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Academic books

Amanda works with academic publishers within the arts, history, humanities and social science disciplines. Clients include:

• Newgen Publishing UK (proofreading) for:
• Cambridge University Press
• Routledge/Taylor & Francis
• I.B. Tauris, imprint of Bloomsbury
• Manchester University Press
• Pearson Education
• UCL Press
• Integra for:
• Bloomsbury (copy-editing and proofreading)
• Cambridge Education (development editing)
• Boydell & Brewer Ltd (copy-editing)
• Palgrave Macmillan (copy-editing)
• Taylor & Francis (copy-editing)
• Bloomsbury (copy-editing)
• Yale University Press (copy-editing)
• Vallentine Mitchell (copy-editing)
• Society for the Promotion of Christian Knowledge (copy-editing and proofreading)

The following is a list of academic books that Amanda has either copy-edited or proofread. A number of them have won prestigious publishing awards.

Please click on the titles for further information.

History

Prehistory

• Human Mobility and Technological Transfer in the Prehistoric Mediterranean (CUP)

Ancient history

• The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Greek and Roman Science (CUP)
• The Language of Roman Letters (CUP)
• Children in the Roman Empire (CUP)
• The Early Roman Expansion into Italy: Elite Negotiation and Family Agendas (CUP)
• The Cambridge Companion to Virgil, 2nd edition (CUP)
• Gardens of the Roman Empire (CUP)
  Winner of the 2018 Choice Outstanding Academic Title
• Slave Theater in the Roman Republic (CUP)
  Winner of the 2018 The Charles J. Goodwin Award of Merit, Society for Classical Studies
• The Early Hellenistic Peloponnese (CUP)
• Votive Body Parts in Greek and Roman Religion (CUP)
• Oratory and Political Career in the Late Roman Republic (CUP)
• Prostitutes and Matrons in the Roman World (CUP)
• Greece and Mesopotamia: Dialogues in Literature (CUP)
  Winner of the 2013 PROSE Award for Classics and Ancient History
• Politics and the Street in Democratic Athens (CUP)
• Women and Modesty in Late Antiquity (CUP)
• The Jewish-Greek Tradition in Antiquity and the Byzantine Empire (CUP)
• The Ancient Jews from Alexander to Muhammad (CUP)
  Winner of the 2015 Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2015
• Collecting Early Christian Letters from the Apostle Paul to Late Antiquity (CUP)
• Emperors and Bishops in Late Roman Invective (CUP)
• Ancient Aesthetics (Routledge/Taylor & Francis)
• Things that travelled: Mediterranean Glass in the First Millennium AD (UCL Press)

Medieval

• Medieval Theatre Performance: Actors, Dancers, Automata and their Audiences (Boydell & Brewer)
• The Apocalyse in the Early Middle Ages (CUP)
• The Cambridge Companion to the Cistercian Order (CUP)
• The Monks of Tiron (CUP)
• The Social Life of Hagiography in the Merovingian Kingdom (CUP)
• Prisoners of War in the Hundred Years War (CUP)
• John Skylitzes: A Synopsis of Byzantine History, 811-1057 (CUP)
• The Medieval March of Wales: The Creation and Perception of a Frontier, 1066-1283 (CUP)
• The Body of the Conquistador (CUP)
  Winner of the 2013 Bolton-Johnson Prize for Best Book in English on Latin American History
• The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Literature 1150–1500 (CUP)
• Dominicans, Muslims and Jews in the Medieval Crown of Aragon (CUP)
• Intellectual Culture in Medieval Paris (CUP)
  Winner of the 2013 Choice Outstanding Academic Title
• The Trojan Legend in Medieval Scottish Literature (Boydell & Brewer)

• The Wars of the Roses (Cambridge Education)

Early modern

• The Smoke of London: Energy and Environment in the Early Modern City (CUP)
• Passionate Playgoing in Early Modern England (CUP)
• A Jacobean Company and its Playhouse: The Queen's Servants at the Red Bull Theatre c.1605–1619 (CUP)
• Evening's Empire: A History of the Night in Early Modern Europe (CUP)
  Winner of the 2011 Longman-History Today Book of the Year Award
• The Renaissance Reform of Medieval Music Theory: Guido of Arezzo between Myth and History (CUP)
• Popular Culture and Political Agency in Early Modern England and Ireland (Boydell & Brewer)

Eighteenth and nineteenth centuries

• Non-Violence and the French Revolution (CUP)
• Childhood and Child Labour in the British Industrial Revolution (CUP)
  Winner of the 2011 Gyorgi Ranki Biennial Prize in European Economic History, Economic History Association
• Challenges to the Authority of the State in the late Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (Pearson Education)
• Murder, Mayhem and Music Hall: The Dark Side of Victorian London (I.B. Tauris)
• Privateering, Piracy and British Policy in Spanish America, 1810–1830 (The Boydell Press)

