Social & Cultural History

The caliphs and sultans who once ruled the Muslim world were often assisted by powerful Jewish, Christian, Zoroastrian, and other non-Muslim state ...

From the turn of the twentieth century until the end of the Irish Civil War, Protestant nationalists forged a distinct counterculture within an inc...

This is the story of one of the most far-reaching human endeavors in history: the quest for mental well-being. From its origins in the eighteenth c...

This is a groundbreaking examination of the attempts to regulate female sexuality in twentieth-century Northern Ireland, which opens up new and exc...

One Nation Under Blackmail is a damning indictment of the consequences resulting from the nearly century old relationship between both US and Israe...

Personal, provocative and powerfully persuasive - an essential guide to what white feminism is, why it matters, and how we can put an end to it'Tho...

Mani, a third-century preacher, healer and public sage from Sasanian Mesopotamia, lived at a pivotal time and place in the development of the major...

Tattooing is an ancient practice with profound religious and cultural significance. While western tattooing centres on three main traditions - Poly...

A SPECTATOR AND EVENING STANDARD BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020'A joy. Each chapter instantly became my favourite' David Mitchell, author of Cloud Atlas'Won...

How were manorial lords in the twelfth and thirteenth century able to appropriate peasant labour? And what does this reveal about the changing atti...

A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF 2022'Well-researched and readable' - Financial Times'An absorbing, pacy read' - New Statesman'The story of lycra-clad fem...

A FAMILY STORY AND THE TALE OF A NATION.Ai Weiwei - one of the world's most famous artists and activists - weaves a century-long epic tale of China...

Pilgrim shrines were places of healing, holiness, and truth in early modern France. By analyzing the creation of these pilgrim shrines as natural, ...

The Origins of Modern Science is the first synthetic account of the history of science from antiquity through the Scientific Revolution in many dec...

The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries was an era of continuity as well as change. Though properly portrayed as the era of 'Protestant Ascendancy'...

Emotions are not universal, but are experienced and expressed in diverse ways within different cultures and times. This overview of the history of ...

The Chinese experience in Hawaii has long been told as a story of inclusion and success. During the Cold War, the United States touted the Chinese ...

The Chinese experience in Hawaii has long been told as a story of inclusion and success. During the Cold War, the United States touted the Chinese ...

Over the course of the twentieth century, campaigns to increase access to modern birth control methods spread across the globe and fundamentally al...

Chinas modern history has been marked by deep spatial inequalities between regions, between cities, and between rural and urban areas. Contemporary...

In the dying light of the nineteenth century, the world came to know and fear terrorism. Like today, this was a time of progress and dread, charact...