Social & Cultural History

For American teenagers, getting a driver''s license has long been a watershed moment, separating teens from their childish pasts as they accelerate...

After living in San Francisco for 15 years, journalist Gordon Young found himself yearning for his Rust Belt hometown: Flint, Michigan, the birthpl...

Anthony Comstock was Americas first professional censor. From 1873 to 1915, as Secretary of the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice, Comst...

If you have ever marvelled at a flawless slice of cherry pie in a television bake-off and wondered if you could re-create it at home, BraveTart is ...

A brilliant look at the writers, artists, scientists, movie directors, and scholarsranging from Bertolt Brecht to Albert Einstein, Hannah Arendt, T...

Cultural Encounters at Cape Farewell offers a comprehensive account of the cultural history of the Cape Farewell area in the 19th century. The domi...

A study of the ways in which topics of English history were central to conceptions of English identity, musical and otherwise, during the Victorian...

At the turn of the twentieth century, Winnipeg was the fastest-growing city in North America. But its days as a diverse and culturally rich metropo...

Bella Abzugs promotion of womens and gay rights, universal childcare, green energy, and more provoked not only fierce opposition from Republicans b...

In spring 1914, a new ballpark opened in Chicago. Hastily constructed after epic political maneuvering around Chicago's and organized baseball's hi...

The first full-scale history of the Makah people of the Pacific Northwest, whose culture and identity are closely bound to the sea For the Makahs, ...

Constance Markievicz (18681927), born to the privileged Protestant upper class in Ireland, embraced suffrage before scandalously leaving for a bohe...

Soon after the end of World War II, a majority of the nearly 7 million Japanese civilians and serviceman who had been posted overseas returned home...

A rich, salty, and steaming bowl of ramen noodle soup climbed its way onto the international culinary scene and, from Tokyo to New York, is now a s...

A historical interpretation of the diary of an eighteenth-century Jewish woman who resisted the efforts of the papal authorities to force her relig...

One of the greatest outfielders of his generation, Hazen Kiki Cuyler (1898-1950) was working as a roof assembler in an auto plant in Michigan wh...

The New York loft jazz scene of the 1970s was a pivotal period for uncompromising, artist-produced work. Faced with a flagging jazz economy, a grou...

This book explores the origins and significance of the French concept of terroir, demonstrating that the way the French eat their food and drink th...

America's Favorite Holidays explores how five of America's culturally important holidays - Christmas, Valentine's Day, Easter, Halloween, and Thank...

Blindfolding children from birth. Playing a piano made of live cats. Using tobacco to cure drowning. Wearing flea-coloured clothes. These actions s...

A spirited and thought-provoking history of the vast changes that transformed Europe during the 1,000-year span of the Middle Ages The millennium b...

Before skyscrapers and streetlights glowed at all hours, American cities fell into inky blackness with each setting of the sun. But over the course...

In this era of tweets and blogs, it is easy to assume that the self-obsessive recording of daily minutiae is a recent phenomenon. But Americans hav...

In this era of tweets and blogs, it is easy to assume that the self-obsessive recording of daily minutiae is a recent phenomenon. But Americans hav...

Since the late Stone Age, approximately 10 percent of humans have been left-handed, yet for most of human history left-handedness has been stigmati...

From the bestselling author of Hiroshima, a searing account of police brutality, white racism, and black rage in 1960s Detroit.On the evening of Ju...

Why is it that for many people 'England' has always meant an unspoilt rural landscape rather than the ever-changing urban world in which most Engli...

Comprehensive books to support study of History for the IB Diploma Paper 3, revised for first assessment in 2017. This coursebook covers Paper 3, ...

The electric vehicle seemed poised in 1900 to be a leader in automotive production. Clean, odorless, noiseless and mechanically simple, electric...

In Killing Others, Matthew Lange explores why humans ruthlessly attack and kill people from other ethnic communities. Drawing on an array of cases ...