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Medieval History

Colonialism &Imperialism

History &Literature

First World War

Spanish Civil War

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CONTENTS

ANCIENT HISTORY 1

ANCIENT CHINA 2

MEDIEVAL HISTORY 2

COLONIALISM & IMPERIALISM 3

HISTORY & LITERATURE 3

FIRST WORLD WAR 4

SPANISH CIVIL WAR 5

MODERN EUROPEAN HISTORY 10

HISTORY - RELIGION & BELIEFS 11

SOCIAL & CULTURAL HISTORY 12

CANADIAN HISTORY 13

MIDDLE EASTERN HISTORY 14

ANCIENT HISTORY

THE ARCHITECTURE OF THE ANCIENT GREEK THEATREEdited by Rune Frederiksen

In this volume the leading experts on ancient Greek theatre architecture present new excavationresults and new analyses of individual monuments. Many well-known theatres such as the oneof Dionysos in Athens and others at for instance Messene, Sikyon, Chaironeia in Greece andAphrodisias in Turkey have been re-examined since their original publication with stunningresults. New research also includes less well-known or newly discovered ancient Greek theatresin Albania, Turkey, Cyprus and Sicily. Further studies on the history of research, regionaltheatrical developments, terminology and function, as well as a perspective on Roman theatresbuilt in Greek traditions make this volume a comprehensive book of new research for specialistscholars as well as for students and the interested public. Fundamental publications on the topichave not been presented for many years, and this book aims to form a new foundation for thestudy of theatre architecture.

HB 9788771243802 £50.00 December 2015 Aarhus University Press 468 pages


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ANCIENT CHINA

JOY & SORROW – SONGS OF ANCIENT CHINAA New Translation of Shi Jing Guo Feng (A Chinese–English Bilingual Edition)Ha Poong Kim

The Shi Jing is the oldest anthology of Chinese songs. It contains 305 songs of ancient China,composed in the 12th to 7th century BCE. The collection is divided into four parts. The presentwork is a translation of its first part, namely Guo Feng, which translates as “songs of states” withinthe Zhou kingdom (1122–255 BCE). The Guo Feng songs were mostly sung by the common peopleof the kingdom. In this respect, they are unlike the songs in the other three parts, which aregenerally dynastic songs of the Zhou court. The songs included in this translation predateConfucius, many by several centuries. Accordingly, through them one may hear the spontaneousvoices of pre-Confucian China.

The text of the Shi Jing has come down to us at the present time in familiar Chinese characters.But their usage is so ancient that for centuries even Chinese readers have had to rely on a fewstandard commentaries, which all gave Confucian, moralistic readings of the songs, even of thosethat are unmistakably simple love songs. Ha Poong Kim’s translation has incorporated the resultsof some recent Japanese studies which question the traditional, Confucian approach to the text,thereby recovering the original meaning of many songs in the Guo Feng. It is hoped that thisChinese–English Bilingual Edition makes the voices of joys and sorrows of this ancient landaudible to a modern readership, not only in the West but also in China as well.

AUTHOR INFORMATION: Ha Poong Kim, a native of Korea, taught philosophy, both

Western and Eastern, at Eastern Illinois University for over twenty years. His most recent works(after retirement) include Reading Lao Tzu: A Companion to the Tao Te Ching, with a NewTranslation, and “Oh, Let Me Return”: Nature Poems of China (in Korean).

PB 9781845197926 £19.95 January 2016 Sussex Academic Press 224 pages

MEDIEVAL HISTORY

OF KINGS & CHRONICLESNational Saints & the Emergence of Nation States in the Early Middle AgesEdited by John Bergsagel, David Hiley, Thomas Riis

This volume collects the proceedings of a symposium on the manuscript Kiel, University LibraryS. H. 8 A. 80, which contains the earliest copy of the so-called “Roskilde Chronicle” as well as thecomplete monastic Offices and Masses of the Danish saint Knud Lavard. Thirteen scholars offera variety of analyses of the manuscript, including studies of the crusades and crusaders in theliturgy, kingship and sanctity in the lives of British and Scandinavian saints, and the writing ofpatriotic history.

