Social & Cultural History

Generations of scholars have grappled with the origins of 'palace' society on Minoan Crete, seeking to explain when and how life on the island alte...

Drawing on a wide range of sources, this book discusses the social history of China in the period 9601279, comparing the different ethnic cultures ...

Enter a world of ancient secrets, old money, new ambitions and the discovery of priceless treasure in this revelatory new biography. ...

This book is a cultural history of the nineteenth-century songster: pocket-sized anthologies of song texts, usually without musical notation. It ex...

An engaging, richly illustrated account of parish churches and churchgoers in England, from the Anglo-Saxons to the mid-sixteenth century Parish ch...

For much of American history, the federal government has played a limited role in local police regulation. That all changed in 1994, when Congress ...

This is an exploration of feminine spirituality from the beginning of time to the present day. These extraordinary women have expressed their expe...

The National Council for Civil Liberties (NCCL) was formed in the 1930s against a backdrop of fascism and 'popular front' movements. In this volati...

In Latinx Art Arlene Dávila draws on numerous interviews with artists, dealers, and curators to explore the problem of visualizing Latinx art and a...

This book recovers the neglected history of Gerlin Bean, an activist and community organiser in the Black radical movement of the 1960s-1980s. Gerl...

Half of all 7,000-plus human languages may disappear over the next century and - because many have never been recorded - when they're gone, it will...

How St. Petersburg Learned to Study Itself: The Russian Idea of Kraevedenie considers the origins and evolutions of kraevedenie, looking specifical...

To fend off American and European imperialism in the nineteenth century, Japan strove to strengthen itself by drawing on the most updated ideas and...

Most of the women who ever lived left no trace of their existence on the record of history. Sixteenth- and seventeenth-century women of the middlin...

Though over one hundred private schools for Jewish girls thrived in the Russian empire between 1831 and 1881, their story has been largely overlook...

Toxic Histories combines social, scientific, medical and environmental history to demonstrate the critical importance of poison and pollution to co...

A social history of West Germany's Bundesgrenzschutz (BGS, Federal Border Police) that complicates the telling of the country's history as a straig...

After the Great War some texts by British Army veterans portrayed the Anglican chaplains who had served with them in an extremely negative light. T...

In The Classical Art of Command, Joseph Roisman examines eight of history's best-known generals and commanders from the Classical Age of Greece. Th...

In this book, Bonnie Lander Johnson explores early modern ideas of chastity, demonstrating how crucial early Stuart thinking on chastity was to pol...

Ireland is the first country in the world to extend civil marriage to same sex couples through a public vote. The marriage equality referendum saw ...

Although demographically a minority in Kerala, India, Syrian Christians are not a subordinated community. They are caste-, race-, and class-privile...