Social & Cultural History

In addition to providing excerpts from classic tales of Japans warrior past, this volume draws on a wide range of lesser-known but revealing source...

Viking Identities is the first detailed archaeological study of Viking-Age Scandinavian-style female dress items from England. Based on primary arc...

Since the late 20th-century, mainstream popular culture in Brazil has developed an intimate relationship with fitness culture a vast, fluid, and p...

Winner of the Pushkin House Russian Book PrizeWinner of the University of Southern California Book PrizeHonorable Mention, Reginald Zelnik Book Pri...

Cuban Studies is the preeminent journal for scholarly work on Cuba. Each volume includes articles in English and Spanish and a large book review se...

The aim of this book is to restore to the story of Englishness the lively material interactions between words, bodies, plants, stones, metals, and ...

Elegiac Love and Death in Vergil's 'Aeneid' poses new questions about Vergil's pervasive engagement with elegy, both amatory and funerary, througho...

In an extraordinary story unfolding across two hundred years, Kristina Gaddy uncovers the banjos key role in Black spirituality, ritual and rebelli...