Social and cultural history

This book explores the political construction of imperial frontiers during the reigns of Ferdinand the Catholic and Charles V in the Iberian Peninsula and the Mediterranean.

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A history of the cross-border Central African copperbelt, integrating the region''s social history with knowledge production about it.

The historiography of death, memory, and testamentary practices is already abundant in Western Europe and a fairly large number of extra-European regions.

How do perceptions of the past--not just of particular events, but of the trajectory of history as a whole--shape our experience of the world?

Originally published in 1984.

This volume brings together for the first time an updated collection of articles exploring poverty, poor relief, illness, and health care as they intersected in Western Europe, the Mediterranean and the Middle East, during a 'long' Middle Ages.

First published in 1981, this book brings together different types of work by numerous fragmented groups in the field of Marxist history and puts them in dialogue with each other.

A groundbreaking story of African agency and the abolition of slavery, providing a new perspective on the Atlantic slave trade.

What is Chekhov's method of ensuring audience participation?

The role of the police force was central in the politics and social life of Egypt during the British occupation between 1882 and 1914.

What do people do all day?

Writings by early-modern English artisans are rare and thus precious.

The Montgomery bus boycott was a formative moment in twentieth-century history: a harbinger of the African American freedom movement, a springboard for the leadership of Martin Luther King Jr.

Modern Travel in World History uses three themes-technology, mass movements and travelers-to examine the history of the modern world from the fifteenth-century transatlantic explorations to the impact of the global COVID pandemic of the twenty-first century.

This book presents a nuanced narrative on Sir Syed Ahmad Khan's (1817-1898) life and his invaluable contribution to the democratic consciousness in India.

What did people eat in the Middle Ages, and why and how did that affect cuisine and culture in later years?

This title was first published in 2001.

This study explores the reinvention of the calendar during the French Revolution and its long-lasting cultural effects.

Die Kulturgeschichte des größten Sportereignisses aller Zeiten: die Olympischen SpieleNach dem großen, von der Presse hochgelobten Erfolg ›Fußball.

A topical, up-to-date and highly authoritative survey of the highly controversial debate around reform of the European Union's Common Agricultural Policy.

Alexandra: A History is a social and political history of one of South Africa's oldest townships.

The inspirational story of John Kizell celebrates the life of a West African enslaved as a boy and brought to South Carolina on the eve of the American Revolution.

First published in 1932, The Indians of Canada remains the most comprehensive works available on Canada's Indians.

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At times mirroring and at times shockingly disparate to the rise of traditional white American medicine, the history of African-American health care is a story of traditional healers; root doctors; granny midwives; underappreciated and overworked African-American physicians; scrupulous and unscrupulous white doctors and scientists; governmental support and neglect; epidemics; and poverty.

Ken White's career spans an impressive six decades.

When the Nazis seized power in Germany in 1933 they promised to create a new, harmonious society under the leadership of the Fuumlhrer, Adolf Hitler.

On May 25th, 1946, after 22 years as a congressional secretary, Jane Pratt was elected as North Carolina's first congresswoman.

First published in 1995.

A major new interpretation of the Holocaust, contextualizing the destruction of the Jews within Nazi violence against other groups.

First published in 1996.

Exploring European changes in religious and secular beliefs and practices related to life passages, this book provides a deeper understanding of the impacts of social change on personal identity and adjustment across the life course, According to latest research, Europeans who consider religious services appropriate to mark life passages significantly outnumber those who declare themselves as believers.

The birth of cinema coincided with the heyday of the short story.

In Rewriting History, Dennis Harding addresses contemporary concerns about information and its interpretation.

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This book describes in detail the various theories on the shape of the Earth from classical antiquity to the present day and examines how measurements of its form and dimensions have evolved throughout this period.

Covering everything from sports to art, religion, music, and entrepreneurship, this book documents the vast array of African American cultural expressions and discusses their impact on the culture of the United States.

Among the regional landed elites in the Western World of the mid-1800s, the two most formidable were the owners of slave plantations in the Southern states of the U.

The political narrative of late medieval English towns is often reduced to the story of the gradual intensification of oligarchy, in which power was exercised and projected by an ever smaller ruling group over an increasingly subservient urban population.

The second annual Alchemy Lecture brought together five artists, thinkers, and writers who proposed new ways of being and discussed radical visions for the future.

In 1880, ancient-growth forest still covered two-thirds of West Virginia, but by the 1920s lumbermen had denuded the entire region.

This book discusses the evolution of Commedia dell'Arte in the Asia-Pacific where through the process of reinvention and recreation it has emerged as a variety of hybrids and praxes, all in some ways faithful to the recreated European genre.

The siege of Venice in 1848 is one of history's most thrilling and tragic episodes.

As early as 1865, survivors of the Civil War were acutely aware that people were purposefully shaping what would be remembered about the war and what would be omitted from the historical record.

Building on the historical study of cultural translation, this volume brings together a range of case studies and fresh approaches to early modern intellectual history by scholars from across Europe reflecting on ideological and political change from c.