Social & Cultural History

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Presss mission to seek out and cultivate the b...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Presss mission to seek out and cultivate the b...

The Color Line and the Assembly Line tells a new story of the impact of mass production on society. Global corporations, based originally in the Un...

Sex has no history, but sexual science does. Starting in the late nineteenth century, people all over the world suddenly began to insist that under...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Presss mission to seek out and cultivate the b...

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...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Presss mission to seek out and cultivate the b...

David Rudner's richly detailed ethnographic and historical analysis of a South Indian merchant-banking caste provides the first comprehensive analy...

Well before Evel Knievel or Hollywood stuntmen, reality television or the X Games, North America had a long tradition of stunt performance, of men ...

Explicitly focusing on the malaise of underdevelopment that has shaped the country since the Spanish conquest, Ramon Eduardo Ruiz offers a panorami...

This book deals with peoples practices, perceptions, emotions and feelings towards aquatic animals, their ecosystems and nature on the early modern...

The subject of this study is a relatively rare category of artefacts, bronze and terracotta statuettes that represent deities, human figures and an...

'Punctuated by the stories of a host of interesting and extraordinary characters, Crossland has produced a fascinating exploration of the long nine...

Unemployment and the state in Britain offers an important and original contribution to understandings of the 1930s. Through a comparative case stud...

This book examines attempts by the Conservative party in the interwar years to capture the brains of the new electorate and create a counter-cultur...

The crisis that befell Ireland in the 1640s has always fascinated historians. This volume of essays presents cutting-edge research on various aspec...

The most successful business leaders always have their own compelling philosophies, but all too often the thoughts and ideologies of high-profile A...

For many centuries, chests were the only pieces of storage furniture to be found in the Greek home. Highly valued as a functional item, their conne...

'All men must die: or Valar Morghulis, as the traditional Essos greeting is rendered in High Valyrian. And die they do in prodigious numbers; in i...

«Dr. Laima Vinc Sruoginis, an established author, academic, and life-long part of the North American Lithuanian diaspora, courageously faces Lithua...

While the Ottoman Empire is most often recognized today as a land power, for four centuries the seas of the Eastern Mediterranean were dominated by...

Amid growing interest in food and drink as an academic discipline in recent years, this volume is the first to provide insight into eating and drin...

The influential cultural critic Elisabeth Bronfen sets out in this book a conversation between literature, cinema, and visual culture. The crossmap...