Social & Cultural History

This book tells the story of the Scottish golf professionals who came to America in 1888 and struggled to earn a living and the respect of the w...

The Peak District was Britain's first National Park and the 'breathing space' for people in the great cities of the industrial north. Prehistoric m...

This is the first volume to present a comprehensive collection of sources on Chinese women's history. The anthology explores overt and covert infor...

Ulrich Bonnell Phillips (18771934) established a reputation as one of the early twentieth century's foremost authorities on the history of African ...

The Royal Canadian Navy crews that sailed the Atlantic during the early Cold War held a contemptuous view of their West Coast brethren, likening th...

Among the more intriguing documentary sources from late medieval Europe are pardon letterspetitions sent by those condemned for serious crimes to m...

Labor and Love in Guatemala re-envisions the histories of labor and ethnic formation in Spanish America. Taking cues from gender studies and the ne...

Major League Baseball was in crisis in 1968. The commissioner was inept, professional football was challenging the sport's popularity and the ga...

Based on a vast amount of archival research, Adrienne Macki Braconis illuminating study of three important community-based theaters in Harlem shows...

Handel called Britain 'The Ringing Isle' because he heard bells ringing everywhere he went. Behind the quintessentially English sound of bells ring...