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Ability and Difference in Early Modern China
  • A Mongol Family at the Ming Court
  • David Robinson
  • Published online:
    10 September 2025
    Print publication:
    11 September 2025
  • In 1405, a family left their home in the Mongolian steppe and moved to China. This daring decision, taken at a time of dramatic change in eastern Eurasia, paved the way for 250 years of unlikely success at the Ming court. Winning recognition for military skill and loyalty, the family later known as the Wu gained a coveted title of nobility and became members of the capital elite until the dynasty's collapse in 1644. By tracing the individual fortunes of a single family, David Robinson offers a fresh and accessible perspective on the inner workings of Ming bureaucracy. He explores how the early-modern world's most developed state sought to balance the often contradictory demands of securing ability and addressing difference, a challenge common to nearly all polities.

Extradition and Empire
  • Sovereignty and Subjecthood in Hong Kong
  • Ivan Lee
  • Published online:
    10 September 2025
    Print publication:
    03 July 2025
  • In the first book-length study of the imperial history of extradition in Hong Kong, Ivan Lee shows how British judges, lawyers, and officials navigated the nature of extradition, debated its legalities, and distinguished it over time from other modalities of criminal jurisdiction – including deportation, rendition, and trial and punishment under territorial and extraterritorial laws. These complex debates were rooted in the contested legal status of Chinese subjects under the Opium War treaties of 1842–43. They also intersected wider shifts and tensions in British ideas of territorial sovereignty, criminal justice and procedure, and the legal rights and liabilities of British subjects and alien persons in British territory. By the 1870s, a new area of imperial law emerged as Britain incorporated a frontier colony into an increasingly territorial and legally homogenous empire. This important perspective revises our understanding of the legal origins of colonial Hong Kong and British imperialism in China.

Intersections of Housing Precarity, Health and Wellbeing in Diverse Global Settings
  • What Is Happening to Housing?
  • Edited by Kelly Greenop, Johanna Brugman Alvarez
  • Published by:
    Bristol University Press
    Published online:
    10 September 2025
    Print publication:
    26 May 2025
  • This book examines the specific manifestations and causes of housing precarity across a diverse range of geographic settings and housing types. Chapters offer fresh insights into how housing affects wellbeing in terms of physical and mental health, identity and participation in communities.

Europe's World
  • Policy Paradigms, Strategic Thinking and the Anti-Liberal Challenge
  • Edited by Knud Erik Jørgensen, Tonny Brems Knudsen, Laura Landorff
  • Published by:
    Bristol University Press
    Published online:
    10 September 2025
    Print publication:
    27 May 2025
  • The EU's international environment is increasingly characterized by power-politics, growing great-power rivalry and war on its borders. This has challenged the liberal-internationalist identity that has been at the heart of the European Union since its birth. This book analyses how the EU has responded to these new realities in world politics.

Long-Term Care and Older People in Western Europe
  • Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic
  • Edited by Eloísa del Pino, Francisco Javier Moreno-Fuentes
  • Published by:
    Bristol University Press
    Published online:
    10 September 2025
    Print publication:
    30 June 2025
  • This edited volume examines the responses of long-term care homes for older people in Western Europe to the COVID-19 pandemic. In doing so, it highlights the institutional, organisational and management challenges facing care homes, both in continuing to provide services to an increasingly ageing population and in future public health crises.

Land, Capital and Extractive Frontiers
  • Social Conflict and Ecological Crisis in the Senegal River Delta
  • Maura Benegiamo
  • Published by:
    Bristol University Press
    Published online:
    10 September 2025
    Print publication:
    28 April 2025
  • This book examines 'land-grabbing' - its colonial roots and the fraught relationship between capital and nature amid the current global socio-ecological crisis. Based on ethnographic research, the author sheds light on how European policies impact indigenous communities and how contemporary capital-nature relationships perpetuate ecological crises.