AUTHOR INFORMATION: John Bergsagel is Emeritus Professor of Musicology at the

University of Copenhagen.David Hiley is Emeritus Professor of Musicology at the University of Regensburg.Thomas Riis is Emeritus Professor of Regional History at the Christian-Albrechts University in Kiel.

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COLONIALISM & IMPERIALISM

THE DARK CONTINENT?Images of Africa in European Narratives about the CongoFrits Andersen

Africa: a forgotten continent that evades all attempts at control and transcends reason. Or doesit? This book describes Europe’s image of Africa and relates how the conception of the DarkContinent has been fabricated in European culture – with the Congo as an analytical focal point.It also demonstrates that the myth was more than a creation of colonial propaganda; the Congoreform movement – the first international human rights movement – spread horror stories thatstill have repercussions today. The book cross-examines a number of witness testimonies,reports and novels, from Stanley’s travelogues and Conrad’s Heart of Darkness to Hergé’s Tintinand Burroughs’ Tarzan, as well as recent Danish and international Congo literature. The DarkContinent? proposes that the West’s attitudes to Africa regarding free trade, emergency aid andintervention are founded on the literary historical assumptions of stories and narrative formsthat have evolved since 1870.

HB 9788771248531 £50.00 December 2015 Aarhus University Press 692 pages

HISTORY & LITERATURE

WAR, THE HERO & THE WILLHardy, Tolstoy & the Napoleonic WarsJane L Bownas

Thomas Hardy’s The Dynasts and Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace are both works which defyattempts to assign them to a particular genre but might seem to have little else in common apartfrom being set in the same period of history. This study argues that there are importantsimilarities between these two works and examines the close correspondence between Hardy’sand Tolstoy’s thinking on themes relating to war, ideas of the heroic and the concept of free will.Although coming from very different backgrounds, both writers were influenced by theirexperiences of war, Tolstoy directly, by involvement in the wars in the Caucasus and the Crimea,and Hardy indirectly, by the events of the Anglo-Boer Wars. Their reaction to these experiencesfound expression in their descriptions of the wars fought against Napoleon at the beginning ofthe century.

Hegel saw Napoleon as ‘the great world-historical man of his time’, and this work considers theways in which Hardy and Tolstoy undermine this view, portraying Napoleon’s physical and mentaldecline and questioning the role he played in determining the outcomes of military actions. Bothwriters were deeply interested in the question of free will and determinism and their writingsreveal their attempts to understand the nature of the force which lies behind men’s actions.Their differing views on the nature of consciousness are considered in the light of modernresearch on the development of the conscious brain.

AUTHOR INFORMATION: Jane L. Bownas is an independent scholar who has published

several articles on Thomas Hardy, and her book, Thomas Hardy and Empire: The Representationof Imperial Themes in the Work of Thomas Hardy was published in 2012.

HB 9781845197353 £22.95 January 2015 Sussex Academic Press 224 pages


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FIRST WORLD WAR

THE GREAT WARFrom Memory to HistoryEdited by Kellen Kurschinski, Steve Marti, Alicia Robinet, Matt Symes, Jonathan F. Vance

The Great War: From Memory to History offers a new look at the multiple ways the Great Warhas been remembered and commemorated through the twentieth century and into the twenty-first. Drawing on contributions from history, cultural studies, film, and literary studies thiscollection offers fresh perspectives on the Great War and its legacy at the local, national, andinternational levels. More importantly, it showcases exciting new research on the experiencesand memories of "forgotten" participants who have often been ignored in dominant narrativesor national histories.

