Social & Cultural History

Ordering Customs explores how Renaissance Venetians sought to make sense of human difference in a period characterized by increasing global contact...

Journalism in the Civil War Era presents the historical context of Civil War journalismplacing the press of the era within the entire nineteenth c...

Between 1550 and 1750 London became the greatest city in Europe and one of the most vibrant economic and cultural centres in the world. This book i...

The best new research on medieval clothing and textiles, drawing from a range of disciplines. This sixth volume of Medieval Clothing and Textiles ...

A family's recently discovered correspondence provides the inspiration for this fascinating and deeply moving account of Jewish family life before,...

In this innovative study, Lukas Engelmann examines visual traditions in modern medical history through debates about the causes, impact and spread ...

Examining an intramural conflict that erupted within the English Faculty at Cambridge University in the early 1980s, this book develops a theoretic...

In this major new study, Margherita Zanasi argues that basic notions of a free market economy emerged in China a century and half earlier than in E...

Nine writers trace the public and private lives of nine sets of sisters. Artists, publishers, writers, educationalists, philanthropists, revolution...

Eoin MacNeill (1867-1945) was a founding figure in the Gaelic League, the Irish Volunteers, and the government of Ireland. As Professor of Early (i...

Adopting a life story approach, this book explores the memories of those who attended Irish secondary schools prior to 1967. It serves to initiate ...

The Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller 'This second volume of memoirs is as fascinating as the first....full of wit, joy, vivid vignettes and useful ...

'Dark clouds were looming in the distance. We watched them gather, and we wondered... When will it come? How long will it last?' A monumental storm...

Plains Societies and CulturesIndians of the Great Plains, written by Daniel J. Gelo of The University of Texas at San Antonio, is a text that empha...

The histories of modern war and childhood were the result of competing urgencies. According to ideals of childhood widely accepted throughout the w...