Welcome to 2023! We are starting the New Year by listing some of Boydell & Brewer’s new releases. Enjoy this preview and find more new and forthcoming releases here. Don’t miss our special blog offer, 35% off on any of these titles!
Edward J. Dent
A Life of Words and Music
by Karen Arrandale
This first full biography of Edward J. Dent (1876-1957), Cambridge Professor of Music and foremost musicologist, tells the story of a remarkable man who played a crucial role in the formation of twentieth-century culture and cultural institutions.
9781783272051, hardcover, 562pp
24 b/w illus.
£60/$85
Offer Price: £39/$55.25
Kenya’s and Zambia’s Relations with China 1949-2019
by Jodie Yuzhou Sun
Examines the history of post-colonial Kenya’s and Zambia’s relations with the People’s Republic of China from ideological, political, economic and social perspectives.
9781847013392, hardcover, 260pp
2 maps, 10 b/w, 6 line illus., Eastern Africa Series
£65/$95
Offer Price: £42.25/$61.75
Charlemagne in Italy
Edited by Jane E. Everson
An exploration of the many depictions of Charlemagne in the Italian tradition of chivalric narratives in verse and prose.
9781843846710, hardcover, 408pp
5 b/w, 3 line illus., Bristol Studies in Medieval Cultures
£80/$115
Offer Price: £52/$74.75
A Companion to Spanish Environmental Cultural Studies
Edited by Luis I Prádanos
An exploration of how writers, artists, and filmmakers expose the costs and contest the assumptions of the Capitalocene era that guides readers through the rapidly developing field of Spanish environmental cultural studies.
9781855663695, hardcover, 346pp
23 b/w illus., Tamesis Companions
£80/$115
Offer Price: £52/$74.75
Mahler’s Nietzsche
Politics and Philosophy in the Wunderhorn Symphonies
by Leah Batstone
Examines how Nietzschean ideas influenced the composition of Mahler’s first four, so-called Wunderhorn, symphonies.
9781837650019, hardcover, 204pp
3 b/w, 43 line illus.,
£65/$95
Offer Price: £42.25/$61.75
State-building and National Militaries in Postcolonial West Africa
Decolonizing the Means of Coercion 1958–1974
by Riina Turtio
Explores the fundamental role of the military in state-building in francophone postcolonial West Africa and how foreign economic and military aid has influenced it.
This book is available as Open Access under the Creative Commons license CC-BY-NC. The open access version of this publication was funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation.
9781847013422, paperback, 372pp
20 b/w illus., Western Africa Series
£25/$36.95
Offer Price: £16.25/$24.02
Books to look out for in December 2023