March 2011

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Title \| Price	Date	Subject	Type	Imprint
Almanach de Gotha 2011 Volume I Parts I & II Edited by John Kennedy The 2011 edition of this legendary reference work has been completely revised and updated with many new features. Click here for a printable information sheet UK £75.00 \| US $130.00	May 2011	Modern History	Academic	Almanach de Gotha
American Icon Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby in Critical & Cultural Context Robert Beuka How and why Fitzgerald's novel, initially called a failure, has come to be considered a masterwork of American literature and part of the fabric of the culture. Click here for a printable information sheet UK £40.00 \| US $75.00	Oct 2011	English & American Literature	Academic	Camden House
The Cistercians in the Middle Ages Janet Burton & Julie Kerr A full and comprehensive survey of the development of the Cistercian Order. Click here for a printable information sheet UK £25.00 \| US $45.00	Oct 2011	Medieval History	Trade	Boydell Press
The Collected Letters of Jane Morris Edited by Jan Marsh & Frank C. Sharp Presents 500 newly discovered letters from Jane Morris to diverse correspondents, which radically revise the popular view of a silent, discontented invalid and instead portray her as an independent thinker following her own causes. The vast majority of the letters are unpublished, and are fully annotated. Click here for a printable information sheet UK £95.00 \| US $165.00	Oct 2011	Letters & Biography	Academic	Boydell Press
Commercial Activity, Markets & Entrepreneurs in the Middle Ages Essays in Honor of Richard Britnell Edited by Ben Dodds & Christian D. Liddy Numerous aspects of the medieval economy are covered in this new collection of essays, from business fraud and changes in wages to the production of luxury goods. Click here for a printable information sheet (PDF) UK £55.00 \| US $95.00	Oct 2011	Medieval History	Academic	Boydell Press
Commune, Country and Commonwealth: The People of Cirencester, 1117-1643 David Rollison Makes original contributions to late medieval and early modern historiography, including detailed, contextualized studies of the 'Lancastrian revolution', the Reformation and the English Revolution. Click here for a printable information sheet UK £60.00 \| US $99.00	Oct 2011	Early Modern History	Academic	Boydell Press
Companion to Javier Marías David K. Herzberger Click here for a printable information sheet UK £55.00 \| US $95.00	Oct 2011	Hispanic Studies	Academic	Tamesis Books
The Correspondence of Jean Sibelius and Rosa Newmarch, 1906-1939 Edited by Philip Ross Bullock This edition provides the full set of letters in English translation. It will be complemented by making the letters available online in their original language. Click here for a printable information sheet UK £50.00 \| US $90.00	Oct 2011	Music	Academic	Boydell Press
Edinburgh German Yearbook 5 Brecht & the GDR; Politics, Culture, Posterity Edited by Laura Bradley & Karen Leeder Brecht's activities in the GDR, the regime's marginalizing response and posthumous appropriation of his legacy, and creative responses in the GDR and after. Click here for a printable information sheet UK £40.00 \| US $75.00	Oct 2011	German Literature	Academic	Camden House
Emerging German-Language Novelists of the Twenty-First Century Edited by Lyn Marven & Stuart Taberner Presents fifteen new German-language novelists and a close reading of an exemplary work of each for academics and the general reader alike. Click here for a printable information sheet UK £40.00 \| US $75.00	Oct 2011	German Literature	Academic	Camden House
The Fante and the Transatlantic Slave Trade Rebecca Shumway Examines the history of the Fante people of Southern Ghana during the trans-Atlantic slave trade, 1700 to 1807. Click here for a printable information sheet UK £40.00 \| US $70.00	Oct 2011	African Studies	Academic	University of Rochester Press
The Front Line Runs through Every Woman Women & Local Resistance in the Zimbabwean Liberation War Eleanor O'Gorman Theorizes the experiences of women in wartime, and specifically of African women during Zimbabwe's anti-colonial struggle. Click here for a printable information sheet UK £17.99 \| US $29.95	Oct 2011	African Studies	Paperback	James Currey
Globalization and Sustainable Development in Africa Edited by Bessie House-Soremekun & Toyin Falola The first comprehensive work on globalization within the context of sustainable development initiatives in Africa. Click here for a printable information sheet UK £45.00 \| US $80.00	Oct 2011	African Studies	Academic	University of Rochester Press
'The Great Trial': A Swaledale Lead Mining Dispute in the Court of Exchequer, 1705-1708 Edited by Tim Gates Fully annotated edition of the records of a notorious eighteenth-century court case. Click here for a printable information sheet UK £50.00 \| US $90.00	Oct 2011	Modern History	Academic	Yorkshire Archaeological Society
Jean Sibelius Tomi Mäkelä Mäkelä's study brings together German, Nordic and Anglo-American work on Sibelius, and synthesizes these various strands of Sibelius reception into a single coherent critical narrative. Its primary readership will be academic Sibelius scholars, but it is also of interest to writers working on twentieth-century music, historians of nationalism, as well a cultural geographers working on landscape and national identity. Click here for a printable information sheet UK £50.00 \| US $90.00	Oct 2011	Music	Academic	Boydell Press
