Social & Cultural History

This new interpretation of the history of nursing in the United States captures the many ways women reframed the most traditional of all gender exp...

Indigenous Languages and the Promise of Archives captures the energy and optimism that many feel about the future of community-based scholarship, w...

The Classic Maya civilization, which thrived between 200-950 CE in eastern Mesoamerica, faced many environmental challenges, including those wrough...

The Ottoman Empire enforced imperial rule through its management of diversity. For centuries, non-Muslim religious institutions, such as the Armeni...

At the beginning of the 1970s, broadcast news and a few newspapers such as The New York Times wielded national influence in shaping public discours...

Honoring relatives by tending graves, building altars, and cooking festive meals has been a major tradition among Latin Americans for centuries. Th...

This is a selection of essays written during the first decade of the twenty-first century, by a figure widely acknowledged as the conscience of Eur...

The Industrial Revolution in Britain from the eighteenth to the nineteenth century had profound effects on social and economic conditions; the work...

A facsimile collection of two important publications which represent the picturesque travelogues in Wales of the romantic era of 18th-century and e...

Facsimile reproductions of six collections of fairy tales by three female writers: Madame d'Aulnoy, Anne Thackeray Ritchie, and Mary de Morgan pub...

A facsimile collection of five volumes with more than 3,100 pages, the set includes three major reference works of Sports and Leisure first publis...

Modern international business has its origins in the overseas trade of the Middle Ages. Of the various communities active in trade in the Islamic c...

History shows that it does not matter who is in power... those who have not learned to do for themselves and have to depend solely on others, never...

Emotions in a Crusading Context is the first book-length study of the emotional rhetoric of crusading. It investigates the ways in which a number o...

A condensed and accessible intellectual history that traces the genesis of the ideas that have built into the #BlackLivesMatter movement in a bid t...

The countrys wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, its interventions around the world, and its global military presence make war, the military, and militar...

In The Coming Man from Canton Christopher W. Merritt mines the historical and archaeological record of the Chinese immigrant experience in Montana ...

Examines LatCrits emergence as a scholarly and activist community within and beyond the US legal academy Emerging from the US legal academy in 1995...

This volume is the first scholarly treatment of the News of the World from news-rich broadsheet to sensational tabloid. Contributors uncover new fa...

In this book, twelve scholars of early modern history analyse various categories and cases of deception and false identity in the age of geographic...