Social & Cultural History

Whether they appeared on Broadway or the Strand, the shows appearing in 1924 epitomized the glamor of popular musical theatre. What made this parti...

Historian and author Daniel Snowman (b. 1938) writes of a Jewish child's memories of the War, gives colourful inside accounts of life in Cambridge,...

Engagingly written, and brilliantly researched, a treasure trove packed with rich nuggets of information. I loved and devoured it. Peter JamesA pe...

This volume deals with the Great War and its aftermath of 21 years. The war had been an artillery war with great casualties. The innovations such a...

This analysis of the Stratford Festival examines the full history of one of the largest and oldest dedicated centres for the performance of Shakesp...

A classic in the making for our times MONIQUE ROFFEYHaunting, beautifulAnima will live with me for a long time CAL FLYNA beautiful book of passion ...

At the turn of the 20th century, the American photographer Edward Sheriff Curtis (18681952) started on his 30-year project to produce a monumental ...

This book reclaims for Wales the history and culture of a music that eventually emerged as jazz in the 1920s, its tendrils and roots extending back...

ENGThis is the first book-length study of masculinity in Imperial Russia. By looking at official and unofficial life at universities across the Rus...

ENGIn the seventeenth century, the Dutch built an Atlantic empire that stretched from the Caribbean to the African Gold Coast and from present-day ...

ENGDuring the nineteenth century literate Russians and educated American blacks encountered a dominant Western narrative of world civilization that...

ENGThe Old Faith and the Russian Land is a historical ethnography that charts the ebbs and flows of ethical practice in a small Russian town over t...

ENGLike A Bomb Going Off explores the rich and complex history of twentieth-century ballet and the even more complex history of the expressive arts...