Social & Cultural History

This title was first published in 2001. Ruskin said that 1860 marked the beginning of his 'proper work'. This study presents new, historicized read...

This title was first published in 2000: The Way We Lived Then is a detailed study of a nineteenth-century community. It is based on the life histor...

This handbook and dictionary aims to provide the reader with a general overview of Zionist history and historiography, to tabulate all data on Zion...

Global issues such as climate change and the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis have spurred interest in thinking about the history of the mode...

 This is the first of two volumes on the transformation of China since 1978. The second volume concentrates on the government administration of the...

Exploring the idea of luxury in relation to a series of neighboring but distinct concepts including avarice, excess, licentiousness, indulgence, vi...

This title was first published in 2000. The nineteenth century saw the emergence of numerous artistic brotherhoods - groups of artists bound togeth...

This book, a study of revolution in China, considers movements of Western origin, such as Christianity or Communism, only as they appear in the Chi...

This book explores radical challenges to Indian governments' legitimacy and power and the responses of the Indian state and central governments to ...

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...

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

Now in its second edition, The Routledge Atlas of African American History traces the epic journey of African Americans four hundred years in North...

This book examines the evolution of historical professionalism, with the development of an international community that shares a set of values rega...

The Vietnam War was the central political issue of the 1960s and 1970s. This study by Seth Offenbach explains how the conflict shaped modern conser...

First published in 2017, Rome: The Shaping of Three Capitals explores the impact of political history on the built environment of the Eternal City....

The Journals of Two Poor Dissenters (1970) is a remarkable example of voices from the past, giving a humble mans record of his time. William Swan a...

First Published in 1991. In this book the author looks at the history of sexuality, discussing topics of love from the 15th century onwards, sexual...

This is one of the first volumes that uses economic tools to analyse and evaluate law and policy in India. Applying economic theories such as incen...

The study of consumption and its relationship to cultural and social values has become a vibrant and important field in recent years. Hitherto howe...

This innovative multidisciplinary collection brings together the latest research on human rights issues in the Asian region, by leading scholars wi...

This volume is the first in-depth analysis of how infirm bodies were represented in Italy from c. 1400 to 1650. Through original contributions and ...

First published in 1982, this book is concerned with the tensions between continuity and change in customs, rituals, beliefs of artisans, factory w...

Islamic civilization flourished in the Middle Ages across a vast geographical area that spans today's Middle and Near East. First published in 2006...

Originally published in 1965 and written by a noted economist and leader in the field of conflict resolution, this book traces the forces which hav...

This title was first published in 1979

This volume is the first in-depth analysis of how infirm bodies were represented in Italy from c. 1400 to 1650. Through original contributions and ...

Seismic changes in ideology and economic policy in China followed the death of Mao Zedong but one aspect of culture has remained constant: the use ...

From the origins of drinking to the use and abuse of alcohol in the present day, this global historical study draws on approaches and research from...

Wallpapers spread across trades, class and gender is charted in this first full-length study of the materials use in Britain during the long eighte...

The Routledge History of Latin American Culture delves into the cultural history of Latin America from the end of the colonial period to the twenti...

The essays collected here investigate art made by women in South Africa between 1910, the year of Union, and 1994, the year of the first democratic...

Originally published in 1966, this was the first book on this subject to be published for over a hundred years. It covers all facets including litt...

First published in 1999, this is the first scholarly study of the Socialist Medical Association (SMA), an organisation of left-wing medical practit...

Social and Economic Life in Byzantium is the third selection of papers by the late Nicolas Oikonomides to be published in the Variorum Collected St...

'Aristocracies', 'Old Regime colonial elites' - from Adam Smith to Karl Marx and beyond, scholars have discussed their role in the rise of the mode...

This book postulates that amae is a motivational factor with universal impact upon Japanese people. It explores the ways in which amae affects poli...

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

This book demonstrates how two goals the substitution of socialist views for embedded traditional values, and the use of China's actual and potent...

After 1945 it was not just Europes parliamentary buildings that promised to house democracy: hotels in Turkey and Dutch shopping malls proposed new...

Account of the origins, history and practice of Yoga from the viewpoint of someone who is learned, but is not himself a practicioner.

Through a thematic overview of court culture that connects the cultural with the political, confessional, spatial, material and performative, this ...

This book deals firstly with the economic and social conditions of life among the villagers, the artisans, and other workers in cities and towns of...

Published in 1997, each volume in this new series is a collection of seminal articles on a theme of central importance in the study of transport hi...

First published in 1969, this book presents a one-volume anthology of Charles Booths Life and Labour of the People in London, the classic early stu...

This volume offers a comprehensive perspective on the relationship between the art scene and agencies of the state in countries of the region, thro...

This title was first published in 2003. The aim of The Crisis of 1614 and The Addled Parliament is to bring literary historians together with const...

This title was first published in 2003. Suburbanizing the Masses examines how collective forms of transport have contributed to the spatial and soc...

This title was first published in 2000: Coventry is synonymous with both the creation and relative decline of the British motor car industry. This ...