Social & Cultural History

A daring and unapologetic examination of religion, pop culture and Black representation. Who would you rather pray to? Beyoncé or white Jesus? Ja...

A not-for-the-squeamish journey back through the centuries to urban England, where the streets are crowded, noisy, filthy, and reeking of smoke and...

Being Brown: Sonia Sotomayor and the Latino Question tells the story of the country’s first Latina Supreme Court Associate Justice’s rise to the pi...

Tales from the Dallas Cowboys Sideline is a fascinating, fun look at the inner workings of one of the most beloved teams of all time. From what rea...

“Hammerin’” Hank Greenberg was coming off a stellar season where he’d hit 40 home runs and 184 RBIs, becoming only the thirteenth player to ever hi...

Ranging from the simple to the sumptuous, here are over 200 recipes for modern Americans inspired by dishes and beverages the authors discovered in...

Letters to America was written to energize Americans at a time of economic stress and self-doubt. By reading of the sacrifices the previous America...

Women were leading actors in twentieth-century developments in Georgia, yet most histories minimize their contributions. The essays in the second v...

Award-winning journalist Douglas A. Wissing's poignant and eye-opening journey across insurgency-wracked Afghanistan casts an unyielding spotlight ...

Alona Frankel was just two years old when Germany invaded Poland. After a Polish carpenter agreed to hide her parents but not her, Alona's parents ...

Alona Frankel was just two years old when Germany invaded Poland. After a Polish carpenter agreed to hide her parents but not her, Alona's parents ...

Unlike the more forthrightly mythic origins of other urban centers—think Rome via Romulus and Remus or Mexico City via the god Huitzilopochtli—Los ...

This accessible collection of essays critically examines Vygotsky’s scientific legacy. The book is solidly grounded in the "revisionist revolution"...

Walter Scott's first novel, as he originally intended it to be readThis edition of Scott's Waverley marks the bicentenary of the first publication ...

The late eighteenth century was one of the most exciting and unsettling periods in European history, with the shock-waves of the French Revolution ...

One of the strangest periods in the social history of Britain was that of the Phoney War of 1939-40, when the nation did not know quite whether it ...

In the 1950s, a group of brash young British writers coalesced into a controversial poetic and critical movement known simply as the Movement. In t...

'Basu's account of how Arthur Conan Doyle set about trying to get a pardon for Edalji is in itself a fine piece of detective work.' The Times ‘Comp...

In Late Antiquity the emergence of Christian asceticism challenged the traditional Greco-Roman views and practices of family life. The resulting di...

From the ancient Olympic games to the World Series and the World Cup, athletic achievement has always conferred social status. In this collection ...

Possessing the City is a social history of the property market in late-colonial Delhi; a period of much turbulence and transformation. It argues th...

The story of Uwe Johnson, one of Germany's greatest and most-influential post-war writers, and how he came to live and work in Sheerness, Kent in t...

This book explores the history of Cornwall‘s picturing on screen, from the earliest days of the moving image to the recent BBC adaptation of Winsto...

In this invaluable reference work, the world’s foremost authorities on France’s political, social, cultural, and intellectual history explore the h...