Ashgate Publishing and English Heritage are now publishing an update to this seminal series. The new series has not only been updated to cover the latest techniques and materials, but has been greatly expanded and copiously illustrated.

English Heritage is renowned for its expertise in the conservation of buildings, gardens and archaeological sites, and these books are an accessible distillation of many years of experience. They look in detail at building materials ranging from the ancient to the modern, and are studded throughout with practical advice.

these will be unmissable!  Charles Strang, Institute of Historic Building Conservation

The first five volumes are due for publication in February 2012. See Ashgate’s website for full information. 

Australian Art and Artists in London, 1950–1965 is a new book from Simon Pierse. It explores the impact of Australian art in Britain in the two decades following the end of World War II and preceding the ‘Swinging Sixties’. The book includes archival material, letters, and photographs previously unavailable to scholars either in Britain or Australia.

In a transitional period of decolonization in Britain, Australian painting was briefly seized upon as a dynamic and reinvigorating force in contemporary art, and a group of Australian artists settled in London where they held centre stage with group and solo exhibitions in the capital’s most prestigious galleries.

The book traces the key influences of Sir Kenneth Clark, Bernard Smith and Bryan Robertson in their various (and varying) roles as patrons, ideologues, and entrepreneurs for Australian art, as well as the self-definition and interaction of the artists themselves.

Simon Pierse interweaves the mechanics of the British art world, the limited and frustrating cultural scene of 1950s Australia, and the conservative influence of Australian government bodies.

About the Author: Simon Pierse was born in London. As well as being a practising artist, he is Lecturer in Art at Aberystwyth University where his research focuses on British perceptions of Australian art and identity.

Playing the Canterbury Tales: The Continuations and Additions   Andrew Higl, Winona State University, USA

Music Studies

Music and Theology in Nineteenth-Century Britain    Edited by Martin Clarke, Durham University, UK

Musical Creativity: Insights from Music Education Research    Edited by Oscar Odena, University of Hertfordshire, UK

Musical Theatre, Realism and Entertainment    Millie Taylor, University of Winchester, UK

Sacred Music as Public Image for Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand III: Representing the Counter-Reformation Monarch at the End of the Thirty Years’ War    Andrew H. Weaver, The Catholic University of America, USA

Music Reference

Critical Essays in Music Education    Edited by Marvelene C. Moore, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA

Electronica, Dance and Club Music    Edited by Mark J. Butler, Northwestern University, USA

Non-Western Popular Music    Edited by Tony Langlois, Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, Ireland

Students will welcome the arrival of the 7th edition of John G. Wensveen‘s Air Transportation: A Management Perspective, complemented by the 7th edition of Airline Marketing and Management (Stephen Shaw).

Established topics such as aviation management, strategy and human factors are addressed by new titles while books like Peter S. Morrell‘s Moving Boxes by Air: The Economics of International Air Cargo and Air Transport and the Environment expand our portfolio into new areas.

Another highlight is the authoritative reference The Neurosciences and the Practice of Aviation Medicine, edited by Anthony N. Nicholson, which brings the neurosciences to operational and clinical aviation.

And there’s lots more… so do take a look!

Beyond Neoliberalism: A World to Win   James Petras, SUNY, Binghamton, USA  and Saint Mary’s University, Canada and Henry Veltmeyer, Saint Mary’s University, Canada and Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas, Mexico

Beyond the Global Capitalist Crisis: The World Economy in Transition   Edited by Berch Berberoglu, University of Nevada, Reno, USA

Bio-Objects: Life in the 21st Century    Edited by Niki Vermeulen, University of Vienna, Austria, Sakari Tamminen, University of Helsinki, Finland and Andrew Webster, University of York, UK

Corporate Social Responsibility and the Welfare State: The Historical and Contemporary Role of CSR in the Mixed Economy of Welfare    Jeanette Brejning, University of Bristol, UK

The Ethnic Penalty: Immigration, Education and the Labour Market    Reza Hasmath, University of Melbourne, Australia

