Social & Cultural History

The definitive companion for anyone seeking to delve beneath the surface of Naples. Naples is an Italian city like no other. Drama and darkness ar...

Multiple conflicting perspectives come together in this collection to provide a Rashomon-style account of marriage, fraud, and trickery in seventee...

Until the late twentieth century, relatively few Americans knew that the United States government forcibly detained nearly 120,000 Japanese America...

Li Zhi's iconoclastic interpretations of history, religion, literature, and social relations have fascinated Chinese intellectuals for centuries. H...

Since its first publication in 2008, The Secret History of the World has sold over 250,000 copies and established itself as the authoritative text ...

Migrant Representations pairs twenty-four carefully selected histories in order to compare how migrants themselves Irish labourer, Lithuanian refu...

* A TIMES BEST SCIENCE BOOK OF THE YEAR *From the prize-winning author of Adventures in the Anthropocene, the astonishing story of how culture enab...

Like many societies across the world, the region of Awadh in North India has been bilingual throughout its history. But literary histories of the r...

This book uncovers the complex interconnections between politics and finance in the midst of the French Revolution. Charting the trajectories of me...

In the Footsteps of Flora Tristan is the first ever study devoted to Jules Puech (18791957), and is a double biography that examines his lifes work...

A vivid memoir of life in one of New York Citys most dynamic neighborhoods Growing Up Bank Street is an evocative, tender account of life in Greenw...

Enlightened Oxford aims to discern, establish, and clarify the multiplicity of connections between the University of Oxford, its members, and the w...

Ciudad Juárez has recently become infamous for its murder rate, which topped 3,000 in 2010 as competing drug cartels grew increasingly violent and ...