History: Specific Events & Topics

The book is concerned with the history of football and its role in Balkan society. The aim is to analyse and discuss various aspects of football as...

This book is interdisciplinary in nature and presents the dispute around beauty in art of the last century. It is a synthesis of artistic phenomena...

This book explores how histories of migration, cultural encounter and transculturation have shaped formations of urban space, domestic architecture...

This book presents the economic history of the English East India Companys trade as it functioned from Madras (Chennai) during the second half of t...

Homosexuals were mustered out of military service in the Bundeswehr until 1979, after which homosexuality alone was no longer considered grounds fo...

Exploring the disability history of slavery Time and again, antebellum Americans justified slavery and white supremacy by linking blackness to disa...

Defining the Chief Executive via flash powder and selfie sticks Lincolns somber portraits. Lyndon Johnsons swearing in. George W. Bushs reaction to...

'Africa is a lost cause.' This is a cynical view held widely in the West, in much of the world and even in Africa. Many people in the old European ...

Engaging with the long history of emotions, this book provides a new narrative of how grief was defined, experienced and used in Ancient Rome. From...

We live in a moment rife with mixed emotionsexistential anxieties about catastrophic climate change, presumptuous confidence in planet-hacking geoe...

We live in a moment rife with mixed emotionsexistential anxieties about catastrophic climate change, presumptuous confidence in planet-hacking geoe...

With a focus on nineteenth century Cuba, this volume examines understudied forms of mobility and networks that emerged during Second Slavery. After...

This is the first comprehensive history of conscription and the military in Italy from the Restoration to the eve of WWI. The comparative and trans...

This book explores the formation of human capital in education, interrogating its social and ethical implications, and examining its role in genera...

Sarah and Angelina Grimkethe Grimke sistersare revered figures in American history, famous for rejecting their privileged lives on a plantation in ...

Serving Aristocracy is the history of social negotiation and mobility in an early modern knowledge community, centred on the aristocratic De la Gar...

Serving Aristocracy is the history of social negotiation and mobility in an early modern knowledge community, centred on the aristocratic De la Gar...

This book argues that South Africa is haunted by the spectre of reparation. The failure of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission to...

This volume explores how the Cultural Cold War played out in Africa and Asia in the context of decolonization. Both the United States and the Sovie...

This volume, an original combination of biography, cultural history, and media studies, investigates the first moment in history when philanthropy ...

This book examines the history of antisemitism in the United States and Germany in a novel way by placing the two countries side by side for a sust...

This book examines the connection between affects, mobilisation, and political transformation. Offering unique insights into the affective and emot...

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Japan, China, and both Tsarist Russia and later the USSR, vied for imperial dominance in Nort...

The Afterlife Is Letting Go is a meditative consideration of Japanese American incarceration during WWII by Brandon Shimoda, author of the PEN Open...

In this open access book, Maasai leader and activist Meitamei Dapash teams with historian Mary Poole to offer a new version of Maasai history based...

In this open access book, Maasai leader and activist Meitamei Dapash teams with historian Mary Poole to offer a new version of Maasai history based...

In this open access book, Maasai leader and activist Meitamei Dapash teams with historian Mary Poole to offer a new version of Maasai history based...

The last decades of the Ottoman Empire saw heated debates about and changes to the role of women in society. This book analyses the history of the ...

This book takes a novel, data-driven approach to the cemeteries of Paris, analyzing a largely text-based body of archival material as proxy evidenc...

This edited book explores the development and reconfiguration of Middle Eastern diasporic communities in the West in the context of increased polit...

The Routledge History of Loneliness takes a multidisciplinary approach to the history of a modern emotion, exploring its form and development acros...

The period from 1957 to 1988 was transformative for the international oil industry. The United Kingdon, home to two major oil companies, British Pe...

Shortlisted for the 2024 British-Kuwait Friendship Society Book PrizeA wealth of scholarship has highlighted how commercial, political and religiou...

The Iranian Peoples Fadai Guerrillas have received little dedicated scholarly investigation in the shadow of the Iranian Revolution. This unique co...

The Portuguese Colonial War and the African Liberation Struggles: Memory, Politics and Uses of the Past presents a critical and comparative analysi...

The advent of colonialism and its associated developments has been characterized as one of the most defining moments in the history of South Asia. ...

This collection is published in the Crusades Subsidia series in honour of Professor Adrian J. Boas, an archaeologist, historian and scholar who has...

Bringing a needed perspective on African Epistemologies on the critical topics of higher education in relation to knowledge systems, this book high...

This book offers an international reading of the Polish socialist regimes history in the 1970s, and its opening up to the West.It bridges Polands s...

Enriching the existing scholarship on this important exhibition, Italy at Work: Her Renaissance in Design Today (195053), this book shows the dynam...

Bu and her contributors illustrate the complexity of tensions and negotiations in the development of different types of public health systems in As...

This book provides a comprehensive assessment of Dürers depictions of human diversity, focusing particularly on his depictions of figures from outs...