Social and cultural history

Indispensable immigrants recreates the world of peasants who streamed into the cities of late medieval and early modern northern Italy to carry crushingly heavy containers of wine.

Nineteenth-century England witnessed the birth of capitalist consumerism.

Dancing in the English style explores the development, experience, and cultural representation of popular dance in Britain from the end of the First World War to the early 1950s.

Dancing in the English style explores the development, experience, and cultural representation of popular dance in Britain from the end of the First World War to the early 1950s.

The world of work is tightly entwined with the world of things.

The world of work is tightly entwined with the world of things.

Pauper policies examines how policies under the old and New Poor Laws were conceived, adopted, implemented, developed or abandoned.

Pauper policies examines how policies under the old and New Poor Laws were conceived, adopted, implemented, developed or abandoned.

This book of essays on British social and cultural history since the eighteenth century draws attention to relatively neglected topics including personal and collective identities, the meanings of place, especially locality, and the significance of cultures of association.

This book of essays on British social and cultural history since the eighteenth century draws attention to relatively neglected topics including personal and collective identities, the meanings of place, especially locality, and the significance of cultures of association.

The stadium century traces the history of stadia and mass spectatorship in modern France from the velodromes of the late nineteenth century to the construction of the Stade de France before the 1998 soccer World Cup.

The stadium century traces the history of stadia and mass spectatorship in modern France from the velodromes of the late nineteenth century to the construction of the Stade de France before the 1998 soccer World Cup.

This book recovers the significant contribution made by women to museums, not just in obvious roles such as workers, but also as donors, visitors, volunteers and patrons.

Looking at Catholic charity and social policy in past times, this book focuses on 'unrespectable' women and children in Italy, and their treatment at the hands of charities and the law.

Looking at Catholic charity and social policy in past times, this book focuses on 'unrespectable' women and children in Italy, and their treatment at the hands of charities and the law.

This book explores the experiences of a range of women from the early days of 1914, through the big events of the war on the Eastern Front.

This book explores the experiences of a range of women from the early days of 1914, through the big events of the war on the Eastern Front.

Napoleon Bonaparte, der berühmte Kaiser von Frankreich, träumte von einer Dynastie, die Europa über Jahrhunderte prägen sollte.

The strange and surprising history of the so-called epidemic of bad posture in modern Americafrom eugenics and posture pageants to today's promoters of ';paleo posture'In 1995, a scandal erupted when the New York Times revealed that the Smithsonian possessed a century's worth of nude ';posture' photos of college students.

Casanova was an Italian adventurer and author from the Republic of Venice.

Collected here are both of Frederick Douglass'' magazine articles: "My Escape from Slavery," and "Reconstruction," as well as his address "The Hypocrisy of American Slavery.

In ''The Wars of the Jews'' Flavius Josephus gives us valuable insight into the first Jewish Roman War and the rebellions that followed thereafter.

In What''s Wrong With The World Chesterton rightly points out that what people see as "wrong with the world" are only the symptoms of a deeper problem.

In the Truth of a Hopi, Edmund Nequatewa relates the Hopis'' myths, legends, belief systems, and oral history.

Here is the harrowing true story of Solomon Northup, a free black man living in New York.

Many children of God are so deeply exercised on the matter of guidance that it may be helpful to give a few suggestions as to knowing the way in which our Father would have us walk, and the work He would have us do.

Today Frederick Douglass is best known for his autobiographies; but while he was alive he was known as a fiery orator who was always in demand.

William Edward Burghardt Du Bois was an African American civil rights activist, leader, Pan-Africanist, sociologist, educator, historian, writer, editor, poet, and scholar.

Eastman was a Native American physician, writer, national lecturer, and reformer.

Ellen Craft and William Craft were slaves from Macon, Georgia who escaped to the North in December 1848 by traveling openly by train and steamboat, arriving in Philadelphia on Christmas Day.

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is one of the most influential autobiographies ever written.

William Edward Burghardt Du Bois was a black civil rights activist, leader, Pan-Africanist, sociologist, educator, historian, writer, editor, poet, and scholar.

In reprinting these orations the editor has endeavored to present them here as nearly as possible in their original form.

In My Larger Education, Booker T.

In Frederick Douglass'' autobiography ''My Bondage and My Freedom'' we can see the power of literacy and belief.

The Confessions of Nat Turner: The Leader of the Late Insurrection in Southampton, Virginia, is a first-hand account of Turner''s confessions, published by a local lawyer, Thomas Ruffin Gray, in 1831.

In order to understand the special work which the United States has been called upon to do in the history of Humanity, we have first to remember that the American people are, historically, that section of the people of Europe whose task it was to explore the continent of America, to subdue it and to develop it.

Olaudah Equiano was one of the most prominent people of African heritage involved in the British debate for the abolition of the slave trade.

Découvrez le monde fascinant du folklore japonais, où mythes et légendes prennent vie !

Sehnsucht, Stigma, Protest.

When Tobe Hooper's low-budget slasher film, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, opened in theaters in 1974, it was met in equal measure with disgust and reverence.

A new edition of the seminal text by the father of modern economics.

Shares the basics of the Bloody Mary and builds on themContains beautiful photographs from Jessica Nicosia NadlerIdeal for fans of modern classic cocktailsImagine a delightful and savory cocktail.

A thorough history of the weapons and tools our prehistoric ancestors used to survive, this book reveals a world that will fascinate anyone interested in outdoor skills, ancient weapons, or anthropology.

A classic of historical literature, Boys Book of Frontier Fighters is a thrilling collection of stories that cover the legacy of American fighters and their successes in defending themselves and their country.

Ever wonder how everyone made it west?

This historical western was written before Custer was known as General, a time when those who knew and marched with Custer were still alive.

Each year the world faces thousands of earthquakes of magnitude 5.

A fascinating memoir of a white man who gained access to the private lives of the Blackfeet Indians.