Social & Cultural History

Of the 400,000 German-speaking Jews that escaped the Third Reich, about 16,000 ended up in Shanghai, China. This groundbreaking volume gathers 20 y...

Aboriginal people in Canada have long struggled to regain control over their traditional forest lands. There have been significant gains in the que...

This book thematizes the tension between education, politics, and religion in Norway after the Second World War, with an emphasis on the years betw...

In this new and updated edition, Gwyn Prescott provides a fascinating insight into the origins and early years of the game in Cardiff. He outlines ...

This new 2023 edition includes an audio download link. Scottish Gaelic in Twelve Weeks has been written both as a self-tuition course for beginner...

Sporting Gender is the first book to explore the rise to fame of female athletes in China during its national crisis of 1931-45 brought on by the J...

Until 1951 Nepal was closed to the world, landlocked between the strongest Asian powers, India and China. With its exceptional landscape, it touts ...

Plague has attained pandemic proportions on three occasions in recorded history. It is within the context of the third, modern pandemic that this b...

The buffalo hunter, the medicine man, and the missionary continue to dominate the history of the North American west, even though historians have r...

For many, the term home economics conjures images ofsterile classrooms where young girls and women learn to cook dinner andswaddle dolls, far remov...

The Book of St Andrews juxtaposes poems, stories and memoirs with scant regard to chronological order, but in the confidence that each contribution...

By delving into the religious, economic, social, and political attitudes and practices of the French bourgeoisie in the 18th century, Mrs. Barber d...

With 18 million members and with power and influence that penetrate industry, the financial centers, community life, and even foreign trade, trade ...

To date, scholars explored Bruce Naumans oeuvre through various perspectives, concepts and premises, including linguistics, performance, power and ...

A Cultural History of Color in the Modern Age covers the period 1920 to the present, a time of extraordinary developments in colour science, philos...

A Cultural History of Color in the Medieval Age covers the period 500 to 1400. The medieval age saw an extraordinary burst of color - from illumina...

A Cultural History of Color in Antiquity covers the period 3000 BCE to 500 CE. Although the smooth, white marbles of Classical sculpture and archit...

The traditional image of the Home Front in World War II is of cheery Londoners, singing along to Vera Lynn on the radio and making do and mending a...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR CONSERVATIONA BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR THE FINANCIAL TIMES, WATERSTONES AND BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE A NEXT BIG ID...