Social & Cultural History

As the fragile window of personal witness to the events of the Holocaust closes, Moment of Witness provides the script for a powerful commemoration...

Thailand is exceptional among modern states in Asia in that it has built and retained a national culture around a traditional monarchical instituti...

Revolutionary Desires examines the lives and subjectivities of militant-nationalist and communist women in India from the late 1920s, shortly after...

A testament to the resilience and determination of Black North Carolinians to achieve educational equality This book examines the educational exper...

A testament to the resilience and determination of Black North Carolinians to achieve educational equality This book examines the educational exper...

This volume is a local history, focusing on the experiences of people andcommunities as they navigated and enacted institutions and transformations...

Experiencing the Last Judgement opens up new ways of understanding a Byzantine image type that has hitherto been considered largely uniform in its ...

In imagining a Viking, a certain image springs to mind: a barbaric warrior, leaping ashore from a longboat, and ready to terrorize the hapless loca...

Although it has a rich historiography, and from the late ninth century is rich in textual evidence, northern Iberia has barely featured in the grea...

The concept of Westview Special Studies is a response to the continuing crisis in academic and informational publishing. Library budgets are being ...

First published in 1962, this book examines Germanys Free Youth Movement, a revolt of the younger generation in Germany from 1896 to 1933. This mov...

Contributing to existing literature on ethnic studies in China, this book is a study of minority subjective experiences in China, using Uyghur Musl...

Relying on the concept of a shared history, this book argues that we can speak of a shared heritage that is common in terms of the basic grammar of...

Florence in the Early Modern World offers new perspectives on this important city by exploring the broader global context of the fifteenth and sixt...

Global Medieval Contexts 5001500: Connections and Comparisons provides a unique wide-lens introduction to world history during this period. Designe...

Drawing upon research carried out in several different languages and across a variety of disciplines, The Mongol World documents how Mongol rule sh...

Pavel Nazaroff travels from Kashgar, through the Kuen Lun and Karakoram mountains and on to Srinagar, Kashmir in the early 1930s, and describes the...

In the 21st century, China has become impossible to ignore. At the same time, a vast array of perceptions and judgments of Chinas actions and futur...

The Routledge History of Childhood in the Western World provides an important overview of the main themes surrounding the history of childhood in t...

In this illuminating study, Steven E. Nash chronicles the history of Reconstruction as it unfolded in the mountains of western North Carolina. Nash...

Looking closely at both case histories of shell shock and Modernist novels by Ford Madox Ford, Rebecca West, and Virginia Woolf, Wyatt Bonikowski s...

In tracing the rise of the modern idea of the American new woman, Lynn Dumenil examines World War I's surprising impact on women and, in turn, wome...

The modern world is characterised by pervasive economic inequalities. Strong economic growth in some developing countries has contributed to a degr...