Cultural Studies

The swearing of oaths is a cultural phenomenon that pervades English history and was remarkably important during the sixteenth century. This mul...

Along the coast of Fife, in villages like Culross and Pittenweem, history records that some women were executed as witches. Nevertheless, the reali...

The term culture has become ubiquitous in both academic and popular conversations, but its usefulness is a point of dispute. Taking the current shi...

Exploring the fate of the ideal of the English gentleman once the empire he was meant to embody declined, Praseeda Gopinath argues that the stylisa...

Sultans, Spices, and Tsunamis: The Incredible Story of the World's Largest ArchipelagoIndonesia is by far the largest nation in Southeast Asia and ...

For HR directors, corporate trainers, college administrators, diversity trainers and study abroad educators, this book provides a cutting-edge fram...

Societies worldwide are increasingly interconnected through trade, migration, education, and digitization. This has resulted in a profound new comp...

In the past decades, developments in the fields of medicine, new media, and biotechnologies challenged many representations and practices, question...

Kicksology is your all-access pass into the fascinating, colorful world of running shoesand what makes up a perfect pair of kicks. Sports journali...

''A fabulous piece of writing . . . I recommend it unreservedly'' WILLIAM DALRYMPLE ''A brilliant book'' CHRISTINA LAMB, author of Farewell Kabul O...

It's All Chinese to Me is a fun and authentic introduction to Chinese culture that allows readers, tourists, and business travelers to experience w...

Laurie Olin shares his insights into seemingly ordinary elements of these places, and how they intersect with our individual lives and experiences....

Daniel Tudor covers all the important issues, yet does not simply tell the more familiar stories, but looks deeper and wider to give the full story...

A brilliant look at the writers, artists, scientists, movie directors, and scholarsranging from Bertolt Brecht to Albert Einstein, Hannah Arendt, T...

The fifth book in Thorogood's groundbreaking series of cultural guides takes Poland as its subject. Written in collaboration with the Adam Mickiewi...

The Love Diary of a Zulu Boy is by turns erotic, romantic, tragic and comic. Inspired by the real-life drama of a romance between a Zulu boy and an...

Head and shoulders above almost all other new books about China, this unflinching and yearningly compassionate portrait of the lives and loves of o...

Ten years later, they''re still talking about the weather! Kate Fox, the social anthropologist who put the quirks and hidden conditions of the Engl...

In his new collection of essays, Jan Bondeson tells ten fascinating stories of myths and hoaxes, beliefs and Ripley-like facts, concerning the anim...

Schtick is the tale of Jewish assimilation and its discontents. It is a sweeping exposition on Jewish-American culture in all its bawdy, contradict...