Social & Cultural History

This collection of essays looks at the shared experience of exile across different groups in the early modern period. Contributors argue that exile...

A small record consisting of six to seven lines that has been published by eminent epigraphists several times, would require a fresh interpretation...

This book presents new empirical studies of social difference in the Nordic welfare states, in order to advance novel theoretical perspectives on t...

The long-term development of public green spaces such as parks, public gardens, and recreation grounds in London during the twentieth century is a ...

World exhibitions have been widely acknowledged as important sources for understanding the development of the modern consumer and urbanized society...

Icons of Space: Advances in Hierotopy brings together important scholars of Byzantine religion, art, and architecture, to honour the work of renown...

This title was first published in 2001. Of the many far reaching issues facing post-communist states in the wake of the collapse of communist rule,...

This book brings together empirical evidences and theoretical perspectives to provide a comprehensive overview of the microfinance sector in India....

In March 1757 early in the Seven Years War a British privateer intercepted an Irish ship, the Two Sisters of Dublin, as it returned home from Bor...

The European World 15001800 provides a concise and authoritative textbook for the centuries between the Renaissance and the French Revolution. It p...

Focusing on Belgium from the mid-nineteenth century until the First World War, Vleugels presents a study of the drunkard in society.

Epidemics, migration and territorial losses led to population decline in early nineteenth-century Turkey. In response, Ottoman elites began a progr...

This title was first published in 2001. The eminent historian of Victorian Britain, Walter L. Arnstein has, over the course of a career spanning mo...

This book traces connections in pre-modern Asia by looking at different worlds across geography, history and society. It examines how regions were ...

The eleventh century in Byzantium is all about being in between, whether this is between Basil II and Alexios Komnenos, between the forces of the N...

This book, first published in 1998, studies the social impact of Doi Moi, a policy of economic renovation, on the living conditions in state forest...

The history of medicine and disease in colonial India remains a dynamic and innovative field of research, covering many facets of health, from gove...

Dahomeys Royal Architecture examines the West African kingdom of Dahomey, located in present-day Republic of Benin. The book explores the Royal Pal...

First published in 1930, this volume aimed to provide an overview of folk-lore which contrasted with the Anthropological school. Consciously workin...

First published in 1997, Carabott creates a volume exploring the struggle between the forces of modernity and those who resisted and denied it, pro...

Marginality assumes a variety of forms in current discussions of the Middle Ages. Modern scholars have considered a seemingly innumerable list of p...

This book explores how Irelands community media outlets reflect and shape identity at the local level. While aspects of its culture date back centu...

George Abraham Griersons Linguistic Survey of India is one of the most complete sources on South Asian languages. This book is the first detailed e...

In this compilation, first published in 1999, Ian Ledsham compiles an extensive catalogue of the Shaw-Hellier Collection, complete with diagrams re...