Social & Cultural History

Since the middle ages, Orkney has proved remarkable for the volume and the quality of its literary output. From the skalds and sagamen of the Vikin...

Approaching subalternity from a broad Gramscian angle, this edited collection contributes to the understanding of popular politics in parliamentary...

The familiar story of civil rights goes like this: once, Americas legal system shut Black people out and refused to recognize their rights, their b...

This is the story of Cuban tobacco, whose agricultural and industrial development was fashioned as deftly as a Havana cigar around overseas trading...

A Forgotten Migration tells the little-known story of segregation scholarships awarded by states in the US South to Black students seeking graduate...

This volume examines the pivotal role of movement, visibility, and experience within Pompeian houses as a major factor determining house form; the ...

Istanbul Kushta Constantinople presents twelve studies that draw on contemporary life narratives that shed light on little explored aspects of ni...

This title was first published in 2002: Becoming Delinquent: British and European Youth, 1650-1950 provides a critical synthesis of the growing bod...

This title was first published in 2002: Since the invention of printing in the mid-fifteenth century the production, distribution and consumption o...

The Restless City: A Short History of New York from Colonial Times to the Present is a brief, insightful and lively history of the peoples, events ...

The Restless City: A Short History of New York from Colonial Times to the Present is a brief, insightful and lively history of the peoples, events ...

Beginning with the American Revolution and spanning over two hundred years of American journalism, A Narrative History of the American Press provid...

Originally published in 1988, this biography was the result of 15 years research, including unearthing 70,000 letters and documents among the Stuar...

Originally published in 1970, this volume is a valuable source of extensive data concerning Scotlands railways and locomotives. Material that has a...

This book examines the critical themes of employment, growth and development to focus on challenges and opportunities, both old and new, in the con...

This book reconstructs the history of print and publishing in colonial Bengal by tracing the unexpected journey of Bharat Chandras Bidyasundar, the...

A vogue for travel stunts flourished in England between 1590 and the 1620s: playful imitations or burlesques of maritime enterprise and overland tr...

 This is the first of two volumes on the transformation of China since 1978. The second volume concentrates on the government administration of the...

Originally published in 1931 and re-editioned in 1973, this book presents Robert Montagues findings about the Berber world, providing a major contr...

This innovative work demystifies the Japanese economy by considering it as a strategic system. Showing how the Japanese miracleâ is actively planne...

Since its rediscovery in the early 20th century, through spectacular finds such as those by Sir Arthur Evans at Knossos, Minoan Crete has captured ...

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication DataNames: Zarafonetis, Nicole, author.Title: Sexuality in a changing China : young women, sex and in...

Markers of identity define human groups: who belongs and who is excluded. These markers are often overt language, material culture, patterns of be...

Why were the Victorians more fascinated with secrecy than people of other periods? What is the function of secrets in Victorian fiction and in the ...

Medieval Occitania, a geographical and linguistic area often referred to as 'the South of France', 'the South', 'the Midi', or more loosely 'Proven...

Thomas Beddoes (1760-1808) lived in decidedly interesting times in which established orders in politics and science were challenged by revolutionar...

This book is about the European health spas of the nineteenth century: what they were, how they operated, what life was like there and how their fu...

Liberalism, Nationalism and Design Reform in the Habsburg Empire is a study of museums of design and applied arts in Austria-Hungary from 1864 to 1...

The book covers the period from 1812, when the Tron Riot in Edinburgh dramatically drew attention to the lamentable extent of juvenile depravity, u...

Anti-Museum charts the development of the anti-museum as a concept and as it has been realised in practice. Drawing on a range of case studies, inc...

Almost All Aliens offers a unique reinterpretation of immigration in the history of the United States. Setting aside the European migrant-centered ...

Bringing together a team of scholars from the diverse fields of geography, literary studies, and history, this is the first volume to study water a...

This book offers a new perspective on the social history of twentieth-century Europe by investigating the ideals and ideas, the life worlds and ide...

Myanmars recovery from half a century of military rule has been fraught. As in other religiously, culturally and linguistically heterogeneous count...

This broad-based collection of essays is an introduction both to the concerns of contemporary folklore scholarship and to the variety of forms that...

Deriving from the 20th Anniversary Womens History Network Conference entitled 20 Years of the Womens History Network: Looking Back Looking Forward...

This book examines the cosmopolitanism and anticolonialism that black intellectuals, such as the African American W.E.B. Du Bois, the Caribbeans Ma...

In the mid-Victorian period, when British international influence and power were at their height, concerns about local economic and social conditio...

The present book analyzes the relationship between internal migration, urbanization and democratization in Spain during the period of General Franc...

Dana Van Kooy draws critical attention to Percy Bysshe Shelley as a dramatist and argues that his dramas represent a critical paradigm of romantici...