Social & Cultural History

Globalisation and increased cultural heterogeneity have had a major impact on states whose identity has been defined in terms of a single, often so...

How do you solve a problem like understanding Iraq? For Hanna Batatu, the solution to this conundrum lay in generating alternative possibilities th...

A gravestone, a mention in local archives, stories still handed down around Oyster Bay: the outline of a woman begins to emerge and with her the wo...

Since the 1960s, many historians have condemned Booker T. Washington as a problematic, even negative, influence on African American progress. This ...

In the first half of the twentieth century, Jack Trice, Ozzie Simmons, and Johnny Bright played college football for three Iowa institutions: Iowa ...

New York City native Mary Esther Lee (1837-1914) first married in 1864 the Prince von Noer, brother of the Queen of Denmark, and was created a p...

This new study raises fundamental questions about the nature of imaginative writing in the age of Englands troubles. Drawing energy from recent deb...

Focusing on our complex relationship with technology, The machine and the ghost explores our cultures continued fascination with the spectral, the ...

This book draws upon original research into womens workplace protest to deliver a new account of working-class womens political identity and partic...

Dancing in the English style explores the development, experience, and cultural representation of popular dance in Britain from the end of the Firs...

On 23 February 1820 a group of radicals were arrested in Cato Street off the Edgware Road in London. They were within sixty minutes of setting out ...

This book is about the impact of decolonisation on British civic society in the 1960s. It shows how participants in middle class associational life...

Novelty fair examines mid-nineteenth-century people, things and places generally understood to be discrete and unrelated: urban fairs and the Great...

In Part 1 Keane gives a brief introduction to the period and outlines the most important events that took place during the course of the fight agai...

The era of the German Occupation of France constituted, surprisingly, a golden age for the arts: literature, theater, popular music and cinema. The...

This is a fascinating look at the origins of the iconic cheongsam dress, and its social and cultural importance in Singapore. Spanning almost a cen...

This is a comprehensive history of the world's midwinter gift-givers, showcasing the extreme diversity in their depictions as well as the many t...

Portugal is an established member of the European Union, one of the founders of the euro currency and a founder member of NATO. Yet it is an incons...