Social & Cultural History

Argues that the foundation of Israel was a trauma that destabilized the kibbutzs conceptual grounding State of Shock decodes one of the most iconic...

Developed throughout early modern Europe, lazaretti, or plague hospitals, took on a central role in early modern responses to epidemic disease, in ...

Conversion and Catastrophe in German-Jewish Émigré Autobiography is a collective biography of four German-Jewish converts to Christianity, recounti...

Two phenomena are of central interest in the nine contributions that make up this volume: one is the question of power and its multiple forms, and ...

It is still routinely repeated that representations of the unclothed body in the Middle Ages connoted a site of corruption and sin, in contrast to ...

Remembering Womens Activism examines the intersections between gender politics and acts of remembrance by tracing the cultural memories of women wh...

The essays and artworks gathered in this volume examine the visual manifestations of postcolonial struggles in art in East and Southeast Asia, as t...

The essays and artworks gathered in this volume examine the visual manifestations of postcolonial struggles in art in East and Southeast Asia, as t...

'No one else makes history this fun' AMANDA FOREMAN'All the Rage sits you at the dressing table of history: a place of dreams, doubts, self-harm an...

Forty Days: Quarantine and the Traveller, c. 1700 1900 provides a timely reminder that no traveller in past centuries could return from the East wi...

This book explores (mis)representations of two female claimants to the Tudor throne, Lady Jane Grey and Mary I of England. It places Jane's attempt...

The heart of this volume is exploring the links between human disease spread and the broad Silk Road trading networks which connect Eurasian civili...

This book uncovers how during the origins of modernity in the nineteenth century the senses were mobilised to sell more, both through the popularis...

This book brings together essays from a range of disciplines within Early Modern Italian Studies, which focus on research areas pioneered by the pr...

This book focuses on the relationships between underground urban music cultures in Los Angeles and specific urban imaginaries related to music prac...

A glittering official history of British Vogue, telling the magazine's story from the first issue in 1916 right up to the present day, written with...

This book brings home the story of how three clustered villages grew into a primate city, in which a garrison town, a port city and the capital of ...

How did a thirteenth-century Italian friar become one of the best-loved saints in America? Around the nation today, St. Francis of Assisi is embrac...

This volume aims to balance the traditional literature available on medieval feuding with an exploration of other aspects of vengeance and culture ...

Sociological research on Indian families has largely focused on questions of household form and structure, to the exclusion of not only the more ne...

This title was first published in 2001. When the Chartist leader Ernest Jones emerged from prison in 1850, he was determined to capture the public'...

Singer. Dancer. Movie star. Activist. Queer icon. Afrofuturist. Working class heroine. Time traveler. Prophet. Feminist. Android. Dirty Computer.  ...

Boom Crisis Heritage, these terms aptly outline the history of global coal mining after 1945. The essays collected in this volume explore this hi...

As Long as the Earth Endures is an annotated collection of almost all of the known Native texts in Miami-Illinois, an Algonquian language of Indian...

This book features all the women inducted in the first fifty years of the US National Inventors Hall of Fame. Each entry first provides a biography...

This volume explores the dialogic relationship between myths and places in the historically, geographically, and culturally diverse context of Indi...

From Napoleon's invasion of Portugal in 1807 to his final defeat at Waterloo, the English theatres played a crucial role in the mediation of the Pe...

From the 1870s to the second decade of the twentieth century, more than fifty exhibitions of so-called exotic people took place in Denmark. Here la...

This book explores the ways in which statues have been experienced in public in different cultures and the role that has been played by statues in ...

Through studying images of blood in film from the mid-1950s to the end of the 1960s, this path-breaking book explores how blood as an (audio)visual...

This path-breaking book explains the processes through which the heterogeneous population of Roma in Europe constitutes itself into a transnational...

This book aims to provide an alternative perspective on the Western New Left (NL) as distinct from currently established right-wing and left-wing v...

the urban West, it is easy to forget that most of the world's population still lives in villages, and despite increasing globalization it remains t...

In this book the author has intended to portray Japan as he finds it rather than as it was in the past. However, the past is not ignored as it woul...

This title was first published in 2002: Becoming Delinquent: British and European Youth, 1650-1950 provides a critical synthesis of the growing bod...

In contemporary society it would seem self-evident that people allow the market to determine the values of products and services. For everything fr...

This book offers a systematic analysis of the violent clashes between the South Indian 'right' and 'left' hand caste divisions that repeatedly rock...

This volume traces transformations in attitudes toward, ideas about, and experiences of religion and the senses in the medieval and early modern pe...

Studies on the reception of the classical tradition are an indispensable part of classical studies. Understanding the importance of ancient civiliz...

During the twentieth century, Britain turned from one of the most deeply religious nations of the world into one of the most secularised nations. T...