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The reformation of the heathen (Theology, history, and nature in the Protestant Atlantic World, 1500-1700)

Tue, 22 Sep 2026 23:32:26 +0000

This monograph investigates the idea of the ‘heathen’ in the English Protestant religious culture of the Atlantic world during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. It illuminates how religious attitudes towards multifarious manifestations of non-belief and heterodoxy, derived from the Bible, h..

Price: $130.00

Radio in British India (Regulation, censorship and propaganda, 1927-47)

Tue, 22 Sep 2026 23:26:50 +0000

This book will argue that the British installed and controlled Indian radio, using it as a tool to prop up the colonial regime. Concessions made to Indian cultural styles, social aspirations or fluctuating needs of listeners had to fit foremostly into the colonial schema. Strikingly, the main ..

Price: $130.00

Generation Moulinex (Work, consumption and gender in France, 1950s-2010s)

Tue, 22 Sep 2026 23:26:32 +0000

Moulinex is widely known as a brand that brought domestic appliances into many homes during the 1950s and 1960s. Its history also illuminates broader changes in working-class lives and the organisation of work in postwar France. Based in Normandy, the company was central to the transformation of a..

Price: $130.00

Sovereignty in Iran (Challenges to Eurocentrism from Ancient Iran to the Islamic Republic)

Tue, 22 Sep 2026 23:18:10 +0000

This book is a multi-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary collaborative project examining sovereignties as a plural concept through the case of Iran. In so doing it challenges Eurocentric assumptions in the Humanities and Social Sciences and covers sovereignty from ancient Iran to the Islamic Re..

Price: $130.00

Azeri Turkish Narratives in Twentieth-Century Iran (Resisting Monolingualism)

Tue, 22 Sep 2026 23:13:11 +0000

Modern Azeri Turkish prose narratives emerged towards the end of the Second World War, a period marked by the rise of multiple hostile ideological trends – including Aryanism, centralism, nationalism and archaism – all seeking to eradicate the Azeri Turkish language. Azeri Turkish was framed as..

Price: $140.00

Diasporic Futures (Temporality and Hope in the Transnational Politics of London Cypriots)

Tue, 22 Sep 2026 23:12:27 +0000

Connected to a divided island, British Cypriots have participated in the reproduction of conflict and partition but have also been active agents of peacebuilding and reconciliation. Focusing on the latter, Diasporic Futures traces the transnational politics of Greek Cypriots in London durin..

Price: $120.00

Transatlantic Threads (Scottish Linen and Society, c.1707-1780)

Tue, 22 Sep 2026 23:08:54 +0000

Transatlantic Threads shows how studying the making, use and meaning of a relatively low-cost, utilitarian cloth like linen, broadens our understanding of eighteenth-century Scotland and the wider Atlantic world. Different types of linen cloth were used across society everyday: from fine..

Price: $120.00

Syria's Transnational Rebellion (Diaspora Politics and the Revolt of 1925-1927)

Tue, 22 Sep 2026 23:08:24 +0000

This book brings to light the little-known story of Syrian-Lebanese migrant mobilizations around the 1925 Syrian Revolt against the French Mandate. Situated within the wider context of the emergent post-World War I international system, the book centres Syrian-Lebanese transnational efforts as cen..

Price: $120.00

Nationalising Oil and Knowledge in Iran (Labour, Decolonisation and Colonial Modernity, 1933-51)

Tue, 22 Sep 2026 23:07:18 +0000

Iran’s nationalisation of oil in 1951 was a key catalyst for the rise of resource nationalism as an animating force of global decolonisation, expelling the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (AIOC, now known as BP) after nearly fifty years of domination in southwest Iran. Nationalising Oil & Knowledg..

Price: $125.00

Scandinavia in the Early Modern World

Tue, 22 Sep 2026 16:47:36 +0000

Scandinavia in the Early Modern World introduces the early modern history of the region, covering the period from the early sixteenth century to the end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815. The volume places developments in Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Iceland and the Faroe Islands in relation ..
Price: $233.99