Social & Cultural History

Not Just Green, Not Just White brings together a group of diverse contributors to explore the rich intersections between race and environment. Toge...

In Contentious Unions: Black Baptist Schools and White Baptist Money in the Jim Crow South, Mary Beth Swetnam Mathews interweaves the stories of th...

History, completed.'Excellent . . . bursting with extraordinary women' Anita Anand, broadcaster and author of The Patient AssassinMoving, illumina...

Between 1849 and 1930, government-assisted schooling in what is now British Columbia supported the development of a capitalist settler society. Les...

2023 Honorable Mention Best History Book, International Latino Book Awards Broad and encompassing examination of Chicanx popular culture since Worl...

Over the past two centuries, industrial societies hungry for copper essential for light, power, and communication have demanded ever-increasing q...

This book starts with the premise that waste is inevitable in human society. The Idea of Waste explores how we have grappled with both the ma...

A turban is a strip of cloth folded and wrapped around the head; however, this description includes multifarious forms across space and time. T...

Longlisted for the National Book Award 2024'Passionate and absorbing'SUNDAY TIMES'I learned more about the Moon by reading this book than after a l...

In 1824, John Cadbury opened a grocer's shop in Bull Street in Birmingham and started to sell tea, coffee and drinking chocolate alongside everythi...

The untold history of the extraordinary women who drove the modern dance movement and changed cultural narratives about sex, power and women's righ...

The Pink Panther series is one of the most enduring and financially successful franchises in movie history, beginning with 1963s The Pink Panther, ...

History of Universities: XXXVII/1-2 contains the customary mix of learned articles and book reviews which makes this publication an indispensable t...

History tells us that the Second World War broke Britain as a great power, diminishing its military strength, ruining its economy, and precipitatin...

In Filthy Queens, Dr Christina Wade looks at the history of beer alongside some of the biggest events in the story of Ireland. Youll find 18th-cent...

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORYImpassioned antislavery rhetoric made antebellum Boston famous as the nation's hub of radical abolitionism. ...

From about 1910 to the mid-1920s, the cyclecar was a popular means of transport. Cheap, simply engineered, often crude, it was really just a motorc...

The eighteenth century saw more years of war than of peace. Though victimhood might jump most readily to mind when thinking about how this affected...

'This is a book about struggling to live as you are when there is no narrative for that person, no role to suit, no story for your story - and disc...

How far would you go for the missing?When Clair Wills was in her twenties, she discovered she had a cousin she had never met. Born in a Mother and ...

From the time of the ancient Greeks onwards the West's relationship with Asia consisted for the most part of outrageous tales of strange beasts and...