Social & Cultural History

The first comprehensive history of the cultural impact of the Phoenicians, who knit together the ancient Mediterranean world long before the rise o...

In Scales of Resistance Maylei Blackwell narrates how Indigenous womens activism in Mexico and its diaspora weaves in and between local, national, ...

This book presents a historical account of the development of an acrolectal variety of the English language in colonial India. It highlights the ph...

Reveals how Christian colorblindness expanded white evangelicalism and excluded Black evangelicals In the decades after the civil rights movement,...

In Scales of Resistance Maylei Blackwell narrates how Indigenous womens activism in Mexico and its diaspora weaves in and between local, national, ...

London, 1877. A petite young woman stands before an all-male jury, about to risk everything. She takes a breath, and opens her defence.Annie Besant...

Birkbeck traces the 200-year history of Birkbeck, University of London from its founding at a time when social elites deplored the notion of educat...

Radically rethinks the theoretical parameters through which we interpret both current and past ideas of captivity, adoption, and slavery among Nati...