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East Asia and the Modern International Order
  • From Imperialism to the Cold War
  • Edited by Stephan Haggard, David C. Kang
  • Coming soon
  • Expected online publication date:
    November 2025
    Print publication:
    20 November 2025
  • This crucial interdisciplinary work brings together historians and international relations specialists to re-examine fourteen events in twentieth-century East Asia that shaped world and regional politics. In a series of case studies framed by conceptual essays the authors examine key moments and their wider significance, including the Chinese Exclusion Acts in the United States; the Japanese racial equality proposal at the Versailles conference of 1919; anti-colonial movements in Southeast Asia before 1945; and the changing nature of sovereignty in the Pacific Islands. The authors decenter the Cold War in Asia away from American and European perspectives and examine how countries in the region positioned themselves given distinctive domestic coalitions. These historical examples demonstrate the unique East Asian experience of war, empire, and political independeence, shedding valuable light on contemporary international relations and the challenges faced in Asia-Pacific today.

Hunger Redraws the Map
  • Food, State, and Society in the Era of the First World War
  • Edited by Mary Elisabeth Cox, Claire Morelon
  • Published online:
    01 November 2025
    Print publication:
    20 November 2025
  • The First World War resulted in major economic and agricultural strains to neutral and belligerent countries alike, including shifts in trading patterns, blockades, and extensive physical destruction on a unique scale. The resulting hunger crises transformed relationships between the state, citizens, and civil society and had a profound and lasting impact on the twentieth century. As civilians across Europe and the Middle East struggled to survive, new emphasis was placed on the state's responsibility to provide food for its citizens, leading to emerging concerns about 'nutritional sovereignty', the viability of new states, and a huge expansion of international humanitarianism. This innovative history utilises both contemporary and modern maps to analyse food shortages and responses to them across Europe and the Ottoman Empire from 1914 to 1923. Through a comparative approach, the authors demonstrate the consequences of civilian hunger in its military, international, political, social, economic, and cultural dimensions.

Local Priests in the Latin West, 900–1050
  • Alice Hicklin, Steffen Patzold, Bastiaan Waagmeester, Charles West
  • Published online:
    31 October 2025
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    13 November 2025
  • The local priest was the most ubiquitous embodiment of the Church for many people in medieval Christian Europe. By centring this key figure in post-Carolingian Europe, this book provides a fresh perspective on the transition between two focuses of historiographical attention, the Carolingian reform and the Gregorian reform. This pivot away from Church elites such as popes, bishops and abbots, and the institutional structures of dioceses and parishes, sheds light on new lines of continuity and moments of transformation, examining the resources and kinship ties of local priests and assessing their relationship with the bishop at both the collective and the individual level. It draws on a variety of methodologies and forms of evidence, ranging from the detailed study of specific manuscripts to wide-ranging overviews of liturgical and documentary evidence. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

The Roman Empire and World History
  • Peter Fibiger Bang
  • Published online:
    31 October 2025
    Print publication:
    30 October 2025
  • How do we fit the Roman Empire into world history? Too often the empire has simply been conceived of in terms of the West. But Rome was too big to be squeezed into a purely European model; her empire bestrode three continents. Peter Fibiger Bang develops a radical new world history framework for the Roman Empire, presenting it as part of an Afro-Eurasian arena of grand empires that dominated the shape of history before the forces of globalization and industrialization made the world centre on Europe from the eighteenth century onwards. It was a world before East and West. The book traces surprising cultural connections and societal similarities between Rome and the other vast empires of Afro-Eurasia. Whether we look at war-making, slavery, empire formation, literary culture or intercontinental trade and rebellion, Rome is best approached in its Afro-Eurasian context.

African Literature in Transition
  • The Archive of African Literature, 1800–2000
  • Volume 1
  • Edited by James Ogude, Neil ten Kortenaar
  • Published online:
    31 October 2025
    Print publication:
    13 November 2025
  • This book offers a compelling new approach to African literatures as formed by and itself a form of collective memory. It explores the historical spaces and maps that African literature brings to the surface and re-imagines in novel ways. The stories that matter about what happened in the past together constitute a collective memory that African writers and readers draw upon to locate themselves within the world. The book examines the mental maps that define the imaginative fields in which African literary texts have meaning. They provide answers to the questions that producers of texts must respond to: where stories are set, who writers write for, why writers write and how texts engage in meaning-making. It grapples with how writers imagine themselves contributing to a literary historiography and how readers get to understand the context within which texts are produced.
Race, Genetics, History

