Cultural Studies

Home and Native Land takes its vastly important topic and places it under a new, penetrating light - shifting focus from the present grounds of de...

Paul Mazursky's nearly twenty films as writer/director represent Hollywood's most sustained comic expression of the 1970s and 1980s. But they have ...

According to the sociologist C. Wright Mills in his 1951 book, White Collar: The American Middle Classes, the new entrepreneur was a lone wolf able...

Within the familiar clash of religious conservatism and secular liberalism Paul Maltby finds a deeper discord: an antipathy between Christian funda...

Theway Brockman interlaces essays about research on the frontiers of science withones on artistic vision, education, psychology and economics is su...

The 1950s and 1960s were a key moment in the development of postwar France. The period was one of rapid change, derived from post-World War II e...

Throughout most of Western European history, Jews have been a numerically tiny or entirely absent minority, but across that history Europeans have ...

You see it everywhere: on bumper stickers, tee shirts, lapel pins, in shop windows, and in front of nearly every school or government building. Yet...

Traditional media is over. The internet reigns. And in the attention economy, influencers are royalty. But who are they and how do you become one?...

When first published in 1970, The Uses of Disorder, was a call to arms against the deadening hand of modernist urban planning upon the thriving cha...

  Explore the incredible history of Afro hair. The Story of Afro Hair celebrates the fashion and styles of Afro hair over the la...

A beautifully illustrated history of the Queen of Flowers and her enduring power in our gardens, art, religion and imagination. Fascinating... Ill...

In The Hours Have Lost Their Clock, Grafton Tanner charts the rise of nostalgia in an era knocked out of time. Nostalgia is the defining emoti...

Madeira, Port, Sherry: The Equinox Companion to Fortified Wines fills a niche for all those seeking to understand the fortified wine industry as a ...

Work allows us to pay the bills. The practical and conceptual divide between work and leisure profoundly shapes our lives. Work is where many of us...

3, 2, 1... inhale, deep. From the Victorian infirmary and the sex clubs of the 1970s, poppers vapour has released the queer potential inside us all...

Programmes! Programmes! Football and Life from Wartime to Lockdown is a fascinating archaeological dig through a collection of 2,000 programmes. Fr...

The Beautiful History charts the fascinating story of Britain through football club badges. From Premier League giants to non-league sides, it feat...

With a foreword by Simon Reynolds, Neon Screams explores the plethora of new street genres that have emerged at the turn of the 2020s. Neon Screa...

In this fascinating follow-up to the bestselling Information is Beautiful and Knowledge is Beautiful, the king of infographics David McCandless use...

Hans Christian Andersen is an cultural icon. But what is an icon exactly? And how did Hans Christian Andersen become one? In Denmark and abroad. Th...

In the summer of 1816 paparazzi trained their telescopes on Byron and the Shelleys across Lake Geneva. Mary Shelley babysat and wrote Frankenstein....

The cultural impact of J.K. Rowlings Harry Potter series transformed a generation of young people into readers and fans, who were able to interact ...

The First Signs is the first-ever exploration of the little-known geometric images that accompany most cave art around the worldthe first indicatio...

Shakespeare's absolute pre-eminence is simply unparalleled. His plays pack theatres and provide Hollywood with block-buster scripts; his works insp...

In Spoilt Rotten, social commentator Theodore Dalrymple (Our Culture or What is Left of It, 2009) grinds his axe at our sentimentality-centric cult...