Social & Cultural History

Dazzling recreation of the world of radical free-thinkers in 18th-century FranceFrom the 1750s to the 1770s, the Paris salon of Baron d'Holbach was...

Daniel Tudor covers all the important issues, yet does not simply tell the more familiar stories, but looks deeper and wider to give the full story...

The dramatic battlefield deaths of brother Union Army commanders Robert L. McCook and Daniel McCook, Jr.--members of a prominent Ohio family kno...

This candid memoir recounts the author's nearly four years in the 3rd United States Infantry Regiment--a.k.a. The Old Guard or Escort to the Pre...

Poet and critic Matthew Arnold (1822-1888) was a prominent educator. One of Her Majesty's Inspectors of Elementary Schools for 35 years, he trav...

Egyptomania, the West's obsession with the strange and magnificent world of Ancient Egypt, has for centuries been reflected in architecture, lit...

Assertive, tough, and idealistic, the Weatherwomenmembers of the Weather Underground Organization (WUO) from the late 1960swere determined to stamp...

''Impossible to summarise and delightfully absorbing, Hadley''s book is comfortably the most unexpected history book of the year'' Su...

The steamboat evokes images of leisurely travel, genteel gambling, and lively commerce, but behind the romanticized view is an engineering marve...

Why is green the colour of envy? Why is black evil? Why is white pure? Why do we feel blue or see red? Why do colours have different meanings for d...

A nostalgic celebration of the fabulous fifties.The 1950s was a heady mix of American excitement cowboys, rock'n'roll, Elvis, Marilyn Monroe and ...

1922 was a year of great turbulence and upheaval. Its events reverberated throughout the rest of the twentieth century and still affect us today, 1...

Great cities marked the earliest development of civilization. From the worlds first true cities, in Mesopotamia, to the spectacular urban centres o...

'A necessity if we want to understand now as well as then.' Hanif KureishiThe seventies are frequently misunderstood, oversimplified and misreprese...

These are the songs that we have listened to, laughed to, loved to and laboured to, as well as downed tools and danced to. Covering the last seven ...

The Romans first set military foot on Greek soil in 229 BCE; only sixty or so years later it was all over, and shortly thereafter Greece became one...

''Dame Anna Wintour might be one of the best-known and most successful journalists on the planet. But it wasn''t always like that. When she started...

From dime novels to Wild West movies, from cowboy heroes to tribal villains, from masculine mystique to female virtue: the nineteenth-century Ameri...

Culture and Society in Ireland since 1750: Essays in honour of Gearóid Ó Tuathaigh collects specially commissioned texts and essays to commemorate ...

This is a mini version of the fascinating 100 Years of Football , with photographs hand-picked from the Press Association''s archives. It is an es...

This is a new, shrunk-down version of the compelling 100 Years of Golf . It is an essential addition to the bookshelves of fans of golf. It includ...

As recently as one hundred years ago British children existed in ways now unthinkable; boys as young as eight worked gruelling hours in unlit facto...

A balanced and richly informed survey that investigates how, why and to what degree working lives have been transformed over the last 60 years. McI...