Evidence-Based Healthcare in Context: Critical Social Science Perspectives    Edited by Alex Broom, University of Queensland, Australia and Jon Adams, University of Technology Sydney (UTS) Australia

Memory and Representation in Contemporary Europe: The Persistence of the Past    Siobhan Kattago, Tallinn University, Estonia

Migrants and Cities: The Accommodation of Migrant Organizations in Europe    Margit Fauser, Bielefeld University, Germany

Queering Conflict: Examining Lesbian and Gay Experiences of Homophobia in Northern Ireland    Marian Duggan, Sheffield Hallam University, UK

(Re)Thinking Violence in Health Care Settings: A Critical Approach    Edited by Dave Holmes, University of Ottawa, Canada; Trudy Rudge, University of Sydney, Australia and Amélie Perron, University of Ottawa, Canada

Serendipity in Anthropological Research: The Nomadic Turn    Edited by Haim Hazan, Tel Aviv University, Israel and Esther Hertzog, Beit Berl Academic College, Israel

Surveillance and Identity: Discourse, Subjectivity and the State    David Barnard-Wills, Cranfield University, UK

Vilfredo Pareto: Beyond Disciplinary Boundaries    Edited by Joseph V. Femia, University of Liverpool, UK and Alasdair J. Marshall, University of Southampton, UK

About the volume:

The reign of Constantine (306-37), the starting point for the series in which this volume appears, saw Christianity begin its journey from being just one of a number of competing cults to being the official religion of the Roman/Byzantine Empire.  The involvement of emperors had the, perhaps inevitable, result of a preoccupation with producing, promoting and enforcing a single agreed version of the Christian creed.  Under this pressure Christianity in the East fragmented into different sects, disagreeing over the nature of Christ, but also, in some measure, seeking to resist imperial interference and to elaborate Christianities more reflective of and sensitive to local concerns and cultures.

This volume presents an introduction to, and a selection of the key studies on, the ways in which and means by which these Eastern Christianities debated with one another and with their competitors: pagans, Jews, Muslims and Latin Christians.  It also includes the iconoclast controversy, which divided parts of the East Christian world in the seventh to ninth centuries, and devotes space both to the methodological tools that evolved in the process of debate and the promulgation of doctrine, and to the literary genres through which the debates were expressed.

About the editors: Professor Dame Averil Cameron is former Professor of Late Antique and Byzantine History and former Warden of Keble College, University of Oxford; Robert Hoyland is Professor of Islamic History at the University of Oxford.

About the series:

The Worlds of Eastern Christianity, 300–1500 series takes an inter-disciplinary approach towards the history of the East Christian communities of the Byzantine, Iranian and Islamic worlds during the period 300-1500.

Volumes in the series will cover the different East Christian cultural and linguistic communities, and will also consider themes that cut across usual cultural, confessional and linguistic divides.

Each volume brings together the most influential articles on the given topic and opens with an introduction by a leading expert in the field who discusses the key aspects and debates and frames new questions and directions for future research. It is intended that the series will act as a stimulus for new research into Eastern Christianity and as such be essential reading for all students and academics of Late Antiquity, Byzantium, Islam and Western Christendom.

Visit the website for more information about the series.

Approaches to Byzantine Architecture and its Decoration: Studies in Honor of Slobodan Curcic    Edited by Mark J. Johnson, Brigham Young University, USA, Robert Ousterhout, University of Pennsylvania, USA, and Amy Papalexandrou, University of Texas at Austin, USA

Art and Visual Culture on the French Riviera, 1956–1971: The Ecole de Nice    Rosemary O’Neill, Parsons The New School for Design, USA

Australian Art and Artists in London, 1950–1965: An Antipodean Summer    Simon Pierse, Aberystwyth University, Wales, UK

Fragonard and the Fantasy Figure: Painting the Imagination   Melissa Percival, University of Exeter, UK

Nuns and Reform Art in Early Modern Venice: The Architecture of Santi Cosma e Damiano and its Decoration from Tintoretto to Tiepolo    Benjamin Paul, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, USA

