History

A Game of Thrones: The Jacobites, Louis XIV, and the Intelligence Battle for the British Isles

Author: 

Kent, Neil & Clément Chevalier

Credentials: 

Neil Kent, Professor and Fellow, Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge, Author of Crimea: A History, St. Petersburg: A Cultural Guide, A Concise History of the Russian Orthodox Church, and many other books.

Clément Chevalier is an officer in the French army and serves at the École militaire de Paris. Occupying the position of head of international relations and management sciences, Clément Chevalier has two masters degrees, in history and management, and is completing a doctorate in law. He has lectured on military tactics in the early modern era and written historical and academic works. In 2021, he founded a cultural association dedicated to performing Baroque music in historic and heritage sites.

“Britain won the Game of Thrones. Neil Kent and Clément Chevalier are indispensable guides to understanding its victory and the roles of players in secret diplomacy.”

Christopher Andrew, Professor Emeritus of Contemporary and Modern History, University of Cambridge, author of The Secret World: A History of Intelligence and The Defence of the Realm: The Authorized History of MI5.

Market: 
History, Political Science, Intelligence, British History, Europe, France, Louis XIV, James II, Stuart Dynasty
Release Date: 
May 24, 2025
ISBN: 
9781680537673 Hardcover
Price: 
$34.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
326
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

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Muhammad and the Christians: Commemorating the Covenants of the Prophet

Author: 

Morrow, John Andrew, PhD

Credentials: 

John Andrew Morrow is a graduate of the University of Toronto, where he completed his bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees. He is also the product of several decades of Islamic seminary studies. A polymath and a prolific author, Professor Morrow has published hundreds of academic articles and several dozen scholarly books in a wide array of specialized fields. Dr. Morrow is an award-winning educator, lecturer, and administrator, as well as a geo-political analyst, a best-selling author, and an activist for peace and justice. He has received an interfaith service award from the Islamic Society of North America, a certificate of recognition from the United States Congress, and recognition from the Interfaith Institute of Long Island as one of the most influential American Muslim scholars.

“The new insights and findings that John Andrew Morrow has documented in this volume constitute yet another important contribution to the study of the covenants of the Prophet.”
– Ibrahim Mohamed Zein and Ahmed El-Wakil, authors of The Covenants of the Prophet Muhammad: From Shared Historical Memory to Peaceful Co-Existence

“Accessible to readers new to the study of the Prophet’s covenants with important new insights and answers to questions that will enlighten and intrigue those already engaged in the debate.”

Market: 
History, Religion, Social Science, Middle East Studies, Islam, Christianity, Islamic Law, Prophet Mohammad, Mediterranean World
Release Date: 
April 1, 2025
ISBN: 
9781680533866 Hardcover
Price: 
$99.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
350
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

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Washington, DC 20036
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Rigorous Honesty: A Cultural History of Alcoholics Anonymous 1935-1960

Author: 

Kaufmann, Kevin

Credentials: 

Kevin Kaufmann is celebrating his 16th year of employment at Loyola University Chicago, where he received his Ph.D. in 2011. In that time, he has taught multiple courses and served in several administrative capacities. Kevin received his master’s from Michigan State University in 1995 and his undergraduate degree from Ohio University in 1991. He lives in Chicago.

Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) was founded in 1935. A great deal has been written about the addiction program and its membership, but little scholarship has been done on how it reflected the culture of the 1930s and Great Depression. Kevin Kaufmann’s Rigorous Honesty investigates what AA can tell us about America in the 1930s. It begins by examining the temperance movement and prohibition era and how they influenced the program’s initial design and foundational texts. With the advent of World War II, Alcoholics Anonymous, like the rest of the nation, underwent enormous changes.

Market: 
Social Science, History, American Studies, Medicine, Science, Alcoholics Anonymous, Twentieth-Century America, Self-Help
Release Date: 
March 15, 2025
ISBN: 
9781680535754 hardcover
Price: 
$99.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
200
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
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Washington, DC 20036
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The Last Who Remember: Traditional Ireland in the Words of its People

Author: 

Kaller, Brian

Credentials: 

“Brian Kaller is a journalist with the soul of a cultural anthropologist. He closely observed the daily life of his adopted country, and took the time to do what so few younger men these days bother to do: talk to the old people, and hear their stories.”
–Rod Dreher, author of Crunchy Cons, The Benedict Option and Live Not by Lies

Brian Kaller worked as a reporter and editor in the United States before moving to rural Ireland for two decades. He writes a weekly newspaper column on sustainable living, and has also written for The American Conservative, First Things, Resilience, Mother Earth News and Quillette. He has appeared on Irish television and his work has been featured on the popular BBC television series QI. He recently returned to his native Missouri.

We live in a modern world of social media, cars, electricity, supermarkets, television, fast food, and Hollywood pop culture, and few Westerners have known anything else. Ireland, however, modernized long after most Western countries; many rural areas lacked electricity or technology even in the 1970s. Within living memory villagers lived much as humans had for centuries, or as the Amish do today; they grew and raised their own food, built their own homes, traded with their neighbours, and spent their evenings making their own music and telling their own stories.

