Social & Cultural History

From World War II to the early 1970s, social science research expanded in dramatic and unprecedented fashion in the United States. This volume exam...

At the turn of the twentieth century women played a key role in debates about the nature of the Irish nation. Examining women's participation in na...

In mid-nineteenth-century Britain, there existed a dominant discourse on what it meant to be a man denoted by the term 'manliness'. Based on the so...

Riveting. The New York Times Book Review Hundreds of miles from civilization, two ships wreck on opposite ends of the same deserted island in this ...

Examining four major institutions, Michele Strong considers the experiences of working men and women, particularly artisans, but also young apprent...

Discover how the migration of peoples has shaped the modern world. This beautifully-illustrated book details the movement of people and cultures ar...

From the perspective of the North, the Civil War began as a war to restore the Union and ended as a war to make a more perfect Union. The Civil War...

A pioneering exploration of the differences between the brains right and left hemispheres and their effects on society, history, and cultureone of ...

Drawing upon interviews with key people in the World Rally Championship as well as trans-local ethnographic research, this book explores questions ...

It is sometimes assumed that fantasizing stands in contrast to activism. This book, however, argues that fantasy plays a central role in social mov...

Analyzing women labeled as terrorists in the United States in the late 1960s and early 1970s, Gender and the Political examines Western cultural co...