Social & Cultural History

How far would you go for the missing?When Clair Wills was in her twenties, she discovered she had a cousin she had never met. Born in a Mother and ...

From the time of the ancient Greeks onwards the West's relationship with Asia consisted for the most part of outrageous tales of strange beasts and...

The Real Charles Dickens is an insightful look into the world of the life and work of the great 19th-century writer. Dickens led one of the most co...

Reconceptualizing the relationship between race and Islam in the United States, No God but Man theorizes race as an epistemology using the FBIs pos...

A celebration and a salute to 100 brave, determined, creative women over the past few centuries who have shaped North Americas heritage and landsca...

An anthology of original essays that examine white supremacy around the globe through the lens of anthropologyWhite supremacy, an entrenched global...

An anthology of original essays that examine white supremacy around the globe through the lens of anthropologyWhite supremacy, an entrenched global...

Reconceptualizing the relationship between race and Islam in the United States, No God but Man theorizes race as an epistemology using the FBIs pos...

Although Puerto Rican artists have always been central figures in contemporary American and international art worlds, they have largely gone unreco...

Although Puerto Rican artists have always been central figures in contemporary American and international art worlds, they have largely gone unreco...

The Enlightenment was a laboratory of modernity that changed the history of the Western world, helping to bring about globalisation and the rise of...

How did the temple-scape of Suzhou transform into garden-scape during the 13th to 16th centuries? This book investigates the landscape evolution of...

Historians have largely tended to regard Polish Jewish history and German Jewish history, from the Middle Ages to the present, as playing out solel...

Offers Bioethics a bold approach to redress its failing of Black women Black people, and especially Black women, suffer and die from diseases at mu...

Offers Bioethics a bold approach to redress its failing of Black women Black people, and especially Black women, suffer and die from diseases at mu...

In 1905, sanitary conditions in Pennsylvania were appalling. Thousands of children died of preventable and curable diseases, tens of thousands in t...

In 1905, sanitary conditions in Pennsylvania were appalling. Thousands of children died of preventable and curable diseases, tens of thousands in t...

A wide-ranging look at the history of Western thinking since the seventeenth century on the purpose of the Jewish people in the past, present, and ...

Worlds of the Ring is a groundbreaking exploration of the interwar European circus scene, focusing on the German Sarrasani and British Bertram W. M...

An intimate history of the pornographic publisher behind some of the greatest works of the twentieth-century avant-garde.From the 1930s to the 1970...

This book is an innovative exploration of nineteenth-century family life and society. The first study of its kind, it uses the sibling relationship...

This book includes the history of Chinese literature before 1949. It firstly outlines the development process of Chinese literature and basic featu...

Through ideas relating to identity and culture, this text outlines historical perspectives of Wales and explores path dependency in an institution ...

Migration has been a central, defining element of Jewish life since Antiquity. Over the centuries, it has become the subject of a rich and diverse ...

This book describes momentous events in the American and French Revolutions. The American revolutionaries were nationalist patriots, who wanted ind...

This book arises from papers presented at the first international academic conference by the Middle East and Central Asia Research Center (MECARC) ...

This volume provides an examination of the kind of free (or nearly free) libraries which were available to the general public in England and Wales ...

This volume provides an examination of the kind of free (or nearly free) libraries which were available to the general public in Scotland and Wales...

This Palgrave Pivot examines the history of the largely urban offence once known as vitriol throwing because the substance most commonly used was s...

A new critical method for the Divine Comedy which focuses not only on language-as-writing but also and equally on other discursive modes that the D...

In this important volume, leading scholars take an honest look at the progress since Brown v. Board of Education. Critical and forward-looking chap...

In this important volume, leading scholars take an honest look at the progress since Brown v. Board of Education. Critical and forward-looking chap...

Drawing on archival and ethnographic work, this book analyzes how indigeneity, Christianity and state-making became intertwined in the Colombian Am...

The book is concerned with the history of football and its role in Balkan society. The aim is to analyse and discuss various aspects of football as...

Homosexuals were mustered out of military service in the Bundeswehr until 1979, after which homosexuality alone was no longer considered grounds fo...

Defining the Chief Executive via flash powder and selfie sticks Lincolns somber portraits. Lyndon Johnsons swearing in. George W. Bushs reaction to...

Engaging with the long history of emotions, this book provides a new narrative of how grief was defined, experienced and used in Ancient Rome. From...

This is the first comprehensive history of conscription and the military in Italy from the Restoration to the eve of WWI. The comparative and trans...

Serving Aristocracy is the history of social negotiation and mobility in an early modern knowledge community, centred on the aristocratic De la Gar...

Serving Aristocracy is the history of social negotiation and mobility in an early modern knowledge community, centred on the aristocratic De la Gar...