Social & Cultural History

Treating the tumultuous period from 1901 to the late 1920s, this book describes social and political conflict in the cradle of agrarian fascism Or...

Aggressive policy, enthusiastic news coverage and sensational novelistic style combined to create a distinctive image of Britain's Empire in late-V...

This book offers a comparison of lay and inquisitorial witchcraft prosecutions. In most of the early modern period, witchcraft jurisdiction in Ital...

In Forging Arizona Anita Huizar-Hernández looks back at a bizarre nineteenth-century land grant scheme that tests the limits of how ideas about rac...

The Bolsheviks took power in Russia 1917 armed with an ideology centered on the power of the worker. From the beginning, however, Soviet leaders al...

During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, North American Indian leaders commonly signed treaties with the European powers and the American an...

In 1863, San Franciscos Board of Supervisors passed a law that criminalized appearing in public in a dress not belonging to his or her sex. Adopted...

Caste, class, and development converge in a booming metropolisOver the course of the twentieth century, Bombays population grew twentyfold as the c...

What does it mean for Black women to organize in a political context that has generally ignored them or been unresponsive although Black women have...

Honorable Mention, 2019 Saul Viener Book Prize, given by the American Jewish Historical Society A vivid history of the American Jewish merchants wh...

What began in spring 2020 as local protests in response to the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police quickly exploded into a massive nation...

Groundbreaking poems in Asian American feminist literatureFierce, raw, and unapologetic, Janice Mirikitanis poetry and prose are as vibrant and res...

With stop-and-frisk laws, new immigration policies, and cuts to social welfare programs, majorities in the United States have increasingly supporte...

Ethnic Europe examines the increasingly complex ethnic challenges facing the expanding European Union. Essays from eleven experts tackle such issue...

For Americans who came of age in the mid-twentieth century, home economics conjures memories of burnt toast and sewing disasters. But as historian ...

Moses Almosnino (1518-1580), arguably the most famous Ottoman Sephardi writer and the only one who was known in Europe to both Jews and Christians,...

From precious jade articles to monumental stone arches, Huizhou salt merchants in Jiangnan lived surrounded by objects in eighteenth-century China....

From Benjamin Franklin's newspaper hoax that faked the death of his rival to Abbie Hoffmans attempt to levitate the Pentagon, pranksters, hoaxers, ...

This second volume of New Italian Migrations to the United States explores the evolution of art and cultural expressions created by and about Itali...

Residents and visitors in todays Seattle would barely recognize the landscape that its founding settlers first encountered. As the city grew, its l...