Social & Cultural History

The classic investigation - inspiration for a major HBO series - revealing the true horror of Europe's racist colonial past in Africa. Over a quar...

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

After the end of World War II when many Southeast Asian nations gained national independence, and up until the Asian Financial Crisis, film industr...

Infanticide in Tudor and Stuart England explores one of societys darkest crimes using archival sources and discussing its representation in the dra...

In Late Antiquity, people commonly sought to acquire hidden knowledge about the past, the present, and the future, using a variety of methods. Whil...

In Beyond This Narrow Now Nahum Dimitri Chandler shows that the premises of W. E. B. Du Bois's thinking at the turn of the twentieth century stand ...

In Beyond This Narrow Now Nahum Dimitri Chandler shows that the premises of W. E. B. Du Bois's thinking at the turn of the twentieth century stand ...

The final major work by one of the most influential thinkers of the twentieth centuryFoucault's History of Sexuality changed the way we think about...

In Racist Love Leslie Bow traces the ways in which Asian Americans become objects of anxiety and desire. Conceptualizing these feelings as racist l...

In Racist Love Leslie Bow traces the ways in which Asian Americans become objects of anxiety and desire. Conceptualizing these feelings as racist l...

In the 1880s and 1890s, Walter Besant was one of Britains most lionized living novelists. Like many popular writers of the period, Besant suffered ...

A key period in the history of food cooperatives that continues to influence how we purchase organic food today Our notions of food co-ops generall...

A key period in the history of food cooperatives that continues to influence how we purchase organic food today Our notions of food co-ops generall...

As Britain entered lockdown in the spring of 2020, drawings, paintings and messages proliferated in windows and gardens across the country: signs o...

'Important, compelling, and detailed . . . a superb analysis of the Wests policy missteps and the tragic consequences of them.' - General David Pet...

For nearly three decades, diplomats, students, business people and governments have relied on Dr. Margaret Nydell's seminal work as the essential...

Based on ethnographic observations and interviews with prisoners, correctional officers, and civilian staff conducted in solitary confinement units...

One of our most celebrated historians shows how we can use the lessons of the past to build a new post-covid society in BritainThe 'duty of care' w...

Dickensian London is brought to real and vivid life in this Wolfson History Prize-shortlisted portrait by a rising-star historian and New Generatio...

In Caribes 2.0, author Jossianna Arroyo looks at the Caribbean mediasphere in the twenty-first century. Arroyo argues that we have seen a return to...

In the 1880s and 1890s, Walter Besant was one of Britains most lionized living novelists. Like many popular writers of the period, Besant suffered ...

Nothing can change the terrible facts of the Sand Creek Massacre. The human toll of this horrific event and the ensuing loss of a way of life have ...