Social & Cultural History

An intimate history of the pornographic publisher behind some of the greatest works of the twentieth-century avant-garde.From the 1930s to the 1970...

This book is an innovative exploration of nineteenth-century family life and society. The first study of its kind, it uses the sibling relationship...

This book includes the history of Chinese literature before 1949. It firstly outlines the development process of Chinese literature and basic featu...

Through ideas relating to identity and culture, this text outlines historical perspectives of Wales and explores path dependency in an institution ...

Migration has been a central, defining element of Jewish life since Antiquity. Over the centuries, it has become the subject of a rich and diverse ...

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...