Social & Cultural History

The contributions to this volume enter into a dialogue about the routes, modes and institutions that transferred and transformed knowledge across t...

Originally published in 1988, this title looks at the importance of the Catholic school in American education from 1830 to 1980. The articles in th...

After decades of prohibition, Mevlana ceremonies of whirling dervishes attract renewed interest as forms of sacral music, both in formal and popula...

Through a balanced selection of texts with commentaries, this work combines an approach to the renaissance of Hinduism and the reformation of India...

Turkmenistan is a country which is almost sealed off from the rest of the world but it has attracted foreign attention due to the eccentricities of...

Since the structural change in Indian society that began in the 1990s - the result of the liberalisation of the economy, devolution of power, and d...

How do you solve a problem like understanding Iraq? For Hanna Batatu, the solution to this conundrum lay in generating alternative possibilities th...

This title was first published in 2002: There are few students of European economic history who will not have come across the writings of Derek H. ...

The easy accessibility of political fiction in the long eighteenth century made it possible for any reader or listener to enter into the intellectu...

World War I directly and indirectly caused events and social and political trends which defined the history of the world for the rest of the centur...

Indian Classical Dance and the Making of Postcolonial National Identities explores what happens when a national-cultural production is reproduced o...

Prayer and Worship in Eastern Christianities, 5th to 11th Centuries forges a new conversation about the diversity of Christianities in the medieval...

The idea of transitions in Indian history emerged early when the term transition denoted shifts from one period to another. The notion of transitio...

This book showcases new research by emerging and established scholars on white workers and the white poor in Southern Africa. Rethinking White Soci...

Nominated for the 2017 Dayton Literary Peace Prize in non-fiction This volume examines peace museums, a small and important (but often overlooked) ...

First published in 1998, this volume brings together some of the best recent work on the period before and after the Norman Conquest and makes an i...

Northernness, Northern culture and Northern narratives are a common aspect of popular culture, and the North of England, like other Northernnesses ...

Originally published in 1987, this title was first submitted as a doctoral dissertation at the University of California, Berkeley in 1974. Complete...

The Hebrew Bible is the main legislative and literary influence on European Poor Law and on literature on poverty and the poor. No extant literatur...

Agriculture in southern Asia has undergone a radical transformation in recent years, one that continues to alter the political economy of the area....

Originally published in 1991 and focussing on the countryside, this book examines patterns of settlement and agriculture in Scotland and considers ...

The Play World chronicles the history and evolution of the concept of play as a universal part of childhood. Examining texts and toys coming out of...

This book addresses the critical terminologies of place and space (and their role within medieval studies) in a considered and critical manner, pre...

This illuminating book examines how the public funerals of major figures from the Civil War era shaped public memories of the war and allowed a div...