Social and cultural history

In historical studies, 'collective memory' is most often viewed as the product of nationalizing strategies carried out by political elites in the hope to create homogeneous nation-states.

Over fifty years after Jamaican and Trinidadian independence, Imagining Caribbean womanhood examines the links between beauty and politics in the Anglophone Caribbean, providing a first cultural history of Caribbean beauty competitions, spanning from Kingston to London.

The Power of Representation traces the emergence of modern Egyptian national identity from the mid-1870s through the 1910s.

For years, International Mission Board president Jerry Rankin has begun each day by reading and meditating on a Psalm.

Much of the history of Mexican American educational reform efforts has focused on campaigns to eliminate discrimination in public schools.

Originally inspired by a progressive vision of a working environment without walls or hierarchies, the open plan office has since come to be associated with some of the most dehumanizing and alienating aspects of the modern office.

In this Ukrainian bestseller, now available in English for the first time, Yaroslav Hrytsak examines the first three decades (1856-86) in the life of Ivan Franko, a prominent writer, scholar, journalist, and political activist who became an indisputable leader in the forging of modern Ukrainian national identity.

This book is a major new contribution to the study of cultural identities in Britain and Ireland from the Reformation to Romanticism.

Peter Harrop offers a reappraisal of mummers' plays, which have long been regarded as a form of 'folk' or 'traditional' drama, somehow separate from the mainstream of British theatre.

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Museums of all kinds art, history, culture, science centers and heritage sites are actively engaging with food through exhibitions, collections, and stories about food production, consumption, history, taste, and aesthetics.

Winner of the Polityka Passport Award Winner of the Koscielski AwardA revelatory oral history of the people who suffered, rebelled, and survived under the secretive dictatorship of Enver Hoxha in Albania, one of the twentieth century's most brutal and Kafkaesque regimes, from award-winning Polish journalist Margo Rejmer.

Spanish imperial attempts to form strong Indian alliances to thwart American expansion in the Mississippi Valley.

Atlantic Circulations investigates literary conversations about empire in the British Atlantic world, c.

This book, first published in 1983, brings together leading world experts on film and radio propaganda in a study which deals with each of the major powers as well as several under occupation.

The Indian Ocean has been the site of multiple interconnected medical interactions that may be viewed in the context of the environmental factors connecting the region.

What is the history of 'everyday health' in the postwar world, and where might we find it?

The revolutionary movement which began in 1787 disrupted every aspect of French society, rising to a pitch of such extreme violence that the effects are still felt in France today.

Since the days of Troy historic lands of Asia Minor have been home to Greeks.

Early modern European society took a serious view of blasphemy, and drew upon a wide range of sanctions - including the death penalty - to punish those who cursed, swore and abused God.

Stepfamilies were as common in the European past as they are today.

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A wide-ranging look at the history of Western thinking since the seventeenth century on the purpose of the Jewish people in the past, present, and futureWhat is the purpose of Jews in the world?

This second edition of the history of Bulgaria now includes the vital period from 1995 to 2004.

Finland's Holocaust considers antisemitism and the figure of the Holocaust in today's Finland.

The Struggle for Natural Resources traces the troubled history of Bolivia's land and commodity disputes across five centuries, combining local, regional, national, and transnational scales.

Originally published in 1933, this volume was written by a practicing physician who visited Russia during the summer of 1932.

Using countless interviews as well as original diaries and letters, Andrew Wiest lays bare the horror of the Vietnam War for those left behind and the enduring battles they must continue to fight long after their loved ones have returned home.

Five marks confirm our identity as genuine and fruitful followers of Christ:1.

Why did large numbers of Scots leave a temperate climate to live permanently in parts of the world where greater temperature extreme was the norm?

This book is a history of modern European interpretations of the gift in global context.

Applies the ''life history'' of objects approach to China''s prehistoric, early dynastic and more recent material culture.

Treasure Neverland is about factual and fictional pirates.

'Wonderfully Straightforward' - The IndependentMaster the art of mixology with these easy to make and beautifully illustrated infographic cocktail recipes.

Seven shots ring out in the silence of Victoria's rolling Barrabool Hills.

In the wake of World War II, Americans developed an unusually deep and all-encompassing national unity, as postwar affluence and the Cold War combined to naturally produce a remarkable level of agreement about the nation's core values.

Beginning with an original historical vision of financialization in human history, this volume then continues with a rich set of contemporary ethnographic case studies from Europe, Asia and Africa.

“An engaging regional history with immense national significance .

This book explores the ways in which changing views on gender and the place of women in society during the latter half of the twentieth century affected women's participation and standing within British Paganism.

Nurture and Neglect: Childhood in Sixteenth-Century Northern England addresses a number of anomalies in the existing historiography surrounding the experience of children in urban and rural communities in sixteenth-century northern England.

The Routledge History of Death Since 1800 looks at how death has been treated and dealt with in modern history - the history of the past 250 years - in a global context, through a mix of definite, often quantifiable changes and a complex, qualitative assessment of the subject.

Buying for the Home is a book about the experiences and also the polarities of shopping and the home.

During the early eighteenth century, three phratries or tribes (Turtle, Turkey, and Wolf) of Delaware Indians left their traditional homeland in the Delaware River watershed and moved west to the Allegheny Valley of western Pennsylvania and eventually across the Ohio River into the Muskingum River valley.

In the past decades historians have interpreted early modern Christian missions not simply as an adjunct to Western imperialism, but a privileged field for cross-cultural encounters.

Although nearly 90% of the population of Great Britain remained civilians throughout the war, or for a large part of it, their story has so far largely gone untold.

CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title 2017The first social and cultural history of vagrancy between 1650 and 1750, this book combines sources from across England and the Atlantic world to describe the shifting and desperate experiences of the very poorest and most marginalized of people in early modernity; the outcasts, the wandering destitute, the disabled veteran, the aged labourer, the solitary pregnant woman on the road and those referred to as vagabonds and beggars are all explored in this comprehensive account of the subject.