Social & Cultural History

This book offers the first comprehensive study of economic conditions and economic life in Roman cities during the late Republic and early Empire. ...

This wide-ranging and original study reveals how prevalent modernism has become in the social sciences. With contributions from a number of leading...

Migration, Mobility and Place in Ancient Italy challenges prevailing conceptions of a natural tie to the land and a demographically settled world. ...

What do anti-colonial histories mean for politics in contemporary India? How can we understand a political terrain that appears crowded with the de...

Historicism and the Human Sciences in Victorian Britain explores the rise and nature of historicist thinking about such varied topics as life, race...

A view of the south of Ireland political, social, geographical through the eyes of a liberal northern protestant being asked to rejoin it. 'A pl...

Humanity today functions as a gigantic, world-encompassing system. Renowned world historian, Patrick Manning traces how this human system evolved f...

An overview of a wide range of aspects of maritime social history in the Tudor and early Stuart period. Traditionally, the history of English mari...

The best new research on medieval clothing and textiles, drawing from a range of disciplines. This year's volume focuses largely on the British Is...

From the Middle Ages onwards, deadly epidemics swept through portions of Spain repeatedly, but the Castilian Plague at the end of the sixteenth cen...

The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain is an authoritative series which surveys the history of publishing, bookselling, authorship and readin...

The first major study of the contemporary German debate over normalization and its impact across the range of cultural, political, economic, intell...

HOW THE GOLDEN AGE OF TRANSATLANTIC TRAVEL BETWEEN THE WARS TRANSFORMED WOMEN'S LIVES ACROSS ALL CLASSES - A VIVID CROSS SECTION OF LIFE ON-BOARD T...

''[a] memoir of modern American industrial life, written by the insider who got away - or got away enough to reflect intelligently on where they ca...

Pan-European research on medieval clothing and textiles, drawing from a range of disciplines. This volume continues the series' tradition of bring...

What links Fidel Castro, pirates from the Caribbean and George Washington? Rum. A Rum Tale: Spirit of the New World is a look at the history of one...

An examination of how the Jewsreal and imaginedso challenged the Christian majority in medieval Europe that it became a society that was religiousl...

Humanity today functions as a gigantic, world-encompassing system. Renowned world historian, Patrick Manning traces how this human system evolved f...

In early 2018, Erin Darcy created an online art project, In Her Shoes Women of the Eighth, to safely and anonymously share private stories of the ...

A lively new translation of Strabos complete Geographyan encyclopedic guide to the ancient world of the first century CEconnecting it with the worl...

At the outset of the twentieth century, the management of the British countryside was the preserve of powerful aristocratic estates, the ground wor...