Twentieth century

• The Cambridge Companion to Modernism (CUP)
• Ireland and the Irish in Interwar England (CUP)
  Runner-up for the 2015 Whitfield Prize, Royal Historical Society
• The Battle against Anarchist Terrorism: an International History, 1878–1934 (CUP)
• Women Modernists and Fascism (CUP)
• The Imperial Security State: British Colonial Knowledge and Empire-Building in Asia (CUP)
• Forging Romantic China: Sino-British Cultural Exchange 1760–1840 (CUP)
• The WRNS in Wartime: The Women's Royal Naval Service 1917–1945 (I.B. Tauris)
• Evita: The Life of Eva Perón (I.B. Tauris)
• Kosovo and Diplomacy since World War II (I.B. Tauris)
• Searching tor Rights and Freedoms in the Twentieth Century (Pearson Education)
• Communist states (Pearson Education)
• Nationalism, Dictatorship and Democracy (Pearson Education)
• The Battle for Syria 1918–1920 (The Boydell Press)

General history

• History and Neorealism (CUP)
• Aleppo: The Rise and Fall of a World City (I.B. Tauris)
• Consuming History: Historians and Heritage in Contemporary Popular Culture (Routledge/Taylor & Francis)

Art and art history

• Ancient Aesthetics (Routledge/Taylor & Francis)
• Abjection and representation: an exploration of abjection in the visual arts, film and literature (Palgrave Macmillan)
• Baldassare Longhena and Venetian Baroque Architecture (Yale University Press)
• The Gift Tradition in Islamic Art (Yale University Press)
• Ivy Style Radical Conformists (Yale University Press)
• Wonder, Image, and Cosmos in Medieval Islam (Yale University Press)
• Empire to Nation - Art, History and the Visualization of Maritime Britain, 1768–1829 (Yale University Press)
• City of Gold and Mud: Painting Victorian London (Yale University Press)

Craft

• Textile: Cloth and Culture, Special Issue Vol. 17, 2019 (Taylor & Francis)
• Erotic Cloth (Bloomsbury)
• Hand Stitch Perspectives, Manchester Metropolitan University (Bloomsbury)

Socio-legal studies

• Memory Detection (CUP)
• Public Justice and the Anthropology of Law (CUP)
• Security Beyond the State (CUP)
• Refugees, Asylum Seekers and the Rule of Law (CUP)

Social theory

• Suicide: Foucault, History and Truth (CUP)
• Juvenile Delinquency (Routledge/Taylor & Francis)

Politics and international relations

• Conceptualising Comparative Politics (CUP)
• Making News in Global India (CUP)
• The Cambridge Companion to Modern Arab Culture (CUP)
• Politics and the Street in Democratic Athens (CUP)
• The European Union and Military Force (CUP)
• Anthropology and Development (CUP)
• Climate Change Gridlock (CUP)
• Deadlocks in Multilateral Negotiations (CUP)
• Anticipating Risks and Organizing Risk Regulation (CUP)
• Beyond Corporate Social Responsibility (CUP)
• Mad Money (MUP)
• The Routledge Handbook of Critical Public Relations (Routledge/Taylor & Francis)
• Social Psychology and Politics (Routledge/Taylor & Francis)
• Political Traditions and UK Politics (Palgrave Macmillan)
• Boko Haram: Inside Nigeria's Unholy War (I. B. Tauris)

Cultural studies

• Shakespeare on Silent Film (CUP)
• A Philosophy of Cinematic Art (CUP)
• Confronting the 'Dirty War' in Argentine Cinema, 1983–1993 (Boydell & Brewer)
• Stagecoach to Tombstone (I.B. Tauris)

Socio-linguistics

• Late Modern English Syntax (CUP)
• Language across Difference: Ethnicity, Communication, and Youth Identities in Changing Urban Schools (CUP)
• Conversation Analysis (CUP)
• Literature, Language, and the Rise of the Intellectual Disciplines in Britain, 1680–1820 (CUP)
• Language and Migration (Routledge/Taylor & Francis)

Literature

• Canonical Texts and Scholarly Practices (CUP)
• The Lyric Poem (CUP)
• Tragedy in Ovid (CUP)
• Greece and Mesopotamia: Dialogues in Literature (CUP)
  Winner of the 2013 PROSE Award for Classics and Ancient History
• The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Literature 1150–1500 (CUP)
• The Historical Novel in Europe, 1650–1950 (CUP)
• The Cambridge Companion to Modernism (CUP)
• The Trojan Legend in Medieval Scottish Literature (Boydell & Brewer)

Religion and philosophy

• The Pastoral Epistles (Tyndale New Testament Commentaries, SPCK)
• Life in the Son (IVP Books)
• The Apocalyse in the Early Middle Ages (CUP)
• The Apocalyse in the Early Middle Ages (CUP)
• Aquinas on Human Self-Knowledge (CUP)
  Winner of the 2014 Veritas et Amor award for the best monograph on Thomas Aquinas
• Reconsidering John Calvin (CUP)
• The Founding of Aesthetics in the German Enlightenment (CUP)
• The Platonic Art of Philosophy (CUP)
• The Severity of God (CUP)
• The Cambridge Companion to the Cistercian Order (CUP)
• The Cambridge Companion to Deleuze (CUP)
• The Cambridge Companion to New Religious Movements (CUP)
• The Cambridge Companion to Christian Ethics (CUP)
• Contemplations of the Spiritual in Art (Dr Rina Arya for Peter Lang)

Social Psychology

• Social Psychology and Politics (Routledge/Taylor & Francis)
• The Psychology of Planning in Organizations (Routledge/Taylor & Francis)

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