April 2011

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African Theatre 10: Media and Performance Edited by Martin Banham James Gibbs & Femi Osofisan Examines the impact of new media (such as video and YouTube) and the use of multi-media on live and recorded performance in Africa. Click here for a printable information sheet UK £17.99 \| US $29.95	Nov 2011	African Studies	Paperback	James Currey
ALT 29 Teaching African Literature Today Edited by Ernest N. Emenyonu Brings together experiences of teachers of African literature from around the world in the context of technological change. *Click here for a printable information sheet UK £17.99 \| US $29.95	Nov 2011	African Studies	Paperback	James Currey
Arthurian Literature XXVIII Blood, Sex, Malory: Essays on the Morte Darthur Edited by David Clark & Kate McClune Arthurian Literature has established its position as the home for a great diversity of new research into Arthurian matters. It delivers fascinating material across genres, periods, and theoretical issues. Click here for a printable information sheet UK £45.00 \| US $80.00	Oct 2011	Medieval Literature	Academic	D.S. Brewer
Atheism, Religion and Enlightenment in pre-Revolutionary Europe Mark Curran An investigation into the influence of, and reaction to, the atheistic writings of the baron d'Holbach. Click here for a printable information sheet UK £50.00 \| US $90.00	Nov 2011	Modern History	Academic	Royal Historical Society
The 'Bohun of Fressingfield' Cartulary Edited by Bridget Wells-Furby Documents from late medieval Suffolk shed new light on the astonishing rise of a local family to national importance. Click here for a printable information sheet UK £30.00 \| US $50.00	Nov 2011	Medieval History	Academic	Boydell Press
Burma's Popular Music Industry Heather MacLachlan Click here for a printable information sheet UK £50.00 \| US $85.00	Dec 2011	Film Performing Arts & Media	Academic	University of Rochester Press
Companion to the Works of J.M. Coetzee Edited by Tim Mehigan New essays providing critical views of Coetzee's major works for the scholar and the general reader. Click here for a printable information sheet UK £50.00 \| US $85.00	Nov 2011	English & American Literature	Academic	Camden House
Conquest and Land in Ireland The Transplantation to Connacht, 1649-1680 John Cunningham A reassessment of one of the most devastating episodes in Irish history. Click here for a printable information sheet UK £50.00 \| US $90.00	Nov 2011	Early Modern History	Academic	Royal Historical Society
The Critical Reception of Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises Peter L. Hays Changing critical views of Hemingway's great novel of the Lost Generation, from publication to the present. Click here for a printable information sheet UK £40.00 \| US $75.00	Nov 2011	English & American Literature	Academic	Camden House
Elite Women and Polite Society in Eighteenth-Century Scotland Katharine Glover Women are shown to have played an important and very visible role in society at the time. Click here for a printable information sheet UK £55.00 \| US $95.00	Nov 2011	Modern History	Academic	Boydell Press
English Medieval Shrines John Crook Survey of the growth and development of the magnificent shrines which reached their apogee during the middle ages. Click here for a printable information sheet (PDF) UK £39.95	Nov 2011	Medieval History	Trade	Boydell Press
The GDR Remembered Representations of the East German State Since 1989 Edited by Nick Hodgin & Caroline Pearce Competing representations of the former East German state in the German cultural memory. Click here for a printable information sheet UK £40.00 \| US $75.00	Nov 2011	German Literature	Academic	Camden House
Gunther Schuller A Life in Pursuit of Music & Beauty Gunther Schuller The autobiography of composer and conductor Gunther Schuller and a recounting of the American musical scene through the twentith century and into the twenty-first. Click here for a printable information sheet UK £30.00 \| US $49.95	Oct 2011	Music	Trade	University of Rochester Press
Haskins Society Journal 22 2010. Studies in Medieval History Edited by William L. North The most up-to-date research in the period from the Anglo-Saxons to Angevins. Click here for a printable information sheet UK £45.00 \| US $80.00	Nov 2011	Medieval History	Academic	Boydell Press
Heinrich von Kleist and Modernity Edited by Tim Mehigan & Bernd Fischer New essays employing a multitude of approaches to the works of Kleist, in the process shedding light on our present modernity. Click here for a printable information sheet UK £45.00 \| US $80.00	Nov 2011	German Literature	Academic	Camden House
How Britain Won the War of 1812 The Royal Navy's Blockades of the United States, 1812-1815 Brian Arthur Overturns established thinking about the Anglo-American War of 1812-14. Click here for a printable information sheet UK £60.00 \| US $99.00	Nov 2011	Modern History	Academic	Boydell Press
*Illuminating the Roman d'Alexandre: Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Bodley 264* The Manuscript as Monument Mark Cruse Survey of one of the most important surviving medieval manuscripts reveals much of its contemporary cultural, literary and social milieu. Click here for a printable information sheet UK £60.00 \| US $99.00	Oct 2011	French Studies	Academic	D.S. Brewer
