January 2013

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Title \| Price	Date	Subject	Type	Imprint
A Companion to Australian Aboriginal Literature Edited by Belinda Wheeler This international collection of eleven original essays on Australian Aboriginal literature provides a comprehensive critical companion that contextualizes the Aboriginal canon for scholars, researchers, students, and general readers. Click here for a printable information sheet UK £50.00 \| US $75.00	August 2013	Modern Literature	Academic	Camden House
Almanach de Gotha 2013 Volume II Part III Edited by John James The 2013 edition of the Almanach de Gotha Volume II lists the non-sovereign Princely and Ducal Houses of Europe and has been fully updated to include additional families and to note those houses that are now extinct. Click here for a printable information sheet UK £55.00 \| US $95.00	March 2013	Modern History	Trade Hardback	Almanach de Gotha
Archaeology, the Public and the Recent Past Edited by Chris Dalglish Essays dealing with the question of how the theory and practice of archaeology should engage with the recent past. Click here for a printable information sheet UK £30.00 \| US $50.00	August 2013	Archaeology	Academic	Boydell Press
Breaking the Silence South African Representations of HIV/AIDS Ellen Grünkemeier Examines the South African HIV/AIDS epidemic through creative texts such as novels, photographs, films, cartoons and paintings, and analyses the circulated meanings of the disease and the consequences of this in determining which issues receive attention and in shaping public understanding of the virus. Click here for a printable information sheet UK £50.00 \| US $90.00	July 2013	African Studies	Academic	James Currey
Contemporary Hispanic Cinema Interrogating the Transnational in Spanish and Latin American Film Edited by Stephanie Dennison This collection of original essays focuses on the cross-currents and points of contact among Spain, Portugal and Latin America and their impact on the regions' film industries. Click here for a printable information sheet UK £60.00\| US $99.00	August 2013	Hispanic Studies	Academic	Tamesis Books
Cooking Up the Nation Spanish Culinary Texts and Culinary Nationalization in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Lara Anderson The book is the first to analyse the textual construction of a national Spanish cuisine in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. It examines the work of five pioneering culinary nationalists of Spain and their most important gastronomic texts. Click here for a printable information sheet UK £55.00 \| US $95.00	August 2013	Hispanic Studies	Academic	Tamesis Books
Ethiopia The Last Two Frontiers John Markakis An historical overview of Ethiopia's transformation from a multicultural empire into a modern nation state. Click here for a printable information sheet UK £19.99 \| US $34.95	August 2013	African Studies	Paperback	James Currey
Good Girls, Good Germans Girls' Education and Emotional Nationalism in Wilhelminian Germany Jennifer Drake Askey Informed by recent historical research on nineteenth-century nationalism, this book demonstrates how the construction of a German national identity, especially in girls' education, came to be experienced by reading girls. Click here for a printable information sheet UK £55.00 \| US $85.00	August 2013	German Literature	Academic	Camden House
Landlords and Tenants in Britain, 1440-1660 Tawney's Agrarian Problem Revisited Edited by Jane Whittle Provides for a new interpretation of the agrarian economy in late Tudor and early modern Britain. Click here for a printable information sheet UK £17.99 \| US $29.95	August 2013	Early Modern History	Academic	Boydell Press
Literacy and Identity in Early Medieval Ireland Elva Johnston The first comprehensive survey of the Irish literary elite in the early middle ages. Click here for a printable information sheet UK £60.00 \| US $99.00	August 2013	Medieval Literature	Academic	Boydell Press
Memory and Myths of the Norman Conquest Siobhan Brownlie In an innovative approach drawn from Memory Studies, this book seeks to uncover how the Norman Conquest is popularly "remembered". Click here for a printable information sheet UK £60.00 \| US $99.00	August 2013	Medieval History	Academic	Boydell Press
New Perspectives on Medieval Scotland, 1093-1286 Edited by Matthew Hammond Essays consider the changes and development of Scotland at a time of considerable flux in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Click here for a printable information sheet UK £60.00 \| US $99.00	August 2013	Medieval History	Academic	Boydell Press
