Social & Cultural History

For many years, China and India have been powerfully shaped by both transnational and subnational circulatory forces. This edited volume explores t...

'A fascinating journey through the game's history [as] a vehicle of change' Shaka Hislop 'Correia takes us around the world to examine how footbal...

This book, first published in 1942, examines the economic necessities, defensive and offensive, basic and strategic, involved in waging war. Writte...

What does it mean to be Taiwanese? This question sits at the heart of Taiwan’s modern history and its place in the world. In contrast to the prevai...

Landscape has always played a vital role in shaping Japan’s cultural identity. Imaginative Mapping analyzes how intellectuals of the Tokugawa and M...

The first comprehensive history of German youth in the First World War, this book investigates the dawn of the great era of mobilizing teenagers an...

The period covered in this volume witnessed the proliferation of print culture and the greater availability of periodicals for an increasingly dive...

In Erin and Iran, ten essays by North American and European scholars discuss parallel themes in and interactions between Irish and Iranian cultures...

This interdisciplinary collection investigates the forms that authority assumed in nineteenth-century Ireland, the relations they bore to internati...

During the eighteenth century there was a growing interest in recording, listing and documenting the world, whether for personal interest and priva...

Emotions make history, and they have a history. They influence historical events such as revolutions, riots and protest movements. At the same time...