The John Ireland Companion Edited by Lewis Foreman Presents many new articles by leading authorities on John Ireland and his music, together with reprints of seminal articles on Ireland including all Ireland's own writings, transcriptions of his broadcast talks and transcriptions of interviews with the composer. Also included is the usual bibliographia - discography, select bibliography and summary catalogue of works. Click here for a printable information sheet UK £40.00 \| US $70.00	Oct 2011	Music	Trade	Boydell Press
Late Medieval Ipswich Trade & Industry Nicholas R. Amor A detailed study of Ipswich at a time of great growth and prosperity, highlighting the activities of its industries, merchants and craftsmen. Click here for a printable information sheet UK £50.00 \| US $90.00	Oct 2011	Medieval History	Academic	Boydell Press
Letters and Diaries of Kathleen Ferrier Edited by Christopher Fifield Revised enlarged paperback edition to mark the centenary of her birth in 1912. Click here for a printable information sheet UK £14.99 \| US $24.95	Oct 2011	Music	Paperback	Boydell Press
Liberalism and Local Government in Early Victorian London Benjamin Weinstein An exploration of the conflict between Whig politicians and London radicals in metropolitan government. Click here for a printable information sheet UK £50.00 \| US $90.00	Oct 2011	Modern History	Academic	Royal Historical Society
Literature as a Response to Cultural and Political Repression in Franco's Catalonia Jordi Cornellà-Detrell Click here for a printable information sheet UK £60.00 \| US $99.00	Oct 2011	Hispanic Studies	Academic	Tamesis Books
Little Malvern Letters I: 1482-1737 Edited by Aileen M. Hodgson & Michael Hodgetts Selection of correspondence from the house which was once Little Malvern priory, illuminating life at the time. Click here for a printable information sheet UK £45.00 \| US $80.00	Sept 2011	Early Modern History	Academic	Catholic Record Society
The Medieval Horse and its Equipment, c. 1150-1450 Edited by John Clark Over 400 recent finds associated with horses and excavated in London, from the utilitarian to the highly decorated, illustrated and discussed. Click here for a printable information sheet UK £19.99 \| US $34.95	Sept 2011	Medieval History	Paperback	Boydell Press
Papers of Elland Society, 1769-1828 Edited by John Walsh & Stephen Taylor Papers from an important eighteenth-century religious society provide new insights into the Evangelical tradition in the Church of England. Click here for a printable information sheet UK £65.00 \| US $115.00	Oct 2011	History of Religion	Academic	Boydell Press
Resurrecting Cannibals Witch Hunts, 'Pagans' & the Catholic Church in Western Uganda Heike Behrend The is the first ethnography of the Uganda Martyrs Guild [UMG], a lay movement of the Catholic Church, and its organized witch-hunts in the kingdom of Tooro, Western Uganda. Click here for a printable information sheet UK £45.00 \| US $80.00	Oct 2011	African Studies	Academic	James Currey
Richard Wagner's Women Eva Rieger Rieger's analysis rests convincingly and comprehensively on the music itself. Click here for a printable information sheet UK £30.00 \| US $50.00	Oct 2011	Music	Academic	Boydell Press
The Sea and Englishness in the Middle Ages Maritime Narratives, Identity & Culture Edited by Sebastian I. Sobecki Essays examining the way in which the sea has shaped the medieval and later ideas of what it is to be English. Click here for a printable information sheet UK £50.00 \| US $90.00	Oct 2011	Medieval Literature	Academic	D.S. Brewer
Sexuality and Politics in Mozambique Re-thinking Gender in Africa Signe Arnfred Demonstrates shortcomings in Western feminist conceptualizations, and shows how insights from African feminist thinking may enhance understandings of gender, both in and beyond Africa. Click here for a printable information sheet UK £40.00 \| US $70.00	Oct 2011	African Studies	Academic	James Currey
The Social History of English Seamen, 1485-1689 Edited by Cheryl A. Fury An overview of a wide range of aspects of maritime social history in the Tudor and early Stuart period. Click here for a printable information sheet UK £65.00 \| US $115.00	Oct 2011	Early Modern History	Academic	Boydell Press
The Soldier Experience in the Fourteenth Century Edited by Adrian R. Bell, Anne Curry, Adam Chapman, Andy King & David Simpkin Essays throwing fresh light on what it was like to be a medieval soldier, drawing on archival research. Click here for a printable information sheet UK £50.00 \| US $90.00	Oct 2011	Military History	Academic	Boydell Press
The Vivaldi Compendium Michael Talbot The Vivaldi Compendium represents the latest in Vivaldi research, drawing on the author's close involvement with Vivaldi and Venetian music over four decades. Click here for a printable information sheet UK £50.00 \| US $90.00	Oct 2011	Music	Academic	Boydell Press
Western Frontiers of African Art Moyo Okediji Click here for a printable information sheet UK £50.00 \| US $85.00	Oct 2011	African Studies	Academic	University of Rochester Press
Women from the Golden Legend Female Authority in a Medieval Castilian Sanctorial Emma Gatland Click here for a printable information sheet UK £60.00 \| US $99.00	Oct 2011	Hispanic Studies	Academic	Tamesis Books
Women's Power in Late Medieval Romance Amy N. Vines A reading of how women's power is asserted and demonstrated in the popular medieval genre of romance. Click here for a printable information sheet UK £55.00 \| US $95.00	Oct 2011	Medieval Literature	Academic	D.S. Brewer