Photography in Africa Edited by Richard Vokes Gives an ethnographic account of the complexities of the use of photography in Africa, both historically and in contemporary practice. Click here for a printable information sheet UK £17.99 \| US $29.95	July 2013	African Studies	Paperback	James Currey
Presenting the Romans Interpreting the Frontiers of the Roman Empire World Heritage Site Edited by Nigel Mills Explores the issues and the use of best practice interpretation principles in bringing the Roman world to life for visitors and educational users. Click here for a printable information sheet UK £60.00 \| US $99.00	July 2013	Archaeology	Academic	Boydell Press
Reading Mahler German Culture and Jewish Identity in Fin-de-Siècle Carl Niekirk Examines literary, philosophical, and cultural influences on Mahler's thought and work from the standpoint of the composer's position in German-Jewish culture. Click here for a printable information sheet UK £19.99 \| US $34.95	August 2013	German Literature	Paperback	Camden House
The Representation of the Political in Selected Writings of Julio Cortázar Carolina Orloff This book shows that Cortázar did not become a political writer as a result of the Cuban Revolution, as is often claimed, but rather that the representation of the politicall already existed in Cortázar's very first writings. Click here for a printable information sheet UK £60.00 \| US $99.00	August 2013	Hispanic Studies	Academic	Tamesis Books
Reworking the German Past Adaptations in Film, the Arts, and Popular Culture Edited by Susan G. Figge Edited by Jenifer K. Ward Views adaptations as a way in which Germany seeks to come to terms with its past. Click here for a printable information sheet UK £19.99 \| US $34.95	August 2013	German Literature	Paperback	Camden House
Robert Willis (1800-1875) and the Foundation of Architectural History Alexandrina Buchanan The first full-scale biography of Robert Willis, the "founding father" or architectural history. Click here for a printable information sheet UK £60.00 \| US $99.00	August 2013	Art Architecture & Photography	Academic	Boydell Press
Summary Justice in the City A Selection of Cases Heard at the Guildhall Justice Room, 1752-1781 Edited by Greg T. Smith Records from London's Guildhall reveal the workings of the law in the eighteenth century. Click here for a printable information sheet UK £40.00 \| US $70.00	August 2013	Modern History	Academic	London Record Society
The African Diaspora Slavery, Modernity, and Globalization Toyin Falola In this definitive study of the African diaspora in North America, Toyin Falola offers a causal history of the western dispersion of Africans and its effects on the modern world. Click here for a printable information sheet UK £55.00 \| US $85.00	July 2013	African Studies	Academic	University of Rochester Press
The Economics of Ethnic Conflict The Case of Burkina Faso Andreas Dafinger Investigates development practice, civil organization formation and the increase of ethnically motivated conflicts over the past two decades in Western Africa. Click here for a printable information sheet UK £45.00 \| US $80.00	August 2013	African Studies	Academic	James Currey
The Highland Destitution of 1837 Government Aid and Public Subscription Edited by John MacAskill First published edition of documents relating to the major destitution in Scotland in 1837, shedding new light on its full impact and significance. Click here for a printable information sheet UK £40.00 \| US $70.00	August 2013	Modern History	Academic	Scottish History Society
The Pierrot Ensembles Chronicle and Catalogue, 1912-2012 Christopher Dromey Edited by Christopher Wintle The evolution of the mixed chamber ensemble of Schoenberg's Pierrot lunaire and the growth of the Fires of London, one of the most galvanizing groups in modern music. Click here for a printable information sheet UK £40.00 \| US $70.00	January 2013	Music	Academic	Plumbago Books
The Pierrot Ensembles Chronicle and Catalogue, 1912-2012 Christopher Dromey Edited by Christopher Wintle The evolution of the mixed chamber ensemble of Schoenberg's Pierrot lunaire and the growth of the Fires of London, one of the most galvanizing groups in modern music. Click here for a printable information sheet UK £17.99 \| US $29.95	January 2013	Music	Paperback	Plumbago Books
Words and Notes in the Long Nineteenth Century Edited by Phyllis Weliver Edited by Katharine Ellis A new wave of scholarship inspired by the ways the writers and musicians of the long nineteenth century themselves approached the relationship between music and words. Click here for a printable information sheet UK £55.00 \| US $95.00	August 2013	Music	Academic	Boydell Press