Social & Cultural History

This book analyzes how over the last two decades, immigration regimes in three primary refugee-receiving states in the Global North Canada, Austra...

This book analyzes violence involving Catholics in the nineteenth-century world revealing the motives for violence, showing the link between relig...

Anarchic street performances in late-1950s Japan; inauguration of the first Happenings in Antwerp and charging of the magic circle in Amsterdam; Ba...

A week on a beach, a day at a spa, a hike in the hills -- tourism is taken for granted today, but over the past 500 years, it has played a signific...

A lively discussion between two eminent Indian academics that examines what it means to be an Indian.   Through a stimulating dialogue, two old fri...

One of the most important questions facing scholars of China is how Chinese society is held together. It is now well known that China has been mark...

This volume is a comprehensive historical exploration of the Red Sea, a vital maritime route that connects the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean. ...

The British Takeover of Assam follows the huge British expansion into the Indian territory of Assam during the nineteenth century and the impact of...

An Independent Book of the MonthWhat was the mood of the British people during the middle and later years of the Second World War? How did they rea...

Cuisine and Culture presents a multicultural and multiethnic approach that draws connections between major historical events and how and why these ...

Concerns over privacy grow in our society. Understanding the historical roots of the phenomenon becomes more and more necessary to navigate our co...

Did You Know? No one knows the origin of the word Hogmanay. Until late in the twentieth century, Hogmanay was celebrated on two distinct dates, ...

This book reveals the medieval Mediterranean region as a richly nuanced space of places and peoples connected by a body of water, but far from unif...

This book reveals the medieval Mediterranean region as a richly nuanced space of places and peoples connected by a body of water, but far from unif...

What did everyday Hinduism in India look like a hundred years ago? Were its practices more varied and less politically curtailed than now? Hindi Hi...

This book examines mid-Victorian discourse on the expansion of the British Empires role in the Middle East. It investigates how British political l...

In Anglophone literature, historical questions about urban, socio-economic, political, religious, and cultural development have often been answered...

Counting on Computers: New Information Technologies and Curricular Change in East Germany, 1960s to 1990 is a compelling exploration of socialist a...

In mythology, art history and religious iconography, the apple has been imbued with every imaginable human desire. It has been a symbol of love and...

This book explores contributions by some of the most influential women in the history of philosophy, science, and literature. Ranging from Sappho a...

Daniel Snowman is a social and cultural historian. His latest book is a collection of some of the more provocative essays he has published over man...

On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the foundation of the Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt am Main, in 1923, this book aims at sh...

The galvanizing true story of a group of remarkable women in the 1970s male-run world of business, banking, and finance. They didnt play by the rul...

The galvanizing true story of a group of remarkable women in the 1970s male-run world of business, banking, and finance. They didnt play by the rul...