Market: 
Humanities, Social Science, Political Science, Anthropology, Europe, Ireland, Irish History, Traditionalism, Conservatism
Release Date: 
November 15, 2024
ISBN: 
9781680535662 Hardcover
Price: 
$35
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
266
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
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Washington, DC 20036
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Timeless Turmoil: A Comparative History of the Conflicts in Kosovo, Abkhazia, and the Tskhinvali Region

Author: 

Kalichava, Kakhaber

Credentials: 

Kakhaber Kalichava received his Ph.D. from Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University in 2019, with a focus on recent conflicts in Georgia and their broader international implications. Dr. Kalichava completed an MA thesis examining the 2008 Russo-Georgian war, “The Russo-Georgian War of 2008 in Georgian and English-Language Scholarship: A Survey of Historical, Ethnical, Political, and Legal Aspects of the Conflict,” which was published in 2016. Since 2013, Dr. Kalichava has been a contributing member of the editorial team of the popular Georgian historical magazine Istoriani. He also lectures at Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, where he teaches graduate courses, and teaches history and global politics at New School International School of Georgia. A past research scholar of the Erasmus Mundus program in Poland, he has also developed an English-language course designed for the program’s exchange students. Dr. Kalichava also serves as an international examiner for history, global politics, and the extended essay components of the international baccalaureate curriculum.

Timeless Turmoil offers a comprehensive historical and comparative analysis of recent conflicts in Kosovo, Abkhazia, and the Tskhinvali region, examining their geopolitical dynamics from ancient times to the present. With a focus on post-Soviet transitions, noted Georgian international relations scholar Kakhaber Kalichava explores Russia’s role in shaping these conflicts, particularly how Russia has strategically exploited them to maintain influence in post-Soviet space.

Market: 
Political Science, International Relations, History, Twenty-First Century Studies, European Studies, Russia, Russian Studies, Georgia, Caucasus, Kosovo, Yugoslavia, Abkhazia, Tskhinvali, Ossetia, Frozen Conflicts, Identity Studies
Release Date: 
December 1, 2024
ISBN: 
9781680535716 Hardcover
Price: 
$139.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
175
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
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Washington, DC 20036
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Writers Like Us: My Life With Sinclair Lewis

Author: 

Conrad, Barnaby

Credentials: 

Barnaby Conrad (1922-2013) was an American author, artist, nightclub proprietor, bullfighter, and filmmaker. After graduating from Yale, Conrad served from 1943 to 1946 as the U.S. vice consul in Seville, Málaga, and Barcelona. While in Spain, he studied bullfighting and became the only American to have fought in that country, Mexico, and Peru. In 1947, he served as secretary to Sinclair Lewis, the first American author to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. John Steinbeck chose Conrad’s 1952 novel Matador as his favorite book of the year, and it was translated into over 20 languages. Conrad started the Santa Barbara Writers Conference in 1973, inviting well-known authors such as Eudora Welty, Ray Bradbury, Gore Vidal, Joan Didion, and Ross Macdonald. His charcoal portraits of Truman Capote, James Michener, and Alex Haley are in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC.

Editor: Barnaby Conrad III (b. 1952) majored in painting at Yale and became an artist, art critic, and author of twelve non-fiction books, including Absinthe: History in a Bottle, Ghost Hunting in Montana, and Jacques Villeglé and the Streets of Paris. A former magazine editor at Horizon and Forbes Life, he was a special correspondent in Paris for the San Francisco Chronicle and now teaches aspiring authors at the Santa Barbara Writers Conference. He and his family live in Accomac, Virginia and San Francisco.

Writers Like Us is a poignant literary memoir by Barnaby Conrad, who had the good fortune to be mentored by Sinclair Lewis, the first American author to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. In the spring of 1947, the 25 year-old Conrad was living in Santa Barbara, California, when he met Lewis. Conrad was struggling with his first novel, while Lewis, then 62, was in the twilight of his career. While they both had studied at Yale and had the same literary agent, they could not have been more different.

Market: 
Literature, History, American Studies, American Literature, Twentieth Century Literature, Memoirs, Sinclair Lewis, Barnaby Conrad
Release Date: 
December 15, 2024
ISBN: 
9781680534207 Hardcover
Price: 
$39.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
200
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

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Washington, DC 20036
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Voices From Vietnam: Interviews, Letters, Vignettes, and Reflections, 1964-1982

Author: 

Norton, Major Bruce H. and Kantrovich, Dr. Harry

Credentials: 

Major Bruce H. “Doc” Norton, USMC (Ret) is a decorated Vietnam War veteran, author, and former oral historian for the Marine Corps. Dr. Harry Kantrovich is a retired Chief of Naval Operations Command Master Chief, playwright, and award-winning director.

Voices From Vietnam began as a stage play but, due to the overwhelming number of contributors, is now published in this companion book. Both the play and the book are a collaborative effort between Major Bruce H. “Doc” Norton, USMC (Ret), a decorated Vietnam War veteran, author, and former oral historian for the Marine Corps, and Dr. Harry Kantrovich, a retired Chief of Naval Operations Command Master Chief, playwright, and award-winning director.

