Social & Cultural History

The Annals of the Warring States records the School of Diplomacy at work during one of the most captivating times in Chinese history. In four dialo...

Beyond the deft use of social history and original perspective, Lehnstaedts contribution is a model of scholarly erudition. It is scrupulous with t...

One of the strengths of this well-organized collection is its range, covering East and West Europe, and Allied and Axis countries. In addition to t...

*THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER**SHORTLISTED FOR THE BRITISH ACADEMY NAYEF AL-RODHAN PRIZE 2020*The riveting story of the pioneers who redefined con...

This is a consistently high-quality monograph, founded on a thorough awareness of memory politics. It reaches persuasive conclusions that challenge...

This is a fascinating, engagingly written, and illuminating book that resonates well beyond its immediate national and historical context. Its expl...

This is a consistently high-quality monograph, founded on a thorough awareness of memory politics. It reaches persuasive conclusions that challenge...

This volume engages with antisemitic stereotypes as religious symbols that express and transmit a belief system of Jew-hatred. These religious symb...

American freedom is typically associated with the fight of the oppressed for a better world. But for centuries, whenever the federal government int...

This volume traces the history of antisemitism from antiquity through contemporary manifestations of the discrimination of Jews. It documents the r...

A look at how Pamela Colman Smith's theatrical knowledge and experience came into play when she drew the iconic cards of the Rider-Waite-Smith deck...

A history of racism and segregation in twentieth-century Houston and beyond. Through the 1950s and beyond, the Supreme Court issued decisions that ...

Our knowledge of Mexican history is primarily through the political and social events in recent centuries that have defined the country as we know ...

This open access book provides a multifold exploration of how people in early modern Europe understood, conducted, and actively used private conver...

Protestant missionary children were uniquely empire citizens through their experiences of living in empire and in religiously formed contexts. This...

Fifty years ago Enoch Powell made national headlines with his 'Rivers of Blood' speech, warning of an immigrant invasion in the once respectable st...

When the Red Nation released their call for a Red Deal, it generated coverage in places from Teen Vogue to Jacobin to the New Republic, was endorse...

The 2011 revolution put Egypt at the centre of discussions around radical transformations in global photographic cultures. But Egypt and photograph...

From 1912 to 1916, a group of baseball players from Hawai i barnstormed the U.S. mainland. While initially all Chinese, the Travelers became more m...

Jack Pease was at the heart of the British Liberal government from 1908 to 1915, holding the position of Chief Whip through two general elections, ...

Winner of the New Jersey Studies Academic Alliance Author Award, Scholarly Non-fiction Winner of the Richard P. McCormick Prize from the New Jersey...

Both the U.S. population and Major League Baseball rosters have seen dramatic demographic changes over the past 50 years. The nation and the spo...

Understanding the processes and policies of urbanization and suburbanization in American Indian communities  Nearly seven out of ten American India...

From 1914 to 1918, religious believers and hopeful skeptics tried to find meaning and purpose behind divinely willed destruction. God on the Wester...

The motivation behind this important volume is to weave together two distinct, but we think complementary, traditions the philosophical engagement...

Insights into the racialized fear of change in US societyThe standoff at Cliven Bundys ranch, the rise of white identity activists on college campu...

Jews and Muslims in Seventeenth-Century Discourse explores for the first time the extent to which the unusual religious diversity and tolerance of ...

Homicide has a history. In early modern England, that history saw two especially notable developments: one, the emergence in the sixteenth century ...

Winner, Immigration and Ethnic History Society First Book Award Whom We Shall Welcome examines World War II immigration of Italians to the United S...

Exam board: Pearson Edexcel; OCRLevel: AS/A-levelSubject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2015First exams: Summer 2016 (AS); Summer 2017 (A-level)...

Tracing developments from the classical period to the early industrial revolution and beyond, Anne Murcott provides us with an accessible and enter...

In the dying years of the 18th century, the corridors of Windsor echoed to the footsteps of six princesses. They were Charlotte, Augusta, Elizabeth...

The thirteenth-century monarch Alfonso the Learned of Castile and his contemporary rival James the Conqueror, of Aragon-Catalonia, are key figures ...

This book examines the significance of cabins and other temporary seasonal dwellings as important symbols in modern Norwegian cultural and literary...

What compels a person to risk her life to change deeply rooted systems of injustice in ways that may not benefit her? The thousands of Black Church...

Why do tribal genealogies matter in modern-day Saudi Arabia? What compels the strivers and climbers of the new Saudi Arabia to want to prove their ...

Religion as a form of cultural expression constitutes a critical element in the relationship between Germany and India. The discovery of Indian tra...

This volume gathers papers from the first conference ever to be held on the disappearance of writing systems, in Oxford in March 2004. While the in...