Social & Cultural History

Harry T. Burleigh (1866-1949) played a leading role in American music and culture in the twentieth century. Celebrated for his arrangements of spir...

A fascinating history of marginalized identities in the medieval worldWhile the term intersectionality was coined in 1989, the existence of margina...

In A History of Global Consumption: 1500 1800, Ina Baghdiantz McCabe examines the history of consumption throughout the early modern period using ...

The Witchcraft Sourcebook, now in its second edition, is a fascinating collection of documents that illustrates the development of ideas about witc...

This book offers the first-ever scholarly study of Wilhelm I as Germanys first Kaiser. For decades, Wilhelm has been dismissed by historians as a p...

The modern sense of Greater Khorasan today corresponds to a territory which not only comprises the region in the east of Iran but also, beyond Iran...

Motion picture production, distribution, exhibition and reception has always been a transnational phenomenon, yet East Germany, situated at the edg...

How the modern world understood the ancient Greeks and why they matter today.This majestic book by Oswyn Murray has been long and eagerly awaitedan...

An insightful and breathtaking exploration of humanitys evolutionary baggage that explains some of our species greatest successes and failures. Yuv...

How the utopian tradition offers answers to todays environmental crisesIn the face of Earths environmental breakdown, it is clear that technologica...

Monumental Conflicts examines 20th century wars from the First World War to the First Gulf War, each chapter analyzing how public memory has evolve...

In The Labor Question in America: Economic Democracy in the Gilded Age, Rosanne Currarino traces the struggle to define the nature of democratic li...

This volume reconsiders literacy and communication in pre-modern societies, focusing especially on how material form affects the way textual artefa...

How the utopian tradition offers answers to todays environmental crisesIn the face of Earths environmental breakdown, it is clear that technologica...

Take an enchanting tour of Paris's most charming places, objects, and pasttimes in this lovingly compiled Francophile handbook. Organised by season...

Francis La Flesche (18571932) lebte zwischen zwei Welten: Als Umoho (Omaha) kämpfte er für deren Rechte, als Wissenschaftler erforschte er seine ei...

A fascinating history of marginalized identities in the medieval worldWhile the term intersectionality was coined in 1989, the existence of margina...

Hepworth is a genuinely great writer, with a winning turn of phrase Guardian'Reads like a series of rich, fast-paced and immensely funny short stor...

From Victorian anxieties about syphilis to the current hysteria over herpes and AIDS, the history of venereal disease in America forces us to exami...