Social & Cultural History

The Origin of Others combines Toni Morrisons accustomed eloquence with meaning for our times as citizens of the world. Nell Irvin Painter, New Repu...

This book is a study of the first Ottoman/Muslim printer Ibrahim Müteferrika and his printing activity in the first half of the eighteenth century....

Filled with new elements that challenge common scholarly theses, this book acquaints the reader with the Jewish problem of sociology and provides w...

In Fighting Invisibility, Monica Mong Trieu argues that we must consider the role of physical and symbolic space to fully understand the nuances of...

George Harrison met Muhammad Ali in 1964, when both men were on the cusp of worldwide fame. Ten years later, the two men simultaneously staged come...

In Insurgent Aesthetics Ronak K. Kapadia theorizes the world-making power of contemporary art responses to US militarism in the Greater Middle East...

A Cultural History of Objects in the Renaissance covers the period 1400 to 1600. The Renaissance was a cultural movement, a time of re-awakening wh...

A Cultural History of Objects in the Medieval Age covers the period 500 to 1400, examining the creation, use and understanding of human-made object...

A Cultural History of Color in the Age of Enlightenment covers the period 1650 to 1800. From the Baroque to the Neo-classical, color transformed ar...

Crusading fervour gripped Europe for more than 200 years and yet, almost a millennium later, we continue to question the crusaders motivation: was ...

The book, based on memories of a native son and the research of a scholar, is an amalgam of descriptions and discussions, peppered with conversatio...

The book, based on memories of a native son and the research of a scholar, is an amalgam of descriptions and discussions, peppered with conversatio...

In 1680, the poor cottager Mary Herring gave birth to conjoined twins. At two weeks of age, they were kidnapped to be shown for money, and their de...

Without the colonies the European history of science would have taken a very different course. Not only was the development of zoology and ethnolog...

Defining the Others, them, in relation to ones own reference group, us, has been an essential phase in the formation of collective identities in an...

Over a career spanning forty years, David G. Dalin has written extensively about the role of American Jews in public life, from the nations foundin...

In 1290, Jews were expelled from England and subsequently largely expunged from English historical memory. Yet for two centuries they occupied impo...

Decolonizing the Diet challenges the common claim that Native American communities were decimated after 1492 because they lived in Virgin Soils tha...