Social & Cultural History

How do history museums and historic sites tell the richly diverse stories of the American people? What fascinates us most about American history?To...

Manuscripts, Market and the Transition to Print in Late Medieval Brittany surveys the production and marketing of non-monastic manuscripts and prin...

Arguments about whether distinctive features of American society, culture, political structure, economic system, or population account for the rela...

John Armstrong's 2000-line poem The Art of Preserving Health was among the most popular works of eighteenth-century literature and medicine. It was...

The Olympics: A Critical Reader represents a unique, critical guide to the definitive sporting mega-event and the wider phenomenon it represents O...

This book brings together literary critics, political historians, historians of literature, cinema and theatre and cultural sociologists, to elucid...

This is the first monograph to examine in detail the Ludi Saeculares (Secular Games) of Septimius Severus and argues that the games represented a r...

This book presents new empirical studies of social difference in the Nordic welfare states, in order to advance novel theoretical perspectives on t...

Consumption of alcohol is a globally ubiquitous, often controversial activity, and business organizations in this sector are of significant social ...

Travellers in Time re-evaluates the extent to which the earliest Mediterranean civilizations were affected by population movement. It critiques bot...

The beauty and levity that Perry and Gabriele have captured in this book are what I think will help it to become a standard text for general audien...

Natural Materials of the Holy Land and the Visual Translation of Place, 500-1500, focuses on the unique ways that natural materials carry the spiri...

The book examines the birth, development, and mode of operation of the Hebrew popular press that progressed in Ottoman Palestine between 1884 and t...

This book takes the concept of piracy as a starting point to discuss the instability of property as a social construction and how this is spatially...

Examining writing for and about education in the period from 1740 to 1820, Rebecca Daviess book plots the formation of a written paradigm of matern...

Crime and Society in Twentieth-Century England traces the broad pattern of criminal offending over a hundred year period that experienced unpreced...

The now-forgotten genre of the bellum grammaticale flourished in the sixteenth- and seventeenth centuries as a means of satirizing outmoded cultura...

This collection captures key themes and issues in the broad history of addiction and vice in the Anglo-American world. Focusing on the long ninetee...

This collection captures key themes and issues in the broad history of addiction and vice in the Anglo-American world. Focusing on the long ninetee...

Throughout the early modern period, scientific debate and governmental action became increasingly preoccupied with the environment, generating disc...

Bringing together an international range of contributors from the fields of practice, theory and history, this book takes a fresh look at occupatio...

How do former enemies reconcile after civil wars? Do they ever really reconcile in any complete sense? How is political reunification related to lo...