Social & Cultural History

A groundbreaking history of women in British intelligence, revealing their pivotal role across the first half of the twentieth century   From the t...

Japanese Americans have long contended with settler colonization and mass criminalization by the state, most notably during the WWII era when they ...

Japanese Americans have long contended with settler colonization and mass criminalization by the state, most notably during the WWII era when they ...

Written for both crime history buffs and movie fans, American Gangsters on Film provides an in-depth look at real life gangsters, the Hollywood mov...

Social Christianity in Scotland and Beyond explores the multifarious initiatives known variously as 'social Christianity', 'Christian socialism', o...

Farewell to the God of Plague reassesses the celebrated Maoist health care model through the lens of Mao's famous campaign against snail fever. Usi...

Susanna Rustin's Sexed is a radical retelling of the story of British feminism. Starting in the revolutionary 1790s and ending in the present day, ...

This book, designed to give a survey history of American labor from colonial times to the present, is uniquely well suited to speak to the concerns...

A rich account of the impact of the Second World War on the lives of people living in the farms and villages of Britain. On the outbreak ...

Sexual politics in revolutionary England recounts a dramatic transformation in English sexual polemic that unfolded during the kingdoms mid-sevente...

The first truly global history of work, an upbeat assessment from the age of the hunter-gatherer to the present day  Beginning in the hunting-and-g...

Most people know little more than fragments of Dutch Jewish history: the Portuguese Jews of Amsterdam; Jewish socialism; the devastating years of t...

Food Rules and Rituals includes selected papers from the 2023 Oxford Food Symposium. Grounded in a number of different disciplines, writers from ar...

By drawing upon recent scholarship, original manuscript materials, and previously unpublished sources, this new biography presents an analytical na...

Offering a cultural history of blood as it was mobilized across twentieth-century U.S. medicine, militarisms, and popular culture, Hannabach examin...

A masterful and subsersive retelling of the Biblical story of David and Bathsheba, by an award-winning novelist at the height of his powers'[A] fi...