Social & Cultural History

In recent decades, the insight that narration shapes our perception of reality has inspired and influenced the most innovative historical accoun...

Shows how Charles V used music and ritual to reinforce his image and status as the most important and powerful sovereign in Europe. The presentati...

Martial Arts expert Antony Cummins reveals the hitherto hidden world of Viking hand-to-hand combat, employing the sword, the spear, the axe and the...

Until the 1970s the history of sexuality was a marginalized practice. Today it is a flourishing field, increasingly integrated into the mainstream ...

Until the 1970s the history of sexuality was a marginalized practice. Today it is a flourishing field, increasingly integrated into the mainstream ...

American environmentalism is defined by its icons: the Crying Indian, who shed a tear in response to litter and pollution; the cooling towers of ...

The papers in this volume were among the contributions presented at an international symposium, Ancient Marriage in Myth and Reality, which was hel...

The field of Cold War studies has recently undergone a cultural turn. Scholars from many disciplines outside - but increasingly also from within - ...

A bracing account of abuses of power and corruption in the criminal justice system. The Guardian From the fearless defense a...

In 1856, just months after Britain and Siam had finalised the historic Bowring trade treaty that would prevent the countries colonisation, the viol...

A dramatic response to American racism occurred in Los Angeles during 1855 when eighteen-year-old Francisco P. Ramírez published a Spanish-language...

Tsering Woeser and Wang Lixiong are widely regarded as the most eloquent, insightful writers on contemporary Tibet. Their reportage on the economic...

Offering a rare pan-Caribbean perspective on a region that has moved from the very center of the western world to its periphery, The Caribbean: The...

The Wat Thai Buddhist Temple in Silicon Valley was founded in 1983 by a group of predominantly middle-class men and women with different ethnic and...

In what may have been the single largest outbreak of vigilante violence in American history, forty suspected Unionists were hanged at Gainesville,...

In France''s Third Republic, secularism was, for its adherents, a new faith, a civic religion founded on a rabid belief in progress and the Enli...

In the 1920s, a revived Ku Klux Klan burst into prominence as a self-styled defender of American values, a magnet for white Protestant community fo...

Staging Marriage in Early Modern Spain examines selected dramatic works where the vicissitudes of matrimony play center stage. Various aspects of c...

Today, the dominant model for Jewish education is the community-wide, technologically advanced day school, where the Judaic subjects are taught by ...

Contemporary American landscape is wrought with ongoing processes and phenomena of technicization observable at the intersections of multiple layer...

The family can be viewed as one of the links in a golden chain connecting individuals, the private sphere, civil society, and the democratic s...