Risk and Resistance
  • How Feminists Transformed the Law and Science of AIDS
  • Aziza Ahmed
  • Published online:
    10 September 2025
    Print publication:
    09 October 2025
  • How did women come to be seen as 'at-risk' for HIV? In the early years of the AIDS crisis, scientific and public health experts questioned whether women were likely to contract HIV in significant numbers and rolled out a response that effectively excluded women. Against a linear narrative of scientific discovery and progress, Risk and Resistance shows that it was the work of feminist lawyers and activists who altered the legal and public health response to the AIDS epidemic. Feminist AIDS activists and their allies took to the streets, legislatures, administrative agencies, and courts to demand the recognition of women in the HIV response. Risk and Resistance recovers a key story in feminist legal history – one of strategy, struggle, and competing feminist visions for a just and healthy society. It offers a clear and compelling vision of how social movements have the capacity to transform science in the service of legal change.
Ceramic Analysis

Ceramic Analysis
  • Laboratory Methods
  • Irmgard Hein, Mustafa Kibaroğlu, Michaela Schauer, Anno Hein, Georgios Polymeris, Judit Molera, Trinitat Pradell
  • Published online:
    10 September 2025
    Print publication:
    09 October 2025
  • This Element, authored by a team of specialist researchers, provides an overview of the various analytical techniques employed in the laboratory for the examination of archaeological ceramic materials. Pottery represents one of the earliest technical materials used by humans and is arguably the most frequently encountered object in archaeological sites. The original plastic raw material, which is solidified by firing, exhibits a wide range of variations in terms of production methods, material, form, decoration and function. This frequently presents significant challenges for archaeologists. In modern laboratories, a variety of archaeometric measurement methods are available for addressing a wide range of archaeological questions. Examples of these include determining the composition of archaeological materials, elucidating the processes involved in manufacturing and decoration, estimating the age of archaeological material, and much more. The six sections present available methods for analysing pottery, along with an exploration of their potential application.
AI and Image

AI and Image
  • Critical Perspectives on the Application of Technology on Art and Cultural Heritage
  • Anna Foka, Jan von Bonsdorff
  • Published online:
    10 September 2025
    Print publication:
    09 October 2025
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  • AI and Image illustrates the importance of critical perspectives in the study of AI and its application to image collections in the art and heritage sector. The authors' approach is that such entanglements of image and AI are neither dystopian or utopian but may amplify, reduce or condense existing societal inequalities depending on how they may be implemented in relation to human expertise and sensibility in terms of diversity and inclusion. The Element further discusses regulations around the use of AI for such cultural datasets as they touch upon legalities, regulations and ethics. In the conclusion they emphasise the importance of the professional expert factor in the entanglements of AI and images and advocate for a continuous and renegotiating professional symbiosis between human and machines. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Russia and the Syrian Conflict
  • Moscow's Domestic, Regional and Strategic Interests
  • Nikolay Kozhanov
  • Published by:
    Gerlach Press
    Published online:
    09 September 2025
    Print publication:
    30 July 2016
  • This book is the first to offer a comprehensive survey of Moscow's foreign policy interests in Syria. The author considers the Kremlin's diplomacy on Syria within the broader system of Russian foreign policy in the Middle East; he analyses the influence of Russian domestic dimensions on Moscow's approaches to the subject; and he considers how Moscow's priorities in Syria have evolved during the last five years and what factors influenced this evolution. Key factors considered include: Russian presence in the Middle East before and after the fall of the Soviet Union; The challenge of the 'Arab Spring'; Why it was so important to save Assad?; How serious is the jihadist threat for Russia?; Russian military involvement in the Syrian conflict: what will be the outcome?; Significance of Moscow's military intervention in the wider Middle East context.

