Social & Cultural History

Can words be danced? Can dance be written down? What inspires choreographers? How do dancers write? This volume delves into questions like these a...

Dissenting Daughters reveals that devout women made vital contributions to the spread and practice of the Reformed faith in the Dutch Republic in t...

Paul Jennings traces the history of the British pub, and looks at how it evolved from the eighteenth century's coaching inns and humble alehouses, ...

By consequence of the Karabakh War in 2020 and due to Azerbaijanian revisionism concerning the history, culture and cultural monuments of the regio...

First published in 1938, Jacob Rader Marcus's The Jews in The Medieval World has remained an indispensable resource for its comprehensive view of J...

This book thinks through modernity and its representations by exploring critical considerations of time and space. Drawing on anthropology, history...

An introduction to the raucous yet educational gap year tours of Europe taken by wealthy British aristocrats in the eighteenth and early nineteenth...

As the first in a larger series of publications which preserve and make accessible primary sources from various archives and other materials relate...

An examination of the terms used in specific historical contexts to refer to those people in a society who can be categorized as being in a positio...

Histories of voice are often written as accounts of greatness: great statesmen, notable rebels, grands discours, and famous exceptional speakers an...

Was geschieht mit der Stadt und dem urbanen Leben in Kriegszeiten? Dass Städte vom Krieg nie unberührt waren, ist offensichtlich, doch ist es ein M...

How encounters with the Roman Empire compelled the Jews of antiquity to rethink their conceptions of Israel and the TorahThroughout their history, ...

Dem Neben- und Miteinander von Hand- und Druckschriftlichkeit in der Frühen Neuzeit bis in die Goethezeit ist in der Forschung bisher nur ungenügen...

A cross-cultural, comparative view on the transition from a predominant culture of handwriting to a predominant culture of print in the late mediev...

This book examines an extremely topical phenomenon, the massive industrial exploitation of animals, from a previously neglected perspective. It exp...