Social & Cultural History

Histories of civil rights movements in America generally place little or no emphasis on the activism of Asian Americans. Yet, as this fascinating n...

Stanley Rice, born in London in 1905, began his autobiography by stating that his life was an ordinary average life with all its ups and downs. Sta...

[A] tour de force of global historyBosma has turned the humble sugar crystal into a mighty prism for understanding aspects of global history and th...

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

Pëtr Filippovich Iakubovich represents the many young people whose opposition to the Russian state turned to extremism during the late nineteenth a...

The Ozarks of the mid-1800s was a land of divisions. The uplands and its people inhabited a geographic and cultural borderland straddling Midwest a...

Pëtr Filippovich Iakubovich represents the many young people whose opposition to the Russian state turned to extremism during the late nineteenth a...

Murky waters challenges the refined image of spa towns in eighteenth-century Britain by unveiling darker and more ambivalent contemporary represent...

Celebrities, heroes and champions explores the role of the popular politician in British and Irish society from the Napoleonic Wars to the Second R...

Taking the absence of Aboriginal people in South Australian settler descendants historical consciousness as a starting point, 'Memory, Place and Ab...

The Carolingian period (c. 750-900) has traditionally been described as one of reform or renaissance, where cultural and intellectual changes were ...

For over three centuries, the inhabitants of North Britain faced the might of Rome, resulting in some of the most extraordinary archaeology of the ...

This book shows the development of women's status in the Mongol Empire from its original homeland in Mongolia up to the end of the Ilkhanate of Ira...

Pëtr Filippovich Iakubovich represents the many young people whose opposition to the Russian state turned to extremism during the late nineteenth a...

Pëtr Filippovich Iakubovich represents the many young people whose opposition to the Russian state turned to extremism during the late nineteenth a...

Shortly after a dismembered torso was discovered by a pond outside Philadelphia in 1887, investigators homed in on two suspects: Hannah Mary Tabbs,...

Searching for the Origins of the Portuguese Waltzes is a collection of narratives depicting a six-year quest to discover the roots of a piece of tr...

Unsatisfied with the relentless pace and narrow constraints of social media, two Americans - Winkfield Twyman, Jr. and Jennifer Richmond, a black m...

Shortly after a dismembered torso was discovered by a pond outside Philadelphia in 1887, investigators homed in on two suspects: Hannah Mary Tabbs,...

The Oxford Handbook of Public History introduces the major debates within public history; the methods and sources that comprise a public historian'...

Situated in the middle of the Irish Sea, the Isle of Man is like a stepping-stone between the lands that surround it. In medieval times, it played ...

A provocative manifesto, arguing for a new understanding of the Jews peoplehood   A self-consciously radical statement that is both astute and joyo...