Social & Cultural History

Modernity in interwar Europe frequently took the form of a preoccupation with mechanizing the natural; fears and fantasies revolved around the noti...

This edited volume presents the latest research on the intersection of religion and medicine in Asia. It features chapters by internationally known...

This edited volume presents the latest research on the intersection of religion and medicine in Asia. It features chapters by internationally known...

In Art Effects Carlos Fausto explores the interplay between Indigenous material culture and ontology in ritual contexts, interpreting the agency of...

Historical actors are as central to the history of knowledge as to all historical scholarship. Every country, every era has its biographies of emin...

Hasidism, Haskalah, Zionism reveals how political and literary dialogues and conflicts between the Hebrew literature of the Hasidism, the Jewish En...

This book revises what we thought we knew about one of the most famous witch hunts in European history. Between 1608 and 1614, thousands of witchcr...

This book revises what we thought we knew about one of the most famous witch hunts in European history. Between 1608 and 1614, thousands of witchcr...

The story of a much different Minneapolis, through the words and photographs of one of its most colorful charactersnow in paperback   City blue la...

The story of a much different Minneapolis, through the words and photographs of one of its most colorful charactersnow in paperback   City blue la...

Japan is widely regarded as having a unique culture and a strong national identity. Paradoxically, however, many basic elements of Japanese culture...

In Stay Black and Die, I. Augustus Durham examines melancholy and genius in black culture, letters, and media from the nineteenth century to the co...

In Stay Black and Die, I. Augustus Durham examines melancholy and genius in black culture, letters, and media from the nineteenth century to the co...

In Stay Black and Die, I. Augustus Durham examines melancholy and genius in black culture, letters, and media from the nineteenth century to the co...

Distrust of public institutions, which reached critical proportions in Britain and the United States in the first two decades of the twenty-first c...

This book focuses on two commercial radio stations, Radio Luxembourg and Europe n°1, which were popular institutions in Western Europe throughout t...