Social & Cultural History

Ho Chi Minh explores the life of this globally important twentieth-century figure and offers new insights into his lengthy career, including his of...

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

This first volume of Collected Works of the ERC Project TYPARABIC focuses on the history of printing during the 18th century in the Ottoman Empir...

The recently-discovered letters of the wealthy counter-revolutionary aristocrat, Innocente-Catherine de Rougé, dowager duchess dElbeuf (1707-94), o...

What did it mean to have an Irish dwelling in the nineteenth century? How did Irish people write about, think about, visually represent or imagine ...

Hebrew Union College Annual is the flagship journal of Hebrew Union College Press and the primary face of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of ...

The production and retention of written records was a common and important facet of pre-modern rulership and administration. Much of our understand...

This collection of essays focuses on the way blurred boundaries are represented in pre-modern texts and visual art and how they were received and p...

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

Italian political terrorism of the 1970s has produced in its aftermath a rich body of memorial writing, created not only by victims or perpetrators...

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

A foundational reckoning with how Black Americans have used the written word to define and redefine themselves over the course of the country's his...

Recent conflict in the Middle East has caused some observers to ask if Muslims and Christians can ever coexist. History suggests that relations bet...

Why have Western societies that were once overwhelmingly Christian become so secular? Looking to the feelings and faith of ordinary pe...

Das Archiv für Geschichte des Buchwesens (AGB) ist eine zentrale wissenschaftliche Zeitschrift für die Buch- und Buchhandelsgeschichte. Das Publik...

From its earliest times, Islam has had an ambivalent relationship with violence. For many early Muslim authors, violence was a simple fact of life....

Bringing to light the largely overlooked female participation in domestic and international art worlds, this book offers the first comprehensive s...

Children and youth belong to one of the most vulnerable groups in societies. This was the case even before the current humanitarian crises around t...

Over the last two decades, the study of graffiti has emerged as a bustling field, invigorated by increased appreciation for their historical, lingu...

Das politische Scheitern im Europa der Vormoderne ist bis heute von der Geschichtswissenschaft mit wenigen Ausnahmen nicht als eigenes Themenfeld b...

From Margaret of Anjou to Katherine Parr, All the Queens Jewels examines the jewellery collections of the ten queen consorts of England between 144...

Band 5/2 der Geschichte des deutschen Buchhandels im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert behandelt vornehmlich Verlage der DDR. Er schließt damit an den ersten...

Throughout history, manuscripts have been made and used for religious, artistic, and scientific performances, and this practice continues in most c...

While many recognize William Penn as the founder of Pennsylvania and a defender of religious liberty, much less is known about Penn as a man of fai...

A vital history of organizing within and beyond the walls of womens prisons in the 1970s, illuminating a crucial chapter in todays abolition femini...

This book explores the transformation of political culture in northwest Spanish America during the age of the Atlantic revolutions and the subseque...

Into the twenty-first century, millions of disabled people and people experiencing mental distress were segregated from the rest of society and con...

Incorporating political, economic, and environmental factors, this book explores the evolution of health and living standards in Brazil in the nine...

The Scottish miners experienced enormous changes during these sixty-five years. Enjoying a high degree of autonomy underground throughout the ninet...

The Roman empire afforded a kaleidoscope of sensations. Through a series of multisensory case studies centred on people, places, buildings and arte...

Material culture has emerged in recent decades as a significant theoretical concern for the study of religion. This book contributes to and evaluat...

India Migration Report 2016 discusses migration to the Persian Gulf region. This volume: looks at contemporary labour recruitment and policy, both ...

This book explores the issue of cultural mobility within the interwar network of the European avant-garde, focusing on selected writers, artists, a...