Social & Cultural History

This book argues that South Africa is haunted by the spectre of reparation. The failure of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission to...

This volume explores how the Cultural Cold War played out in Africa and Asia in the context of decolonization. Both the United States and the Sovie...

This volume, an original combination of biography, cultural history, and media studies, investigates the first moment in history when philanthropy ...

This book examines the history of antisemitism in the United States and Germany in a novel way by placing the two countries side by side for a sust...

The Afterlife Is Letting Go is a meditative consideration of Japanese American incarceration during WWII by Brandon Shimoda, author of the PEN Open...

This book takes a novel, data-driven approach to the cemeteries of Paris, analyzing a largely text-based body of archival material as proxy evidenc...

The Routledge History of Loneliness takes a multidisciplinary approach to the history of a modern emotion, exploring its form and development acros...

Shortlisted for the 2024 British-Kuwait Friendship Society Book PrizeA wealth of scholarship has highlighted how commercial, political and religiou...

The advent of colonialism and its associated developments has been characterized as one of the most defining moments in the history of South Asia. ...

This collection is published in the Crusades Subsidia series in honour of Professor Adrian J. Boas, an archaeologist, historian and scholar who has...

The history of private lives of the first and second generations of Polish immigrants in the United States is viewed from the perspective of migran...

This book focuses on the Russian Revolution of 1917, the legacy of the First World War, and Mussolini and Italian fascism offering an important ov...

There is a perception that the region of north-east India maintained its splendid isolation and remained outside the reach of the Mughals and did n...

Ordering Customs explores how Renaissance Venetians sought to make sense of human difference in a period characterized by increasing global contact...

The long 1970s have recently emerged as the start of a new epoch in which we still live. This volume asks whether the accelerated value change of t...

This book clarifies the crucial role of periodical press in the advance of colonial print cultures and public debates in the Indian and Pacific Oce...

Performing Contemporary Childhoods: Being and Becoming a Viral Child examines the changing nature of contemporary childhoods by exploring how child...

This book explores the early globalization of prostitution from the perspective of the Italian case. It is a story of prostitution, migration, and ...

This career-spanning anthology from prominent Jewish historian David Biale brings over a dozen of his key essays together for the first time. These...

This book is concerned with the early years of the Football Association Challenge Cup more commonly known as the FA Cup examining events from its...

This book focuses on food and meals consumed during travel since the transport revolution and examines the ways in which the introduction of new fo...

Governance and Public Space in the Australian City is a rich and evocative examination of the production and use of public spaces in Australian cit...

Beach Soccer Histories is the first text to consider the sport as a historical, social and cultural phenomenon, to define its traditions, and prese...

Memory in Hungarian Fascism: A Cultural History argues that fascist memory had a key role in the historical formation and later return of fascism. ...

This book analyzes the roots of one of the main human activities that can be developed in natural and agricultural ecosystems: tourism. Attention t...

This book explores the various ways imperial rule constituted and shaped the cities of Eastern Europe until World War I in the Tsarist, Habsburg, a...

Modern Maternities: Medical Advice about Breastfeeding in Colonial Calcutta brings to light rare textual and visual materials on medical opinions a...

This book sheds light on the roots of sustainability in the Iberian Peninsula that lie in the interrelations between shipbuilding and forestry from...

This book addresses early modern concepts of the body and the self focussing on three self-narratives authored by the nobleman Osvaldo Ercole Trap...

Hold tight. The way to go mad without losing your mind is sometimes unruly. So begins La Marr Jurelle Bruce's urgent provocation and poignant medit...

Getting divorced and remarried are now common practices in European societies, even if the rules differ from one country to the next. Civil marriag...

This edited volume examines the current challenges to media freedom and democratisation in the Middle East. The book revisits the relationship betw...

This groundbreaking book investigates the murky relationship between the Metropolitan Police Press Bureau and the British film industry, shedding n...

The historiography of death, memory, and testamentary practices is already abundant in Western Europe and a fairly large number of extra-European r...

Winner of the Association of Dress Historians Book of the Year Award, 2022 Traditionally associated with rural ways of life in England, often hand...

Through a wide range of international and interdisciplinary case studies, this book develops the notion of legacy, and in particular, living legacy...

In the period 1450 to 1650 in Europe, hair was braided, curled, shaped, cut, colored, covered, decorated, supplemented, removed, and reused in magi...

This book focuses on the conceptualization of the court, palace and ruler of the Umayyad Caliphate of al-Andalus. Western terminology still plays a...

James Bond, Ian Flemings irrepressible and ubiquitous spy, is often understood as a Cold Warrior, but James Bonds Cold War diverged from the actual...

This book offers an examination of responses to Edmund Burke from the last decades of the eighteenth century to the present day, ending with the qu...

An innovative approach in the field of material culture and consumption studies, Life in the Georgian Parsonage looks at the houses, consumption an...

An innovative approach in the field of material culture and consumption studies, Life in the Georgian Parsonage looks at the houses, consumption an...

Hair, or lack of it, is one the most significant identifiers of individuals in any society. In Antiquity, the power of hair to send a series of soc...

Over the last century, there has been a revolution in self-presentation and social attitudes towards hair. Developments in mass manufacturing, adva...

The Enlightenment (1650-1800) was the Golden Age of hair. Hair dominated fashion as never before or since, with more men and women than ever donnin...