Social & Cultural History

Boom Crisis Heritage, these terms aptly outline the history of global coal mining after 1945. The essays collected in this volume explore this hi...

As Long as the Earth Endures is an annotated collection of almost all of the known Native texts in Miami-Illinois, an Algonquian language of Indian...

This book features all the women inducted in the first fifty years of the US National Inventors Hall of Fame. Each entry first provides a biography...

This volume explores the dialogic relationship between myths and places in the historically, geographically, and culturally diverse context of Indi...

From Napoleon's invasion of Portugal in 1807 to his final defeat at Waterloo, the English theatres played a crucial role in the mediation of the Pe...

From the 1870s to the second decade of the twentieth century, more than fifty exhibitions of so-called exotic people took place in Denmark. Here la...

This book explores the ways in which statues have been experienced in public in different cultures and the role that has been played by statues in ...

Through studying images of blood in film from the mid-1950s to the end of the 1960s, this path-breaking book explores how blood as an (audio)visual...

This path-breaking book explains the processes through which the heterogeneous population of Roma in Europe constitutes itself into a transnational...

This book aims to provide an alternative perspective on the Western New Left (NL) as distinct from currently established right-wing and left-wing v...

the urban West, it is easy to forget that most of the world's population still lives in villages, and despite increasing globalization it remains t...

In this book the author has intended to portray Japan as he finds it rather than as it was in the past. However, the past is not ignored as it woul...

This title was first published in 2002: Becoming Delinquent: British and European Youth, 1650-1950 provides a critical synthesis of the growing bod...

In contemporary society it would seem self-evident that people allow the market to determine the values of products and services. For everything fr...

This book offers a systematic analysis of the violent clashes between the South Indian 'right' and 'left' hand caste divisions that repeatedly rock...

This volume traces transformations in attitudes toward, ideas about, and experiences of religion and the senses in the medieval and early modern pe...

Studies on the reception of the classical tradition are an indispensable part of classical studies. Understanding the importance of ancient civiliz...