History: Specific Events & Topics

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...

The history of private lives of the first and second generations of Polish immigrants in the United States is viewed from the perspective of migran...

Heritage, Memory and Identity in Postcolonial Board Games is a unique edited collection that explores the interplay of heritage, memory, identity a...

This book focuses on the Russian Revolution of 1917, the legacy of the First World War, and Mussolini and Italian fascism offering an important ov...

There is a perception that the region of north-east India maintained its splendid isolation and remained outside the reach of the Mughals and did n...

Reimagining Chinese Diasporas in a Transnational World examines the changing nature of the Chinese diasporas in a transnational world and its conco...

Ordering Customs explores how Renaissance Venetians sought to make sense of human difference in a period characterized by increasing global contact...

The long 1970s have recently emerged as the start of a new epoch in which we still live. This volume asks whether the accelerated value change of t...

This book tackles the historical relationship between colonial violence and monuments in Africa, Europe, the Indian subcontinent, North America, an...

This book clarifies the crucial role of periodical press in the advance of colonial print cultures and public debates in the Indian and Pacific Oce...

This pioneering translation of Alfonso Múneras seminal work El fracaso de la nación presents a new interpretation and innovative perspective on can...

Performing Contemporary Childhoods: Being and Becoming a Viral Child examines the changing nature of contemporary childhoods by exploring how child...

This book explores the early globalization of prostitution from the perspective of the Italian case. It is a story of prostitution, migration, and ...

This book examines the validity of the notion of the vernacular and the position of the so-called vernaculars in colonial and postcolonial settings...

Through an indigenous and new materialist thinking approach, this book discusses various examples in Africa where colonial public art, statues, sig...

This career-spanning anthology from prominent Jewish historian David Biale brings over a dozen of his key essays together for the first time. These...

This book explores SovietNorth Korean relations during the Cold War (19451991). Based on many primary documents and sources (including Russian and ...

This book presents the first large overview of late Soviet religiosity across several confessions and Soviet republics, from the 1960s to the 1980s...

This book is concerned with the early years of the Football Association Challenge Cup more commonly known as the FA Cup examining events from its...

This book focuses on food and meals consumed during travel since the transport revolution and examines the ways in which the introduction of new fo...

This book investigates the historical economic and legal regimes that legitimated the resource extraction and exploitation of Africa between the 15...

This study positions four musicals and their associated artists as mobilizers of defiant joy in relation to trauma and healing in Puerto Rico. This...

Governance and Public Space in the Australian City is a rich and evocative examination of the production and use of public spaces in Australian cit...

Beach Soccer Histories is the first text to consider the sport as a historical, social and cultural phenomenon, to define its traditions, and prese...

Memory in Hungarian Fascism: A Cultural History argues that fascist memory had a key role in the historical formation and later return of fascism. ...

Citizenship Utopias in the Global South is an edited collection of empirical research that explores emergent forms of activism in Africa, Asia, and...

North Korea was an important player in the decolonisation of Africa. Freedom fighters across the continent received vital assistance from Pyongyang...

Smash the Pillars builds on the efforts by scholars and activists to decolonize Dutch history and memory, as they resist the epistemological violen...

This book offers a comparative and polycentric approach to the formation of global trade networks and goods that circumnavigated China, America, an...

This book analyzes the roots of one of the main human activities that can be developed in natural and agricultural ecosystems: tourism. Attention t...

This book shows how international trade was a key part of the classic Western policy of containment towards the Soviet Union in the Cold War in the...

This book explores the various ways imperial rule constituted and shaped the cities of Eastern Europe until World War I in the Tsarist, Habsburg, a...

This edited volume explores the idea of Europe through a focus on its margins. The chapters in the volume inquire critically into the relations and...

Modern Maternities: Medical Advice about Breastfeeding in Colonial Calcutta brings to light rare textual and visual materials on medical opinions a...