Social & Cultural History

This book describes momentous events in the American and French Revolutions. The American revolutionaries were nationalist patriots, who wanted ind...

This book arises from papers presented at the first international academic conference by the Middle East and Central Asia Research Center (MECARC) ...

This volume provides an examination of the kind of free (or nearly free) libraries which were available to the general public in England and Wales ...

This volume provides an examination of the kind of free (or nearly free) libraries which were available to the general public in Scotland and Wales...

This Palgrave Pivot examines the history of the largely urban offence once known as vitriol throwing because the substance most commonly used was s...

A new critical method for the Divine Comedy which focuses not only on language-as-writing but also and equally on other discursive modes that the D...

In this important volume, leading scholars take an honest look at the progress since Brown v. Board of Education. Critical and forward-looking chap...

In this important volume, leading scholars take an honest look at the progress since Brown v. Board of Education. Critical and forward-looking chap...

Drawing on archival and ethnographic work, this book analyzes how indigeneity, Christianity and state-making became intertwined in the Colombian Am...

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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...