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August 2026 Poetics of Animation
Medium, Context and Aesthetics
Taberham, P.
The first account of studio animation written from an historical-poetic perspective. Examining how animated films are created and experienced, Poetics of Animation brings together the study of visual style, performance, storytelling, and sound within their industrial and technological contexts, and offers an original contribution to animation studies.
Subject: Film and Television Studies
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August 2026 Political Crisis in Central Europe in the Interwar Period and Today
Temporality, Semantics, and Logic of Crises in Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and Romania
Schulze Wessel, M. (ed)
Examines the crisis and failure of democracy in Central and Eastern Europe during the interwar period, from a comparative and interdisciplinary perspective. Linking contemporary concerns about democratic fragility with historical analysis, the contributions explore political culture, constitutional traditions, religion, violence, and crisis discourse in Germany, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, and Slovakia.
Subject: History: 20th Century to Present
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August 2026 A Global History of Right-wing Terrorism
Hof, T.
Spanning from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day, Hof traces the global evolution of right-wing terrorism across time and continents. Through vivid case studies set in diverse historical and social contexts, he reveals how terrorist movements have transformed, adapted, and connected through transnational networks.
Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present Peace and Conflict Studies
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August 2026 Business as Usual
The Germans and Their Law, 1943 to 1948
Lahusen, B.
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Peace and Conflict Studies History: World War II
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August 2026 Crafting Co-ops in Denmark
Reworking Craftmanship, Construction and Capitalism in a Cooperative Realm
Ebsen, M.
Builders construct certain political sensibilities through their daily work, which come to structure their wider social and political engagement with the encompassing society. Crafting Co-ops in Denmark explores the revival of cooperative craftwork in Denmark, delving into construction sites and political assemblies to reveal the dreams, drives, and desires of a diverse group of builders working in a Copenhagen-based craft co-op.
Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Development Studies Cultural Studies (General)
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August 2026 Decolonizing African Art History and Heritage
Unveiling Ritual Objects' Power as Spiritual Resilience
Nalukenge, C.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Heritage Studies Museum Studies
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August 2026 Antarctic Materialities
McCahey, D. & Senatore, M. (Eds.)
Challenging the idea of a pristine, uninhabited continent, Antarctic Materialities shows how materialities create, transform, and connect Antarctic worlds, revealing the region as a historically layered landscape deeply entangled with global histories, politics, and imaginaries.
Subjects: Archaeology Environmental Studies (General) Cultural Studies (General)
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August 2026 Cyborgs of the Ecocene
What Robots Can Teach Us about Being Human in a Calamitous World
Veling, L.
This book explores the relationship between people, society and nature through the lens of robots and robotics research. It argues that a deeper understanding of the field leads to a greater appreciation for human embodiment and creativity, rather than a belief in imminent machine intelligence.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General) Sociology
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August 2026 Maritime Archaeology with Compassionate Community Connection
Craig, J. & Mok, J. (Eds.)
Contemporary public discourses about archaeology are routinely characterized by scientific and historical narratives that leave the water blank. This book weaves together voices from across the Asia Pacific region, revealing maritime archaeology as a labour of love rooted in connection, compassion and community.
Subjects: Archaeology Heritage Studies
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August 2026 Anthropology and Travel Writing, 19th–21st Century
From Proto-Ethnographies to Self-Reflexive Travelogues
Burcea, H. (Eds.)
From the nineteenth century onward, there have been gaps between travel writing and anthropological sciences, but also commonalities and continuous interactions in the anglophone world. Through a variety of case studies, Anthropology and Travel Writing follows the shift from armchair speculation to sustained fieldwork, from the picturesque to analytic thick description and from colonial typologies to Indigenous counter-readings.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Travel and Tourism
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August 2026 Shakespeare & His Religious Afterlives
Cerezo, M. (Eds.)
Exploring Shakespeare’s religious afterlives, this volume examines translations, adaptations, and performances across Sweden, Spain, and the United States. Bringing together literary, theatrical, and religious perspectives, it highlights how Shakespeare’s works continue to shape religious interpretation, cultural meaning, and lived experience across diverse historical and social contexts.
Subject: Literary Studies
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September 2026 The Origins of Prejudice
Dangerous Opinions and Beliefs
Anderson, E., Coures, K., Guerrón Montero, C., Schendel-Vyvoda, T. L., Schwörer, T. & Terrell, J. E.
