Social & Cultural History

First published in 1929, A History of Nationalism in the East brings together in one truly fascinating volume a mass of information hitherto scatte...

This book studies the negative stereotypes around the women who worked as sick nurses in this period and contrasts them with the lived experience o...

Historically, commerce has existed in Assam in different forms. In the late medieval and early modern times, Assam had trading connections with nei...

A journey through Europes old towns, exploring why we treasure thembut also what they hide about a continents fraught history  [A] fascinating chro...

This book examines the rising global prominence of Chinas art market throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. To understand the far-rea...

History has never been as present in our daily lives as it is today. Through any number of media outlets, tens of millions of people are in daily c...

History has never been as present in our daily lives as it is today. Through any number of media outlets, tens of millions of people are in daily c...

East Asian population history has only recently been the focus of intense investigations using ancient genomics techniques, yet these studies have ...

East Asian population history has only recently been the focus of intense investigations using ancient genomics techniques, yet these studies have ...

This book explores the entangled relationship between marching and political ceremonies for the consolidation of the nation-state. The main questio...

Max Webers classical notion of enchantment serves in this book to highlight the clash and rewiring of ethical and cosmological codes in European an...

Max Webers classical notion of enchantment serves in this book to highlight the clash and rewiring of ethical and cosmological codes in European an...

What does it mean to fight for womens rights in the 21st century? Around the globe, women stand up to repression, violence, and authoritarianism to...

'A Scout is a Friend to all' An amalgam of imperial myth, borrowed tips on health and hygiene, and object lessons in woodcraft, the 1908 text of R...

The Business of Bobbysoxers reconsiders the story of American popular music, celebrity following, and fan behavior during World War II through clos...

Drawing on a wide variety of European sources, Childhood in the Middle Ages (1992) examines attitudes towards children, images of childhood, and th...

From railway disasters and robberies to mycology and mountain biking, twelve authors tell true stories of Cumberland, BC, that highlight the divers...

A poetic new essay collection in which the symbols of the tarot brush up against life in a changing world. The Tarot de Marseille is a 16th-century...