Race, Genetics, History
  • New Practices, New Approaches
  • Alexandra P. Alberda, Njabulo Chipangura, Lara Choksey, Jerome de Groot, Maya Sharma
  • Coming soon
  • Expected online publication date:
    October 2025
    Print publication:
    31 December 2025
  • This Element, about historical practice and genetics, seeks to understand what is at stake in presenting, preserving, and articulating the past in the present. Historical practice is both conceptual and material, a consonance of approach which is reflected in the innovative and non-traditional format of the Element itself – not simply in its length, but its constitution. The Element was created collaboratively with contributions from a range of disciplines, backgrounds, and areas of professional expertise. It consists of a series of interventions which are then discussed by the contributors and is foundationally multi-voiced and discursive. The Element attempts to be non-extractive, ethical, inclusive, collaborative, and constantly ongoing and provisional in its representation. The Element strives to contribute to ongoing attempts to rethink, reconfigure, reassess, and entirely change the object of study and the practice of history.

Self-Made
  • The Stories That Forged an American Myth
  • Pamela Walker Laird
  • Published online:
    30 October 2025
    Print publication:
    30 October 2025
  • 'Self-Made' success is now an American badge of honor that rewards individualist ambitions while it hammers against community obligations. Yet, four centuries ago, our foundational stories actually disparaged ambitious upstarts as dangerous and selfish threats to a healthy society. In Pamela Walker Laird's fascinating history of why and how storytellers forged this American myth, she reveals how the goals for self-improvement evolved from serving the community to supporting individualist dreams of wealth and esteem. Simplistic stories of self-made success and failure emerged that disregarded people's advantages and disadvantages and fostered inequality. Fortunately, Self-Made also recovers long-standing, alternative traditions of self-improvement to serve the common good. These challenges to the myth have offered inspiration, often coming, surprisingly, from Americans associated with self-made success, such as Benjamin Franklin, Frederick Douglass, and Horatio Alger. Here are real stories that show that no one lives – no one succeeds or fails – in a vacuum.

The New Cambridge History of the English Language
  • Context, Contact and Development
  • Volume 1
  • Edited by Laura Wright, Raymond Hickey
  • Published online:
    30 October 2025
    Print publication:
    30 October 2025
  • This volume investigates the Indo-European and Germanic background to the English language, looking at how inherited elements of phonology and morphology survived into the Old English period. It then considers various kinds of contact between the first speakers of English and speakers of Celtic, Latin and Scandinavian, under different sociolinguistic circumstances. The manner in which initial standardisation of English took place, with considerable code-switching, and the structural changes which the language underwent in this early period are discussed. The various analytical methods used to examine the available data are considered in a dedicated chapter on philology. The volume also contains a set of longer chapters. These take a detailed look at various levels of language from phonology, morphology, syntax through to semantics and pragmatics, and include reviews of historical sociolinguistics and onomastics.

Distant Friends and Intimate Enemies
  • A History of American-Russian Relations
  • David S. Foglesong, Ivan Kurilla, Victoria I. Zhuravleva
  • Published online:
    30 October 2025
    Print publication:
    20 November 2025
  • This bold, sweeping history of the turbulent American-Russian relationship is unique in being written jointly by American and Russian authors. David Foglesong, Ivan Kurilla and Victoria Zhuravleva together reveal how and why America and Russia shifted from being warm friends and even tacit allies to being ideological rivals, geopolitical adversaries, and demonic foils used in the construction or affirmation of their national identities. As well as examining diplomatic, economic, and military interactions between the two countries, they illuminate how filmmakers, cartoonists, writers, missionaries and political activists have admired, disparaged, lionized, envied, satirized, loved, and hated people in the other land. The book shows how the stories they told and the images they created have shaped how the two countries have understood each other from the eighteenth century to the present and how often their violent clashes have arisen from mutual misunderstanding and misrepresentations.