Market: 
History, Social Science, Military Studies, American History, Asian Studies, Vietnam, Vietnam War, Oral History, Cold War
Release Date: 
September 3, 2024
ISBN: 
9781680534344 Hardcover
Price: 
$35
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
200
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
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Washington, DC 20036
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The Poetry of Subramania Bharati: Tradition and Modernity

Author: 

Laxmiprasad, P. V., PhD, Editor

Credentials: 

Editor: P. V. Laxmiprasad, Ph.D., Department of English, Satavahana University (India)

The Poetry of Subramani Bharati combines the work of ten leading Indian scholars assessing Bharati’s life and work as one of their country’s leading poets, a native of Tamil Nadu, a state in South India. Bharati belonged to a generation and century when India was waging its freedom struggle, and he was widely known throughout the country as one of its cultural leaders. As a fervent nationalist, Bharati actively participated in Indian Freedom Struggle. From a humble background, he rose to fame by dint of hard work.

Market: 
Literature, Political Science, History, Asia, India, Literary Criticism, South Asian Literature, Indian Literature, Poetry, Subramani Bharati
Release Date: 
August 19, 2024
ISBN: 
9781680534122 Hardcover
Price: 
$139.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
100
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
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Washington, DC 20036
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Nigeria’s Republic at Sixty: Dreams, Travails, and Hopes

Author: 

Agu, Dr. Chinyere Rita, and Dr. Nicholas Idris Erameh, Editors

Credentials: 

Dr. Chinyere Rita Agu is Senior Research Fellow and head of the International Law Unit of the Division of International Law and Organisations at the Research and Studies Department at the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs (NIIA), Lagos State. She is also Chairperson of NIIA’s Linkages and External Relations. She obtained her Bachelor of Laws (LL.B)with honors from Enugu State University of Science & Technology, Master of Laws (LL.M) from Imo State University, in Owerri, Nigeria, and Ph.D. in Law from Abia State University in Uturu, Nigeria. Dr. Agu is also a Facilitator with the Lagos McCarthy Centre of the National Open University of Nigeria and a Visiting Lecturer at Trinity University Lagos. Widely published, she is a member of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Lagos Branch, the Nigerian Society of International Affairs (NSIA), and the Owerre-Ezukala Development Union Women’s’ Wing Lagos, of which she served as President.

Dr. Erameh Nicholas Idris holds bachelors, masters, and doctoral degrees in Political Science with a specialization in International Relations from the University of Ibadan, in Nigeria. His research interests include global politics & security, human rights, human security, mass atrocities, peacekeeping, post-conflict reconstruction, refugee and migration studies, armed conflict, ethnic & genocide Studies, and humanitarian intervention. Dr. Idris is currently Senior Research Fellow of the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs (NIIA). Before joining NIIA, he taught in the Department of Political Science and International Relations at Chrisland University, Abeokuta, Ogun State, Nigeria, where he was Acting Coordinating Head of the department. Dr. Idris has received numerous grants, awards, and scholarships, and has published several articles in prominent international journals and books.

Nigeria’s Republic at Sixty offers a comprehensive analysis of Nigeria’s six decades as a republic. Through a meticulous exploration across twenty chapters, this pathbreaking book critically assesses Nigeria’s achievements and obstacles, and presents a scholarly vision for a promising future. The contributors examine the nation’s journey to independence and the formation of the First Republic and delve into the evolutionary trajectory of Nigeria’s constitution, including an analysis of constitutional conferences, amendments, and their effect on governance.

Market: 
Political Science, History, Social Science, Africa, African Studies, Nigeria, Colonialism, Post-Colonialism, National Independence Movements
Release Date: 
August 19, 2024
ISBN: 
9781680533156 Hardcover
Price: 
$139.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
300
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
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Washington, DC 20036
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How Viktor Orbán Plays To Win: The Resurgence of Central Europe

Author: 

Gibelin, Thibaud

Credentials: 

Thibaud Gibelin was born on January 6, 1990, in Aix-en-Provence, France. After studying history and political science, he worked in Brussels at the European Parliament and then taught in private secondary schools and, since 2021, at the Mathias Corvinus Collegium (MCC) in Budapest, Hungary. He is currently completing his doctorate in political science at the Université Paris Est-Créteil and in contemporary history at the Pázmány Péter Catholic University in Budapest. His research focuses on the reassertion of politics in Europe, with particular reference to recent developments in Hungary.

With Brexit complete, the European Union unbalanced, and populist national conservatism on the march across the continent, winds of rebellion continue to blow from Central Europe, where Hungary’s dynamic leader Viktor Orbán has been building a political alternative to neoliberal statism. Prime Minister of Hungary from 1998 to 2002, Orbán’s continuation in power since 2010 has marked a real European turning point as he transcends conventional divisions. He is an advocate of European unity, but a nemesis of the Brussels superstate.

Market: 
Political Science, History, Current Affairs, Social Science, Conservatism, Modern Europe, European Studies, Hungary, Viktor Orban
Release Date: 
September 10, 2024
ISBN: 
9781680533194 Hardcover
Price: 
$35
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
200
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036
academicapress.editorial@gmail.com

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