Ira Aldridge The Early Years, 1807-1833 Bernth Lindfors Volume 1 of this first thorough biography of Ira Aldridge, African American actor, covering the first 26 years of his life and career. Click here for a printable information sheet UK £30.00 \| US $55.00	Oct 2011	Film Performing Arts & Media	Academic	University of Rochester Press
Ira Aldridge The Vagabond Years, 1833-1852 Bernth Lindfors Volume 2 of the first available biography of this great classical actor, covering the final years of his career. Click here for a printable information sheet UK £30.00 \| US $55.00	Oct 2011	Film Performing Arts & Media	Academic	University of Rochester Press
Jorge Manrique's Coplas por la muerte de su padre A History of the Poem & its Reception Nancy F. Marino Click here for a printable information sheet UK £55.00 \| US $95.00	Nov 2011	Hispanic Studies	Academic	Tamesis Books
London's News Press and the Thirty Years War Jayne E.E. Boys A topical subject offering interesting parallels between the news revolution in the age of James I and Charles I and our internet age. An important contribution to the history of print and books. Click here for a printable information sheet UK £60.00 \| US $99.00	Nov 2011	Early Modern History	Academic	Boydell Press
Medieval Anchoritisms Gender, Space & the Solitary Life Liz Herbert McAvoy An examination of the importance of anchoritism to social, cultural and religious life in the middle ages. Click here for a printable information sheet UK £55.00 \| US $95.00	Oct 2011	Medieval Literature	Academic	D.S. Brewer
The Medieval Art and Architecture of Bristol Cathedral Edited by Jon Cannon & Beth Williamson Comprehensive and lavishly illustrated survey, by major scholars, of the unjustly neglected medieval art and architecture of Bristol cathedral. Click here for a printable information sheet UK £55.00 \| US $95.00	Nov 2011	Art Architecture & Photography	Academic	Boydell Press
Melville's Mirrors Literary Criticism & America's Most Elusive Author Brian Yothers An accessible and highly readable guide to the story of Melville criticism as it has developed over the past century and a half. Click here for a printable information sheet UK £40.00 \| US $75.00	Nov 2011	English & American Literature	Academic	Camden House
Middle-Aged Women in the Middle Ages Edited by Sue Niebrzydowski New research into medieval women shows them continuing to play important roles throughout their lives. Click here for a printable information sheet UK £50.00 \| US $90.00	Nov 2011	Medieval Literature	Academic	D.S. Brewer
The Naval Mutinies of 1797 Unity & Perseverence Edited by Anne Veronica Coats & Philip MacDougall A reassessment of the naval mutinies of 1797, arguing that the mutinies were more industrial dispute than expression of French revolution inspired political radicalism. Click here for a printable information sheet UK £60.00 \| US $99.00	Nov 2011	Modern History	Academic	Boydell Press
Noble Strategies in an Early Modern Small State The Mahuet of Lorraine Charles Lipp Click here for a printable information sheet UK £50.00 \| US $85.00	Dec 2011	Early Modern History	Academic	University of Rochester Press
Pinning down the Past Archaeology, Heritage, & Education Today Mike Corbishley Both a practical guide to, and a reflection on, best practice in making archaeology available to a wide audience. Click here for a printable information sheet UK £25.00 \| US $45.00	Nov 2011	Archaeology	Trade	Boydell Press
Sudan Looks East China, India & the Politics of 'Asian' Engagement Edited by Daniel Large Luke A. Patey Places Sudan's oil industry (examined here in macro, micro and political terms), its economy, external relations and changing politics under the impact of the Darfur conflict and the Comprehensive Peace Agreement, in the wider context of the expansion of Asia's global economic strength. Click here for a printable information sheet UK £16.99 \| US $29.95	Nov 2011	African Studies	Paperback	James Currey
A History of the County of York: East Riding Volume IX: Great Driffield & its Townships Edited by Graham Kent, David Neave & Susan Neave An authoritative and comprehensive account of an important area centred upon Great Driffield. Click here for a printable information sheet UK £95.00 \| US $165.00	Nov 2011	Early Modern History	Academic	Victoria County History
Wills and Will-making in Anglo-Saxon England Linda Tollerton A study of the implications and practices of wills and will-making in Anglo-Saxon society, and of the varieties of inheritance strategies and commemorative arrangements adopted. Click here for a printable information sheet UK £60.00 \| US $99.00	Nov 2011	Medieval History	Academic	York Medieval Press
The Writer in the Academy: Creative Interfrictions Edited by Richard Marggraf Turley From a range of perspectives, the essays in this volume tackle some of the most urgent issues facing the creative writer in today's academic institutions. Click here for a printable information sheet UK £30.00 \| US $50.00	Oct 2011	Modern Literature	Academic	D.S. Brewer