Social & Cultural History

Essays address plague and disease in the fifteenth century, as manifested throughout Europe. Described as a golden age of pathogens, the long fift...

Before Columbus's fateful voyage in 1492, no European had ever seen, much less tasted, tobacco or chocolate. Initially dismissed as dry leaves and ...

Demonstrates that the intersection between race, gender, and class formed the backbone of Progressive-Era debates over sex education, the policing ...

112 tax lists for Devon for the period from 1500 to 1650. Tax lists are a key means of understanding parish life in the 1500s and early 1600s....

The 650th anniversary of the foundation of Wingfield College was the occasion for a special two-day symposium marking the culmination of a three-ye...

The Resurrection Plate, a Late Classic Maya dish, is decorated with an arresting scene. The Maize God, assisted by two other deities, emerges rebor...

A wide-ranging and varied collection of essays which examine surviving garments, methods of production and clothes in society. The second decade o...

Examination of welfare during the last years of the Poor Law, bringing out the impact of poverty on particular sections of society - the lone mothe...

In The City after Property, Sara Safransky examines how postindustrial decline generates new forms of urban land politics. In the 2010s, Detroit go...

In The City after Property, Sara Safransky examines how postindustrial decline generates new forms of urban land politics. In the 2010s, Detroit go...

No Straight Path tells the stories of ten successful female historians who came of age in an era when it was unusual for women to pursue careers in...

From Columbus's first voyage to the Indies in 1492, Basques participated in Spain's American enterprise. Supported by centuries of experience as ma...

In Marital Cruelty in Antebellum America, Robin C. Sager probes the struggles of aggrieved spouses shedding light on the nature of marriage and vio...

For three days in 1972 in Gary, Indiana, eight thousand American civil rights activists and Black Power leaders gathered at the National Black Poli...

In the first-ever comprehensive analysis of violence between slaves in the antebellum South, Jeff Forret challenges persistent notions of slave com...

A topical subject offering interesting parallels between the news revolution in the age of James I and Charles I and our internet age. An important...

An examination into aspects of the sexual as depicted in a variety of medieval texts, from Chaucer and Malory to romance and alchemical treatises. ...

An investigation into aphrodisiacs challenges pre-conceived ideas about sexuality during this period. It was common knowledge in early modern Engl...

The best new research on medieval clothing and textiles, drawing from a range of disciplines. The usual wide range of approaches to garments and f...

Representing a history of drinking from below, this book explores the role of the alehouse in seventeenth-century English society. This book provi...

The German Empire of 1871, although unified politically, remained deeply divided along religious lines. In German Nationalism and Religious Conflic...

The first major regional study of poverty and its relief in the seventeenth century: the first century of welfare. The English 'Old Poor Law' was ...