Social & Cultural History

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

This edited collection explores the intersection of historical studies and the artistic representation of the past in the long nineteenth century. ...

Medieval Occitania, a geographical and linguistic area often referred to as 'the South of France', 'the South', 'the Midi', or more loosely 'Proven...

In the late 19th century and early part of the 20th, with the coming of age of sociology in France, the idea that there could be a science of histo...

Historic preservation, whether of landscapes or buildings, was an important development of the nineteenth century in many countries. There is howev...

Exploring the idea of luxury in relation to a series of neighboring but distinct concepts including avarice, excess, licentiousness, indulgence, vi...

That the self is performed, created through action rather than having a prior existence, has been an important methodological intervention in our u...

In most Latin American countries, key officials and political figures have been involved in big corruption scandals in the last decade, leading to ...

The Childrens Troupes and the Transformation of English Theater 15091608 uncovers the role of the childrens companies in transforming perceptions o...

This broad-based collection of essays is an introduction both to the concerns of contemporary folklore scholarship and to the variety of forms that...

This book offers fresh research and insights into the complex relationship between the press, war, and society in the 20th century, by examining th...

First published in 2004, Medieval Italy: An Encyclopedia provides an introduction to the many and diverse facets of Italian civilization from the l...

Why do recent depictions of government secrecy and surveillance so often use images suggesting massive size and scale: gigantic warehouses, remote ...

Introduction to Design Theory introduces a comprehensive, systematic, and didactic outline of the discourse of design. Designed both as a course bo...

This title was first published in 1972: This bibliography is the most comprehensive and up-to-date reference work available on developments in Chin...

Taking the form of two companion volumes, Police Courts in Nineteenth-Century Scotland represents the first major investigation into the administra...

Movable books are an innovative area of childrens publishing. Commonly equated with spectacular pop-ups, movable books have a little-known history ...

For more than a century, the city of Atlanta has been associated with black achievement in education, business, politics, media, and music, earning...

An exploration of the Karens, a small nation that inhabited the mountains and forests of the Lower Burma who were loyal to the British during the A...

Games and Sporting Events in History offers a broad global perspective on sports and games in Europe, North America, Africa, and Asia. A diverse se...

This book explores the economic history of the traditional Chinese iron industry in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, with particular emphasi...

Early modern Naples has been characterized as a marginal, wild and exotic place on the fringes of the European world, and as such an appropriate ta...

First published in 1909, the purpose of this book was to draw attention to the political, social and religious changes that were taking place in In...

This collection captures key themes and issues in the broad history of addiction and vice in the Anglo-American world. Focusing on the long ninetee...

Global Perspectives of Sport and Physical Culture is a compilation of diverse essays derived from the works of prominent international scholars tha...

The present publication is the first that has attempted to portray the separate and progressive history of the Jews in the different countries whic...

I suppose the impulse to write this book dates back to my shame and anger in India when men and women of my own race extolled suttee, and the amaze...

This book provides basic information and analysis concerning how the forces of change during the Pacific Century will provide a base for the future...

How do the lives of indigenous peoples relate to the romanticised role of Indians in Brazilian history, politics, and cultural production? Native a...

This book delves into the life and work of architect William Richard Lethaby (18571931) and his relationship with the occult and alchemy, in partic...

This book discusses social, religious and medical attitudes towards bathing in Late Antiquity. It examines the place of bathing in late Roman and e...

This work examines the long-standing conflict between India and Pakistan over Kashmir, exploring the issues from the perpsectives of all the actors...

For the People offers a new interpretation of populist political movements from the Revolution to the eve of the Civil War and roots them in the di...

The Routledge History of Madness and Mental Health explores the history and historiography of madness from the ancient and medieval worlds to the p...

Translation of a selection of poems from one of the world's greatest lyric poets. First published 1947.

This book shows how the release of the free market in the last part of the twentieth century produced a rise in inequality and violence, the develo...

Investigating the genesis of the prosecuted crimes and implied sins of the female performing group Pussy Riot, the most famous Russian feminist col...

The mystery of how an Islamic dictatorship came to power remains more than thirty years after the Islamic Republic's inception in Iran. The precise...

This collection of scholarly essays presents new work from an emerging line of inquiry: modern outlaw narratives and the textual and cultural relev...

First published in 2004, Medieval Italy: An Encyclopedia provides an introduction to the many and diverse facets of Italian civilization from the l...

Prosthesis denotes a rhetorical addition to a pre-existing beginning, a replacement for that which is defective or absent, a technological mode of ...

The idea that Japan is a socially homogenous, uniform society has been increasingly challenged in recent years. This book takes the resulting view ...

Studies on the reception of the classical tradition are an indispensable part of classical studies. Understanding the importance of ancient civiliz...

Coney Island is an American icon celebrated worldwide, a fantasyland of the past with an evolving present and an irrepressible optimism about i...

This title was first published in 2002. When did Africa emerge as a continent in the European mind? This book aims to trace the origins of the idea...

The Renaissance of Letters traces the multiplication of letter-writing practices between the fourteenth and seventeenth centuries in the Italian pe...

This book employs a wide range of perspectives to demonstrate how the East India Company facilitated cross-cultural interactions between the Englis...