Social & Cultural History

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORYImpassioned antislavery rhetoric made antebellum Boston famous as the nation's hub of radical abolitionism. ...

From about 1910 to the mid-1920s, the cyclecar was a popular means of transport. Cheap, simply engineered, often crude, it was really just a motorc...

The eighteenth century saw more years of war than of peace. Though victimhood might jump most readily to mind when thinking about how this affected...

'This is a book about struggling to live as you are when there is no narrative for that person, no role to suit, no story for your story - and disc...

How far would you go for the missing?When Clair Wills was in her twenties, she discovered she had a cousin she had never met. Born in a Mother and ...

From the time of the ancient Greeks onwards the West's relationship with Asia consisted for the most part of outrageous tales of strange beasts and...

The Real Charles Dickens is an insightful look into the world of the life and work of the great 19th-century writer. Dickens led one of the most co...

Reconceptualizing the relationship between race and Islam in the United States, No God but Man theorizes race as an epistemology using the FBIs pos...

A celebration and a salute to 100 brave, determined, creative women over the past few centuries who have shaped North Americas heritage and landsca...

An anthology of original essays that examine white supremacy around the globe through the lens of anthropologyWhite supremacy, an entrenched global...

An anthology of original essays that examine white supremacy around the globe through the lens of anthropologyWhite supremacy, an entrenched global...

Reconceptualizing the relationship between race and Islam in the United States, No God but Man theorizes race as an epistemology using the FBIs pos...

Although Puerto Rican artists have always been central figures in contemporary American and international art worlds, they have largely gone unreco...

Although Puerto Rican artists have always been central figures in contemporary American and international art worlds, they have largely gone unreco...

The Enlightenment was a laboratory of modernity that changed the history of the Western world, helping to bring about globalisation and the rise of...

How did the temple-scape of Suzhou transform into garden-scape during the 13th to 16th centuries? This book investigates the landscape evolution of...

Historians have largely tended to regard Polish Jewish history and German Jewish history, from the Middle Ages to the present, as playing out solel...

Offers Bioethics a bold approach to redress its failing of Black women Black people, and especially Black women, suffer and die from diseases at mu...

Offers Bioethics a bold approach to redress its failing of Black women Black people, and especially Black women, suffer and die from diseases at mu...

In 1905, sanitary conditions in Pennsylvania were appalling. Thousands of children died of preventable and curable diseases, tens of thousands in t...

In 1905, sanitary conditions in Pennsylvania were appalling. Thousands of children died of preventable and curable diseases, tens of thousands in t...

A wide-ranging look at the history of Western thinking since the seventeenth century on the purpose of the Jewish people in the past, present, and ...

Worlds of the Ring is a groundbreaking exploration of the interwar European circus scene, focusing on the German Sarrasani and British Bertram W. M...