Social & Cultural History

Virgil's fourth Eclogue is one of the most quoted, adapted and discussed works of classical literature. This study traces the fortunes of Eclogue 4...

Martin Luther - monk, priest, intellectual, or revolutionary - has been a controversial figure since the sixteenth century. Most studies of Luther ...

The classic, definitive biography of Marilyn Monroe, now updated in the year of the 60th anniversary of the iconic star's death - now a major Netfl...

'I Feel Fine' is a beautifully produced official book, a must-buy for every Reds fan wanting to revel in the colour, culture and pride of Jurgen Kl...

If you are looking for happy, positive or uplifting stories then this might not be the book for you. If, on the other hand, tales of human tragedy...

In the late fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, courtliness was crucial to the political and cultural life of the Deccan. Divided between six states...

**Winner of the 2020 PARLIAMENTARY BOOK AWARDS for Best Political Book by a Non-Parliamentarian**A Times Political Book of the Year'An entertaining...

This book addresses how gender became a defining category in the political and social modernization of Japan. During the early decades of the Meiji...

Playful, popular visions of Troy and Carthage, backdrops to the Iliad and Aeneid's epic narratives, shine the spotlight on antiquity's starring rol...

Were Pope Pius XII and the Catholic Church in Germany unduly singled out after 1945 for their conduct during the National Socialist era? Mark Edwar...

'Fierce, funny and long overdue - I read this book out loud to anyone who'd listen.' Adam Kay'Toksvig's Almanac is intended merely as a starting po...

Contrary to claims that socialism opposed the family unit, Rachel Hynson argues that the revolutionary Cuban government engaged in social engineeri...

An exciting, fresh look at one of the most important questions of medieval scholarship - the decline of serfdom and its implications. Scholars fro...

The first two decades of the twenty-first century have witnessed a rise of populism and decline of public confidence in many of the formal institut...

Based on original Stasi and Communist Party archival sources, this book uncovers why East Germany was for two decades running one of the most succe...

Between 1885 and 1960, laws and policies designed to repress prostitution dramatically shaped London's commercial sex industry. This book examines ...

A repositioning of French women's struggle for suffrage within the distinct cultural landscape of the masculine honour system. Whether activists de...

From the stories of wives and their lovers to those of kings and their conquests, to the overarching story of Shahrazad and Shahryar, the tales of ...

This volume fills this gap by examining the many ways in which political parties, the business world, foreign policymakers, and the intelligence co...

The River Nile fascinated the Romans and appeared in maps, written descriptions, texts, poems and paintings of the developing empire. Tantalised by...

This book examines female lordship and the power of the political voice in medieval Northern Europe, focusing on three prominent, foreign-born quee...