to
their sovereignty after being opened to the world economy
by Japan in the 1870s.

68 ASIA-PACIFIC HISTORY • AUSTRALASIA

AUSTRALASIA NewSouth Publishing

University of Hawai’i Press THE SYDNEY WARS

BREAKING THE SHELL Conflict and Warfare on the Cumberland
Plain 1788–1817
Voyaging from Nuclear Refugees to People of Stephen Gapps
the Sea in the Marshall Islands
Joseph H. Genz May 2018 304pp
9781742232140 Paperback £31.50 / €36.00
Feb 2018 264pp, 23 b&w illustrations, 5 maps Described by one early colonist as ‘this constant sort
9780824867911 Hardback £64.95 / €73.00 of war’, The Sydney Wars tells the history of military
Presents the journey of Captain Korent Joel, who, having engagements between Europeans and Aboriginal
been forced into exile after the thermonuclear Bravo test of Australians around greater Sydney.
1954, has reconnected to his ancestral maritime heritage and
forged an unprecedented path toward becoming a navigator. BESTSELLERS

HAWAIKI RISING Melbourne University Publishing

Hkle‘a, Nainoa Thompson, and the AUSTRALIA
Hawaiian Renaissance
Sam Low Mark McKenna
2017 277pp
Feb 2018 344pp, 64 b&w illustrations 9780522862591 Paperback £24.50 / €28.00
9780824877354 Hardback £28.95 / €32.00 Offers an imaginative and original new telling of modern
In 1975, a replica of an ancient Hawaiian canoe - Hokuleæa Australia through the history and stories of ten places,
- was launched to sail the ancient star paths, and help all revisited and explained by award-winning author and
Hawaiians reclaim pride in the accomplishments of their historian Mark McKenna.
ancestors. Hawaiki Rising tells this story in the words of the
men and women who created and sailed aboard Hokuleæa. THE HISTORY WARS

Melbourne University Publishing Second Edition
Stuart Macintyre & Anna Clark
THE CIVILISATION
OF PORT PHILLIP 2004 310pp
9780522851281 Paperback £22.50 / €25.00
Settler Ideology, Politicians, journalists, columnists, academics and
Violence, and Australians from all walks of life argue passionately about
Rhetorical Possession the significance of the national story. This book explores
Thomas James Rogers how this intense public debate has polarised the nation and
paralysed history departments.
Feb 2018 277pp
9780522870602 Paperback NewSouth Publishing
£34.95 / €40.00
9780522872385 Hardback THE OTHER SIDE OF THE FRONTIER
£48.95 / €55.00
Tracks the violent history of the first years of British Aboriginal Resistance to the European
settlement in the Port Phillip District, now the state of Invasion of Australia
Victoria. This book illuminates the underlying free-settler Henry Reynolds
rhetoric that advocated and abetted violence on the frontier.
For the first time, we hear the settlers tell us in their own 2006 256pp
words what the civilisation of Port Phillip really involved. 9780868408927 Paperback £20.95 / €24.00
MUP Academic Drawing from documentary and oral evidence, this book
describes the ways in which Aborigines responded to the
arrival of Europeans.

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Michelle Zappa [email protected] [email protected]
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Charles Gibbes Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Craig Falk
[email protected] Maldives, Nepal, Sri Lanka [email protected]
Vinod Vasishtha
All other European countries [email protected]
Michelle Zappa
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