Wives, Widows, Mistresses, and Nuns in Early Modern Italy: Making the Invisible Visible through Art and Patronage    Edited by Katherine A. McIver, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA

Alessandro Raho    Michael Bracewell and Nicholas Cullinan

Architecture

The Bungalow in Twentieth-Century India: The Cultural Expression of Changing Ways of Life and Aspirations in the Domestic Architecture of Colonial and Post-colonial Society    Madhavi Desai and Miki Desai, both at the Centre for Environmental Planning and Technology, Ahmedabad, India and Jon Lang, UNSW, Australia

Geometry and Atmosphere: Theatre Buildings from Vision to Reality    C. Alan Short, University of Cambridge, UK, Peter Barrett, University of Salford, UK and Alistair Fair, Department of Architecture, University of Cambridge, UK

space.time.narrative: the exhibition as post-spectacular stage    Frank den Oudsten, Zurich University of the Arts, Switzerland

Utopian Adventure: The Corviale Void    Victoria Watson, University of Westminster, UK

Margaret has years of valuable experience in the publishing industry, and is an award-winning news and feature writer. She has a personal passion for art history, visual culture and the performing arts, and in addition has a Master’s Degree in Art History from the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York.

Margaret is based in Ashgate’s Burlington office in the United States, and welcomes all visual studies proposals, with particular interest in the time periods of Medieval and 18th-20th centuries. She is excited to expand the list beyond traditional Western Art History, and is especially keen on studies incorporating gender and race.

Ashgate will be attending the 100^th annual conference of the College Art Association at the Los Angeles Convention Center from February 22-25, so please drop by and say hello to Margaret and her US colleagues!

The Ashgate Art and Visual Studies list ranges from scholarly research monographs and specialist catalogues to illustrated artist monographs and exhibition catalogues.

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Mobilities: New Perspectives on Transport and Society    Edited by Margaret Grieco, Edinburgh Napier University, UK and John Urry, Lancaster University, UK

Environment

Radical Human Ecology: Intercultural and Indigenous Approaches     Edited by Lewis Williams, University of Saskatchewan, Canada, Rose Roberts, member of Lac La Ronge Indian Band and previous faculty, University of Saskatchewan, Canada and Alastair McIntosh, Centre for Human Ecology and University of Strathclyde, UK

Planning

Smart Methods for Environmental Externalities: Urban Planning, Environmental Health and Hygiene in the Netherlands    Gert de Roo, Jelger Visser and Christian Zuidema, all at University of Groningen, The Netherlands

Sustainable City and Creativity: Promoting Creative Urban Initiatives    Edited by Luigi Fusco Girard, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Italy, Tüzin Baycan, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey and Peter Nijkamp, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Human Factors

Mechanisms in the Chain of Safety: Research and Operational Experiences in Aviation Psychology    Edited by Alex de Voogt, American Museum of Natural History, USA and Teresa D’Oliveira, Instituto Superior de Psicologia Aplicada, Portugal

Ashgate is honored that Exploring the Bhagavad Gita: Philosophy, Structure and Meaning, by Ithamar Theodor, has been named a Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2011…

“Theodor wrote with a fine mind and a great heart, both of which are essential for delving into this ancient work’s profound teachings. A fine glossary, bibliography, and index enhance the book’s value.” — Choice

The Bhagavad Gita is a unique literary creation but deciphering its meaning and philosophy is not easy or simple.

This careful study of the Bhagavad Gita approaches the ancient text with a modern mind and offers a unifying structure which is of a universal relevance.

Combining the philosophical-theoretical with the ethical-practical, Ithamar Theodor locates his study within comparative theology and identifies the various layers of meaning.

The full text of the Bhagavad Gita is presented in new translation, divided into sections, and accompanied by depth commentary.

This book makes the Bhagavad Gita accessible to a wide variety of readers, helping to make sense of this great spiritual classic which is one of the most important texts of religious Hinduism.

Visit Ashgate’s website for more information about this award-winning book…