Social & Cultural History

This handbook provides an overview on relevant structural features from a cultural-historical perspective and thereby examines to what extent the B...

At the zenith of its power, Britain, the Workshop of the World, dominated the globe with military might and commercial acuity. The celebration of Q...

The incomparable first-hand account of the historic Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada told by one of the commissioners who led it. The...

Based on a previously unexplored source, this book transforms the way we think about the formation of Jewish identity This book tells the story of ...

I.B.Tauris in association with the Institute of Ismaili StudiesThe world's 200 million Shi'i Muslims express their faith in a multiplicity of ways,...

Moving from the mid-seventeenth century to the near present, this book marks physical and conceptual changes across European towns and examines how...

The Hermetic Museum takes readers on a magical mystery tour spanning an arc from the medieval cosmogram and images of Christian mysticism, through ...

This timely and accessible book explores the shifting representations of schoolteachers and professors in plays and performances primarily from the...

This book considers tourism to memorial sites from a visitors point of view, challenging established theories in tourism and memory studies by crit...

In the decades directly following the Holocaust, American Jewish leaders anxiously debated how to preserve and produce what they considered authent...

The Church and the Land is the first scholarly history of the Catholic rural life movement in the United States from its beginning in the 1920s to ...

The baby boomers and postwar suburbia remain a touchstone. For many, there is a belief that it has never been as good for youngsters and their fam...

Born Catholic. Raised Catholic. Americans across generations have used these phrases to describe their formative days, but the experience of growin...

Raif Shwayri begins his family's story with his grandfather Habib Shwayri's arrival at Ellis Island in 1902. Having left Beirut, then a harbor city...

This book examines the emergence of professional advertising in western India during the interwar period. It explores the ways in which global manu...

Since its first publication in 1984, Night Falls in Ardnamurchan has become a classic account of the life and death of a Highland community. The au...

When called upon to name a noteworthy woman who lived in Oswego County, New York, most people would respond with Dr. Mary Walker, Elmina Spencer, o...

There have been many books about the doctors of the Third Reich and their atrocities. Most of these books neglect the contribution of women in the ...

'Delicious... Wonderful' Guardian'Fascinating... Full of incident and food for thought' Mail on Sunday'Delightful... Vogler offers up a feast of ta...

On Tropical Grounds develops a new approach to the avant-garde and Surrealism in Caribbean and Atlantic studies. The book examines how islands and ...

Drawing on a wide variety of archival and secondary sources, The Charitable Imperative, originally published in 1989, provides an overview of the v...

Originally published in 1939, The Diary of Dudley Ryder 17151716, comprises an early diary and a few related notes by Sir Dudley Ryder when he was ...

They call it Spanish Harlem or sometimes just El Barrio. But for over a century, East Harlem has been a melting pot of many ethnic groups, includin...

Embracing Queer Students Diverse Identities at Historically Black Colleges and Universities: A Primer for Presidents, Administrators, and Faculty i...

[A] striking, thoroughly researched depiction of just how much persistence and inventiveness it took for a woman in Colonial America to retain secu...

Challenges the romantic portrayal of Spanish missionsSites of slavery and spiritual conquest, the California missions played a central role in the ...

Thirty years after its original publication, this newly imagined edition brings the work and musings of fifteen Black literary luminaries in conver...

Soviet Literature in the Sixties (1965) examines the Soviet literary scene and its changes following the death of Stalin. Not least among these cha...

The Russian Orthodox Church (1986) concentrates on the recent history of the church, examining the situation of Russian Orthodox believers in the S...

De-Stalinization and the House of Culture (1990) looks at the houses of culture arts centres which in the Stalinist period functioned as agencies ...

Women in Soviet Russia (1933) was the first attempt to provide a comprehensive account of the position of women in the Soviet Union. It looks at th...

On Tropical Grounds develops a new approach to the avant-garde and Surrealism in Caribbean and Atlantic studies. The book examines how islands and ...

In August 1968, the Pakistani foreign minister visited Beijing and presented Chairman Mao with a crate of mangoes. Apparently, Mao immediately sent...

A stunning bilingual, illustrated, and photographic account of a celebrated Mexican tradition The lively Mexican holiday of Dia de Los Muertos (Day...

Giant redwoods are American icons, paragons of grandeur, exceptionalism, and endurance. They are also symbols of conflict and negotiation, remnants...

Zuo Tradition (Zuozhuan; sometimes called The Zuo Commentary) is Chinas first great work of history. It consists of two interwoven texts - the Spri...

Ring Around the Maple is about the condition of children in Canada from roughly 1850 to 2000, a time during which the modern increasingly disrupted...