I B Tauris imprint: 1139 books
Waiting at the Prison Gate
Women, Identity and the Russian Penal System
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016
The Russian Federation has one of the largest prison populations in the world. Women in particular are profoundly affected by the imprisonment of a family member. Families and Punishment in Russia details the experiences of these women – be they wives, mothers, girlfriends, daughters - who, as relatives...
The First Mapping of America
The General Survey of British North America
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2017
Britain's victory in the Seven Years War, just prior to the American Revolution, dramatically enlarged her North American empire. Eager to learn more of its economic and military potential, the British government commissioned an ambitious survey to provide an accurate map of the entire North American...
Opening Doors
The Untold Story of Cornelia Sorabji, Reformer, Lawyer and Champion of Women's Rights in India
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2010
Clever, attractive and ambitious, intellectually daring and physically courageous, Cornelia Sorabji was a truly remarkable woman. As India's first female lawyer, she was original and often outspoken in her views - for example, in her criticism of Gandhi and her surprising friendship with Katherine...
The Life of the Red Sea Dhow
A Cultural History of Seaborne Exploration in the Islamic World
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2019
Few images are as evocative as the silhouette of the Arab dhow as, under full sail, it tacks to windward on glittering waters of Red Sea before moving across the face of the rising or setting sun. In this authoritative new book, Dionisius A. Agius, one of the foremost scholars of Islamic material...
The Politics of Female Circumcision in Egypt
Gender, Sexuality and the Construction of Identity
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
The percentage of women aged 15-49 in Egypt who have undergone the procedure of female circumcision, or genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) stands at 91%, according to the latest research carried out by UNICEF. Female circumcision has become a global political minefield with 'Western' interventions...
Cromwell at War
The Lord General and his Military Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
Oliver Cromwell was arguably the most significant political figure in the early modern history of the British Isles. Yet he was also a military leader, with significant battlefield victories to his credit. Martyn Bennett here provides the first military biography of Cromwell in the context of the...
Eisenstein on the Audiovisual
The Montage of Music, Image and Sound in Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2011
Eisenstein on the Audiovisual is winner of the Kraszna-Krausz Foundation's And/Or Award for the Best Moving Image Book of 2009. Chair of the judging panel Francine Stock commented: 'We had no hesitation in choosing the winner. Composer and filmmaker Robert Robertson achieves the near-impossible, shedding...
The Extraordinary Archive of Arthur J. Munby
Photographing Class and Gender in the Nineteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
In the mid-1860s Arthur J Munby began to collect the first mass-produced photographic images of working-class women in England, recording fascinating details about the women, the places he purchased the photographs and the raging debates on this new commercial practice of photography, in accompanying...
The Napoleonic Mediterranean
Enlightenment, Revolution and Empire
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
The Mediterranean was one of Napoleon's greatest spheres of influence. With territory in Spain, Italy and, of course, France, Napoleon's regime dominated the Great Sea for much of the early nineteenth century. The 'Napoleonic Mediterranean' was composed of almost the entirety of the western, European...
by Aaron P. Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
Eusebius of Caesarea (263-339 CE) is one of the most important intellectuals whose writings survive from late antiquity. His texts made lasting and wide-ranging contributions, from history-writing and apologetics to biblical commentary and Christian oratory. He was a master of many of the literary...
by Halvor Moxnes
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2014
Few documents in world history can match the inspirational impact of the New Testament. For all its variety – gospels, letters and visions – this first-century collection of texts keeps always at its centre the enigmatic figure of Joshua/Jesus: the Jewish prophet who gathered a group around him,...
Yugoslavia and Macedonia Before Tito
Between Repression and Integration
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2017
Held together by apparatchiks and, later, Tito's charisma, Yugoslavia never really incorporated separate Balkan nationalisms into the Pan-Slavic ideal. Macedonia - frequently ignored by Belgrade - had survived centuries of Turkish domination, Bulgarian invasion and Serbian assimilation before it became...
Democratic Peace Across the Middle East
Islam and Political Modernisation
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2016
Nuclear power has for the most part dominated Western media and academic analyses concerning Iranian foreign policy in recent years. This focus, however, can be misleading, especially as regards the early presidency of Mohammad Khatami (1997–2005). In a riposte to Samuel Huntington's 'Clash of Civilisations'...
Revolts and the Military in the Arab Spring
Popular Uprisings and the Politics of Repression
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2018
The Arab Spring, which swept across the Middle East between 2010 and 2012, demonstrated the extent to which military structure and decision-making determine whether peaceful uprisings lead to democratisation, renewed authoritarianism, collapse or civil war.
Through detailed exploration of events...