Social & Cultural History

This book offers insights into the development of social welfare policies by exploring the interconnections between policies and practice throughou...

In commemoration of Husserls many years of teaching and research in Göttingen, the Göttingen Academy of Science staged an international symposium i...

This book uses amputation and prostheses to tell a new story about medicine and embodied knowledge-making in early modern Europe. It draws on the w...

die Faust wird gereckt, die Pickelhaube getreten. Feindbilder spielen auch im Gefallenengedenken vieler Nationen eine nicht geringe Rolle und sind ...

Bold, addictive and brilliant. Stylist, best fiction 2021 A Times Bestseller A Times & Sunday Times Best Crime Books of 2021 A Waterstones T...

The enigmatic relation between religion and science still presents a challenge to European societies and to ideas about what it means to be modern....

Esarhaddon, King of Assyria continues Josette Elayi's narrative journey through the lives of the kings of the Neo-Assyrian Empire. Using both archa...

This book explores how workers moved and were moved, why they moved, and how they were kept from moving. Combining global labour history with mobil...

This peer-reviewed conference volume examines paper and material aspects of the written word in early modern Europe. The collection is designed aro...

Videogames have always depicted representations of American culture, but how exactly they feed back into this culture is less obvious. Advocating a...

Between working men and women (which may include free wage earners, chattel slaves, indentured labourers, sharecroppers, domestic servants, and man...

Since the end of the USSR, post-Soviet Jewry has evolved into an ethnically and culturally diverse Russian speaking community. This process is taki...

Die Frage, welche Bedeutung Herkunft und Zukunft in und für Europa haben, ist sowohl auf eine historische Rückschau als auch eine prospektive Sicht...

The Prater a centerpiece of Viennese history as a reflection of changing times The Prater represents like no other place the history of Vienna a...

The volume scrutinizes the fundamentally uneven character of industrial production and working class formation by bringing together anthropologists...

The interest in Andronikos Kallistos, a leading personality among the Greek émigrés who participated in Italian Humanism, arose at the end of the n...

Sufism is generally perceived as being spiritually focused and about the development of the self. However, Sufi orders have been involved historica...

The papers collected in this volume discuss descriptive methods and present conclusions relevant for the history of the book production and recepti...

The essays in this book place Salisbury in the context of 19th-century Orientalism, with particular attention to the interconnected growth of Assy...