  • Museum film as a means of making museums: the Exploratorium’s early years through the intermedial lens

  • Arne Schirrmacher
  • Journal:
    The British Journal for the History of Science , First View
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    30 October 2025, pp. 1-17
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  • This paper explores the potential offered by a cinematographic approach to the study of museums, particularly science centres. By setting up an intermedial lens that maps between the museum medium and film – particularly the visitor experiences in museums onto a specific genre of museum film – correspondences between these media and their respective ‘grammars’ are analysed. After a brief overview of the relationship between museums and film in the twentieth century, a language of documentary film suitable for museum film is introduced based on the film theory of Jon Boorstin, who also directed a film on the Exploratorium in San Fancisco, which adapted post-war insights in communication design as developed by the Eames Office. Reviewing five documentaries about the Exploratorium shows that only Boorstin’s museum film could adequately convey the museum experience to others, thus going beyond intermediality to enable a transmedial transfer. How this film emerged through the cooperation of the Exploratorium with the Eames Office and national funding agencies is presented in some detail in order to show that the intermedial lens can work both ways, allowing for the transmedial application of film analysis to the museums themselves.

  • Chapter 5 - Suárez on the Origin of Falsity

  • from Part II - Being, Its Properties, and Ancillary Notions
  • Edited by Shane Duarte, Sydney Penner, Asbury University, Kentucky
  • Book:
    Suárez's <i>Metaphysical Disputations</i>
    Published online:
    13 October 2025
    Print publication:
    30 October 2025, pp 87-104

  • Summary

    Aside from some attention to the notion of material falsity that Descartes cites, Francisco Suárez’s broader discussion of falsity in Metaphysical Disputations 9 has received little scholarly attention. This chapter takes a broader look, starting with Suárez’s claim that falsity, unlike truth, is properly attributed only to intellectual acts of composition and division, before focusing on the question of where false judgements or errors come from. Suárez considers several possible sources—God, an evil angel, apparent evidentness—that might make us form false judgements, but argues that none of them actually necessitate false judgements. In line with his doxastic voluntarism, Suárez concludes instead that our wills are the source of our errors. We voluntarily assent to false propositions (though in a different work, Suárez seems more open to recognizing involuntary error). The similarity between Suárez’s account of error and Descartes’ later account is easy to see.

  • 4 - Early Panics

  • Jon Moen, University of Mississippi, Mary Tone Rodgers, State University of New York, Oswego
  • Book:
    Before the Fed
    Published online:
    16 October 2025
    Print publication:
    30 October 2025, pp 45-62

  • Summary

    How George Peabody’s firm became ensnared in the panic, jeopardizing Junius’s new partnership with Peabody and Morgan’s training there. The first test of Morgan’s mettle: Could he meet the challenge of a financial crisis? He showed deep empathy and compassion for his father’s anxiety and discomfort as Junius and George Peabody managed their way through the crisis. Father told him in 1857, “You are commencing upon your business career at an eventful time. Let what you now witness make an impression not to be eradicated. In making haste to be rich how many fall; slow and sure should be the motto of every young man.”

  • 10 - Irregular War and Warfare

  • from Part II - The Traditional Security Agenda
  • Michael John Williams, Syracuse University, New York, James Wesley Hutto, School of Advanced Air and Space Studies, Asli Peker Dogra, New York University
  • Book:
    Understanding International Security
    Published online:
    11 October 2025
    Print publication:
    30 October 2025, pp 191-209

  • Summary

    Irregular war, like war, remains an enduring feature of security studies both as they relate to internal state security and sovereignty as well as to international relations. Irregular war may not always appear to hold political purposes; many today seem driven by religious ideology, but the institution of theocratic governance has a politics of its own. Thus, like regular war, irregular war is subordinate to a political purpose. Whether they occur on the periphery of regular wars or perform roles to keep state competition from escalating into conflict, irregular wars are often intricately tied to their regular counterparts. While two broad theories of counterinsurgency both claim to have prescriptions for winning an irregular fight, one – the good governance approach – is plagued by problems of implementation at the governmental level, and the other – coercion – entails unreasonable brutality against both insurgent and population, often unbefitting a liberal counterinsurgent force.

  • Riots could be expected: Toward a global history of protest and reaction at the World Bank

  • Christy Thornton
  • Journal:
    Journal of Global History , First View
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    30 October 2025, pp. 1-22
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  • Examining an all-but-forgotten episode of large-scale protest at the 1970 annual meeting of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund in Copenhagen, Denmark, this article asks how officials at the World Bank understood and reacted to such protest. How did they characterise the protestors’ demands in the moment? Why and how did they feel the need to respond, and what strategies did they use to do so? And what does that response tell us about how officials at the World Bank understood about the relationship between development and social upheaval? Using heretofore unexamined institutional records, this article argues that already in 1970, World Bank officials were deeply concerned with public opinion about their institutions in both the developed and developing worlds—and therefore found themselves having to reckon with the riots that threatened to derail not just their meetings, but their mission.

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