Social & Cultural History

The Long Afterlife of Nikkei Wartime Incarceration reexamines the history of imprisonment of U.S. and Canadian citizens of Japanese descent during ...

African Americans who moved to California in hopes of finding freedom and full citizenship instead faced all-too-familiar racial segregation. As on...

Love it or hate it, celebrity is one of the dominant features of modern life--and one of the least understood. Fred Inglis sets out to correct this...

A groundbreaking history of early America that shows how Boston built and sustained an independent city-state in New England before being folded in...

Our image of workhouses has often been coloured by the writings of authors such as Charles Dickens. But what was the reality? Where exactly were al...

The unimagined community proposes a reexamination of the Vietnam War from a perspective that has been largely excluded from historical accounts of ...

This volume offers a stimulating new perspective on the history of historical studies. Through the prism of scholarly personae, it explores why his...

Factory, mine and mill. Industry, toil and grime. Its manufacturing roots mean we still see the North of England as a hardworking place. But, more ...

The Sunday Times Bestseller'A tribute and a rallying call' - GuardianThree and half weeks. Three hundred miles. I saw roaring arterial highway and ...

Por fin disponible en español, Ilegal es el aclamado libro de memorias de José Ángel N., un inmigrante indocumentado que se construyó una vida nuev...

This magnificently illustrated peoples history celebrates the extraordinary feats of cultivation by the working class in Britain, even if the land ...

In his new history of food, acclaimed historian Massimo Montanari traces the development of medieval tastes-both culinary and cultural-from raw mat...

A history that extends from the 1750s to the present, In Pursuit of Privilege recounts upper-class New Yorkers'' struggle to create a distinct worl...

In this elegant book Richard Bosworth explores Venice-not the glorious Venice of the Venetian Republic, but from the fall of the Republic in 1797 a...

Paper is one of the simplest and most essential pieces of human technology. For the past two millennia, the ability to produce it in ever more effi...

People have long been duped by straight-talking politicians, confessional talk-show hosts, and fake-earnest advertisers. As sincerity has become su...

Overlooking the significance of Americas Hispanic past, the United States is typically perceived as an offshoot of Britain, with its history unfold...

The United States is still typically conceived of as an offshoot of England, with our history unfolding east to west beginning with the first Engli...

Popular operas in late imperial China were a major part of daily entertainment, and were also important for transmitting knowledge of Chinese cultu...

At once an in-depth history of this pivotal war and a guide to the historical sites where the ambushes, raids, and battles took place, King Philip'...

This volume of Who Was Who contains entries for people in Who's Who who died between 1941 and 1950. It has over 10,000 entries covering deaths duri...

Built in 1913 for a local politician and engineer and beautifully situated on the shore of Lake Zurich, this handsome villa today is home to the Ja...

and they laid all waste with dreadful havoc, trod with unhallowed feet the holy places, dug up the altars, and carried off all the treasures of the...

ONE WOMAN, THE SECRETS OF A SMALL TOWN, AND A QUEST FOR JUSTICE THAT ROCKED A NATION. Catherine Corless could not have known where her interest in ...

The Tudor period has long gripped our imaginations. Because we have consumed so many costume dramas on TV and film, read so many histories, factual...

Life began about four billion years ago on our planet. Like an old patchwork quilt, evolution stitched the human being together from parts of an...

Over 400,000 people moved their families in search of a better life in the American West during the Westward Expansion. The pioneers made room f...

Beautiful and poignant' The Art Newspaper Absorbing... a magnificent book' Mail on Sunday The first illustrated book on mudlarking that tells ...