The Late Antique World of Early Islam
  • Muslims among Christians and Jews in the East Mediterranean
  • Edited by Robert G. Hoyland
  • Published by:
    Gerlach Press
    Published online:
    09 September 2025
    Print publication:
    31 January 2021
  • This book offers a number of innovative studies on the three main communities of the East Mediterranean lands-Muslims, Jews and Christians-in the aftermath of the seventh-century Arab conquests. It focuses principally on how the Christian majority were affected by and adapted to their loss of political power in such arenas as language use, identity construction, church building, pilgrimage, and the role of women. Attention is also paid to how the Muslim community defined itself, administered justice, and regulated relations with non-Muslims.

    This book will be important for anyone interested in the ways in which the cultures and traditions of the late antique Mediterranean world were transformed in the course of the seventh to tenth centuries by the establishment of the new Muslim political elite and the gradual emergence of an Islamic Empire.

Synoptic Paleoclimatology
  • The Weather Regime Approach from the Tropics to the Poles
  • Ian D. Goodwin
  • Published online:
    09 September 2025
    Print publication:
    25 September 2025
  • Projecting regional climate change over this century and the next remains challenging due to the chaotic nature of weather, but it is made more reliable through reconstructions of paleoweather in relation to climate change in atmospheric and ocean circulation, winds, waves, currents, and precipitation. This primer applies a cross-disciplinary treatment of large-scale and synoptic climatology to the reconstruction of past climates under the umbrella of synoptic paleoclimatology, providing the theory and application of synoptic paleoclimatology for the study and prediction of future climate evolution. Climate proxy and data–model assimilation methodologies are described in detail, focusing on coasts, the surface ocean, glaciers, and ice sheets. This book also presents a state-of-the-art synthesis of regional climate history across the Southern Hemisphere, including tropical coral reefs, coasts, alpine glaciers, and Antarctica. This book will be invaluable to advanced students, researchers, and practitioners in climatology, paleoclimatology, meteorology, coastal geoscience, glaciology, oceanography, global change, and climate risk assessment.

Interpreting Identities
  • Dimensions of Power, Presence, and Belonging
  • Edited by Wayne Brekhus, Susie Scott
  • Published by:
    Bristol University Press
    Published online:
    09 September 2025
    Print publication:
    22 April 2025
  • This edited collection brings together social scientists to interpret identity from a wide range of analytical perspectives. Drawing on multiple interpretive traditions from the last one hundred years, the book explores how underlying social, cultural and psychological forces shape the dimensions of identity.

Turkish-Saudi Relations
  • Cooperation and Competition in the Middle East
  • Sinem Cengiz
  • Published by:
    Gerlach Press
    Published online:
    09 September 2025
    Print publication:
    31 December 2020
  • Are the Middle East's two heavyweights, Turkey and Saudi Arabia, friends or foes? What are the main drivers behind their rivalry or cooperation? The nature of their relationship has region-wide repercussions, affecting the calculations of both regional and global actors.

    This book is the first to offer a comprehensive and nuanced examination of the main drivers in the complex relationship between Turkey and Saudi Arabia, focusing on the role of domestic, regional and international dynamics.

    Three decades are examined: the 1990s, the 2000s and the 2010s. Thus a review of the recent history of the relationship outlining the background dynamics goes on to identify the key turning points in the post-2011 Middle East, in which the two states have frequently found themselves on a collision course due to their widely differing domestic, regional and international agendas.

The Trucial Coast Political Reports 1958-1963
  • The Slow Progress from Pearls to Oil
  • Edited by David Heard
  • Published by:
    Gerlach Press
    Published online:
    09 September 2025
    Print publication:
    31 May 2021
  • The Trucial Coast Political Reports are a unique record of events, commented on by a small group of British men living in Sharjah and Dubai. This was in the years leading up to the commencement of oil exports from the desert of Abu Dhabi.

    These men regularly met to discuss and negotiate with the Rulers of the Trucial States - sometimes in a state of mutual incomprehension - the conditions under which the Company (Petroleum Development/Trucial Coast or PD/TC) would operate in their various territories.

    Boundaries and frontiers marked out in the desert were as much a novelty to the Bedouin as the notions of royalties and depreciation were to the Rulers.

