New Books April, May, June, 2013 (US) - Routledge

10 hisTory
Abolitionist places
Edited by Martha schoolman, Miami University,
Ohio, USA and Jared hickman, Johns Hopkins
University, USA
From David Brion Davis’s The Problem of Slavery in the
Age of Revolution to Paul Gilroy’s The Black Atlantic,
some of the most influential conceptualizations of the
Atlantic World have taken the movements of
individuals and transnational organizations working to
advocate the abolition of slavery as their material basis.
This unique collection newly approaches the abolitionist
Atlantic. With contributions from historians, literary
scholars, and specialists in the history of art, this book
looks at the connections between abolitionism and
material spatial practice in literature, theory, history,
and memory. This book was originally published as a
special issue of Atlantic Studies.
Routledge
Market: History/ Slavery
May 2013: 6-3/4x9-3/4: 160pp
Hb: 978-0-415-81453-9: $145.00/y
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Divorce in Medieval England
From One to Two Persons in Law
sara M. butler, Loyola University, New Orleans, USA
Series: Routledge Research in Medieval Studies
Divorce, as we think of it today, is usually considered
to be a modern invention. This book challenges that
viewpoint, documenting the many and varied uses of
divorce in the medieval period and highlighting the
fact that couples regularly divorced on the grounds of
spousal incompatibility.
Routledge
Market: History
March 2013: 6x9: 224pp
Hb: 978-0-415-82516-0: $125.00/V
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Men After War
Edited by stephen McVeigh, Swansea University,
UK and Nicola Cooper, Swansea University, UK
Series: Routledge Research in Gender and History
This book is an innovative collection of original
research which analyzes the many varieties of
post-conflict masculinity. Exploring topics such as
physical disability and psychological trauma, and
masculinity and sexuality in relation to the
“feminizing” contexts of wounding and desertion,
this volume draws together leading academics in the
fields of gender, history, literature, and disability
studies, in an inter- and multi-disciplinary exploration
of the conditions and circumstances that men face in
the aftermath of war.
Routledge
Market: History
March 2013: 6x9: 200pp
Hb: 978-0-415-82565-8: $125.00/V
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The political Economy
of Disaster
Destitution, Plunder and Earthquake
in Haiti
Mats lundahl, Stockholm School of Economics,
Sweden
Series: Routledge Explorations in Economic History
Mats Lundahl has written several seminal works on
Haiti, and this volume brings together the best of his
past work on Haiti’s economic and political history,
along with a comprehensive introduction and two
new chapters which bring the story right up to the
present day. Together, the volume provides both
historical background and explanation as to why Haiti
was so badly affected by the earthquake, and to why
reconstruction efforts have been ineffective this far.
Routledge
Market: Economics
March 2013: 6-1/4x9-1/4: 448pp: 1 line drawing
Hb: 978-0-415-81608-3: $130.00/V
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The political Worlds
of Women
Gender and Politics in Nineteenth Century
Britain
sarah richardson, University of Warwick, UK
Series: Routledge Research in Gender and History
This volume examines female engagement in both
traditional and unconventional political arenas in
nineteenth-century Britain, including female
sociability, salons, child-rearing and education, health,
consumption, religious reform and nationalism.
Richardson focuses on middle-class women’s social,
cultural, intellectual and political authority, as
implemented by a range of public figures and
lesser-known campaigners.
Routledge
Market: History
March 2013: 6x9: 248pp: 14 illus, 10 halftones, 4 line
drawings
Hb: 978-0-415-82566-5: $125.00/V
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racializing the soldier
Edited by Gavin schaffer, University of
Birmingham, UK
This book offers an international history of the impact
of racial beliefs on the formation and development of
modern armed forces and the ways in which these
forces have been presented and historicised. With a
wide geographical and temporal spread, the collection
looks at the disparate ways that race has influenced
military development. In particular, it explores the
extent to which ideas of racial hierarchy and type have
conditioned thinking about what kinds of soldiers
should be used and in what roles. This book was
originally published as a special issue of Patterns of
Prejudice.
Routledge
Market: Military History / Race
July 2013: 6-3/4x9-3/4: 224pp
Hb: 978-0-415-62617-0: $135.00/y
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www.routledge.com/9780415626170
A social history of Disability
in the Middle Ages
Cultural Considerations of Physical
Impairment
irina Metzler
Series: Routledge Studies in Cultural History
This book covers the social history of disability in the
Middle Ages. By exploring cultural discourses of
medieval disability, the volume opens up the subject
of disability history prior to the modern period. The
wealth, variety and significance of sources inform how
law, work, age and charity affected medieval disability.
Routledge
Market: History
February 2013: 6x9: 352pp
Hb: 978-0-415-82259-6: $125.00/V
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www.routledge.com/9780415822596
The state and business in the
Major powers
An Economic History 1815-1939
robert Millward, University of Manchester, UK
Series: Routledge Explorations in Economic History
This book provides, for the first time, an integrated
economic history of state /business relations in the
major powers in the period 1815-1939, and offers a
completely new perspective on the links between
tariff policies, state enterprise in manufacturing, the
treatment of the peasantry, regulation of railways,
taxation of the business sector, policies on cartels,
trusts and competition.
Routledge
Market: Economics
February 2014: 6-1/4x9-1/4: 288pp: 12 illus
Hb: 978-0-415-62790-0: $140.00/V
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www.routledge.com/9780415627900
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