Social & Cultural History

This book explores the issue of cultural mobility within the interwar network of the European avant-garde, focusing on selected writers, artists, a...

This book studies how the act of migration is a motivating constituent in the production of popular culture in both the homeland and the destinatio...

Analyzing Indian women's groups as one sector of a complex of new grass-roots, non-party political movements, Dr. Caiman considers why and how a wo...

This book gathers contributions on the topic of astrology in the West during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, from 19142022. It is the fir...

This is the first critical work on the history of the French Riviera from its origins in the eighteenth century to the present day in the English ...

In Carnalities, Mariana Ortega presents a phenomenological study of aesthetics grounded in the work of primarily Latinx artists. She introduces the...

The Garden Retreat in Asia and Europe explores the meaning of gardens and designed landscapes as places of retreat and refuge in times of need or e...

This book studies British cultural engagement with Napoleon Bonaparte from his 1815 surrender and time in British custody, until the return of his ...

Modern psychiatry is firmly rooted in antecedents from classical antiquity, from the ancient Greek concept of therapeutics of the soul (an ancient ...

Modern psychiatry is firmly rooted in antecedents from classical antiquity, from the ancient Greek concept of therapeutics of the soul (an ancient ...