Social & Cultural History

Beginning in the mid-fifteenth century, the regions bordering the western Indian Ocean the green sea, as it was known to Arabic speakers underwen...

Esperanza Speaks examines a century-long process of socioeconomic change in rural Panama through the experiences of one woman, Esperanza Ruiz, and ...

Mangrove rice farming on West Africa's Rice Coast was the mirror image of tidewater rice plantations worked by enslaved Africans in 18th-century So...

The first comprehensive history of the Sami people of the Nordic countries and northwestern Russia. There is no single volume which encompasses an ...

Anne Konrad's Red Quarter Moon is the gripping account of her search for family members lost and disappeared within the Soviet Union. Konrad's ance...

In writing in English about the classical era, is it more appropriate to refer to Jews or to Judeans? What difference does it make? Today, many sch...

For nearly a decade at the height of the Counter-Reformation in Italy, the Jewish poet and polemicist Sarra Copia Sulam (ca. 15921641) hosted a lit...

The Bury St Edmunds Market Cross stands at the heart of the town. Designed in 1774 by the celebrated architect Robert Adam, this 'neat and beautifu...

The First World War is often credited as being the event that gave Canada its own identity, distinct from that of Britain, France, and the United S...

Contemporary feminists are used to juggling many different identities at once, balancing affiliations based on race, nation, class, and sexuality. ...

This book is the second of a two-volume anthology of primary source documents on feminism in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Unique i...

The monograph is the result of research conducted between 2014 and 2018 in historical museums in Central and Eastern Europe. The main goal of the ...

The New Spice Box includes short fiction, personal essays, and poetry by Jewish writers from a broad range of cultural backgrounds. Fresh and relev...

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...

A History of Law in Canada is an important three-volume project. Volume One begins at a time just prior to European contact and continues to the 18...

Eminent historian Patricia Crone defines the common features of a wide range of pre-industrial societies, from locations as seemingly disparate as ...

A probing analysis of Black women's attempts to pursue justice for sexual-violence victims within often hostile social and legal systems In Bodies ...

A probing analysis of Black women's attempts to pursue justice for sexual-violence victims within often hostile social and legal systems In Bodies ...

In contemporary pop culture, the pursuits regarded as the most frivolous are typically understood to be more feminine in nature than masculine. Thi...