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Poverty and Sickness
in Modern Europe
Narratives of the Sick Poor,
1780-1938
Edited by
Andreas
Gestrich,
Elizabeth Hurren
and Steven King
• Draws extensively
on pauper
narratives
• A valuable
contribution to
the growing body of work on the sick
poor
• Pan-European in scope
This book highlights the value of pauper
narratives for exploring the experiences
of the poor and sick poor. It significantly
enhances our understanding of the ways
in which national and regional welfare
systems operated between 1780 and
1938.
ANDREAS GESTRICH is Director of the German
Historical Institute, London, UK.
ELIzABETH HURREN is Reader in History of
Medicine at Oxford Brookes University, UK.
STEVEN KING is Professor of Economic and
Social History at Leicester University, UK.
UK June 2012 US August 2012
272 Pages 156 x 234 mm 6.125 x 9.25 inches
HB 9781441184818 - £65.00 / $120.00
PB 9781441110817 - £19.99 / $34.95
Continuum
Superstition and Magic in Early
Modern Europe
A Reader
Helen Parish
Japan since 1945
From Postwar to Post-Bubble
Edited by
Christopher
Gerteis and
Timothy S.
George
• Includes
interdisciplinary
research on
modern Japanese
society, culture
and poltics
• Timely discussion of the problems
facing highly industrialized nations
• Introduces debates crucial to
understanding the history of
contemporary Japan
This multidisciplinary volume
demonstrates Japan’s ongoing importance
and relevance. Does Japan really matter
any more? The challenges of recent
Japanese history have caused some to
ask whether its significance is starting to
wane.
CHRISTOPHER GERTEIS is Lecturer in the
History of Contemporary Japan at the School
of Oriental and African Studies, University of
London, UK.
TIMOTHy S. GEORGE is Professor of Japanese
History at the University of Rhode Island, USA.
UK December 2012 US February 2012
288 Pages 156 x 234 mm 6.125 x 9.25 inches
HB 9781441175243 - £65.00 / $120.00
PB 9781441101181 - £19.99 / $34.95
Continuum
• Brings together a range of important
research in one volume
• Vibrant field with an increasing number
of student courses
• First volume of collected essays to
directly engage with current scholarship
Recent research has facilitated a more
detailed and comprehensive understanding
of themes in the history of witchcraft
and magic. This volume brings the key threads of each debate
together in one volume, demonstrating the richness of the
historiography, and the significance of superstition, magic, and
popular belief in relation to our understanding of early modern
popular culture.
HELEN PARISH is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Reading,
UK.
UK November 2012 US January 2013
352 Pages 156 x 234 mm 6.125 x 9.25 inches
HB 9781441168764 - £70.00 / $130.00
PB 9781441122223 - £22.99 / $39.95
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Continuum
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HISTORy
The Chemical Choir
A History of Alchemy
P. G. Maxwell-
Stuart
‘The Chemical
Choir helps make
the arcane and
often disrespected
activities of
alchemy more
accessible and
meaningful, not
only to chemists
and other scientists, but also to those
interested in history and philosophy.’
CHOICE
• Growing area of historical study
• Charts the importance of alchemy in
its historical, cultural and intellectual
contexts
• The author is an authority in the field
The history of alchemy traced from its
earliest roots through to its influence in
modern-day science.
P.G. MAxWELL-STUART is an Honorary Lecturer
at the University of St Andrews, UK.
UK March 2012 US May 2012
216 Pages 156 x 234 mm 6.125 x 9.25 inches
PB 9781441132970 - £16.99 / $27.95
Continuum
The Rise of Alchemy in
Fourteenth-Century England
Plantagenet Kings and the Search for the Philosopher’s
Stone
Jonathan Hughes
• Growing area of study
• Adds to debates about scientific,
political and religious life
• Radical reassessment of two medieval
English kings
This book illustrates how the practical and
theoretical knowledge of alchemists spread
throughout England. Used by courtiers for
their own physical and spiritual needs,
alchemy was adapted for the diagnosis and treatment of
illnesses of the body politic and its head, the king. This is the
first work to reveal alchemy’s contribution to the culture of
fourteenth-century England.
JONATHAN HUGHES is a guest lecturer at the Exeter Centre, UK, for the
Study of Esotericism.
UK March 2012 US May 2012
296 Pages 156 x 234 mm 6.125 x 9.25 inches
HB 9781441178046 - £65.00 / $120.00
PB 9781441181831 - £19.99 / $34.95
Continuum
HISTORy
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