Social & Cultural History

In this first one-volume English-language full biography of Abraham Joshua Heschel, Edward K. Kaplan tells the engrossing, behind-the-scenes story ...

Over the last few years, media archaeology has evolved from a marginal topic to an academic approach en vogue. In large part, media archaeology has...

The surprising history of old age in modern America, showing how we created unprecedented security for some and painful uncertainty for othersOn fa...

This book analyzes social ideology and social relationships in late Second Temple Judaea, studying a range of archaeological material and sites to ...

Bringing together emerging ethnographies on kinship in South Asia, this book explores the idea of kinship as fiction in intimate relationships.Fict...

Is the Kuomintang - the nationalist party of China - the villain it is sometimes portrayed to be? Or is it the embodiment of the political and mora...

This book provides an overall history of the regional theatre movement in the US, while also utilizing specific accomplishments and failures in add...

Most writing on modern China dwells on those aspects which are new to China since the Communist takeover, stressing above all politics, Marxism, ec...

This book presents and engages the world-building capacity of legal theory through cultural legal studies of science and speculative fictions.In th...

The volume examines the proliferation of inventorying models and practices as cultural techniques of knowledge organization and production during ...

An adroit, intelligent and painstaking social history Poor Bickerton offers us a luxurious tapestry from which everyone interested in English soci...

Hartmut Böhmes study of fetishism spans all the way from Christian image magic in the Middle Ages to fetishistic practices in fashion, advertising,...

Claudia Roesch offers a study of Mexican American families and evolving notions of masculinity and motherhood in the context of American family his...

Die vorliegende Studie befasst sich mit der um 1410 im Umkreis des Konstanzer Bischofshofs entstandenen Verserzählung Der Ring von Heinrich Wittenw...

Winner of the Society for Theatre Research Book Prize 2016 This is the final volume in a new paperback edition of Steve Nicholsons definitive fou...

After Mexicos revolution of 19101920, intellectuals sought to forge a unified cultural nation out of the countrys diverse populace. Their efforts r...

This volume consists consists of forty contributions written by an internationally renowned selection of scholars. The authors adopt an interdiscip...

Ihre Quellen erscheinen der Geschichtswissenschaft als Selbstverständlichkeit. Dieses Buch untersucht an Beispielen aus Österreich und der Schweiz,...

Medieval literature is to a large extent based on oral tradition and permeated by various forms of orality: literary texts were commonly read aloud...

Die Deutschen Gesellschaften waren eine Sozietätsbewegung, die von den mitteldeutschen und protestantischen Universitäten und Gelehrtenschulen ausg...

The cross-cultural studies in this volume reexamine the role of irrigation in early states. Ranging geographically from South America and the south...

Video games are a global phenomenon, international in their scope and democratic in their appeal. This is the first volume dedicated to the subject...

In the late medieval and early modern periods, Scottish latinity had its distinctive stamp, most intriguingly so in its effects upon the literary v...