    Men such as Bird, Codrai and Henderson learnt to understand, to some extent, the language and ways of the people of the Trucial Coast. They in turn had to contend with the ways of the legal, financial and business executives in London who tended to see affairs very differently.

    It is thanks to these Company Representatives living on the Trucial Coast that the bulk of the Diaries was saved. It is due to the efforts of the London executives that much other material was lost in the name of economy of storage space.

    These Reports record important events as well as the writer's observations. The editor has included some additional material from the PD/TC company files to present a more complete account.

Reckoning with Law in Excess
  • Mobilization, Confrontation, Refusal
  • Edited by Mark Goodale, Olaf Zenker
  • Published online:
    09 September 2025
    Print publication:
    25 September 2025
  • Reckoning with Law in Excess offers a ground-breaking approach to understanding the relationship between law and social and political transformation in a changing and uncertain world. The book's authors examine a wide range of case studies in which social movements pursue justice and social change within, against, and beyond the law. The interdisciplinary research at the heart of the volume reveals patterns in the ways in which law and legality are invested with heightened importance during certain historical moments, a process of over-loading that most often gives way to disenchantment with the ultimate limits of law. In reflecting critically and synthetically on these complicated dialectics of reckoning with law, the book shines a light on one of the most important, and consequential, dynamics in an era of climate crisis, rising populism across the political spectrum, and social conflict. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Democracy's Double Helix
  • Participation, Equality and Revolution in Early Modern Europe
  • Lars Behrisch
  • Published online:
    09 September 2025
    Print publication:
    14 August 2025
  • Where does our modern democracy come from? It is a composite of two very different things: a medieval tradition of political participation, pluralistic but highly elitist; and the notion of individual equality, emerging during the early modern period. These two things first converged in the American and French revolutions – a convergence that was not only unexpected and unplanned but has remained fragile to this day. Democracy's Double Helix does not simply project and trace our modern democracy back into history, assuming that it was bound to come about. It looks instead at the political practices and attitudes prevailing before its emergence. From this perspective, it becomes clear that there was little to predict the coming of democracy. It also becomes clear that the two historical trajectories that formed it obey very different logics and always remain in tension. From this genuinely historical vantage point, we can therefore better understand the nature of our democracy and its current crisis.

Horizontal Development

The Silent Revolution
  • The Arab Spring and the Gulf States
  • Edited by May Seikaly, Khawla Mattar
  • Published by:
    Gerlach Press
    Published online:
    09 September 2025
    Print publication:
    30 April 2014
  • How immune is the Gulf region to the changes that have engulfed the Arab world since 2011? This volume responds to this question by examining the impact of the Arab Spring on Gulf regimes and societies and contributing to debates on political participation and citizenship; sectarianism, gender and identity formation; as well as the role of the media in exposing the paradoxes of the Gulf system and its relationship to international political actors.

The Politics of Food Security
  • Asian and Middle Eastern Strategies
  • Edited by Sara Bazoobandi
  • Published by:
    Gerlach Press
    Published online:
    09 September 2025
    Print publication:
    30 September 2014
  • The international food system is increasingly at risk. Increasing demand, limited and diminishing resources and rising volatility are putting new pressures on the agriculture sector globally. One of the growing critical threats to global stability and security is the inadequacy of food resources. This threat, exacerbated by global population growth, is illustrated by shifts in consumption patterns toward protein-rich diets and the growth of multinational food retail, which bring about a greater reliance on food imports. This book compares the food security policies of selected countries in Asia and the Middle East, and reviews the outcomes of policy applications in a broader context. Themes discussed include: Shifts in regional and international foreign policy, such as new alliances between countries with rich agricultural resources and wealthier importing states; Creation of food security policy competition across regions; Foreign investments and investment risks for farmland investments; Social implications, such as potential unrest; Environmental sustainability of food security programs, such as the depletion of water resources; and Impact of food security programs on trade policies and fiscal policies.

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