Social & Cultural History

This book details the perspectives of women of African ancestry who witnessed a twentieth-century uprising in St. Kitts. They chronicle the story o...

When Flemish engraver and publisher Theodore de Bry issued the first volume of his America series in 1590, the New World was, for most Europeans, t...

The book investigates a riveting, richly documented conflict from thirteenth-century England over church property and ecclesiastical patronage. Oli...

Sol Plaatjes Mafeking Diary, written (in English) during the famous siege of 18991900, is one of South Africas finest pieces of writing, inspired b...

Sol Plaatjes Mafeking Diary, written (in English) during the famous siege of 18991900, is one of South Africas finest pieces of writing, inspired b...

This book examines the question of historical awareness within the Greek communities in the diaspora, adding a new perspective on the discussion ab...

In Doom Patterns, Maia GilAdí takes up speculative fiction as a site for theorizing Latinx identity across national and ethnic borders and shows th...

In Doom Patterns, Maia GilAdí takes up speculative fiction as a site for theorizing Latinx identity across national and ethnic borders and shows th...

This book addresses the varied performances of magic in medieval and early modern Scandinavia. It provides a comprehensive review of the rapidly ex...

This book investigates the diverse ways in which the Portuguese language expanded in Brazil, despite the multilingual landscape that predominated b...

Rabaka explores funk as a distinct multiform of music, aesthetics, politics, social vision, and cultural rebellion that has been remixed and contin...

Rabaka explores funk as a distinct multiform of music, aesthetics, politics, social vision, and cultural rebellion that has been remixed and contin...

This book explores how American sports, especially basketball, baseball and American football, have projected the US into the world, and brought th...

This monograph offers a novel investigation of the Edwardian picture postcard as an innovative form of multimodal communication, revealing much abo...

A remarkable compilation of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.s reflections on love and its transformative powera stellar addition to Dr. Kings archives pu...

This book is the first scholarly work to explore male homosexual prostitution in interwar Scotland. The male prostitute occupies a contested positi...

Ordinary people do not experience history as it is taught by historians. They live across the convenient chronological divides we impose on the pas...

In barely three generations the Spanish diet has changed beyond recognition. The traditional concerns around nutritional health and scarcity have b...

The Journals of Two Poor Dissenters (1970) is a remarkable example of voices from the past, giving a humble mans record of his time. William Swan a...

How we live is shaped by how we eat. You can see this in the vastly different approaches to growing, preparing and eating food around the world - f...

World of Sport examines the development of modern sport from the mid-nineteenth century to the 1960s in the light of transnational approaches to hi...

'This is the account we've been starved of: an insight into Ukraine from an authoritative British writer who has skin in the countrys game. Odesa i...

World of Sport examines the development of modern sport from the mid-nineteenth century to the 1960s in the light of transnational approaches to hi...

This book explores the history of slavery in the Atlantic World through the lens of emotion. Combining methods from the history of emotions with th...

The history and philosophy of scientific ideas and the role poisis and imagination play in our understanding of science and progress are widely exp...

This volume brings together eleven case studies that address how the night became visible in the long and global eighteenth century through differe...

An Open Access edition of this book will be available on publication on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library. Engaging with...

This book explores British reflections of Japanese education between 1858 and 1914, by referring to accounts by British observers, derived from doc...

Hong Kong Public Housing provides the first comprehensive history of one of the most dramatic episodes in the global history of the modern built en...

Apples, a common New England crop, have been called the United States' most endangered food. Texas Longhorn cattle are categorised at critical risk...

When a Parisian crowd stormed the Bastille in July 1789, it triggered an event of global consequence: the overthrow of the monarchy and the birth o...

This book promotes international and interdisciplinary reflections on narratives of exclusion, liminality, dissident power, and the forging of new ...

This book examines the experiences of refugees who populated the Displaced Persons (DP) camps in the British Zone of Allied-occupied Germany after ...

This book builds upon the extensive study of the historical relationship between sea animals and humans in transatlantic culture during the eightee...

A small record consisting of six to seven lines that has been published by eminent epigraphists several times, would require a fresh interpretation...

This volume investigates competing ideas, images, and stereotypes of a European East, exploring its role in defining European and national concepti...

This collection explores the multifaceted relationship between letters and bodies in the long eighteenth century, featuring a broad selection of wo...

This book offers a deeper historical context to the interplay between the physical fortunes of climate and weather and the ways in which the Tamil ...