Social & Cultural History

The transition from royal to popular sovereignty during the age of democratic revolutions--from 1776 to 1848--entailed not only the reorganization ...

Across their empire, the British spoke ceaselessly of deviants of undesirables, ne'er do wells, petit-tyrants and rogues. With obvious literary app...

He destroys in order to create. In a sweeping critique of the field, Benjamin Schreier resituates Jewish Studies in order to make room for a critic...

The authors in this volume analyze spiritual kinship in Europe from the end of the Middle Ages to the Industrial Age. Uniquely comparing Catholic, ...

Finalist, 2019 PROSE Award in Biography, given by the Association of American Publishers Fifty years after the start of the womens liberation movem...

Genuine karate is an Okinawan martial art for self-defense; its ongoing globalization has jeopardized its inherent effectiveness. The changes made...

Official and popular celebrations marked the Brazilian empire's days of national festivity, and these civic rituals were the occasion for often int...

Choice Top 25 Academic Title How activists and minority communities use media to facilitate social change and achieve cultural citizenship. Among ...

An intimate portrait of the postwar lives of Korean children and women Korean children and women are the forgotten population of a forgotten war. ...

An encyclopedic and richly detailed history of everyday life in the Soviet UnionThe Soviet Union is gone, but its ghostly traces remain, not least ...

'Ian Stone has one of the sharpest comic minds in the country. I would read anything hes written about anything. This book made me start listening ...

A history of the Ottoman incorporation of Arab lands that shows how gentlemanly salons shaped culture, society, and governanceHistorians have typic...

_______'A history book that should be read by all' - Stylist. Set against the background of the campaign for women to win the vote, this is a story...

Charlemagne and Rome is a wide-ranging exploration of cultural politics in the age of Charlemagne. It focuses on a remarkable inscription commemora...

Book Prize Winner of the International Alliance for Women in Music of the 2022 Pauline Alderman Awards for Outstanding Scholarship on Women in Musi...

The remarkable woman at heart of the smash New York Times bestseller and Oscar-winning film Hidden Figures tells the full story of her life, includ...

The pressures Asian Americans feel to be socially and economically exceptional include an unspoken mandate to always be healthy. Nowhere is this mo...

Dressing Up shows why clothes made history and history can be about clothes. It imagines the Renaissance afresh by considering people's appearances...

Shipwrecks and the Bounty of the Sea is a work of social history examining community relationships, law, and seafaring over the long early modern p...

An Exhibition History of Victorian Leeds is a groundbreaking account of the citys cultural history through its public exhibitions. Offering a vivid...

Join award-winning broadcaster Alvin Hall on a journey through Americas haunted racial past, with the legendary Green Book as your guide.For countl...