Social & Cultural History

Ackroyd makes history accessible to the layman Ian Thomson, Independent Innovation brings Peter Ackroyds History of England to a triumphant close....

Heiresses is a glorious book, endlessly entertaining and about much more than its stated subject. Thompson is a fabulous writer' Caroline O'Donoghu...

In this ground-breaking work, Paul Gilroy proposes that the modern black experience can not be defined solely as African, American, Carribean or Br...

Voices of the GameCurt Smith is the voice of authority on baseball broadcasting. USA Today#1 New Release in Photography, Baseball Statistics, Photo...

Grand seaside hotels dominate Britain''s seaside resorts with bold, largescale buildings, often magnificent examples of the most fashionable archit...

In Perfect Wives in Ideal Homes, Virginia Nicholson tells the story of women in the 1950s: a time before the Pill, when divorce spelled scandal and...

In 1872, a woman known only as 'An Ernest Englishwoman' published an open letter entitled 'Are women animals?', in which she protested the fact tha...

'England is a family in which the young are generally thwarted and most of the power is in the hands of irresponsible uncles and bedridden aunts. S...

Mustering out of the U.S. army in 1919, Harry Haywood stepped into a battle that was to last the rest of his life. Within months, he found himself ...

This socialist history of modern Greece tells the story of its rebirth in struggle, the heroic resistance to Nazi occupation, the civil war and its...

What would a greengrocer say if you were to ask for half a dozen Grenadiers and a couple of Catsheads? In the course of the past century we have lo...

London Cemeteries is a comprehensive guide to all cemeteries within Greater London. Listed alphabetically and with a map to help locate them, each ...

A really interesting and provocative take on 1968. This book addresses the truly global dimensionsand the unexpected, often long-term consequenceso...

That 'other world' is examined via a series of 31 essays. These are the openings of a few of them: [3] The Call of the Sea: [I] Rain and Snails It'...

The thirty-three cases in this excellent book give a unique and fascinating insight into life in the Victorian period, in Liverpool and beyond. Alt...

A year-on-year account of the Isle of Man International Scooter Rally, the brainchild of WWI veteran-turned-politician, James Mylchreest Cain. Foll...

Cecilia Lawton's life was changed forever when the bloodiest war in American history began in 1861. The daughter of a wealthy Georgia plantation ow...

A collection of thrilling samurai tales tracing the history of seppuku from ancient times to the twentieth century. The history of seppuku -- Japan...

True stories from the sharp edge of transatlantic deportation. In America, foreign nationals can be deported after serving prison sentences; some ...

A reflection, in chapters, on the lives of members of the author''s family, their friends and neighbours who lived in Orleans and Caledonia countie...

Songs of Power and Prayer in the Columbia Plateau explores the role of song as a transformative force in the twentieth century, tracing a cultural,...

Missouri, 2014. Michael Brown, a black teenager, is shot and killed by Darren Wilson, a white police officer. In this gripping and revelatory dram...

The Olympic games is a striking testimony to the influence which ancient Greece still exercises over the modern world, and to the important place w...

What makes an Irish home? Is it the neatly folded wrapping paper saved for another Christmas? Or the pressure cooker that you can't throw out but y...

Philadelphias Chinatown, like many urban chinatowns, began in the late nineteenth century as a refuge for immigrant laborers and merchants in which...

A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the YearAccording to census projections, by 2050 nearly one in three U.S. residents will be Latino, and the ...

Many people first encounter Hawaii through the imaginationa postcard picture of hula girls, luaus, and plenty of sun, surf, and sea. While Hawaii i...

Among the Northwest Coast Indians (Tlingit, Haida, and others), potlatches traditionally are lavish community gatherings marking important events, ...

This book tells the story of Balithe paradise island of the Pacificits rulers and its people, and their encounters with the Western world.Bali is a...

Explore the history of filmmaking in this detailed work from a new talent. Going back as far as prehistoric times, where cavemen played with light ...

This book is a new and significantly revised version of the much acclaimed Charleston Kedding: A History of Kitchen Gardening, which was published ...