Social & Cultural History

In the face of relentless attacks on antiracist education, a much-needed reckoning with the roots of this latest wave of censorship and an urgent c...

A new look at Britain's industrial revolution showing how communities of shared skill, knowledge and experience drove industrial innovation. Maki...

The contested creation of free movementfor people and goodsin the Schengen area of EuropeEurope is a place of free movement among nationsor is it? ...

Pinpoints the persuasive strategies that typified Wellss efforts to shape broader cultural conversations concerning the causesracial, social, and g...

Pinpoints the persuasive strategies that typified Wellss efforts to shape broader cultural conversations concerning the causesracial, social, and g...

In the face of relentless attacks on antiracist education, a much-needed reckoning with the roots of this latest wave of censorship and an urgent c...

Between 1850 and 1900, Ratcliffe Highway was the pulse of maritime London. Sailors from every corner of the globe found solace, and sometimes troub...

A new look at Britain's industrial revolution showing how communities of shared skill, knowledge and experience drove industrial innovation. Maki...

The first collection of essays published on trailblazing nineteenth-century Black feminist, activist, journal, and educator, Mary Ann Shadd Cary Ma...

Long before their country officially joined the war, American aid workers were active in rescue efforts across Europe. Two such Americans were Mart...

In recent years, there has been increased attention towards activism in sporting spaces. A vast majority of these contributions have focused on int...

How Indigenous Americans and colonial settlers negotiated the meaning of independence in the Revolutionary era On July 4, 1776, two hundred miles n...

How Indigenous Americans and colonial settlers negotiated the meaning of independence in the Revolutionary era On July 4, 1776, two hundred miles n...

In the early twentieth century, Chinese intellectuals came to realize that Westerners surpassed them not only in knowledge of the world, but also i...

Kinship is a unique undertaking in the artistic career of one of Irelands leading artists. This book, and the artistic project it is part of, chart...

Die Berliner Neidhart-Handschrift R (mgf 1062 [Niederösterreich, ca. 1280]) enthält zehn Lieder, zu denen am Blattrand Strophen nachgetragen sind. ...

Built within an exceptional watershed, Montreal is intertwined with the waterways that ring its island and flow beneath it in underground networks....

Rabbi Eliezer of Beaugency represents the pinnacle of twelfth-century rabbinic exegesis of the Bible. A proponent of the literal school, Eliezer co...

In the Hellenistic period of Greek history, communities often offered honours and titles to representatives of certain dynasties. Modelled on the e...

A history of the successes of the human rights movement and a case for why human rights workEvidence for Hope makes the case that yes, human rights...

The 16th and 17th century raids of the Tatars of the Northern Black Sea take an important place in the historical consciousness of the Eastern Euro...

During the sixteenth century, antiquarian studies (the study of the material past, comprising modern archaeology, epigraphy, and numismatics) rose ...

This book analyzes the role of social networks during electoral campaigns around the world, taking into account the nontechnological particularitie...

This book analyzes the role of social networks during electoral campaigns around the world, taking into account the nontechnological particularitie...

In 1998 Rolls-Royce celebrated the 60th anniversary of the opening of its Crewe factory, the home of the company's car production since World War I...

This book looks at the relationship of the cock and cockfighting in Britain from ancient times to the early modern period, showing the societal and...

In this first one-volume English-language full biography of Abraham Joshua Heschel, Edward K. Kaplan tells the engrossing, behind-the-scenes story ...

Over the last few years, media archaeology has evolved from a marginal topic to an academic approach en vogue. In large part, media archaeology has...

The surprising history of old age in modern America, showing how we created unprecedented security for some and painful uncertainty for othersOn fa...