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Louisa Meredith, Essie Jenyns and Shakespeare’s Second Folio in Colonial Australia
  • Liam E. Semler
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    October 2026
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    31 October 2026
  • This Element provides an account of the ownership from 1833 to the present of the copy of Shakespeare's Second Folio (1632) held at the State Library of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia (SAFE 1/63). Tasmanian artist and author Louisa Anne Meredith was given the Folio in 1833 in Birmingham and brought it to Tasmania when she emigrated in 1839. Her letters reveal she treasured and studied the Folio until she sold it to four men (c. 1885–86) who gave it to colonial actress Essie Jenyns in 1887. Jenyns hand delivered the Folio to the Mitchell Library (part of the State Library) in 1920 shortly before she died. In this narrative diverse archival sources are used to reconstruct the nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century provenance of the Folio and explore its place in the British Empire's colonisation enterprise.

Transnational Repression
  • A Comparative Perspective Across Autocracies and Democracies
  • Edited by Klaus Brummer, Šumit Ganguly
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    October 2026
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    31 October 2026
  • Transnational repression, understood as the extraterritorial repressive actions by states against members of their national community abroad, has become a global phenomenon. Several trends and developments, including cross-border migration, technological advances, and democratic backsliding, suggest that acts of transnational repression are likely to increase further in the future. Importantly, transnational repression is not exclusively driven by autocracies: Liberal states also contribute to those challenges when they question the legitimacy of international institutions or when they engage in outright acts of transnational repression themselves. Covering more than a dozen countries from both the Global North and the Global South, this volume explores transnational repression along three dimensions. First, what are the motives for states to engage in transnational repression (the 'why')? Second, what instruments and tactics do states employ when engaging in acts of transnational repression (the 'how')? Third, what are the implications and consequences of transnational repression (the 'so what')?

Digital Justice
  • Technology, Impartiality and the Law
  • Antoine Garapon, Jean Lassègue
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    October 2026
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    31 October 2026
  • How is the authority of law challenged by digital technologies? Is the digitisation of law an appropriate means to achieve legal impartiality? This book provides an interdisciplinary approach to understanding the impact of the ongoing digital transformation of legal systems. Digital law differs from traditional law in that it relies on decision-support software and networked databases. Such mechanisms must be understood not only in technical terms but also in their social and historical dimensions: the computational foundations of digital law should be situated within the long history of the mechanisation of writing. Digitalisation constitutes a graphic revolution which, in the legal domain, transforms the very conditions of impartiality. Whereas the legality of traditional legal systems is grounded in territorial sovereignty, digital law is no longer anchored in a sovereign territory. It not only increasingly transcends established borders, but also dispenses with the spatial embeddedness that has underpinned legal authority. Digital legality must therefore be reconceptualised to consider how automated systems may be integrated into the social space within which law operates.

The Laws and Principles of Secondary Liability
  • Edited by Göran Sluiter, Nancy Amoury Combs, Miles Jackson, Joanna Kyriakakis, Chantal Mak, Jens David Ohlin
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    October 2026
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    31 October 2026
  • In today's interconnected world, international crimes and serious human rights violations are rarely committed without the crucial support of secondary actors – be they individuals, corporations, or States. This is the first book to analyze how these secondary actors may be held legally responsible for contributing to such crimes. Drawing on a six-year international research collaboration, it brings together the work of 44 legal scholars to examine and compare diverse approaches to secondary liability across criminal law, civil law, human rights law, and State responsibility. Real-world examples – such as arms trading and financial support – illuminate the complex realities of complicity. The book stands out for its clear identification of legal concepts, its rigorous evaluation and comparison of existing laws against human rights and theoretical underpinnings, and its recommendations to recalibrate the law of secondary liability to bolster legal certainty and for the protection of human rights. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.

Human Salvage
  • Soldiers, Civilians, and Psychiatry in the Second World War
  • Elizabeth Roberts-Pedersen
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    October 2026
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    31 October 2026
  • During the Second World War, psychiatrists, psychologists, and other experts confronted unprecedented numbers of patients, including distressed servicemen, bombed civilians, unaccompanied children, returning veterans, displaced persons, and Holocaust survivors. In the first comprehensive analysis of treatment during and after the war, Elizabeth Roberts-Pedersen examines how British and American experts interpreted and responded to these diverse patient populations. Looking at both combatants and civilians together, she demonstrates that wartime psychiatry was less concerned with individual suffering than with managing mental distress at scale, revealing profound tensions in psychiatric thought over the causes of wartime mental disorder and its treatment. Perhaps most significantly, Human Salvage shows how the Second World War brought mass violence into the clinical realm, transforming psychiatric theory and practice for decades to come.

