Social & Cultural History

This book advances a new interpretation of the timing and character of French (and more broadly European) liberalism, and contributes to the ongoin...

This book applies a systems and risk perspective on international energy relations, author Per Högselius investigates how and why governments, busi...

This book applies a systems and risk perspective on international energy relations, author Per Högselius investigates how and why governments, busi...

This book collects original research essays to explore the diverse uses of photographs and photography in oral history, from the use of photos as m...

This groundbreaking volume examines the transnational dimensions of Black Power - how Black Power thinkers and activists drew on foreign movements ...

Carl Gustav Jung has always been a popular but never a fashionable thinker. His ground-breaking theories about dream interpretation and psychologic...

Miriamne Ara Krummel challenges the accepted history of the English Middle Ages as a monolithic age of Christian faith. By cataloguing and explicat...

This book argues that contemporary Italian history has been marked by a tendency towards divided memory. Events have been interpreted in contrastin...

Alfred Weber was an important participant in the dialogue over the political and cultural crises of the late Empire and Weimar Republic. This study...

This innovative book draws together literature, law and economic and social history to investigate the meanings and uses of legitimacy in nineteent...

Who were the men who led America's first expeditions into space? Soldiers? Daredevils? The public sometimes imagined them that way: heroic military...

This groundbreaking volume examines the transnational dimensions of Black Power - how Black Power thinkers and activists drew on foreign movements ...

Yiddish and Power surveys the social, linguistic and intellectual history of the Yiddish language within the traditional civilisation of Jewish Ash...

This book explores the French Enlightenment's use of cross-cultural comparisons - particularly the figures of the Chinese mandarin and American and...

The constant flow of people, ideas, and commodities across the Atlantic propelled the development of a public sphere. Chapters explore the multiple...

In 1845, John Franklin's Northwest Passage expedition disappeared. The expedition left an archive of performative remains that entice one to consid...

Oppression by censorship affects the film industry far more frequently than any other mass media. Including essays by leading film historians, the ...

Oppression by censorship affects the film industry far more frequently than any other mass media. Including essays by leading film historians, the ...

This book uses both oral and conventional historical methods to describe and analyze the history of lung transplantation in the US. While drawing o...

This book details the Italian immigrant experience in San Francisco from the Gold Rush to the Mayoralty of George Moscone - which is to say the ent...

Thisvolume advances extant reflections on the state constituted as the Ur-Power in society, particularly in Africa.It analyzes how various agents w...

A fresh biography of Mary Tudor which challenges conventional views of her as a weeping hysteric and love-struck romantic, providing instead the po...

An in-depth and comprehensive account of the complex history of Japanese modernism from the mid-19th century 'opening to the West' until the 21st c...