Social & Cultural History

In the early 1980s the tenant leaders of the New Orleans St. Thomas public housing development and their activist allies were militant, uncompromis...

The Trade and Intercourse Acts passed by Congress between 1796 and 1834 set up a system for individuals to receive monetary compensation from the f...

This book examines the ordinary, routine, daily behaviour, experiences and beliefs of people in Scotland from the earliest times to 1600. Its purpo...

This is the first study of the Anglo-Welsh border region in the period before the Norman arrival in England, from the fifth to the twelfth centurie...

In 1999, Noelani Goodyear-Kapua was among a group of young educators and parents who founded Hlau K Mna, a secondary school that remains one of the...

Ephemeral city explores the rapid rise of cheap print and how it permeated Venetian urban culture in the Renaissance. It offers the first view of o...

In the globalized, postmodern world, the production of encounters and crashes between dissimilar cultures, ways of life, and systems of values has ...

Following the life of a charismatic woman committed to reform, The Pragmatic Ideal provides an introduction to the politics that dominated the earl...

Following the life of a charismatic woman committed to reform, The Pragmatic Ideal provides an introduction to the politics that dominated the earl...

Leonard Moore has been teaching Black history for twenty-five years, mostly to white people. Drawing on decades of experience in the classroom and ...

Silicon Valley gets all the credit for digital creativity, but this account of the pre-PC world, when computing meant more than using mature consum...

A landmark book that changed the story of Polands role in the HolocaustOn July 10, 1941, in Nazi-occupied Poland, half of the town of Jedwabne brut...

There is more to the Victorian era than respectability, economic success and the grudging solution of the practical social problems they encountere...

The end of empire in the island of Great Britain was both more abrupt and more complete than in any of the other European Roman provinces. When the...

The University Archives was established in 1634. Based in the Bodleian Library, it is the institutional archive of Oxford University, holding recor...

Dogs Who Changed the World is a beautifully illustrated, heart-warming book that celebrates all dogs and proves that every single one of them is ab...

Swords and lances, arrows, machine guns and even high explosives have had far less power over the fate of nations than the typhus louse, the plague...

This book traces the steady decline in Irish Catholicism from the visit of Pope John Paul II in 1979 up to the Cloyne report into clerical sex abus...