Social and cultural history

First published in 1934, Artists in Uniform confronts what the author describes as 'two of the worst features of the Soviet experiment' following Lenin's death - bigotry and bureaucratism - and shows how they have functioned in the sphere of arts and letters.

A reinterpretation of one of America's most notorious lynchings The 1918 lynching of Mary Turner by a white mob in Brooks County, Georgia, is remembered and studied mainly because of the horror of an allegedly pregnant woman's murder.

This book provides a twenty-first century perspective on Roman Britain, combining current approaches with the wealth of archaeological material from the province.

First published in 2006.

Archaeoastronomy and archaeology are two distinct fields of study which examine the cultural aspect of societies, but from different perspectives.

There is little evidence to enable us to reconstruct what it felt like to be a child in the Roman world.

The first detailed and systematic study of the social science of poverty as practiced by the Victorian experts who had so much influence on relief policy in this area, and who were among the founders of British social science.

This book brings together long-obscured histories to discuss Australia's cultural, social, and political diversity in depth.

Examines an alternative ideology to Zionism that attempted to build a Jewish State outside of Palestine.

"e;BACK IN PRINT WITH A NEW INTRODUCTIONThe turn of the last century saw a great wave of moral fervour among Protestant social reformers in English Canada.

In the late 1930s the Lancashire town of Bolton witnessed a ground-breaking social experiment.

Who made up the working class in Britain, who were the ordinary men and women and what were their aspirations?

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Law, Crime and Deviance since 1700 explores the potential for the 'micro-study' approach to the history of crime and legal history.

Hannah's Dress tells the dizzying story of Berlin's modern history.

This microhistory reconstructs and analyses a protracted legal dispute over a small parcel of land called Warrens Court in Nibley, Gloucestershire, which was contested between successive generations of two families from the mid-sixteenth century to the early eighteenth century.

Hollywood 1963-1976 chronicles the upheaval and innovation that took place in the American film industry during an era of pervasive cultural tumult.

Alessandro Ferrara explains what he terms ''the democratic horizon'' and reviews the challenges under which democracies must operate.

This volume makes a significant contribution to the 'history of ecclesiastical histories', with a fresh analysis of historians of evangelicalism from the eighteenth century to the present.

This book provides a detailed narrative of the Kat River Settlement in the Eastern Cape of South Africa during the nineteenth century.

The Dominicans in the Americas and the Philippines (c.

This book reexamines the emergence of Urdu as a literary and poetic language in the 18th century, at the time called Rekhtah, highlighting its engagement with diverse regional cultures and communities in South Asia.

Essays on America's changing environment from an author who is "e;funny and searching-a joy to read"e; (Elizabeth Kolbert).

1978 witnessed the publication of Peter Burke's groundbreaking study Popular Culture in Early Modern Europe.

An examination of the challenges of water management in Australian cities drawing on environmental, urban and economy history.

A daring cultural and literary studies investigation, Cultural Melancholy explores the legacy of unresolved grief produced by ongoing racial oppression and resistance in the United States.

First published in 1978, this multi-disciplinary study embraces a wide selection of topics ranging from family intimacy and authoritarianism to the family as a unit for launching social reforms.

This title was first published in 2000: The Way We Lived Then is a detailed study of a nineteenth-century community.

This book, first in a series of three, examines the social elites in Denmark, Sweden, Norway, and Iceland, and which social, political, and cultural resources went into their creation.

Taking the form of two companion volumes, Police Courts in Nineteenth-Century Scotland represents the first major investigation into the administration, experience, impact and representation of summary justice in Scottish towns, c.

A fresh look at two centuries of humanitarian history through a moral economy approach focusing on appeals, allocation, and accounting.

Some see the 1980s as a Golden Age, a "e;Morning in America"e; when Ronald Reagan revived America's economy, reoriented American politics, and restored Americans' faith in their country and in themselves.

What impact did the Church have on society?

Five case studies show how different people and places were marginalized and socially excluded as the Italian nation-state was formed.

A groundbreaking exploration of Garveyism's global influence during the interwar years and beyondJamaican activist Marcus Garvey (1887-1940) organized the Universal Negro Improvement Association in Harlem in 1917.

Beginning with a widespread definition of Decadence as when individual parts flourish at the expense of the whole, Regenia Gagnier - a leading cultural historian of late nineteenth-century Britain - shows the full range of meanings of individualism at the height of its promise.

Trash, garbage, rubbish, dross, and detritus - in this enjoyably radical exploration of 'Junk', Gillian Whiteley rethinks art's historical and present appropriation of junk within our eco-conscious and globalised culture.

This volume explores papal communication and its reception in the period c.

Though his writings have long been integral to the canon of early modern English literature, it is only in very recent scholarship that Edmund Spenser has been understood as a preeminent anthropologist whose work develops a complex theory of cultural change.

Specially commissioned to mark the 40th Anniversary of History of Education, and containing articles from leading international scholars, this is a unique and important volume.

A charmingly personal history of Hapsburg Europe, as lively as it is informative, by the author of Germania For centuries much of Europe and the Holy Roman Empire was in the royal hands of the very peculiar Habsburg family.

With contributions from noted critics and film historians from both countries, this book, first published in 1994, examines some of the most innovative and disturbing propaganda ever created.

From the beginnings of industrial capitalism to contemporary disputes over evolution, nature has long been part of the public debate over the social good.

Focusing on examples from medieval theatre, women's suffrage campaigns, and the 2012 Olympics Opening Ceremony, this is the first book to offer a critical overview of pageant as a dramatic form.

This book presents a comprehensive portrait of how Indians conceived of the idea of India.

This book presents a history of the correspondence principle from a new perspective.

Marine Mammal Observer and Passive Acoustic Monitoring Handbook is the ultimate instruction manual for mitigation measures to minimise man-made acoustical and physical disturbances to marine mammals from industrial and defence activities.

A profound reminder that football is far more than a sport; its a canvas for building a fairer and more compassionate world Kelly Davies, former Wales international football playerTremendous .