Society & Culture: General

More than seventy-five years after its publication, Gone with the Wind remains thoroughly embedded in American culture. Margaret Mitchells novel an...

It is not easy being a Museum Director in Malaysia culture and history are seen as sensitive subjects, always viewed through ethnic and political ...

Michael Hickey''s schoolboy letters paint a previously unseen picture of Oxford during and immediately after the Second World War. Interwoven with...

A personal journey through some of the darkest moments of the cold war and the early days of television news.Marvin Kalb, the award-winning journal...

The 1960s were one of the most tumultuous periods in American history. Perceptions of race, gender and age changed dramatically, ripping away belie...

In The University is Closed for Open Day, Stephen Knight explores aspects of ultra-modern Australia, from tattoos, shabby chic and our obsession wi...

The global magnitude of World War I has meant that proximity and distance were highly influential in the ways the conflict was conducted, and how i...

The global magnitude of World War I has meant that proximity and distance were highly influential in the ways the conflict was conducted, and how i...

Sir Timoti Karetu and Dr Wharehuia Milroy are widely recognised as two of New Zealand's leading teachers and scholars of Maori language and culture...

The true spirit of America is found in its people, who both embrace their differences and find their common ground. These 101 stories showcase an A...

After a decade of chasing stories around the globe, intrepid travel writer Stephanie Elizondo Griest followed the magnetic pull home-only to discov...

In this gonzo history of the City of the Violet Crown, author and journalist Joe Nick Patoski chronicles the modern evolution of the quirky, bustli...

Covering the basics of media arts values and practice, this graphic textbook offers cub reporters a primer on the drama, adventure and ethical conu...

In this final work of a long and distinguished career, historian Bertram Wyatt-Brown looks at the theme of honour--a subject on which he was an ack...

This book throws fresh light on the experiences of Gypsies in Surrey and South London at the dawn of the modern era. It uses a wide range of record...

From the Kiwi Concert Party to The Topp Twins, Billy T. James to Rose Matafeo, Fred Dagg to Flight of the Conchords, New Zealanders have made each ...

KwaZulu-Natal is culturally rich, offering a wide range of writers writing mainly in English and Zulu who are linked through their lives and thei...

From the early 1500s to the mid-1700s, the American Southeast was the scene of continuous tumult as European powers vied for dominance in the regi...

In this original and timely assessment of cultural expressions of paranoia in contemporary Russia, Eliot Borenstein samples popular fiction, movies...