Social & Cultural History

People from the British and Irish Isles have, for centuries, migrated to all corners of the globe.Wherever they went, the English, Irish, Scots, We...

From its foundation by the Romans in the middle of the first century and its revival under Alfred the Great in the late ninth century, London grew ...

Why did British industrial cities build art museums? By exploring the histories of the municipal art museums in Birmingham, Liverpool, and Manchest...

In 1846, a group of women came together to form what would become one of nineteenth-century Hamiltons most important social welfare institutions. T...

Winner of the 2015 National Jewish Book Award in Education and Jewish Identity from the Jewish Book Council The history of an iconic food in Jewis...

The early American legal system permeated the lives of colonists and reflected their sense of what was right and wrong, honorable and dishonorable,...

What might be gained from reading Native literatures from global rather than exclusively local perspectives of Indigenous struggle? In Trans-Indige...

Winner of the 2015 National Jewish Book Award in Education and Jewish Identity from the Jewish Book Council The history of an iconic food in Jewis...

In 1968, Canadians dared to take a chance on a new kind of politician. Pierre Trudeau, a relative newcomer to federal politics, became the leader o...

From 1505 to 1689, Russia's tsars chose their wives through an elaborate ritual: the bride-show. The realm's most beautiful young maidensprovided t...

A groundbreaking synthesis of food studies, archival theory, and early American literature  There is no eating in the archive. This is not only a p...

Klier's analysis of the motivations behind government policies and attitudes is well documented and convincing.... [An] important and well-research...

Peter Goullart spent nine years in the all-but-forgotten Nakhi Kingdom of south west China. He had a job entirely suited to his inquiring, gossipy...

Situated within the area stretching from Georgian Bay in the north to Lake Simcoe in the east, the Wendat Confederacy flourished for two hundred ye...

Situated within the area stretching from Georgian Bay in the north to Lake Simcoe in the east, the Wendat Confederacy flourished for two hundred ye...

This book surveys the channels through which political ideas and knowledge were conveyed to the English people from the beginning of the reign of E...

In the 1960s and 1970s, minority and women students at colleges and universities across the United States organized protest movements to end racial...

Two Northeast Indian communities with similar histories of colonization accepted Congregational and Moravian missionaries, respectively, within fiv...

An up-close look at the education arms race of after-school learning, academic competitions, and the perceived failure of even our best schools to ...

An Indigenous leader who has dedicated her life to Indigenous Rights, Jody Wilson-Raybould has represented both First Nations and the Crown at the ...

During the 872 days of the Siege of Leningrad (September 1941 to January 1944), the city's inhabitants were surrounded by the military forces of Na...

A groundbreaking synthesis of food studies, archival theory, and early American literature  There is no eating in the archive. This is not only a p...

A vision shared. A manifesto. This remarkable work draws on Ojibway-, Otawa-, and Ishkodawatomi-Anishinabe world views, history, and lived experien...

Black Domers tells the compelling story of racial integration at the University of Notre Dame in the postWorld War II era. In a series of seventy-f...

A vision shared. A manifesto. This remarkable work argues that Anishinabeg need to reconnect with non-colonized modes of thinking, social organizat...

'Captivating, intimate, dazzling epic and revelatory' SIMON SEBAG-MONTEFIORE The story of the family who rose from the Frankfurt ghetto to become s...

What is American food? From barbecue to Jell-O molds to burrito bowls, its history spans a vast patchwork of traditions, crazes, and quirks. A clos...

Will lightning ever strike twice? Can David beat Goliath a second time? These questions haunt everyone in the small town of Milan, Indiana, whose b...

A clear and concise A-to-Z of keywords that echo our current human rights crisis As millions are forced to leave their nations of origin as a resul...

The Black Bruins chronicles the inspirational lives of five Black athletes who faced racial discrimination as teammates at UCLA in the late 1930s. ...

In Erotic Exchanges, Nina Kushner reveals the complex world of elite prostitution in eighteenth-century Paris by focusing on the professional mistr...

The heart of Urbanization in Early and Medieval China consists of translations of three gazetteers written during the Han (206 BCE220 CE), Tang (61...

In A Minor Apocalypse, Robert Blobaum explores the social and cultural history of Warsaw's forgotten war of 19141918. Beginning with the bank panic...

Capturing Education examines the founding of the first tribally controlled American Indian colleges in the late 1960s and early 1970s and follows t...

Stories of House and Home is a social and cultural history of the massive construction campaign that Khrushchev instituted in 1957 to resolve the h...

With a simplicity as disarming as it is frank, Left Handed tells of his birth in the spring of 1868 when the cottonwood leaves were about the size ...

In Saga of Chief Joseph, Helen Addison Howard has written the definitive biography of the great Nez Perce chief, a diplomat among warriors. In time...

The Long Afterlife of Nikkei Wartime Incarceration reexamines the history of imprisonment of U.S. and Canadian citizens of Japanese descent during ...

Originally published in 1967, this remarkable pictographic history consists of more than four hundred drawings and script notations by Amos Bad Hea...

A clear and concise A-to-Z of keywords that echo our current human rights crisis As millions are forced to leave their nations of origin as a resul...

Artemy Kalinovsky's Laboratory of Socialist Development investigates the Soviet effort to make promises of decolonization a reality by looking at t...

Capturing Education examines the founding of the first tribally controlled American Indian colleges in the late 1960s and early 1970s and follows t...

2017 Nebraska Book Awards Nonfiction: Reference David J. Wisharts Great Plains Indians covers thirteen thousand years of fascinating, dynamic, and ...

2020 SABR Seymour Medal  2019 CASEY Award for Best Baseball Book of the Year Buck ONeil once described him as Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, and Tris Speaker ...

Sovereign Schools tells the epic story of one of the early battles for reservation public schools. For centuries indigenous peoples in North Americ...