Social & Cultural History

Is the Kuomintang - the nationalist party of China - the villain it is sometimes portrayed to be? Or is it the embodiment of the political and mora...

This book provides an overall history of the regional theatre movement in the US, while also utilizing specific accomplishments and failures in add...

Most writing on modern China dwells on those aspects which are new to China since the Communist takeover, stressing above all politics, Marxism, ec...

This book presents and engages the world-building capacity of legal theory through cultural legal studies of science and speculative fictions.In th...

The volume examines the proliferation of inventorying models and practices as cultural techniques of knowledge organization and production during ...

An adroit, intelligent and painstaking social history Poor Bickerton offers us a luxurious tapestry from which everyone interested in English soci...

Hartmut Böhmes study of fetishism spans all the way from Christian image magic in the Middle Ages to fetishistic practices in fashion, advertising,...

Claudia Roesch offers a study of Mexican American families and evolving notions of masculinity and motherhood in the context of American family his...

Die vorliegende Studie befasst sich mit der um 1410 im Umkreis des Konstanzer Bischofshofs entstandenen Verserzählung Der Ring von Heinrich Wittenw...

Winner of the Society for Theatre Research Book Prize 2016 This is the final volume in a new paperback edition of Steve Nicholsons definitive fou...

After Mexicos revolution of 19101920, intellectuals sought to forge a unified cultural nation out of the countrys diverse populace. Their efforts r...

This volume consists consists of forty contributions written by an internationally renowned selection of scholars. The authors adopt an interdiscip...

Ihre Quellen erscheinen der Geschichtswissenschaft als Selbstverständlichkeit. Dieses Buch untersucht an Beispielen aus Österreich und der Schweiz,...

Medieval literature is to a large extent based on oral tradition and permeated by various forms of orality: literary texts were commonly read aloud...

Die Deutschen Gesellschaften waren eine Sozietätsbewegung, die von den mitteldeutschen und protestantischen Universitäten und Gelehrtenschulen ausg...

The cross-cultural studies in this volume reexamine the role of irrigation in early states. Ranging geographically from South America and the south...

Video games are a global phenomenon, international in their scope and democratic in their appeal. This is the first volume dedicated to the subject...

In the late medieval and early modern periods, Scottish latinity had its distinctive stamp, most intriguingly so in its effects upon the literary v...

Can words be danced? Can dance be written down? What inspires choreographers? How do dancers write? This volume delves into questions like these a...

Dissenting Daughters reveals that devout women made vital contributions to the spread and practice of the Reformed faith in the Dutch Republic in t...

Paul Jennings traces the history of the British pub, and looks at how it evolved from the eighteenth century's coaching inns and humble alehouses, ...

By consequence of the Karabakh War in 2020 and due to Azerbaijanian revisionism concerning the history, culture and cultural monuments of the regio...

First published in 1938, Jacob Rader Marcus's The Jews in The Medieval World has remained an indispensable resource for its comprehensive view of J...

This book thinks through modernity and its representations by exploring critical considerations of time and space. Drawing on anthropology, history...

An introduction to the raucous yet educational gap year tours of Europe taken by wealthy British aristocrats in the eighteenth and early nineteenth...

As the first in a larger series of publications which preserve and make accessible primary sources from various archives and other materials relate...

An examination of the terms used in specific historical contexts to refer to those people in a society who can be categorized as being in a positio...

Histories of voice are often written as accounts of greatness: great statesmen, notable rebels, grands discours, and famous exceptional speakers an...

Was geschieht mit der Stadt und dem urbanen Leben in Kriegszeiten? Dass Städte vom Krieg nie unberührt waren, ist offensichtlich, doch ist es ein M...

How encounters with the Roman Empire compelled the Jews of antiquity to rethink their conceptions of Israel and the TorahThroughout their history, ...

Dem Neben- und Miteinander von Hand- und Druckschriftlichkeit in der Frühen Neuzeit bis in die Goethezeit ist in der Forschung bisher nur ungenügen...

A cross-cultural, comparative view on the transition from a predominant culture of handwriting to a predominant culture of print in the late mediev...

This book examines an extremely topical phenomenon, the massive industrial exploitation of animals, from a previously neglected perspective. It exp...

This book offers insights into the development of social welfare policies by exploring the interconnections between policies and practice throughou...

In commemoration of Husserls many years of teaching and research in Göttingen, the Göttingen Academy of Science staged an international symposium i...

This book uses amputation and prostheses to tell a new story about medicine and embodied knowledge-making in early modern Europe. It draws on the w...

die Faust wird gereckt, die Pickelhaube getreten. Feindbilder spielen auch im Gefallenengedenken vieler Nationen eine nicht geringe Rolle und sind ...

Bold, addictive and brilliant. Stylist, best fiction 2021 A Times Bestseller A Times & Sunday Times Best Crime Books of 2021 A Waterstones T...

The enigmatic relation between religion and science still presents a challenge to European societies and to ideas about what it means to be modern....