Social & Cultural History

Throughout the twentieth century, the city was deemed a problematic space, one that Americans urgently needed to improve. Although cities from New ...

The distinction among slaves is as marked, as the classes of society are in any aristocratic community. Some refusing to associate with others whom...

In the decade after the death of their revered chief Cochise in 1874, the Chiricahua Apaches struggled to survive as a people and their relations w...

A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF 2022'Well-researched and readable' - Financial Times'An absorbing, pacy read' - New Statesman'The story of lycra-clad fem...

First published in 1990, Children and Childhood in Classical Athens was the first book in English to explore the lives of children in ancient Athen...

Recollecting Lotte Eisner provides the first in-depth examination of the remarkable transnational career of film journalist, archivist, and histori...

The Harlem Renaissance was a cultural awakening among African Americans between the two world wars. It was the cultural phase of the New Negro move...

Among the Garifuna: Family Tales and Ethnography from the Caribbean Coast is an intimate ethnographic narrative of one indigenous family in the twe...

Amazonian Kichwa of the Curaray River is an exploration of the dynamics of regional societies and the ways in which kinship relationships define th...

Mara L. Keire's history of red-light districts in the United States offers readers a fascinating survey of the business of pleasure from the 1890s ...

Home Fires tells the fascinating story of how changes in home heating over the nineteenth century spurred the growth of networks that helped remake...

America is famously known as a nation of immigrants. Millions of Europeans journeyed to the United States in the peak years of 1892-1924, and Ellis...

Jenna M. Gibbs explores the world of theatrical and related print production on both sides of the Atlantic in an age of remarkable political and so...

French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau wrote, the general effect of the theatre is to strengthen the national character to augment the national i...

The market for works of civil rights history and civil rights biographies continues to be strong, this is a key, early biography of Dr. Martin Luth...

Uncovers the history of creative adaptation and transformation through a close analysis of the creation of the Sefer Hasidim book.   In 1538, a par...

Anthropology is a flourishing discipline in Southeast Asia. Southeast Asian Anthropologies renders visible the development of national traditions a...