Social & Cultural History

Originally published in 1956, the well-known archaeologist here takes on the role of philosopher. The author argues that knowledge is a social phen...

In times when the social sciences have become increasingly fragmented and more focused on the pieces of the puzzle, the puzzle, as a topic in its o...

Mizoram is situated at a unique cusp in North East India, in terms of both physical and social contexts. It shares its borders with Myanmar and Ban...

This title was first published in 1992: This book compares stability and change in the political culture of the relatively new Asian democracy Japa...

Byzantium was a very influential part of the development of the Arts and Crafts Movement (18801910) in Britain, and although the influence of the G...

How different are we from those in the past? Or, how different do we think we are from those in the past? Medieval people were more dirty and unhyg...

Engaging and interrogating the idea of a Global Africa, this book examines how African literary and cultural productions have changed over the year...

This collection explores democratic transitions in East Asia, arguing against the standard wisdom that European or Christian value systems and soci...

Coal is the commodity that powered the technologies that made the modern world. It also brought about unique communities marked by a high degree of...

A combination of economic transformation, political transitions and changes in media have substantially, if incrementally, altered the terrain for ...

This edited collection explores the axis where monstrosity and borderlands meet to reflect the tensions, apprehensions, and excitement over the rad...

In the last third of the eighteenth-century, Bristol and Nantes were two of the most active commercial ports of England and France, despite a slowd...

This collection examines various aspects of Jewish migration within, from and to eastern Europe between 1880 and the present. It focuses on not onl...

As the political and economic landscape in the Asian Pacific continues to shift, the United States must re-evaluate its strategy toward the region....

The 1959 Chinese military takeover of Tibet brought an end to a unique way of life in which Buddhism provided legitimacy to political and social au...

Spirited Histories combines ethnography with critical theory to provide a sophisticated exploration of the intersection of haunting and the paranor...

Until recently, Westerners have not adequately understood the structure of the PRC's policymaking process in the post-Mao period. Dr. Barnett's pat...

The Third Indochina Conflict (1975-) is seen by some as the escalation of a local quarrel between Vietnam and Kampuchea; others attribute it to the...

Although the United States has established formal diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of China (PRC), achieving major advances in econo...

Saving Spaces offers an historical overview of the struggle to conserve both individual parcels of land and entire landscapes from destruction in t...

China is a country that is rich in antiquities, but it is also a victim of looting that occurred during the period from the First Opium War to the ...

This book focuses on the network of the Genoese colonies in the Black Sea area and their diverse multi-ethnic societies. It raises the problems of ...

In this volume, Lena Sommestad explores the significance of rural womanhood in the formation of Swedens gender-egalitarian welfare state in the ear...

Originally inspired by the digitisation of the autobiographical writings of Constance Maynard, this volume considers womens historical experience o...

Dr. White formulates four major alternatives for U.S. policy toward South Korea, reflecting the spectrum of options available and ranging from dise...

Introduction to Byzantium, 6021453 provides students with an accessible guide to medieval Byzantium.Beginning with the near collapse of Byzantium i...

This book focuses on the intersection between the assimilation of the Irish into American life and the emergence of an American popular culture, wh...

Brain drain and talent capture are important issues globally, and especially crucial in countries such as Malaysia and Singapore, which aspire to b...

Istanbul Kushta Constantinople presents twelve studies that draw on contemporary life narratives that shed light on little explored aspects of ni...

Nationalism, War and Jewish Education explores historical circumstances leading to the emergence of a Jewish religious school system lasting to mod...

This book of eleven essays by an international group of scholars in medieval studies honors the work of Barbara H. Rosenwein, Professor emerita of ...

In March 1757 early in the Seven Years War a British privateer intercepted an Irish ship, the Two Sisters of Dublin, as it returned home from Bor...

Although mercers have long been recognised as one of the most influential trades in medieval London, this is the first book to offer a comprehensiv...

Towns are imagined, lived and experienced, as much as they are conceived and constructed. They reflect cultural and intellectual currents, prevaili...

First published in 1997, The Contentious Crown is a study of comment on the monarchy in Victorian newspapers, journals, pamphlets and parliamentary...

This second volume of the authors studies opens with a new survey of the recent historiography of Dubrovnik, and also contains four items specially...

First published in 1999, this volume examines iconography, nature, gardens, staging, tradition and innovation in the Renaissance theatre, continuin...

Based on a mixture of primary historical research and secondary sources, this book explores the reasons for the failure of the state in England dur...

The history of Chinas National Games reflects both the transformation of elite sport in China and wider Chinese society. This is the first book to ...

In a world dominated by poverty, a central characteristic has been the plight of orphans and abandoned children. Over the centuries, State, Church ...

The studies collected here centre on the social and economic life of medieval Germany, within a broader European context. The first three articles ...

Southeast Asia, although not garnering the headlines of ten to twenty years ago, is important in global politics. Vietnam's domination of Indochina...

Throughout human history luxury textiles have been used as a marker of importance, power and distinction. Yet, as the essays in this collection mak...

This is the second collection of studies by Stephen D. White to be published by Variorum (the first being Feuding and Peace-Making in Eleventh-Cent...

This title was first published in 1979: Deftly combining an analysis of socio-economic change and social institutions with political commentary, in...

Nineteenth-century British periodicals for girls and women offer a wealth of material to understand how girls and women fit into their social and c...

In the Middle Ages the household was such a fundamental part of the social structure that the post-1350 era has been termed the Age of the Househol...

This book focuses on describing, explaining, and evaluating the changing central-local relationship in China. It presents a comprehensive picture o...