Social & Cultural History

'Important, compelling, and detailed . . . a superb analysis of the Wests policy missteps and the tragic consequences of them.' - General David Pet...

In The Choice of the Jews under Vichy, Adam Rayski buttresses his analysis of war-era archival materials with his own personal testimony. His resea...

Published through the Early American Places initiative, supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.Conquering Sickness presents a comprehensive a...

Duine de shárscéalaithe na Gaeilge In Eanáir 1952, sé bliana sula bhfuair Peig Sayers bás, thionscain Coimisiún Béaloideasa Éireann agallaimh léi ...

This book offers the first in-depth study of Attic funerary monuments during the geometric, archaic, and classical period. The analysis of forms, ...

This handbook offers a global view of the historical development of educational institutions, systems of schooling, ideas about education, and educ...

The Renaissance Battle for Rome examines the rhetorical battle fought simultaneously between a wide variety of parties (individuals, groups, author...

Militant Minority tells the compelling story of British Columbia workers who sustained a left tradition during the bleakest days of the Cold War. T...

In recent decades, indigenous peoples in the Yukon have signed land claim and self-government agreements that spell out the nature of government-to...

Eurydice (c.410-340s BCE) played a significant part in the public life of ancient Macedonia, the first royal Macedonian woman known to have done so...

An exceptional document of an extraordinary life, The Soul of Things is the memoir of Holocaust survivor Éva Fahidi. Since the memoir was first pub...

There has been an explosion of research into the experiences of British Muslims, but what has been conspicuous by its absence is a proper historica...

A New York Times Notable Book Best Books of 2021: TIME, Smithsonian New York Times B...

The history of democracy, in addition to being a tale of social movements and political and economic developments, is also a story of ideas. In Tow...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE FT & MCKINSEY BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2018 A Financial Times Book of the Year and an Amazon Top 100 Book of the Ye...

Shortlisted for the Association of Dress Historians Book of the Year Award, 2024 In 2022, it was reported that plus-sizes accounted for nearly twe...

Before crude oil and the combustion engine, the industrialized world relied on a different kind of power - the power of the horse. Horses in Societ...

From the late eighteenth century, Germans increasingly identified the fate of their nation with that of their woodlands. A variety of groups soon m...

How a new generation of counterculture talent changed the landscape of Hollywood, the film industry, and celebrity culture.   By 1967, the commerci...

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A stunning book, among the most immediate and thrilling works of histo...

He died so Jewry should suffer no more. These words on a Canadian Jewish soldier's tombstone in Normandy inspired the author to explore the role of...