Social and cultural history

Block Printing & Book Illustration in Japan (1924) was one of the first guides to Japanese illustration, and remains indispensable to this day.

A vivid account of Chinese intellectuals across the twentieth century that provides a guide to making sense of China today.

Music, Art and Diplomacy shows how a vibrant field of cultural exchange between East and West was taking place during the Cold War, which contrasts with the orthodox understanding of two divided and antithetical blocs.

This volume has its origin in the 14th University of South Africa Classics Colloquium in which the topic and title of the event were inspired by Josiah Ober's seminal work Mass and Elite in Democratic Athens (1989).

Why do religion and science often appear in conflict in America's public sphere?

This stimulating one-volume history traces the social and economic evolution of France as a nation from the founding of the monarchy in 987, to the present day.

The Italian Renaissance shaped Western culture - but it was far stranger and darker than many of us realise.

In a theatre which self-consciously cultivated its audiences' imagination, how and what did playgoers 'see' on the stage?

In 1926 Barry Dierks, a young American architect, arrived in Paris and fell in love with France.

The history of Wesleyan family of churches doctrinesWhat are our core beliefs?

Examines the relationship between antisemitism and the practices of citizenship in a colonial context, focusing on experiences of Algerian Jews.

A Cultural History of Shopping was a Library Journal Best in Reference selection for 2022.

The Red Pencil (1989) examines the many ways in which Soviet censorship interfered in the creative process - in the words of those who experienced it first hand.

An examination of the main historical trends of the UK economy and the changes of the 1980s and a look at how the economy will develop into the 1990s.

The American South has experienced remarkable change over the past half century.

First published in 2006.

The emerging shape of the post Cold War world provides evidence that rather than diminishing, the profound intersection of political ideology and religious forms of belief is an ever more potent force in world affairs.

This impressive work, set to become the standard history on the subject, offers a definitive survey of peasant society in Russia, from the consolidation of serfdom and tsarist autocracy in the 17th century through to the destruction of the peasant's traditional world under Stalin.

MacNamara reveals how ordinary women and men legitimized birth control through private moral action, as opposed to public advocacy, in the early twentieth century.

While it's mindboggling to fathom anyone labeling a war ';splendid,' a high-ranking American official used that term to describe the Spanish-American War in 1898.

First published in 2001.

Conversion and Catastrophe in German-Jewish Emigre Autobiography is a collective biography of four German-Jewish converts to Christianity, recounting their spiritual and confessional journeys against the backdrop of the Holocaust and its aftermath.

The pub is a prominent social institution integral to British identity.

Focusing on the Colloquy of Montbeliard, a theological debate in 1586 between Lutherans and Calvinists, Raitt explores the complex array of shifting political alliances and religious tensions which characterized the Holy Roman Empire after the Peace of Augsburg.

Escaping Hitler is the personal story of Eva Wyman and her family's escape from Nazi Germany to Chile in the sociohistorical context of 1930s and 1940s, a time when the Chilean Nazi party had an active presence in the country's major institutions.

Wunderbar Country (1982) examines the experiences of Australia's second largest migrant community, the Germans.

Roman Tales: A Reader's Guide to the Art of Microhistory explores both the social and cultural life of Renaissance Rome and the mind-set and methods of microhistory.

The first comprehensive account of civil liberties activism throughout twentieth-century Britain, focusing primarily on the National Council for Civil Liberties.

Authoritative guide to using quantitative methods in history; clearly illustrated and accompanied by website material.

Migration has been one of the most pressing societal issues throughout history.

The delineation and emergence of the Irish border radically reshaped political and social realities across the entire island of Ireland.

Making the Scene is a history of 1960s Yorkville, Toronto's countercultural mecca.

MAHAD has an iconic place in Dalit universe.

Does it make you a better parent if you have pioneered scientific theories of child development?

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Contemporary public life in Britain would be unthinkable without the use of statistics and statistical reasoning.

Designed to complement "e;Crime and Punishment: An Introductory History"e; UCL Press, 1996, this sourcebook contains documents specifically selected to illuminate major issues raised in the textbook.

This book explores the complexity of preaching as a phenomenon in the medieval Jewish-Christian encounter.

On the fiftieth anniversary of Quotations from Chairman Mao, this pioneering volume examines the book as a global historical phenomenon.

Enmeshed in the exploitative world of racial slavery, overseers were central figures in the management of early American plantation enterprises.

Acts of Giving examines the issues surrounding donation - the giving of property, usually landed property - in northern 'Christian' Spain in the tenth century, when written texts became very plentiful, allowing us to glimpse the working of local society.

Ireland in an Imperial World interrogates the myriad ways through which Irish men and women experienced, participated in, and challenged empires in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Georgian landscape gardens are among the most visited and enjoyed of the UK's historical treasures.

A book full of richness, unexpected enticements, short sharp shocks and breathtaking writing Guardian Welcome to the real, unauthorised London: the disappeared, the unapproved, the unvoiced, the mythical and the all-but forgotten.

Nowadays we believe that consenting adults have the freedom to do what they like with their own bodies.

This book examines female lordship and the power of the political voice in medieval Northern Europe, focusing on three prominent, foreign-born queens of medieval Scandinavia - Agnes of Denmark (d.

We live in an age when the cigarette industry is under almost constant attack.

Intellectual Horizons offers a pioneering, transnational and comparative treatment of key thematic areas in the intellectual and cultural history of Central and Eastern Europe in the twentieth century.