Social & Cultural History

Gambling captures as nothing else the drama of the long eighteenth century between the age of religious wars and the age of revolutions. The societ...

An astounding new set of biographical portraits in Japanese American historyThrough stories of remarkable people in Japanese American history, The ...

The years between 1550 and 1700 saw significant changes in the nature and scope of local government: sophisticated information and intelligence sys...

The years between 1550 and 1700 saw significant changes in the nature and scope of local government: sophisticated information and intelligence sys...

The Border Reader brings together canonical and cutting-edge humanities and social science scholarship on the US-Mexico border region. Spotlighting...

The Border Reader brings together canonical and cutting-edge humanities and social science scholarship on the US-Mexico border region. Spotlighting...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE EDWARD STANFORD TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR'A dazzlingly brilliant book' Hannah Dawson'Fascinating, often exhilarating ... Albinia ...

'A dazzlingly brilliant book' Hannah DawsonThe Britannias tells the story of Britain's islands and how they are woven into its collective cultural ...

This book explores the notion that the emergent language of contemporary theatre, and more generally of modern culture, has links to much earlier f...

Between 1815 and the Duke of Wellington's death in 1852, the Battle of Waterloo became much more than simply a military victory. While other countr...

A Cultural History of Plants in the Post-Classical Era covers the period from 500 to 1400, ranging across northern and central Europe to the Medite...

A Cultural History of Plants in the Post-Classical Era covers the period from 500 to 1400, ranging across northern and central Europe to the Medite...

Volumes 1-6 selected as a 2023 CHOICE Outstanding Academic TitleThis open access book A Cultural History of Chemistry in Antiquity covers the perio...

This open access book A Cultural History of Chemistry in Antiquity covers the period from 3000 BCE to 600 CE, ranging across the civilizations of t...

Uncovers a distinctly Scottish experience of the Second World War Provides an original overview of Scottish society during the Second World War Th...

Uncovers a distinctly Scottish experience of the Second World War Provides an original overview of Scottish society during the Second World War Th...

This is a triumph. A love letter to the ghosts of Edinburgh. I feel its hand upon my shoulder. Sara Sheridan As a writer of fiction, I found myse...

Joseph Stalin had been dead for three years when his successor, Nikita Khrushchev, stunned a closed gathering of Communist officials with a litany ...