Social & Cultural History

The violent conquest of the eastern part of the lands under Muslim rule by the Mongols marked a new period in the history of Islamic civilisation a...

The perfect accompaniment to the collection of fourteen warship figureheads displayed in the atrium of The Box at Plymouth, this book introduces ea...

During the First World War three quarters of a million British people died a figure so huge that it feels impossible to give it a human context. C...

In 1711, in County Antrim, Ireland, eight women were put on trial accused of bewitching and demonically possessing young Mary Dunbar, amid an attac...

Founded in New York City in 1870, The Lotos Club is one of the oldest literary and arts clubs in the United States. Lotos became known for its trad...

For much of human history, the motive force behind war, conquest, social conflict and world exploration has been the drive to acquire gold. From th...

The age of steam was the age of Britains global maritime dominance, the age of enormous ocean liners and human mastery over the seas. The world see...

Considering a wide range of early modern texts, performances and artworks, the essays in this collection demonstrate how attention to the senses il...

With the outbreak of World War I, German-born Kitty Marion, suspected of being a German spy and placed under surveillance, sailed from Liverpool fo...

The nineteenth-century Hispanic world was shattered to its core by war, civil war, and revolution. At the same time, it confronted a new period of ...

Photography and memory in Mexico traces the life stories of some of the famous photographic images made during the 1910 revolution, which have been...

2012 marks the 225th anniversary of the sailing of the eleven vessels of the First Fleet from England, bound for Australia. From the arrival of the...

Only once in history has a British Prime Minister been assassinated. At 5.00 p.m. on Monday, 11 May 1812, John Bellingham made his way to the House...

Irrigation, Timber, and Hydropower is the story of the Flathead Irrigation Project and the Flathead Lake Dam, two early twentieth-century enterpris...

You see it everywhere: on bumper stickers, tee shirts, lapel pins, in shop windows, and in front of nearly every school or government building. Yet...

The most acute, informed, and up-to-date account available today of Ukraine and its people, now in its fourth edition. An interesting and provoc...

Few countries can claim to have endured such a difficult and tortuous history as that of Iraq. Its varied peoples have had to contend with external...

When France both hosted and won the World Cup in 1998, the face of its star player, Zinedine Zidane, the son of Algerian immigrants, was projected ...