Contributors to this international study highlight the transnational character of memory-makingin the Great War's aftermath. No single memory of the war has prevailed, but many symbols,rituals, and expressions of memory connect seemingly disparate communities and wartimeexperiences. With groundbreaking new research on the role of Aboriginal peoples, ethnicminorities, women, artists, historians, and writers in shaping these expressions of memory, thisbook will be of great interest to readers from a variety of national and academic backgrounds.

AUTHOR INFORMATION: Kellen Kurschinski is a Ph.D. Candidate in history at McMaster

University and Editor of www.canadianmilitaryhistory.ca. His research examines the medical andsociocultural impact of the Great War.Steve Marti is a doctoral candidate at Western University. His dissertation examines therelationship between identity and voluntary contributions to the war effort in Australia, Canada,and New Zealand.Alicia Robinet is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of English at Western University.Matt Symes is the Publications Manager for LCMSDS, the editor of canadianmilitaryhistory.caand a PhD Candidate (ABD) at Wilfrid Laurier University. 1812: A Guide to the War and its Legacyis the fifth battlefield guide that Symes has worked on, including Canadian Battlefields 1915-1918: A Visitor’s Guide and three battlefield guides on the Italian Campaign during the SecondWorld War. Symes was also the co-editor (with Geoffrey Hayes and Mike Bechthold) of Canadaand the Second World War: Essays in honour of Terry Copp.Jonathan F. Vance teaches history at Western University. He is the author of many works,including Maple Leaf Empire: Canada, Britain and Two World Wars (2011).

PB 9781771120500 £27.99 November 2015 Wilfrid Laurier University 450 pages


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SPANISH CIVIL WAR

THE GENOCIDAL GENEALOGY OF FRANCOISMViolence, Memory & ImpunityAntonio Miguez Macho

The Francoist command in the Spanish Civil War carried out a programme of mass violence fromthe start of the conflict. Through a combination of death squads and the use of military trialsaround 150,000 Spaniards met their deaths. Others perished in concentration camps and prisons.The terror took other forms, such as mass rape, extortion, "appropriation" of children and forcedexile. The planned nature of this violence meant that the Francoists decided when the violencewould begin, the way it would be carried out and when it would come to an end. This is a primaryreason why the judicial concept of genocidal practice, alongside the use of comparative history,can furnish insights.

The July 1936 uprising was not only aimed at ending the Republican regime, but had ideologicalgoals: preventing the supposed Bolshevik Revolution, defending the 'unity of Spain' and reversingcentre-left social and cultural reforms. An over-arching objective was the elimination of a socialgroup identified as 'an enemy of Spain' -- a group defined as: not Catholic, not Spanish, nottraditional. The genocidal intent of the coup via access to state resources, their monopoly offorce in some territories and their subsequent victory ensured that the practice of genocide couldbe realised in the whole Spanish territory, permitting the hegemonic nature of the denialistdiscourse surrounding these crimes.

Public debate over Francosim brings with it substantive disagreements. The book engages withthe root causes of these disagreements. Violence and the memory of violence are viewed as partof a single phenomenon that has continued to the present, a process that is located within acomparative framework that analyses the Spanish case beyond the debate between Francoismand anti-Francoism. The author explains the political and judicial proceedings in recent Spanishhistory with regard to its violent past and the implications for international justice initiatives.

Published in association with the Cañada Blanch Centre for Contemporary Spanish Studies, LSE.

AUTHOR INFORMATION: Antonio Miguez Macho (1979) is lecturer at the University of

Santiago de Compostela. He has spent time as a researcher at The London School of Economicsand Political Science and the Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero (Buenos Aires). He haspublished extensively on twentieth-century Spanish political and social history. He is the authorof “Challenging Impunity in Spain throughout the Concept of Genocidal Practices”, in P. Andersonand M.A. del Arco Blanco (eds.), Mass Killings and Violence in Spain, 1936-1952 (London,Routledge, 2015).

