Social & Cultural History

By casting designers as authors, cultural critics, activists, entrepreneurs, and global cartographers, Essin tells a story about scenic images on t...

The story of mankind's struggle against polio is compelling, exciting and full of twists and pardoxes. One of the grand challenges of modern medici...

Lessons and inspiration from a lifetime of teaching about race and ethnic relations When Al Camarillo grew up in Compton, California, racial segreg...

Many of the foremost experts in the study of European fascism unite to provide a contemporary analysis of the theories and historiography of fascis...

Focusing on a wide range of philosophers and writers, from Nietzsche to Derrida and Flaubert to Borges, this book charts the history of the deploym...

At Home in the Institution examines space and material culture in asylums, lodging houses and schools in Victorian and Edwardian England, and explo...

Drawing upon economic history, cultural studies, intellectual history and the history of science and medicine, this collection of case studies exam...

Post-industrial landscape scars are traces of 20th century utopian visions of society; they relate to fear and resistance expressed by popular move...

For German townsmen, life during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries was characterized by a culture of arms, with urban citizenry representing ...

Despite supernatural scepticism, stories about spirits were regularly printed and shared throughout the 18th and 19th centuries. This case-study in...

Drawing on the graphic and revealing evidence recorded by the different courts in early modern Saragossa, this book captures the spirit of an age w...

The volume explores how the Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars were experienced, perceived and narrated by contemporaries in Britain and Ireland, dr...

Some of the first figures the Nazis conscripted in their rise to power were rhetoricians devoted to popularizing the German vocabulary of Leben (li...

The first academic study of this subject is an entertaining look at the search for Sasquatch which considers not just the nature of monsters and mo...

Combining military and cultural history, the book explores British soldiers' travels and cross-cultural encounters in Spain and Portugal, 1808-1814...

While there are many biographies of JFK and accounts of the early years of US space efforts, this book uses primary source material and interviews ...

Weimar Culture Revisited is the first book to offer an accessible cross-section of new cultural history approaches to the Weimar Republic. This col...

This is the first definitive study of the presidency of America's least understood and most under-appreciated Chief Executive. Combining government...

The story of mankind's struggle against polio is compelling, exciting and full of twists and pardoxes. One of the grand challenges of modern medici...

This fascinating study explores the multifarious erotic themes associated with the magic lantern shows, which proved the dominant visual medium of ...

Exotic animals were coveted commodities in nineteenth-century Britain. Spectators flocked to zoos and menageries to see female lion tamers and hung...

Bronwen Everill offers a new perspective on African global history, applying a comparative approach to freed slave settlers in Sierra Leone and Lib...

'Illuminating' TIM MARSHALL'Refreshing' THOMAS HALLIDAYA mind-expanding, revolutionary journey across time that shows how our biology has determine...