Social & Cultural History

Looking at the experiences of women in early modern Portugal in the context of crime and forgiveness, this study demonstrates the extent to which j...

The figure of the child and the imaginative and emotional capacities associated with children have always been sites of lively contestation for rea...

This collection of essays looks at the shared experience of exile across different groups in the early modern period. Contributors argue that exile...

A small record consisting of six to seven lines that has been published by eminent epigraphists several times, would require a fresh interpretation...

This book presents new empirical studies of social difference in the Nordic welfare states, in order to advance novel theoretical perspectives on t...

The long-term development of public green spaces such as parks, public gardens, and recreation grounds in London during the twentieth century is a ...

World exhibitions have been widely acknowledged as important sources for understanding the development of the modern consumer and urbanized society...

Icons of Space: Advances in Hierotopy brings together important scholars of Byzantine religion, art, and architecture, to honour the work of renown...

This title was first published in 2001. Of the many far reaching issues facing post-communist states in the wake of the collapse of communist rule,...

This book brings together empirical evidences and theoretical perspectives to provide a comprehensive overview of the microfinance sector in India....

In March 1757 early in the Seven Years War a British privateer intercepted an Irish ship, the Two Sisters of Dublin, as it returned home from Bor...

The European World 15001800 provides a concise and authoritative textbook for the centuries between the Renaissance and the French Revolution. It p...

Focusing on Belgium from the mid-nineteenth century until the First World War, Vleugels presents a study of the drunkard in society.

Epidemics, migration and territorial losses led to population decline in early nineteenth-century Turkey. In response, Ottoman elites began a progr...

This title was first published in 2001. The eminent historian of Victorian Britain, Walter L. Arnstein has, over the course of a career spanning mo...

This book traces connections in pre-modern Asia by looking at different worlds across geography, history and society. It examines how regions were ...

The eleventh century in Byzantium is all about being in between, whether this is between Basil II and Alexios Komnenos, between the forces of the N...

This book, first published in 1998, studies the social impact of Doi Moi, a policy of economic renovation, on the living conditions in state forest...

The history of medicine and disease in colonial India remains a dynamic and innovative field of research, covering many facets of health, from gove...

Dahomeys Royal Architecture examines the West African kingdom of Dahomey, located in present-day Republic of Benin. The book explores the Royal Pal...

First published in 1930, this volume aimed to provide an overview of folk-lore which contrasted with the Anthropological school. Consciously workin...

First published in 1997, Carabott creates a volume exploring the struggle between the forces of modernity and those who resisted and denied it, pro...

Marginality assumes a variety of forms in current discussions of the Middle Ages. Modern scholars have considered a seemingly innumerable list of p...

This book explores how Irelands community media outlets reflect and shape identity at the local level. While aspects of its culture date back centu...

George Abraham Griersons Linguistic Survey of India is one of the most complete sources on South Asian languages. This book is the first detailed e...

In this compilation, first published in 1999, Ian Ledsham compiles an extensive catalogue of the Shaw-Hellier Collection, complete with diagrams re...

The contributions to this volume enter into a dialogue about the routes, modes and institutions that transferred and transformed knowledge across t...

Originally published in 1988, this title looks at the importance of the Catholic school in American education from 1830 to 1980. The articles in th...

After decades of prohibition, Mevlana ceremonies of whirling dervishes attract renewed interest as forms of sacral music, both in formal and popula...

Through a balanced selection of texts with commentaries, this work combines an approach to the renaissance of Hinduism and the reformation of India...

Turkmenistan is a country which is almost sealed off from the rest of the world but it has attracted foreign attention due to the eccentricities of...

Since the structural change in Indian society that began in the 1990s - the result of the liberalisation of the economy, devolution of power, and d...

How do you solve a problem like understanding Iraq? For Hanna Batatu, the solution to this conundrum lay in generating alternative possibilities th...

This title was first published in 2002: There are few students of European economic history who will not have come across the writings of Derek H. ...

The easy accessibility of political fiction in the long eighteenth century made it possible for any reader or listener to enter into the intellectu...

World War I directly and indirectly caused events and social and political trends which defined the history of the world for the rest of the centur...

Indian Classical Dance and the Making of Postcolonial National Identities explores what happens when a national-cultural production is reproduced o...

Prayer and Worship in Eastern Christianities, 5th to 11th Centuries forges a new conversation about the diversity of Christianities in the medieval...

The idea of transitions in Indian history emerged early when the term transition denoted shifts from one period to another. The notion of transitio...

This book showcases new research by emerging and established scholars on white workers and the white poor in Southern Africa. Rethinking White Soci...

Nominated for the 2017 Dayton Literary Peace Prize in non-fiction This volume examines peace museums, a small and important (but often overlooked) ...

First published in 1998, this volume brings together some of the best recent work on the period before and after the Norman Conquest and makes an i...

Northernness, Northern culture and Northern narratives are a common aspect of popular culture, and the North of England, like other Northernnesses ...

Originally published in 1987, this title was first submitted as a doctoral dissertation at the University of California, Berkeley in 1974. Complete...

The Hebrew Bible is the main legislative and literary influence on European Poor Law and on literature on poverty and the poor. No extant literatur...

Agriculture in southern Asia has undergone a radical transformation in recent years, one that continues to alter the political economy of the area....

Originally published in 1991 and focussing on the countryside, this book examines patterns of settlement and agriculture in Scotland and considers ...

The Play World chronicles the history and evolution of the concept of play as a universal part of childhood. Examining texts and toys coming out of...