HB 9781845197490 £45.00 December 2015 Sussex Academic Press 192 pages


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GUERRILLEROS & NEIGHBOURS IN ARMSIdentities & Cultures of Anti-Fascist Resistance in SpainJorge Marco

The Spanish Civil War, fought between 1936 and 1939, was the first battle against fascism inEurope. Five months after the victory of dictator Francisco Franco in Spain the conflict moved toEurope with the outbreak of the Second World War. Fascism and anti-fascism again faced eachother on the battlefield. Amid the heat of the Nazi invasions in Europe, anti-fascist resistancegroups formed by ordinary citizens emerged in virtually all European countries. Although theFranco dictatorship was not directly involved in the world war, in Spain an anti-Franco resistancemovement was organized in 1939 and lasted until 1952. Although the Spanish resistanceconstituted the first and last anti-fascist resistance movement in Europe, the Spanish case hasbeen consistently overlooked by international studies.

This book inserts the Spanish anti-Franco resistance into the European context, proposing a newnarrative of anti-fascist resistances in Europe. At the same time, the book offers a newinterpretation of guerrilla phenomena with a strongly peasant character, as was the case of theresistance in Spain. The author underlines the importance of primary groups (kinship,neighbourhood, friendship) and secondary groups (camaraderie and political loyalties) in themobilization and organization of armed groups. For this study, Jorge Marco establishes twelvevariables that permit him to distinguish between ‘neighbours in arms’ and ‘modern guerrilla’.The studied combinations of groups and types demonstrates the plurality of the identities andcultures of the anti-fascist resistance in Spain.

Published in association with the Cañada Blanch Centre for Contemporary Spanish Studies.

AUTHOR INFORMATION: Jorge Marco is a lecturer in Spanish Politics, History and Culture

at the University of Bath. He is the author of several books and articles on Francoist violence,anti-Francoist resistance and traumatic memory.

HB 9781845197520 £65.00 January 2016 Sussex Academic Press 300 pages


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JOSEP RENAU & THE POLITICS OF CULTURE IN REPUBLICAN SPAIN, 1931-1939Re-imagining the NationCarl-Henrik Bjerstrom

At once pragmatic and utopian, the Spanish artist, critic and political activist Josep Renauengaged in multiple ways in the volatile cultural conflicts of interwar Europe, which convergedon Spain in the Second Republic’s battle to modernise both politics and society (1931–1939).Renau used his idiosyncratic artwork and agit-prop, inspired by the Constructivists and theGerman avant-garde, to critique the timidity of the Republic’s first democratising reforms. Toenvision an alternative, he launched arts organisations and magazines whose goal was to beginthe work of redefining Spanish national self-image through cultural innovation. The ideas Renaudeveloped would soon come to shape government policy during the war in Spain (1936–39)when Renau served as the Republic’s Director General of Fine Arts. In power, Renau was a tirelesscultural innovator, whose initiatives not only helped mobilise tens of thousands of Republicansbut also shaped the new collective imaginaries emerging from the conflict.

This book offers the first interdisciplinary and contextualised analysis of the relationship betweenart and politics in Renau’s work at the time of Spain’s pivotal attempt to pursue democratic formsof modernisation. It traces the connections between Renau’s political goals and the specific visualstrategies he deployed, providing a comprehensive historical assessment of his attempts to turnprotean theory into effective practice. In spite of the Republic’s military defeat, Renau’s work,and the wartime cultural programme he inspired and impelled, offer fertile material for debateson the dynamic relationship between culture and democracy in ways which remain as relevantand urgent today as they were when Renau took up the challenge.

Published in association with the Cañada Blanch Centre for Contemporary Spanish Studies, LSE.

AUTHOR INFORMATION: Carl-Henrik Bjerström is a historian specialising in the cultural

history of modern Spain, particularly the Second Republic of 1931–1939. He is currently a visitingresearcher at the Cañada Blanch Centre for Contemporary Spanish Studies, LSE, as well as avisiting tutor at Royal Holloway, University of London. Other research interests include the socialhistory of interwar Europe, modernism, and the history of photography and film.

