Social & Cultural History

Pauline Wengeroff's Memoirs of a Grandmother offers a unique first-person window into traditionalism, modernity, and the tensions linking the two i...

Numbering between 25 and 35 million worldwide, the Kurds are among the largest culturally and ethnically distinct people to remain stateless. A Peo...

The Young Lords, who originated as a Chicago street gang fighting gentrification and unfair evictions in Puerto Rican neighborhoods, burgeoned into...

This ground-breaking documentary history contains over 150 primary sources originally written in 15 languages by or about Sephardi Jewsdescendants ...

Divine Variations offers a new account of the development of scientific ideas about race. Focusing on the production of scientific knowledge over t...

When Vichy France and the Jews was first published in France in 1981, the reaction was explosive. Before the appearance of this groundbreaking book...

When Vichy France and the Jews was first published in France in 1981, the reaction was explosive. Before the appearance of this groundbreaking book...

Africana Health Psychology: A Cultural Perspective consists of a discussion of health psychology among populations of African descent throughout th...

Uncovers how the Civil Rights Movement and Vatican II affected African American Catholics in Atlanta The history and practices of African American...

A journey through Europes old towns, exploring why we treasure thembut also what they hide about a continents fraught history  [A] fascinating chro...

The world of wealth and patronage that we associate with sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century Italy can make the Renaissance seem the exclusive...

This study of the Confessions engages with contemporary philosophers and psychologists antagonistic to religion and demonstrates the enduring value...

The emergence into pop culture of quaint and simple Ozarks Mountaineersthrough the writings of Vance Randolph, Wayman Hogue, Charles Morrow Wilson,...

This interdisciplinary study presents compelling evidence for a revolutionary idea: that to understand the historical entrenchment of gentility in ...

Southern Italy's strategic location at the crossroads of the Mediterranean gave it a unique position as a frontier for the major religious faiths o...

The Mamluk City in the Middle East offers an interdisciplinary study of urban history, urban experience, and the nature of urbanism in the region u...

In this worldwide survey, Clive Gamble explores the evolution of the human imagination, without which we would not have become a global species. He...

In Vienna after WWI and Berlin after WWII, the provision of mass housing not only was a response to a dire social need but also served as a key lev...