Social & Cultural History

'With originality and subtlety, Diarmuid Hester examines how the gay imagination deals with place and with displacement, allowing for mystery and a...

Until the 20th century, dialect was a marker of economic, social and cultural change. We know that the North East maritime connections with the Dut...

Proof of a long-forgotten ancient worldwide civilisation. All around the world are mysterious ancient monoliths with strange featuresperfectly carv...

Representing Latina/x Reproductive Decision Making examines representations of reproductive decisions in cultural texts and engages with scholarshi...

Toni Morrison once said, The function, the very serious function of racism is distraction. In The Moment, Bakari Sellers brilliantly and precisely ...

The story of the rise and fall of smallpox, one of the most savage killers in the history of mankind, and the only disease ever to be successfully ...

Entwined Homelands, Empowered Diasporas explores how the 30,000 Jews in northern Morocco developed a sense of kinship with modern Spain, medieval S...

No Friday Night Lights is the story of a rural Nevada high school football team that never wins. Veteran reporter John M. Glionna examines the 2022...

A refreshing, insightful, sacrilegious take on African American history, Crazy as Hell explores the site of Americas greatest contradictions. The n...

How a grassroots abolitionist project of cultural healing counters the carceral state in a Chicanx community in California For many, gang involveme...

How a grassroots abolitionist project of cultural healing counters the carceral state in a Chicanx community in California For many, gang involveme...

Entwined Homelands, Empowered Diasporas explores how the 30,000 Jews in northern Morocco developed a sense of kinship with modern Spain, medieval S...

Winner of the Bancroft PrizeWinner of the David J. Langum PrizeWinner of the Lillian Smith Book AwardWinner of the Order of the Coif Book AwardWinn...

Peasants, Power, and Place is the first English-language book to focus on Ukrainian-speaking peasants during the revolutionary period from 1914 to ...

Are 'Dear John' letters lethal weapons in the hands of men at war? Many US officers, servicemen, veterans, and civilians would say yes. Drawing on ...

Early medieval Britain saw the birth of England, Scotland and of the Welsh kingdoms. Naismith's introductory textbook explores the period between t...