New Releases: November/December

We’re excited to introduce seven new titles coming this November and December. We have three new additions to our States, People, and the History of Social Change series. Explore our latest releases and find your next thought-provoking read!

Fraudulent Lives

Imagining Welfare Cheats from the Poor Law to the Present

By Steven King

Fraudulent Lives analyzes the scale, meaning, and consequences of welfare fraud in a Western nation from the seventeenth century to present day. It argues that fraud is written into the fabric of the founding statues of the British welfare state – and eliminating it has never been in the nation’s best interest.

Of Lost Cities

The Maghribi Poetic Imagination

By Nizar F. Hermes

In Of Lost Cities Nizar Hermes explores the poetic representation of the Maghribī city and sheds light on the Maghribī manipulation of the classical Arabic (sub)genres of city elegy and nostalgia for one’s homeland.

On the Divine Things and Their Revelation

By Paolo Livieri

Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi’s influential text Von den göttlichen Dingen und Ihrer Offenbarung aroused the final debate about the intrinsic nihilism of modern philosophy. In this first English translation, Paolo Livieri provides readers with a history of the debates that preceded and followed it, as well as a review of its arguments.

Prisoners’ Bodies

Activism, Health, and the Prisoners’ Rights Movement in Ireland, 1972–1985

By Oisín Wall

Prisoners’ Bodies investigates the history of the Irish ordinary prisoners’ movement and how it was shaped by public discourse, highlighting the lived experiences of individual people in prison.

Seized by Uncertainty

The Markets, Media, and Special Interests That Shaped Canada’s Response to COVID-19

By Kevin Quigley, Kaitlynne Lowe, Sarah Moore and Brianna Wolfe

Seized by Uncertainty explores Canada’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic through the various contexts – psychological, social, legal, administrative, and economic – in which it emerged, exposing how it revealed uncomfortable truths about a fragmented society and governance problems that long predated the threat.

Slow Train to Arcadia

A History of Railway Commuting into London

By Duncan Gager

The rise of commuting by rail transformed the urban landscape of Victorian London. Slow Train to Arcadia charts the relationship between the three main actors in the formation of the suburban railway – the state, the railway companies, and the travelling public – to explore the phenomenon of commuting and its profound impact on daily routine.

Lordship and State Transformation

Bohemia and the Habsburg Fiscal-Financial-Military Regime, 1650–1710

By Stephan Karl Sander-Faes

Lordship and State Transformation examines the role of lordship in the Habsburgs’ attempts at state formation from the Thirty Years’ War to Charles VI. By foregrounding the interactions of state and non-state actors, the Habsburgs were instrumental in developing early modern composite monarchies.