Imagining Transitional Justice
  • The Construction of Meaning in the Arts and Law
  • Anna Katila
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    October 2026
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    31 October 2026
  • Imagining Transitional Justice contends that reflective narratives encompass conceptualisations of the processes of (re)building lives and societies after war and genocide. It shows how narratives produced slowly in and through the arts and law construct meaning and operationalise the notions of truth, justice, healing and reconciliation in the wake of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda and Yugoslav Wars. In doing so, this book contributes to the ongoing task of theorising transitional justice and establishing shared meanings of the core concepts of the field. The book analyses stories and encounters that imagine different futures through methods of 'law and literature'. Four case studies bring together creative narratives, such as a novel or film, and legal cases from the ICTY and ICTR. The book locates legal and creative narratives as part of knowledge production, reflecting on their critical potential in transitional justice.
Heidegger and the Problem of Metaphysics as Ontotheology

Heidegger and the Problem of Metaphysics as Ontotheology
  • Ian Alexander Moore
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    October 2026
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    31 August 2026
  • Heidegger characterizes the history and essence of metaphysics as ontotheological. Ontotheology concentrates on the being of entities and conceives of this being in two interdependent ways. First, as common to all entities, being serves as the ontological ground for their coherence and intelligibility. Second, being is understood theologically, that is, by recourse to a highest entity that both exemplifies what is common to entities and serves as the causal foundation of entities and their being. Heidegger often speaks of an ontological difference, but what interests him is not simply the difference between entities and their being but what enables us to make this distinction in the first place, that is, being itself. Notoriously, Heidegger accuses the philosophical tradition of neglecting this non-ontotheological, enabling condition. This Element reconstructs and critiques Heidegger's conception of metaphysics as ontotheological. It then examines his non-ontotheological understanding of being itself, God, and divinity.

Singapore Mandarin Chinese
  • Variation and Shifts in a Glocalized World
  • Jingxia Lin, Ming Chew Teo
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    October 2026
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    31 October 2026
  • Singapore Mandarin represents a distinct and dynamic variety shaped by local multilingualism and global influences. This comprehensive study offers the most up-to-date linguistic description of contemporary Singapore Mandarin, drawing on a decade's worth of natural spoken and written data. Through rigorous quantitative and qualitative analyses, it systematically examines the variety's distinctive lexical, grammatical, and discourse features, revealing it as an inclusive and evolving system. Expanding beyond Putonghua comparisons, the analysis incorporates perspectives from Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Malaysia Mandarin, offering a broader perspective on regional variations. A sociolinguistic survey of native speakers further enriches the study with insights into language attitudes, ideologies, and usage trends. By documenting how external sociocultural factors and internal innovations drive linguistic change, the book advances global understandings of Mandarin variation. As a significant contribution to Chinese linguistics, World Chineses, language contact, and multilingualism studies, this work is essential reading for linguists, educators, and policymakers.

The Anti-Nazi Origins of Militant Democracy
  • Germany's Constitutional Tribunes
  • Samuel Miner
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    October 2026
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    31 October 2026
  • This book examines a group of mostly Social Democratic resisters and emigres whose biographies from the Nazi seizure of power until the defeat and occupation of Germany caused a radical change in the constitutional politics of postwar West Germany. Most notably, they embraced the idea of a 'militant democracy' in which the free democratic order would be protected from democracy's supposedly self-destructive proclivities by banning extremist parties and organizations from the political arena and empowering what is arguably the strongest constitutional court in the world to review legislation, enforce militant democracy and generally act as a 'guardian of the constitution.' This was an antifascist response to popular support for the German dictatorship and its worst crimes. In the postwar, these anti-Nazis empowered courts to review legislation as a way to try Nazi war criminals and purge Nazi ideology from German law.

Pacific Overtures
  • Tokugawa Outreach to Habsburg Spain, 1600–1625
  • Joshua Batts
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    October 2026
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    31 October 2026
  • In 1616, Spanish officials in Acapulco watched nervously as a Japanese galleon arrived uninvited—the third such vessel in a decade. In an important challenge to accepted narratives of isolation and insularity, Joshua Batts reveals the surprising story of Tokugawa Japan's repeated attempts to establish direct trade with Spanish America. Though ultimately unsuccessful, these attempts flip the script about which societies sought to expand the geography of encounter in the early modern world. Early Tokugawa Japan emerges as an assertive polity whose ambitious outreach threatened Spanish prerogative in the Pacific and provoked a guarded response from a global empire. Based on archival sources from Japan, Spain, Italy, and the Vatican City, Batts reconstructs a tale of shipwrecks, political manoeuvring and cultural collision that stretches from Edo to Rome. The unique blend of adventure and foreign encounter redefines our understanding of the opportunities for, and obstacles to, early modern globalization.

