Social & Cultural History

More than 50 years after their breakup, the Beatles are still attracting fans from various generations, all while retaining their original fan base...

'A characteristically radical re-reading of history that places the social and political experiments of pirates at the heart of the European Enligh...

By the mid-twentieth century, two things appeared destined for extinction in the United States: the practice of home birth and the profession of mi...

Dr Erasmus Darwin seemed an innocuous Midlands physician, a respectable stalwart of eighteenth-century society. But there was another side to him. ...

What makes the Irish unique? Why do over 70 million people worldwide embrace their Irish heritage? What does it mean to be Irish today? These and o...

Following the great expeditions of the 18th and 19th century, travel activity in general increased from the end of the 18th century onwards. In add...

This book examines the origins of genocide and mass murder in the everyday conflicts of ordinary people, exacerbated by special interests. We exami...

Using a variety of methodologies from multi-disciplinary backgrounds, this volume is the first to present an in-depth analysis of the life and time...

Created in a world of empires, the United States was to be something new: an expansive republic proclaiming commitments to liberty and equality but...

In this wide-ranging study of women's and gender issues in the pre- and post-1989 Czech Republic, contributors engage with current feminist debates...

Gender, Genre, and Race in Post-Neo-Slave Narratives provides an innovative conceptual framework for describing representations of slavery in twent...

This innovative collection explores how a distinctively British model of sociability developed in the period from the Restoration of Charles II to ...

A major history of the evolution of political journalism in the late Stuart and early Hanoverian period. The reign of Queen Anne (1702-1714) saw a...