HB 9781845197391 £65.00 February 2016 Sussex Academic Press 272 pages


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NOW AVAILABLE IN PAPERBACKSPAIN BLEEDSThe Development of Battlefield Blood Transfusion During the Civil WarLinda Palfreeman

War is sometimes mistakenly construed as the chief impetus for medical innovation.Nevertheless, military conflict obliges the implementation of discoveries still at an experimentalstage. Such was the case with the practice of blood transfusion during the Spanish Civil War,when massive demand for blood provoked immediate recourse to breakthroughs in transfusionmedicine not yet integrated into standard medical practice.

The Spanish Civil War marked a new era in blood transfusion medicine. Frederic Duran Jordà andCarlos Elósegui Sarasoles, directors, respectively, of the blood transfusion services of theRepublican Army and of the insurgent forces, were innovators in the field of indirect bloodtransfusion with preserved blood. Not only had they to create transfusion services, almost fromscratch, capable of supplying campaigning armies with blood in wartime conditions, they alsohad to struggle against the medical establishment and to convince their medical peers of thevalue (not to mention the scientific significance) of what they were doing.

The Blood Transfusion Service of the Republic was a truly international effort, with medicalvolunteers from all over the world carrying out transfusion work in primitive and often dangerousconditions. All took their lead from one man – the young Catalan haematologist, Frederic DuranJordà, the indisputable pioneer of civil war blood transfusion medicine. From humble beginningsat the outbreak of war, blood transfusion services were created in Spain that would later becomecrucial in the treatment of casualties during the Second World War and would shape the futureevolution of blood transfusion medicine throughout the developed world.

AUTHOR INFORMATION: Linda Palfreeman is Lecturer in Journalism at the University of

Cardenal Herrera, Elche, Spain. Her research on local aspects of the Spanish Civil War and of theInternational Brigades’ Medical Service resulted in ¡Salud! British Volunteers in the RepublicanMedical Service during the Spanish Civil War, 1936–1939 (2012), followed by Aristocrats,Adventurers and Ambulances: British Medical Units in the Spanish Civil War (2013). Spain Bleeds,the final book in this informal trilogy, continues to provide long unavailable information on healthcare and medical assistance during wartime.

PB 9781845197186 £22.50 March 2016 Sussex Academic Press 208 pages


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NOW AVAILABLE IN PAPERBACKSPAIN’S MARTYRED CITIESFrom the Battle of Madrid to Picasso’s GuernicaMartin Minchom

Spain’s Martyred Cities studies international reactions to the Spanish Civil War between theBattle of Madrid in November 1936 and the bombing of Guernica in April 1937. Many of theiconic events of the war belong to this key period, when international perceptions of the conflictwere decisively shaped. The subject is approached through French and British newspapers andpamphlets, and events are linked to both their immediate press coverage and subsequent literaryand artistic representations.

For contemporaries, the aerial bombardments of Madrid, Guernica and other cities formed partof a single unbroken narrative. It was only later that Guernica acquired its perceived symbolicprimacy. The language of ‘martyrdom’ was sometimes evoked in pro-Republican writing as ameans of challenging Francoist claims to the religious and moral high ground. But the ur-text wasThe Martyrdom of Madrid (1937), a compilation of the posthumous, censored reports of theFrench correspondent Louis Delaprée on the bombing of Madrid. Delaprée’s earliest reporting(July–October 1936) was from both the Nationalist and Republican zones, and is used to providean introductory overview of the early stages of the war; he was an eyewitness of the aerialbombardments of Madrid in November 1936; subsequently, the posthumous publication of hiswritings created a major stir in Paris. Delaprée’s powerful and emotive writing provides aplatform from which to discuss issues of press censorship and journalistic practice. It is notablefor its initial impact, when publication in no less than five languages enabled it to reach writersas different as Virginia Woolf and André Malraux. This book shows that Delaprée’s reports werealso an important catalyst in Picasso’s artistic involvement in the war, culminating in his Guernica.

