Social & Cultural History

Franks and Northmen explores the full spectrum of Franco-Scandinavian interaction, examining not just violence but also less well-known relationshi...

Hollywood 1963-1976 chronicles the upheaval and innovation that took place in the American film industry during an era of pervasive cultural tumult...

This book is the first full-length study of apes and monkeys on the early modern stage. It broadens the scope of existing scholarship by situating ...

Through the lens of identification procedures, this book examines how the processes of state-building affected European societies during the Napole...

Captures the worldviews, concerns, joys, and experiences of people living through the cultural changes in the second half of the sixteenth century ...

An exploration of the ways in which children learned and were taught to read, against the background of the transition from Ottoman Empire to Turki...

Magical, but down-to-earth, a life of adventurous travel wreathed in curiosity and friendliness. Modestly presented, a wonderful way to experience ...

Beyond the booze and the bratwurst: what football really tells us about Germany Germany is one of the worlds great footballing powers. Four-time W...

The making, eating, and sharing of food throughout society represents an important and exciting area of study with the potential to advance the fie...

A history of the twentieth-century feminists who fought for the rights of women, workers, and the poor, both in the United States and abroadFor the...

Give and Take offers a new history of government in Tokugawa Japan (16001868), one that focuses on ordinary subjects: merchants, artisans, villager...

Across history, the ideas and practices of male identity have varied much between time and place: masculinity proves to be a slippery concept, not ...

The gendered nature of the relationship between the press and emergence of cultural citizenship from the 1860s to the 1930s is explored through ori...

This book takes a new look at one of the most contentious periods in American history. The battles over schools that surrounded the famous Scopes m...

Carpeted in boreal forests, dotted with lakes, cut by rivers, and straddling the Arctic Circle, the region surrounding the White Sea, which is know...

This book analyses contemporary war commemoration in Britain and Russia. Focusing on the political aspects of remembrance, it explores the instrume...

Places of Memory examines the post-war history of the site where the 1942 Wannsee Conference was held. The author analyses the different uses of t...

From his allegiance to punk rock in his adolescence to becoming an essential voice on music and culture, Kelefa Sanneh makes a deep study of how po...

'Gripping and all too timely' James Hawes 'A brilliant mix of detailed research and vivid storytelling' Julia Boyd 'History at its very best and...

In this insightful and provocative volume, Rameyreveals spirituals and slave songs to be a crucial element in American literature. This book shows ...

In the 17th century, the elite household (kap?) became the focal point of Ottoman elite politics and socialization. It was a cultural melting pot, ...

Through analyzing dress in detective fiction, Fear and Clothing reveals a cultural history of identity affected by the social upheaval caused by wa...