The Unequal Pandemic
  • The Impact of the Pandemic on Vulnerable and Disadvantaged Communities
  • Audrey R. Chapman
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    October 2026
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    31 October 2026
  • The COVID-19 pandemic disproportionately harmed members of already disadvantaged and vulnerable communities. Focusing on five communities in the US with comparative data from other countries – children, older adults, women, people of color, and those who are incarcerated – The Unequal Pandemic explains why. The book points to the inadequacies of the public policies adopted to respond to the pandemic, evaluating their effectiveness and compliance with ethical norms and human rights obligations. By assessing the failures of the responses to the COVID-19 pandemic, the book outlines needed policy changes to rectify current disparities and respond more effectively in future health emergencies.
Scrupulosity

Scrupulosity
  • Religious OCD and Spiritual Perfectionism
  • Anastasia Philippa Scrutton
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    October 2026
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    31 October 2026
  • Scrupulosity is sometimes regarded as a form of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) which focuses especially on religious obsessions and compulsions, or more generally as an excessive form of religious or spiritual perfectionism. In this Element, drawing on my own experiences and those of people within different religious traditions, I will expand our understanding of the phenomenology of scrupulosity, including ways it is experienced differently by people within different religious traditions. Next, I will consider why there is scrupulosity, exploring psychological and theological perspectives. Finally, I will then turn to the question of whether scrupulosity can be spiritually innocent; i.e. that, in spite of scrupulosity being (I argue) a spiritual disability, a person might gain spiritual benefits as a result of having scrupulosity that they would probably not otherwise gain. Finally, I will consider the implications of my argument for clinical and pastoral contexts, and for the philosophy of religion.
Leveraging Large Language Models for Forensic Linguistics Research and Application

Leveraging Large Language Models for Forensic Linguistics Research and Application
  • João P. C. V. Padua
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    October 2026
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    31 October 2026
  • Since the release of ChatGPT in late 2022, computers have demonstrated fluent interaction with humans through language. For linguists and lawyers, whose work is primarily language-based, the impact is poised to be significant. This Element explores the science and technology underlying LLMs, showing how their successes validate linguistic theories and can help linguistics evolve, with a focus on forensic and legal applications. By walking through the concepts behind current LLMs and connecting them to linguistic principles, it demonstrates how LLMs can assist the forensic and legal linguist through two toy experiments - one in rule construction and one in authorship attribution - with interesting results. It concludes that, while LLMs warrant caution regarding their pitfalls, they can help forensic and legal linguistics achieve greater rigor and success, provided the community develops appropriate constraints and protocols for their use.
Practical Guide Estimating Conditional Marginal Effects

Practical Guide Estimating Conditional Marginal Effects

A Bounded Web
  • Platforms and the Crisis of Social Life
  • Mathis L. Bitton, Jack Sadler
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    October 2026
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    31 October 2026
  • The internet once promised to strengthen our associational life. Instead, A Bounded Web shows that digital technology has replaced bounded institutions, where members gather to make decisions together, with porous social networks that platforms administer behind the scenes. In response, scholars and policymakers tend to reduce the pathologies of digital life to technical challenges that demand technocratic solutions. Against this trend, this book offers a new approach to technology policy that emphasizes the need to rebuild diverse and robust associations both online and offline. It defends efforts to build technological boundaries – like smartphone bans in schools – that empower cultural, educational, political, and social organizations to set their own terms for how we gather and communicate. It also calls for legal reform to enable the creation of 'middleware' and even entertains the pursuit of local 'digital Sabbath' policies to reshape our collective management of technology. Rigorously argued, A Bounded Web asks us to recognize what we've lost and imagine what we might build in its place.