AUTHOR INFORMATION: Martin Minchom is a Madrid-based historian. His previous

publications include a social history of Colonial Quito, and Spanish editions of the work of foreigncorrespondents on the Spanish Civil War.



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MODERN EUROPEAN HISTORY

NOW AVAILABLE IN PAPERBACKTHE CRESCENT REMEMBEREDIslam & Nationalism on the Iberian PeninsulaPatricia Hertel

Contemporary Spain and Portugal share a historical experience as Iberian states which emergedwithin the context of al-Andalus. These centuries of Muslim presence in the Middle Ages becamea contested heritage during the process of modern nation-building with its varied concepts andconstructs of national identities. Politicians, historians and intellectuals debated vigorously thequestion how the Muslim past could be reconciled with the idea of the Catholic nation.

The Crescent Remembered investigates the processes of exclusion and integration of the Islamicpast within the national narratives. It analyzes discourses of historiography, Arabic studies,mythology, popular culture and colonial policies towards Muslim populations from the 19thcentury to the dictatorships of Franco and Salazar in the 20th century. In particular, it exploreswhy, despite apparent historical similarities, in Spain and Portugal entirely different strategiesand discourses concerning the Islamic past emerged. In the process, it seeks to shed light on therole of the Iberian Peninsula as a crucial European historical “contact zone” with Islam.

AUTHOR INFORMATION: Patricia Hertel teaches European history of the 19th and 20th

century at the University of Basel. Her research focuses on cultural, political and religious historyin Western and Southern Europe. She holds a PhD of the University of Fribourg and a master’sdegree of the University of Munich.

REVIEWS: Review excerpts from the German edition: “This well-written study is based on an

extensive collection of sources and literature. It fills an important gap in the scholarship bycombining multiple fields and approaches of cultural history to offer new insights into theprocess of nation-building on a variety of levels.”Hedwig Herold-Schmidt, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, in H-Soz-u-Kult (2013)



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HISTORY - RELIGION & BELIEFS

WICCAHistory, Belief & Community in Modern Pagan WitchcraftEthan Doyle White

The past century has born witness to a growing interest in the belief systems of ancient Europe,with an array of contemporary Pagan groups claiming to revive these old ways for the needs ofthe modern world. By far the largest and best known of these Paganisms has been Wicca, a newreligious movement that can now count hundreds of thousands of adherents worldwide.Emerging from the occult milieu of mid twentieth-century Britain, Wicca was first presented asthe survival of an ancient pre-Christian Witch-Cult, whose participants assembled in covens tovenerate their Horned God and Mother Goddess, to celebrate seasonal festivities, and to castspells by the light of the full moon. Spreading to North America, where it diversified under theimpact of environmentalism, feminism, and the 1960s counter-culture, Wicca came to bepresented as a Goddess-centred nature religion, in which form it was popularised by a numberof best-selling authors and fictional television shows. Today, Wicca is a maturing religiousmovement replete with its own distinct world-view, unique culture, and internal divisions.

This book represents the first published academic introduction to be exclusively devoted to thisfascinating faith, exploring how this Witches’ Craft developed, what its participants believe andpractice, and what the Wiccan community actually looks like. In doing so it sweeps away widely-held misconceptions and offers a comprehensive overview of this religion in all of its variedforms. Drawing upon the work of historians, anthropologists, sociologists, and scholars ofreligious studies, as well as the writings of Wiccans themselves, it provides an original synthesisthat will be invaluable for anyone seeking to learn about the blossoming religion of modernPagan Witchcraft.

AUTHOR INFORMATION: Ethan Doyle White is an established Pagan studies scholar and

trained archaeologist currently engaged in an interdisciplinary MPhil/PhD project in EarlyMedieval Studies at University College London (UCL).

