Cultural Studies

With a heritage dating back to the mid-seventeenth century, the Royal Marines have accrued a rich history of rituals, artefacts and material cultur...

Situating Obamas end-of-war discourse in the historical context of the 2001 terrorist attacks, Obama, the Media, and Framing the U.S. Exit from Ira...

America is a corporatized society defined by a culture of consumerism, and the youth market is one of the groups that corporations target most. By ...

Surfing Life is a study of surfing and social change that also provides insights into other experience-based contemporary subcultures and the natur...

Much as art history is in the process of being transformed by new information communication technologies, often in ways that are either disavowed o...

This is the first full-length study of British women's instrumental chamber music in the early twentieth century. Laura Seddon argues that the Cobb...

This volume consists of a number of carefully-selected readings that represent a wide range of discussions and theorizing about ritual. The selecti...

Museums, Emotion, and Memory Culture examines the politics of emotion in history museums, combining approaches and concerns from museum, heritage a...

In this first English-language history of the origins and impact of the Japanese pop music industry, Hiromu Nagahara connects the rise of mass ente...

Malleable Anatomies offers an account of the early stages of the practice of anatomical modelling in mid-eighteenth-century Italy. It investigates ...

It is a daily undertaking a morning shot of coffee, an absentminded sandwich at your desk, a hastily assembled dinner with the remnants from the f...