Social & Cultural History

Studies of the political history of twentieth-century China traditionally have been skewed toward a two-dimensional view of the major combatants: t...

First published in 2004. The nineteenth century witnessed a flowering of the culture of self-improvement that was reflected in a plethora of instit...

This book examines the history and evolution of Ayurveda and other indigenous medical traditions in juxtaposition with their encounter with colonia...

What would it mean to conceive of the sacred as a source of knowledge that is as vital as the secular? What insights does a contemplative approach ...

From emperors and queens to artists and world travelers, from popes and scholars to saints and heretics, KeyFigures in Medieval Europe brings toget...

Sport has played a central role in modern Irelands history. Perhaps nowhere else has sport so infused the political, social and cultural developmen...

This title was first published in 2003. The essay collection explores the conjunctions of nation, gender, and visual representation in a number of ...

This book explores the organic lives of popular Sufi shrines in contemporary Northwest India. It traverses the worldview of shrine spaces, rituals ...

Essays on themes (migration, pilgrimage and travel) as old as Islam itself and integral in the development of a cosmopolitan Islamic social order e...

This manual, by an experienced Buddhist, has been written so that it will be easily accessible also to the reader who knows nothing about meditatio...

Reprint of a classic text, this volume gives an insight into the rebirth of national literature in the national language and traces the course of i...

This book integrates Soviet and post-Soviet Russian history into a coherent whole by focusing on the culture, role models, habits and behavior patt...

Reprint of the 1961 classic study of the discourses of the founder of the order of Whirling Dervishes.

Published in the year 2000, A Corpus of Early Tibetan Inscriptions is a valuable contribution to he field of Asian Studies.

A re-issue in paperback of Nicholson's classic survey of the field of Islamic mysticism. Intended as reading for students of sufism, philosophy and...

Published in the year 2001, House of Pride is a valuable contribution to the field of Asian Studies.

Explores the nature of Buddha's enlightenment and the meaning of Buddhist symbolism, discussing the relationship between Buddhist meditative techni...

Since the 1990s, heritage studies has emerged as a distinct academic field, and practices and rhetoric drawn from mainstream corporate management a...

First published in 1999, this volume examines iconography, nature, gardens, staging, tradition and innovation in the Renaissance theatre, continuin...

This book presents an overview of Japan's arms production capability to contribute to a better understanding of Japan's economic success by highlig...

First published in 1998, illuminating the principles and practices which impelled British Labours international attitudes, this book focuses on rel...

Focusing on the ports, dockyards and garrison towns of Kent, this study examines the social and economic factors that could cause a woman to turn t...

The Atlantic World: Essays on Slavery, Migration, and Imagination brings together ten original essays that explore the many connections between the...

The Optimum Imperative examines architectures multiple entanglements within the problematics of Socialist lifestyle in postwar Czechoslovakia. Situ...

In this innovatory book Daniel Sage analyses how and why American space exploration reproduced and transformed American cultural and political imag...

The book draws upon the rich information gathered for the online database Catalogue of early German printed music / Verzeichnis deutscher Musikfrüh...

This book addresses the critical terminologies of place and space (and their role within medieval studies) in a considered and critical manner, pre...

This title was first published in 2003. A fascinating insight into the economic, social and political processes that shaped the lives of white work...

'How could such a book speak so powerfully to our present moment? The short answer is that we, too, live in dark times' Washington PostHannah Arend...

This was first published in 2000: A study of John Ruskin's engagement with art and architecture as a critic, a patron and a teacher. It offers insi...

First Published in 2000. This Volume III of three of a series on Africa. Written in 1881, using the evidence of history and language, this text lo...

This title was first published in 2003. The essay collection explores the conjunctions of nation, gender, and visual representation in a number of ...

Using an interdisciplinary and transhistorical framework this book examines the cultural, material, and symbolic articulations of Irish migration r...

This title was first published in 2000: A manifestation of mass hysteria, a compensation for physical or emotional deprivation, or an alternative t...

This title was first published in 2003. In this new socio-cultural study of the history of the theatre in early modern England, author Paola Puglia...

The overthrow of the democratically elected government of Salvador Allende and the coming to power of a military regime led by Augusto Pinochet on ...

In Defending Rumba in Havana, anthropologist and dancer Maya J. Berry examines rumba as a way of knowing the embodied and spiritual dimensions of B...

In Defending Rumba in Havana, anthropologist and dancer Maya J. Berry examines rumba as a way of knowing the embodied and spiritual dimensions of B...

This book explores how Diasporic Black women engage in politics, highlighting three dimensionscitizenship, power, and justicethat are foundational ...

This book traces the development of the Polish theory of history, analysing how Jerzy Topolski, Krzysztof Pomian, and Olga Tokarczuk have both buil...