Society & Culture: General

Guss, Felix, and Jim Upshaw founded the community of County Line in the 1870s in northwest Nacogdoches County, in deep East Texas. As with hundred...

Northeast of modern-day Mexico City stand the remnants of one of the world''s largest preindustrial cities, Teotihuacan. Monumental in scale, Teoti...

The perfect book for every Mississippian who cares about the state, this is a mammoth collaboration in which thirty subject editors suggested topic...

Humans have always been influenced by natural landscapes, and always will be, even as we create ever-larger cities and our developments fundamental...

This volume explores how the interpretation of material from the ancient Near East is enriched through the application of diverse methodological an...

Head Off the Books in this collection of newspaper columns, where J. Peder Zane uses classic and contemporary literature to explore American cultur...

The swearing of oaths is a cultural phenomenon that pervades English history and was remarkably important during the sixteenth century. This mul...

Along the coast of Fife, in villages like Culross and Pittenweem, history records that some women were executed as witches. Nevertheless, the reali...

The term culture has become ubiquitous in both academic and popular conversations, but its usefulness is a point of dispute. Taking the current shi...

Exploring the fate of the ideal of the English gentleman once the empire he was meant to embody declined, Praseeda Gopinath argues that the stylisa...

Sultans, Spices, and Tsunamis: The Incredible Story of the World's Largest ArchipelagoIndonesia is by far the largest nation in Southeast Asia and ...

For HR directors, corporate trainers, college administrators, diversity trainers and study abroad educators, this book provides a cutting-edge fram...

Societies worldwide are increasingly interconnected through trade, migration, education, and digitization. This has resulted in a profound new comp...

In the past decades, developments in the fields of medicine, new media, and biotechnologies challenged many representations and practices, question...

Kicksology is your all-access pass into the fascinating, colorful world of running shoesand what makes up a perfect pair of kicks. Sports journali...

''A fabulous piece of writing . . . I recommend it unreservedly'' WILLIAM DALRYMPLE ''A brilliant book'' CHRISTINA LAMB, author of Farewell Kabul O...

It's All Chinese to Me is a fun and authentic introduction to Chinese culture that allows readers, tourists, and business travelers to experience w...

Laurie Olin shares his insights into seemingly ordinary elements of these places, and how they intersect with our individual lives and experiences....

Daniel Tudor covers all the important issues, yet does not simply tell the more familiar stories, but looks deeper and wider to give the full story...