Social & Cultural History

The 1992 Los Angeles rebellion, also known as the Rodney King riots, followed the acquittal of four police officers who had been charged with assau...

Throughout the 1800s, opium and cocaine could be easily obtained to treat a range of ailments in Canada. Dependency, when it occurred, was consider...

Interweaving a social history of string playing with a collective biography of its participants, this book identifies and maps the rapid nationwide...

Who is the Other? In a culturally and religiously diverse world, how does the church build just relations with the Other without breaching each oth...

Arriving at a critical moment in the struggle for transgender rights, A History of Transgender Medicine in the United States takes an empathic appr...

Arriving at a critical moment in the struggle for transgender rights, A History of Transgender Medicine in the United States takes an empathic appr...

Provides new perspectives on women's print media in the long eighteenth centuryThis innovative volume presents for the first time collective expert...

A new exploration of literary and artistic responses to WW1 from 1914 to the presentThis authoritative reference work examines literary and artisti...

How authors rendered Dakhóta philosophy by literary means to encode ethical and political connectedness and sovereign life within a settler surveil...

Originally published in 1926, this volume is much more than a biography of an outstanding politician, social reformer and philosopher. It provides ...

Robert Greville, 2nd Lord Brooke, was a prominent figure amongst the opposition to Charles I, a religious radical and intellectual who emerged as a...