Social & Cultural History

This powerful and original book locates the anti-police violence that spread across England in 1980-1 within a longer struggle against racism and d...

A preeminent writer on Paris, John Baxter brilliantly brings to life one of the most dramatic and fascinating periods in the city's history. From ...

Between its founding in 1966 and its formal end in 1980, the Black Panther Party blazed a distinctive trail in American political culture. The Blac...

We are all caught up in one another, Scott Lauria Morgensen asserts, we who live in settler societies, and our interrelationships inform all that t...

The Cinema and Its Shadow argues that race has defined the cinematic apparatus since the earliest motion pictures, especially at times of technolog...

To begin at the beginning: it is spring, moonless night in the small town, starless and bible-black, the cobblestreets silent and the hunched court...

In Erotic Exchanges, Nina Kushner reveals the complex world of elite prostitution in eighteenth-century Paris by focusing on the professional mistr...

England during the Middle Ages was at the forefront of European antisemitism. It was in medieval Norwich that the notorious blood libel was first i...

Channel 4's The Mill captivated viewers with the tales of the lives of the young girls and boys in a northern mill. Focusing on the lives of the a...

Women's bodies and their portrayals in the media remain at the center of every debate on women's rights worldwide. This study examines the domai...

NON-FICTION: A TRUE FAMILY SAGA.  Durham, England, 1886: Your father is dead, your mother and six younger sisters are destitute. You have the cha...