The Cambridge History of the Crusades
  • Volume 2, Crusade and Settlement
  • Edited by M. Cecilia Gaposchkin, Andrew Jotischky, Thomas Madden, Jonathan Phillips
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    October 2026
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    31 October 2026
  • Volume II offers an authoritative new guide to life in the Crusader States of the Levant and the Eastern Mediterranean. Across nineteen chapters, leading experts explore how the crusaders not only imposed their own ideas and practices on the Levant but also adapted to its diverse landscapes and societies. With a strong emphasis on material culture, this volume offers a series of interpretative essays covering medicine, law, intellectual life and religious practice, while also providing a fresh treatment of topics including warfare, castles, the Military Orders, art, architecture, archaeology, and many aspects of daily life.

Theorizing about Syntax
  • Independent Thinking and Motivated Reasoning
  • Yafei Li
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    October 2026
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    31 October 2026
  • Taking a new look at some widely accepted analyses of such syntactic patterns as minimality, head-movement, and LF, this book offers alternative theories while still working within the general Universal Grammar framework. It is the first of its kind to present an explicit and candid examination of how Motivated Reasoning (MR), the psychological tendency to substitute emotional reward for cold reasoning, affects the formulation and assessment of new ideas. Actual cases are used to illustrate the role of MR in the (subconscious) collection and interpretation of language data, and the association of such practices with theorization. It is also highlighted that the relation between MR and independent thinking is a double-edged sword, capable of either suppressing ideas not 'to one's taste' or facilitating the formulation of new ideas unique to each individual researcher. Covering a range of technical and meta-theoretical topics, this book is essential reading for theoretical syntacticians.

Thucydides' Search for the Truth
  • On Politics, Human Nature, and Religion
  • Peter J. Ahrensdorf
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    October 2026
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    31 October 2026
  • Thucydides' book on the war between the Peloponnesians and the Athenians has generally been considered a historical chronicle. By contrast, Peter Ahrensdorf here makes the case that it is better understood as a work of philosophy, inasmuch as it seeks to understand the permanent truth about human nature. Thucydides, he argues, focuses on this particular war because of its theoretical significance. It presents a clash, not only between military powers, but between two theoretical outlooks – Periclean Athenians' progressive and humanistic understanding of the fundamental character and condition of human beings, and the Spartans' traditional and religious understanding. Ahrensdorf leads us through Thucydides' examination of the case for and against both Athens and Sparta and shows how Thucydides ultimately offers for our consideration an account of himself as an individual who -- unlike outstanding characters as such Alcibiades, the Athenian ambassadors at Sparta and Melos, Diodotus, and Pericles – ascends to a truly independent and genuinely philosophic understanding of the human condition.
Heritage and the Politics of Invasive Alien Species

Heritage and the Politics of Invasive Alien Species
  • Affective Alliances and Memory Work
  • Mattias Frihammar, Lars Kaijser, Maja Lagerqvist
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    October 2026
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    31 October 2026
  • This Element explores the politics of invasive alien species (IAS) through the lens of critical heritage studies, highlighting how species management intersects with cultural values, identity, and notions of belonging. Focusing on two Swedish case studies-the Garden Lupin and the Signal Crayfish-it examines how environmental and heritage discourses are entangled in practices of conservation and tradition. IAS management is framed as 'heritage work,' shaped by emotional attachments, historical narratives, and affective alliances. By treating IAS not only as ecological threats but as cultural phenomena, the Element challenges dominant ecological paradigms, emphasizing the socio-political dimensions of nature conservation. It argues that understandings of 'native' and 'non-native' are shaped by memory, tradition, and temporality, often leading to conflicting interpretations of landscape and heritage. This interdisciplinary approach offers new insights into the cultural dynamics underpinning environmental governance in the Anthropocene. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
Plato’s Medicinal Politics and Its Hippocratic Entwinement

Plato’s Medicinal Politics and Its Hippocratic Entwinement
  • Illness, Paideia, and the Decline of an Ideal City
  • Wenjin Liu
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    October 2026
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    31 October 2026
  • This Element argues that Plato's medical language in political contexts is not mere metaphor but a medical model of political analysis. Centering on the Republic, it shows how Plato adopts, critiques, and reworks Hippocratic ideas to diagnose, explain, evaluate, and treat political conditions. The payoff is a solution to a central puzzle: how the ideal city can be exceptionally stable yet liable to degenerate into vice. Its stability, I argue, consists in a robustness and resilience analogous to bodily health, sustained by protective institutions and practices; its fragility lies in the inevitable fallibility of those protections, which cannot indefinitely prevent, arrest, or reverse corruption over time. The Element then identifies a corrupt paideia-understood as a city-wide system of acculturation-as the singular, foundational cause of political degeneration, and closes by drawing lessons about the limits and prospects of genuine reform.

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