History: Specific Events & Topics

This study of various female deities of Graeco-Roman antiquity is the first to provide evidence that primary goddesses were conceived of as virgin ...

Saint-Simonians were a group of young engineers and doctors who proposed original solutions to the social and banking crises of the early nineteent...

What does it mean to be a Muslim - in this world, in this deeply transformative time? Hamid Dabashi suggests that the transition to a changed, post...

This book outlines the content of the main treaties that form the 'constitutional' basis of the European Union and analyses changes in these over t...

An unprecedented number of people were sent to 'lunatic asylums' in the nineteenth century. But what was life like inside? How was order maintained...

An unprecedented number of people were sent to 'lunatic asylums' in the nineteenth century. But what was life like inside? How was order maintained...

In the early 1900s the Catholic Church appealed, for the first time in its history, directly to women to reassert its religious, political and soci...

During the Elizabethan era, writers such as Shakespeare, Spenser, Sidney, Daniel, and others frequently expounded on mercy, exploring the sources a...

During the era of the French revolution, patriots across Europe tried to introduce a national uniform. This book, the first comparative study of na...

Drawing on legal and literary sources, this work revises and expands understandings of female honesty, worth and credit by exploring how women from...

Whisnant argues that the period after Nazism was more important for the history of homosexuality in Germany than is generally recognized. Gay scene...

This book examines the experiences of gay and bisexual men who lived in Scotland during an era when all homosexual acts were illegal, tracing the h...

By taking on a long-term perspective, a large geographical scope and moving beyond the homogeneous treatment of single people, this book fleshes ou...

Condemned as a fascist putsch in the East and praised as a 'people's uprising' in the West, the uprising of 17 June 1953 shook East Germany. Drawin...

Condemned as a fascist putsch in the East and praised as a 'people's uprising' in the West, the uprising of 17 June 1953 shook East Germany. Drawin...

This eye-opening study gives a nuanced, provocative account of how German soldiers in the Great War experienced and enacted masculinity. Drawing on...

Men at Work explores the cultural portrayal of four essential wartime occupations: agriculture, industry, firefighting and the mercantile marine. I...

This book explores how masculinities and fatherhood are transmitted across family generations of white British, Irish and Polish fathers. Providing...

This book focuses on the role of the processes and mechanisms involved in metropolitan identity construction, maintenance, and change in twentieth ...

The history of the modern sciences has long overlooked the significance of domesticity as a physical, social, and symbolic force in the shaping of ...