REVIEWS: Ethan Doyle White's book combines a sweeping trans-Atlantic survey of

contemporary Pagan Witchcraft's origins and spread. With ample attention to both theology andpraxis, he has produced an important resource for future scholars of the first world religion thatbegan in England. Chas S. Clifton, editor The Pomegranate: The International Journal of PaganStudies

PB 9781845197551 £25.00 October 2015 Sussex Academic Press 272 pagesHB 9781845197544 £65.00 October 2015 Sussex Academic Press 272 pages


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SOCIAL & CULTURAL HISTORY

UNEARTHLY LANDSCAPESNZ's Early Cemeteries, Churchyards and UrupaStephen Deed

By the nineteenth century the ancient urban churchyards of Britain, burdened with generationsof dead, were unable to cope with rising numbers of corpses. Partially decomposed bodies wereregularly disinterred and dumped in pits to free up room for the newly dead.

Fears about the danger to public health eventually put an end to the urban churchyard burialgrounds, and by the time settlers set sail for New Zealand large ‘modern’ cemeteries were beingestablished on the edges of towns and cities. Migrants therefore brought with them a range ofburial practices. The land they arrived in already had a long tradition of Māori burial ritual and places, which would be transformed by this contact with the European world. The migrants’ owntraditions were adapted to their new environment and society, creating burial places unique toNew Zealand.

Today, old cemeteries dot the countryside, but are often ignored. Yet the resting places of thedead are a reflection of the life of the surrounding community, and New Zealand’s earlycemeteries have fascinating stories to tell. In this beautifully written and illustrated book,Stephen Deed sets out to reconnect the historic cemeteries we see today with the history of thiscountry and its people.

AUTHOR INFORMATION: Stephen Deed is an historian and librarian with an interest in the

interpretation and conservation of buildings and landscapes. He has worked closely with HeritageNew Zealand Pouhere Taonga and the Historic Cemeteries Conservation Trust of New Zealand torecord and protect important and fragile parts of our built environment. Stephen studied at theUniversity of Otago but now lives in London, and although he has come to love its grimy brickterraces, New Zealand’s landscape and old wooden houses are still close to his heart.

PB 9781927322185 £22.50 January 2016 Otago University Press 256 pages


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CANADIAN HISTORY

GRANT NOTLEYThe Social Conscience of Alberta, Second EditionHoward Leeson, Rachel Notley

This book is a biography of my dad’s political life. However, it is also a primer for would-bepoliticians. Its most salient message? Political victory worth having rarely comes easy.

– Rachel Notley, from the Foreword

Grant Notley, leader of Alberta’s New Democratic Party from 1968 to 1984, stood out in Albertapolitics. His goals, his personal integrity, his obvious dedication to social change, and his“practical idealism” made him the social conscience of Alberta. He bridged the old and the new;he provided the necessary hard work to ensure the continuation of a social democratic party inAlberta. Albertans felt intuitively that he represented a part of their collective being, and hisuntimely death in 1984 touched them deeply. Leeson’s new introduction recognizes GrantNotley’s significant contribution to the continuity and health of his party while acknowledgingthe important work of his daughter, Rachel Notley, who led the Alberta NDP to electoral victoryin 2015. Readers of politics, biography, and social history will appreciate this new edition of animportant book.

AUTHOR INFORMATION: Howard Leeson's biography of Grant Notley is based on his years

of association with the NDP. He was Mr. Notley's first executive assistant in 1971. He is ProfessorEmeritus of Political Science at the University of Regina. He and his wife Ede live on a small farmjust outside of Regina.

