Social & Cultural History

On August 27, 2007, the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld an earlier district court ruling that sport climbing on a Washoe Indian sacred s...

Too often, observers and writers of Texas history have accepted assumptions about labor movements in the stateboth organized and notthat do not bea...

Legend has it that Damascus once had 365 hammams or 'Turkish baths': one for each day of the year. Originally part of an ancient Roman tradition, h...

THE BOOK THAT EXPOSED THE HEARTBREAKING SCANDAL OF BRITAIN'S FORGOTTEN AND ABUSED CHILD MIGRANTS - now a film, Oranges and Sunshine, starring Emily...

The ten essays published in this volume were written over the space of a decade, but they were conceived from the start as a coherent whole, presen...

This in-depth narrative history of the interactions between English settlers and American Indians during the Virginia colonys first century explain...

Ireland, 1919: When Sinn Féin proclaims Dáil Éireann the parliament of the independent Irish republic, London declares the new assembly to be illeg...

This book argues that Ford Madox Browns murals in the Great Hall of Manchester Town Hall (187893) were the most important public art works of their...

Each working day 500 million people across the planet experience the miracle and misery of commuting. Whether undertaken by car, bus, train or bicy...

Far and away the most incisive examination of the central development in contemporary politics: the rise of populism on both the right and the left...

In Masculinity and Sexuality in Modern Mexico, historians and anthropologists explain how evolving notions of the meaning and practice of manhood h...

Queen Bees looks at the lives of six remarkable women who made careers out of being society hostesses, including Lady Astor, who went on to become ...

Casey was one of a group of Fenians arrested in 1865 in Cork and transported to Western Australia with other Fenians captured in the abortive 1867 ...

A New York Times bestseller An astonishing-and astonishingly entertaining-history of Hollywood's transformation over the past five decades as seen...

A captivating journey along the iconic River Po and through Italian history, society and culture.The Po is the longest river in Italy, travelling f...

THE INSPIRATION FOR THE MAJOR NEW NETFLIX SERIES, HOW TO CHANGE YOUR MIND'It's a trip - engrossing, eye-opening, mind altering' New Statesman 'Fas...

The law comes from, and runs through, society at all levels. It regulates human interactions and touches individuals at key moments in their lives....

For 150 years, Down's Syndrome has constituted the archetypal mental disability, easily recognisable by distinct facial anomalies and physical stig...

'Marvellously engaging' The Times'Brisk, informative and eye-opening' Daily TelegraphIn the 1600s, vast numbers of people left England for the Amer...

When World War II ended, Americans celebrated a military victory abroad, but the meaning of peace at home was yet to be defined. From roughly 1943 ...

Dine like the lords and ladies and bring the high society meals and treats home with these 100 delicious recipes inspired by Netflixs most-watched ...

Fairness and Freedom compares the history of two open societies - New Zealand and the United States - with much in common. Both have democratic pol...

In Why the Vote Wasn't Enough for Selma Karlyn Forner rewrites the heralded story of Selma to explain why gaining the right to vote did not bring a...