Social & Cultural History

Looking beyond the familiar Little Italys and stereotypes fostered by The Godfather and The Sopranos, Maria Laurino reveals surprising, fascinating...

Cathedrals are awe-inspiring buildings. Most are grand medieval structures, while others appear simple and unpretentious yet all were designed to ...

Tales of Hardship, Love and Happiness in Tate & Lyles East End Factories. The Sugar Girls went straight to No.10 in the Sunday Times Bestseller...

What happened after Africa's biggest country split in two? When South Sudan ran up its flag in July 2011, two new nations came into being. In South...

The half century between statehood in 1896 and the end of World War II in 1945 was a period of transformation and transition for Utah. This book in...

The Real Traviata is the rags-to-riches story of a tragic young woman whose life inspired one of the most famous operas of all time, Verdi's master...

Chinese, one of the oldest active languages, evolved over 5,000 years. As such, it makes for a fascinating case study in the development of lang...

Kentucky Countryside in Transition charts the rise of the American middle class at the turn of the twentieth century by examining migration from th...

In 1815, in the Spanish settlement of San Antonio de Béxar, a dying widow named María Concepción de Estrada recorded her last will and testament. E...

Shawnee, Miami, Delaware, Wyandot, Ottawa, Iroquois, and Mingotribes great and small, loosely confederated or warring with each other, pushed ever ...

In the mid-1960s, the charismatic César Chávez led members of California's La Causa movement in boycotting the grape harvest, and melon pickers in ...

In this ethnography of Catholic religious practice in Fresno, California, David P. Sandell unveils ritualized storytelling that Mexican and Mexican...

How have Scottish drinking places changed over three centuries and what makes them distinctively Scottish? What did Samuel Johnson, James Boswell, ...

In this second volume of the Interpreting American History series, experts on the 1930s address the changing historical interpretations of a critic...

Did an invasion of the Sea Peoples cause the collapse of the Late Bronze Age palace-based economies of the Levant, as well as of the Hittite Empire...

In this booklet Jill Dudley describes the legends of Helios (the sun-god), and explains what the Colossus was and why it was erected and what happe...

It is all free fighting here. Even some of the windows do not open, so it is useless to cry for help. Dampness and misery, violence and wrong, have...

Brittany's richly layered landscape has contributed depth and character to the region's traditional oral culture, from stories of the sea and shore...

Oxford started as an Anglo-Saxon border outpost, with a bridge replacing the 'oxen ford' from which it takes its name. It became a centre for trade...

The Roaring Twenties, jazz music, Hollywood glamour: the end of the First World War ushered in a golden age for America, with a booming stock marke...

It is at 31.4 years of age that the average woman multiple murderer kills the first of her 17 victims, whom she usually knows or is related to. ...