History: Specific Events & Topics

Getting divorced and remarried are now common practices in European societies, even if the rules differ from one country to the next. Civil marriag...

This edited volume examines the current challenges to media freedom and democratisation in the Middle East. The book revisits the relationship betw...

This groundbreaking book investigates the murky relationship between the Metropolitan Police Press Bureau and the British film industry, shedding n...

This book investigates representations of Palestinian refugees in Gaza in colonial, humanitarian and Palestinian documentary films, spanning until ...

In this book the experiential history of the Soviet-style social transformation projects between 1945 and 1980 is discussed through the example of ...

The historiography of death, memory, and testamentary practices is already abundant in Western Europe and a fairly large number of extra-European r...

Winner of the Association of Dress Historians Book of the Year Award, 2022 Traditionally associated with rural ways of life in England, often hand...

This book, built around the study of the representation of age and identity in 23,000 Latin funerary epitaphs from the Western Mediterranean in the...

Decolonizing Bodies offers novel theorizations of how racial capitalism, colonialism, and heteropatriarchal violence erode the bodily schema and ex...

Decolonizing Bodies offers novel theorizations of how racial capitalism, colonialism, and heteropatriarchal violence erode the bodily schema and ex...

Through a wide range of international and interdisciplinary case studies, this book develops the notion of legacy, and in particular, living legacy...

In the period 1450 to 1650 in Europe, hair was braided, curled, shaped, cut, colored, covered, decorated, supplemented, removed, and reused in magi...

The Florentine traveler, merchant, and academician Filippo Sassetti was one of the premier economic thinkers of the late Renaissance. Well known fo...

This book focuses on the conceptualization of the court, palace and ruler of the Umayyad Caliphate of al-Andalus. Western terminology still plays a...

Decolonization represented the end of colonial rule, but did not eradicate imperial and colonial categories and mythologies. Situated in the wider ...

Learn when to hold 'em and when to fold 'em with Card Night, a collection of 52 classic card games, including rules and strategies. Featuring step-...

This open access book provides a thought-provoking new perspective on European imperialism in the 19th and 20th centuries. It does so by inquiring ...

James Bond, Ian Flemings irrepressible and ubiquitous spy, is often understood as a Cold Warrior, but James Bonds Cold War diverged from the actual...

Music, Place, and Identity in Italian Urban Soundscapes circa 1550-1860 presents new perspectives on the role music played in the physical, cultura...

This book offers an examination of responses to Edmund Burke from the last decades of the eighteenth century to the present day, ending with the qu...

An innovative approach in the field of material culture and consumption studies, Life in the Georgian Parsonage looks at the houses, consumption an...

An innovative approach in the field of material culture and consumption studies, Life in the Georgian Parsonage looks at the houses, consumption an...

This book critically examines the colonial dimensions of restorative justice through the lens of justice policy reform in Jamaica.Restorative justi...

Hair, or lack of it, is one the most significant identifiers of individuals in any society. In Antiquity, the power of hair to send a series of soc...

Over the last century, there has been a revolution in self-presentation and social attitudes towards hair. Developments in mass manufacturing, adva...

The Enlightenment (1650-1800) was the Golden Age of hair. Hair dominated fashion as never before or since, with more men and women than ever donnin...

The Middle Ages were a time of great innovation, artistic vigor, and cultural richness. Appearances mattered a great deal during this vibrant era a...

19th and early 20th-century hair appears to be everywhere when you start to look, from the abundant locks of the pre-Raphaelites to the myriad obje...

The inspiring true story of an enslaved woman who liberated an infamous slave jail and transformed it into one of the nation's first HBCUs In The D...

This is the first book-length exploration of the clothes worn in early modern Rome and provides novel insights into the city of Rome during one of ...

During World War II, agents of the Special Operations Executive (SOE) infiltrated Japanese-occupied Malaya. There they worked with Malayan guerrill...

Azmi Bisharas seminal study of the 2011 Egyptian Revolution chronicles in granular detail the lead up to the momentous uprisings and the subsequent...

The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by I...

This introductory book offers a coherent history of twentieth century crime and the law in Britain, with chapters on topics ranging from homicide t...

Dreams of steady employment in the mining sector led thousands of Ukrainian immigrants to northern Ontario in the early 1900s. As a child, Stacey Z...

This timely book introduces readers to anarchisms relationship to broader history, offering not only a history of anarchism in the modern period, b...

Elvis Presley stands tall as perhaps the supreme icon of 20th-century U.S. culture. But he was perceived to be deeply un-American in his early year...

Consider the usual view of film noir: endless rainy nights populated by down-at-the-heel boxers, writers, and private eyes stumbling toward inescap...

Sunk in a British ambush in 1708, the Spanish galleon San Jose was rumored to have one of the richest cargos ever lost at sea. Though treasure hunt...

The beginning of the twentieth century was a period that saw far-reaching change in the political and geographical landscapes of the Middle East. F...

With gender as its central focus, this book offers a transnational, multi-faceted understanding of citizenship as legislated, imagined, and exercis...

From the multi-million copy bestselling author of Demon Copperhead: a true story of female-led resilience during the Great Arizona Mine Strike of 1...

This vibrant history of London in the twentieth century reveals the city as a key site in the development of black internationalism and anticolonia...

A reflection on the idea of the composer in the medieval period, including a study of the individuals and groups active in the creation of medieval...