PB 9781772121254 £21.50 October 2015 University of Alberta Press

ON THE FRONTIERLetters from the Canadian West in the 1880sWilliam Wallace Edited by Ken Coates, Bill Morrison

"As entertaining as fiction." Great Plains Quarterly

"A valuable account of everyday life." Journal of Canadian Materials for Young People

First published more than twenty years ago as My Dear Maggie, this new edition of WilliamWallace's letters home to England provides rare documentation of the earliest days of settlementin the West. The correspondence conveys a sense of unspoken courage--the courage that wasneeded to make a fresh start in a strange new land.

"William's letters contains many elements common to settlers' writings: a recounting of theexhausting trip behind slow-moving oxen from the jumping-off point to the homestead, theviolence of thunderstorms, the pain of frozen extremities, and the destruction caused by prairiefires. They are also full of the fine details of life not usually found in such abundance in pioneernarratives, details made vivid by William's observant eye and lyrical writing style... He tells ofmosquitoes (he even encloses one in a letter)... the fierce weather, nearby bears and howlingwolves. William Wallace takes us on his personal journey from immigrant to citizen, a journeyawakened by his growing attachment to his new landscape." Prairie Forum

AUTHOR INFORMATION: Willie Wallace was Celtic Manager' Jocks Stein's last signing to

complete his all conquering Lisbon Lions team.Bill Morrison was educated at McMaster University and the University of Western Ontario, andis now retired emeritus professor of History (UNBC). He lives in Ladysmith, British Columbia.

PB 9780889774087 £21.50 October 2015 University of Regina Press 350 pages


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THE FENCE AND THE BRIDGEGeopolitics and Identity along the Canada-US BorderHeather N. Nicol

The Fence and the Bridge is about the development of the Canada–US border-securityrelationship as an outgrowth of the much lengthier Canada–US relationship. It suggests that thisrelationship has been both highly reflexive and hegemonic over time, and that such realities areembodied in the metaphorical images and texts that describe the Canada–US border over itshistory.

Nicol argues that prominent security motifs, such as themes of free trade, illegal immigration,cross-border crime, terrorism, and territorial sovereignty are not new, nor are they limited to thepost-9/11 era. They have developed and evolved at different times and become part of a largerquilt, whose patches are stitched together to create a new fabric and design.

Each of the security motifs that now characterize Canada–US border perceptions and relationshas a precedent in border-management strategies and border relations in earlier periods. Insome cases, these have deep historical roots that date back not just years or decades butcenturies. They are part of an evolving North American geopolitical logic that inscribes howborders are perceived, how they function, and what they mean.

AUTHOR INFORMATION: Heather N. Nicol is a political geographer whose work explores

the structure and operation of the Canada - US border, with special emphasis on the impacts ofsecurity and sovereignty. Among her publications are Beyond Walls: Reinventing the Canada - USBorderlands and Holding the Line: Border in a Global World. She is also interested in thecircumpolar North as a geopolitical space, and the relationship between the interests of nation-states and indigenous peoples in the North.

PB 9781554589715 £30.99 November 2015 Wilfrid Laurier University 330 pages

MIDDLE EASTERN HISTORY

IRANIAN NATIONAL IDENTITY & THE PERSIAN LANGUAGERoles of the Court, Religion & Sufism in Persian Prose WritingShahrokh Meskoob Translated by Michael Hillmann Edited by John R Perry

In this insightful study of Iranian cultural history and national identity, the late ShahrokhMeskoob, one of Iran’s leading intellectuals, reviewed the roles of three social classes, thecourtiers and bureaucratic officials (ahl-e divan), the religious scholars (ulama), and the MuslimGnostics (Sufi poets and writers), in the development and refinement of the Persian languageduring the past 1,000 years and gives the reader a fresh perspective on Iranian cultural heritageand the struggle to forge a distinct national identity. Dr Ali Banuazizi’s foreword and interviewwith the author sets the stage for a fuller appreciation of this invaluable and wide-rangingcontribution to Iranian intellectual history.

PB 9781933823812 £24.99 October 2015 Mage Publishers 172 pages

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