Social & Cultural History

Based on extensive original research, including studies of autobiographies and biographies, reminiscences and memoirs, archived oral history data a...

The Reagan administration has indicated clearly that the United States will reassert its strategic presence in Asia and the Pacific at levels not e...

This book is about the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) and its guerrilla army. Its objective is to offer the reader a close-up look and an...

First published in 1938, this book aims to provide a history of the rise and growth of the Indian National Congress for the general reader, coverin...

This book explores the problems present in Bengal villages specifically, which represent problems found within the rest of rural India, therefore t...

The relationship between Islamic law and society is an important issue in Iran under the Islamic Republic. Although Islamic law was a pivotal eleme...

2016 marks the 50th anniversary of the 1966 FIFA World Cup, hosted in England. Unlike previous literature, which has tended to focus activities on ...

This is an in-depth study of the intellectual, technical, and artistic encounters between Europe and China in the late eighteenth century, focusing...

This volume examines the literary works of English exiles seeking to navigate what Edward Said calls the perilous territory of not-belonging. The s...

This title was first published in 2001. Of the many far reaching issues facing post-communist states in the wake of the collapse of communist rule,...

With its appeal predicated upon what civilized society rejects, there has always been something hidden in plain sight when it comes to the outlaw f...

This title was first published in 1975. The long history of China has produced many outstanding rulers, but few as significant as Ch'in Shih-huang,...

Much has been written about the challenges Asian governments face in response to rapid socio-economic changes and the resulting social needs and we...

This book focuses on early examples of women who may be said to have anticipated, in one way or another, modern professional and/or career-oriented...

The Challenge of Labour (1980) explains the changing forms of labours relationship with British society during the period of 1850 to 1930 as the e...

Road Transport in Cumbria in the Nineteenth Century (1975) is a detailed study of transportation by road in one region of Britain. By the middle de...

Steamship Nationalism is a cultural, social, and political history of the S.S. Imperator, Vaterland, and Bismarck. Transatlantic passenger steamshi...

The aim of this book is to discover in what light the religious and literary tradition of India appears where caste is concerned; including discuss...

This book examines egalitarian social ideals and institutions that arose in preindustrial China and England, and in the process, uncovers Chinas fo...

This comprehensive and beautifully illustrated collection of essays conveys a vivid picture of a fascinating and hugely significant period in histo...

One of the hallmarks of world history is the ever-increasing ability of humans to cross cultural boundaries. Taking an encounters approach that ope...

This book takes a fresh approach to one of the most popular cultural symbols of modernity in the 1920sthe masculine modern woman. Uncovering discou...

This volume brings together for the first time a series of studies on the social history of venereal disease in modern Europe and its former coloni...

The personal rule of Louis XIV, following on from a long period of royal minority and apprenticeship, lasted 54 years from 1661 to 1715. But the se...

Much of what is known about the past often rests upon the chance survival of objects and texts. Nowhere is this better illustrated than in the frag...

First published in 1939, this book sets out to refute some of the unjust charges laid at Indias door and correct the false impressions that prevail...

 It is a time when women in many parts of the world are questioning the roles, life styles, and values by which women have lived for centuries. The...

In examining the forces that made the Indo-Pakistani relationship prone to conflict, Dr. Ganguly focusses first on the nature of the British coloni...

Focusing on the ports, dockyards and garrison towns of Kent, this study examines the social and economic factors that could cause a woman to turn t...

This innovative volume offers fresh perspectives and directions on the intersection of Hispanic and Jewish studies. It shows how 'Jewishness' has p...

The study of food in the Hebrew Bible and Syro-Palestinian archaeology has tended to focus on kosher dietary laws, the sacrificial system, and feas...

 A study of the contribution of the Press to the democratization process in Taiwan. Combining ideas from political science, communication theory an...

Irish Civilization provides the perfect background and introduction to both the history of Ireland until 1921 and the development of Ireland and No...

There has been an increasing interest in the meaning and importance of friendship in recent years, particularly in the West. However, the history o...

Much scholarship of any region focuses on the perceived problems that hold back a population. Central Asia is no exception, as it is a region with ...

First published in 2003, this is the first encyclopedic work to focus exclusively on medieval Jewish civilization, from the fall of the Roman Empir...

Guilt is the dark force behind haunting anxiety, obsessive-compulsive behaviour, life meaninglessness, and depression a force to be kept in check....

Icons of Space: Advances in Hierotopy brings together important scholars of Byzantine religion, art, and architecture, to honour the work of renown...

First published in 1937, this book grew out of the authors belief that there needed to be a drastic revision of British policy on the North-West Fr...

First published in 2000, this volume responds to the rise and spread of advertising throughout Europe and the world in the past one and a half cent...

This book offers the most comprehensive account available of Tibetan nationalism, Sino-Tibetan relations, and the issue of Tibetan self-determinati...

This book explores the history of the whaling controversy in U.S.-Japan relations, whaling as a resource, the status of whaling in international la...

Zen Buddhism was founded in China in the 6th century, and its direct path to Enlightenment first came west in 1927 with D. T. Suzuki's first Essays...

An interdisciplinary social history, this book examines the major pressures and influences that brought about the remarkable growth of opposition t...

Emphasizes the inner life as a constant moving on and the mover as a pilgrim travelling along an ancient Way. This Way to ultimate Reality was call...

First Published in 2004. This work is concerned with kodae sos?l, particularly with investigating what kodae sos?l exist or have existed in texts i...

Remarkable insights into the profound Japanese concern 'for defending the cherished Japanese values amid an era of fantastic change', writes Peter ...

Squatting is currently a global phenomenon. A concomitant of economic development and social conflict, squatting attracts public attention because ...