The Origins of Prejudice is a short and unconventional book that shows you step-by-step both how and why all of us who are human often rely uncritically on what we believe to be true about the people, things, and events shaping our lives outside the hidden world of our bony skull. This book aims to show how we can learn from our possibly unintentional acts and self-serving misdeeds to live together in supportive, less conflicted ways.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology
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September 2026 Concepts of Culture
New Directions in Conceptual History
Pirholt, M. & Lipkin, M. (eds)
An interdisciplinary approach to conceptual history that broadens the scope of this influential theoretical tradition, with a particular focus on cultural concepts found in art history, comparative literature, cultural studies, and German studies, among others. In doing so, it also contributes to the methodological development in these fields of research.
Subjects: History (General) Cultural Studies (General) Literary Studies
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September 2026 Theorising Media and Time
Temporalities, Media Practices and Politics of Time in a Digital Era
Bräuchler, B. & Grønlykke Mollerup, N. (Eds.)
Digital media perpetuates every aspect of our lives, including our temporal perceptions. This book brings advances in the anthropological thinking about time into conversation with theorisations of media to develop an understanding of how media and time affect each other while keeping human experiences at the heart of the conversation.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Media Studies Sociology
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September 2026 Camorra Networks
Populism, Neoliberalism, and the Media Machine of Naples’ Underworld
Giusto, S.
Focusing on the social peripheries of Naples, this book examines how Camorra, one of Europe’s most entrenched and violently coercive criminal organizations, runs music, television, and online media empires that collide with state-regulated cultural industries. It challenges the mainstream understanding of the relationship between media, democracy, and violence in Italy and beyond.
Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Media Studies
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September 2026 Urban Biopolitics
Lives and Spaces in Baltic and Eastern Europe
Makarychev, A.
Comparing Estonia and Ukraine, this book explores urban governance through the lens of biopolitics. It examines how geopolitical pressures shape the management of urban populations, revealing how cities become key sites where lifestyle, security, and political calculation intersect.
Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Urban Studies
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September 2026 The Spirit of Affect
Song-Dance Encounters in Matrilineal Congo
Plancke, C.
In rural Punu communities, song and dance are shaped through ritual encounters between humans and spirit beings. This ethnography explores how performance creates connection and participation in the water spirit world, offering a matrifocal perspective that rethinks affect and embodied life.
Subjects: Performance Studies Anthropology (General)
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September 2026 Arts Initiatives by Refugees for Refugees
Forced Displacement, Creativity, and Agency
Gilman, L.
Addressing forced migration as a global challenge, this book draws on multi-sited research to examine the arts and cultural dimensions of refugee contexts. Through narrative-driven accounts, it highlights refugee agency, creativity, and community-building, challenging reductive stereotypes and foregrounding refugees’ contributions to both home and host societies.
Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Anthropology (General) Refugee and Migration Studies
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September 2026 Writing Holocaust History
Browning, C.
In this collection of essays, Browning explores the evolution of Holocaust historiography and illustrates key research trends. Taken together, these essays highlight the shifting focus in Holocaust scholarship, from Germany to Eastern Europe, policy making to implementation, leaders to participants, and perpetrators to victims.
Subjects: Jewish Studies History: 20th Century to Present History: World War II
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September 2026 Reading Hitler’s Victims
Refugee Memoirs of Nazi Persecution for British Readers during Appeasement and War
Pilsworth, E.
The first study on the translation, publication and marketing of literary memoirs, by both Jewish and non-Jewish victims of Nazi persecution, for British readers during the years of Nazi rule. It reveals how German and Austrian Christians, rather than Jewish victims, came to represent ‘what Britain was fighting for’.
Subjects: Genocide History Jewish Studies History: World War II
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September 2026 Shakespeare's Counternarrative Against Death
Immortal Longings in His Plays and Poetry
Widdicombe, T.
Examining Shakespeare’s persistent counternarrative to mortality, this book explores the strategies through which his plays and poetry challenge death’s permanence. While engaging with existing scholarship on text and performance, it calls for renewed attention to Shakespearean meaning and the enduring significance of his work.
Subject: Literary Studies
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September 2026 Metaphors of Spain
Representations of Spanish National Identity in the Twentieth Century
Moreno-Luzón, J. & Seixas, X. (Eds.)
The history of twentieth-century Spanish nationalism is a complex one, placing a set of famously distinctive regional identities against a backdrop of religious conflict, separatist tensions, and the autocratic rule of Francisco Franco. Metaphors of Spain brings together leading historians to examine Spanish nationalism through its diverse and complementary cultural artifacts.
Subject: History: 20th Century to Present
$27.95 / £22.95 (epub format)