Social & Cultural History

A Washington Post Book of the YearWinner of the Merle Curti AwardWinner of the Jacques Barzun PrizeWinner of the Ralph Waldo Emerson AwardA masterf...

One of the worlds foremost historians of Western political and legal thought proposes a bold new model for thinking about equality at a time when i...

How women in turn-of-the-century Chicago used their consumer power to challenge male domination of public spaces and stake their own claim to downt...

Well-researched... a welcome guide. The Spectator Reliable and lucid. History Today With a fractured geography and complex identity, The Philippin...

'Endlessly captivating' - Tracy Borman'Tantalising' - Gill Hornby'More scandal than Bridgerton's Lady Whistledown' - Helena KellyThe carriages have...

Born into a low-level literati family in the port city of Ningbo, the seventeenth-century Chinese Christian convert Zhu Zongyuan likely never left ...

Quite simply, this book is a work of genius - Matthew Parris, The SpectatorAn essential study of post-war gay London life... one of the best anthol...

Colonialism endures in Canada today. Dismantling it requires an understanding of how colonialism operated across the British Empire and why Canadas...

Tracing Louis Riels metamorphosis from traitor to hero, Braz argues that, through his writing, Riel resists his portrayal as both a Canadian patrio...