Social & Cultural History

Déploiements canadiens-français et métis en Amérique du Nord (18e-20e siècle) sheds new light on French-Canadian and Métis deployments in North Ame...

This research monograph answers the question how sustainability driven entrepreneurs (ecopreneurs) deliver their sustainability goals through thei...

Stories from the Land: A Navajo Reader about Monument Valley provides a traditional Navajo view of this iconic landscape and its people. Couched in...

This book looks at the recent history of sex, contraception, and abortion in Australias most conservative state, Queensland. In western nations, th...

Jean Rhys is one of the most compelling writers of the twentieth century. Memories of her Caribbean girlhood haunt the four short and piercingly br...

On the night of July 3, 1870, Elizabeth Tilton confessed to her husband that shed had an affair with their pastor, Henry Ward Beecher. This secret ...

From the 1970s on, Los Angeles was transformed into a center for entertainment, consumption, and commerce for the affluent. Mirroring the urban dev...

A brilliant book, written with wit and vigour MALCOLM GASKILLAbsolutely fascinating IAN MORTIMERHistorian Tabitha Stanmore transports us to a time ...

John Muir is widely and rightly lauded as the nature mystic who added wilderness to the United States vision of itself, largely through the system ...

Winner of the 2023 John C. Ewers Award from the Western History Association 2023 Choice Outstanding Academic Title By examining historical records ...

In a gathering of griot traditions fusing storytelling, cultural history, and social and literary criticism, Put Your Hands on Your Hips and Act Li...

Student-Centered Oral History explores the overlaps of culturally relevant teaching, student-centered teaching, and oral history to demonstrate how...

MasterChef finalist Sarah Rankin has a passion for Scottish produce and flavours and for feeding people. Being a food lover encompasses not just a ...

MasterChef finalist Sarah Rankin has a passion for Scottish produce and flavours and for feeding people. Being a food lover encompasses not just a ...

The modern bathroom is an ingenious compilation of locked doors, smooth porcelain, 4-ply tissue and antibacterial hand soap, but despite this mirac...

The first history of childhood in Tudor England  Tudor Children is social history at its best. . . . By connecting with our own history as children...

Women used automobiles as soon as they had access to them. Black, Indigenous, and White American women utilized the automobile to improve their qua...

This book is a biography in the form of an oral history about a woman whose founding of Arena Stage in Washington, DC in 1950 shifted live professi...

This monograph provides an analysis and contextualization of an extraordinarily successful book, the History of the Great Kingdom of China (Rome 15...

Nominally Christian churches glorify materialism, a gluttony of the soul, while others celebrate an ecstatic indulgence in hate, citing Scripture w...

Evidence of Being opens on a grim scene: Washington DC's gay black community in the 1980s, ravaged by AIDS, the crack epidemic, and a series of uns...

Charles Dickens Oliver Twist exposed a brutal but commonplace system of child exploitation to Victorian readers. Conditions in workhouses, factorie...

In the swinging 1960s, after nearly a century of colonisation, Cambodia had gained its independence and was ready to rock. Young musicians from the...

This volume offers new perspectives on the appeal and profound cultural meaning of socialism over the past two centuries. It brings together schola...

This open access book explores the transnational and transoceanic dimensions of the debate on gender and women's cultural agency and mediation in t...

The first in a collection of essays and book reviews devoted to vital aspects of South Carolina history and culture.

'Witty and scholarly'JONATHAN BATE, SUNDAY TELEGRAPH'Thrilling'GUARDIAN'Illuminating . . . as vital and provocative as the character herself'LITERA...

A Sarong for Clio testifies to an ongoing intellectual dialogue between its ten contributors and Craig J. Reynolds, who inspired these essays. Conc...

The animal-rights organization PETA asked Are Animals the New Slaves? in a controversial 2005 fundraising campaign; that same year, after the Human...