Social and cultural history

The Best Kept Secret studies the often-overlooked group of single, African American custodial fathers.

Winner: Penny Kanner PrizeWinner: Armitage-Jameson Book PrizeChoice Outstanding Academic TitleNearly 250 years after ninety-five-year-old Elder Thomas Faunce got caught up in the mythmaking around Plymouth Rock, his great-great-great-great-great-granddaughter Hilda Faunce Wetherill died in Pacific Grove, California, leaving behind a cache of letters and family papers.

In some places, the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) was a social fraternity whose members enjoyed sophomoric hijinks and homemade liquor.

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Marion Nestle, acclaimed author of Food Politics, now tells the gripping story of how, in early 2007, a few telephone calls about sick cats set off the largest recall of consumer products in U.

SR Books' two popular Human Tradition in Latin America titles covering nineteenth- and twentieth-century history have been combined into one exciting new volume.

From award-winning economic historian Sanford M.

A richly illustrated account of the story of ancient vinicultureThe history of civilization is, in many ways, the history of wine.

A bracing corrective to predictions of the European Union's decline, by a leading historian of modern EuropeIs the European Union in decline?

The little-known history of black soldiers and defense workers in the First World War, and what happened afterward: "e;Highly recommended.

Mock funerals, effigy parading, smearing with eggs and tomatoes, pot-banging and Carnival street theatre, arson and ransacking: all these seemingly archaic forms of action have been regular features of modern European protest, from the 19th to the 21st century.

This book depicts the cultural imagination of the Italian-Jewish minority from the unification of the country to the end of the First World War.

This volume explores the role of women in business in nineteenth-century Northern French textile centers.

This book examines the views of Greek Church Fathers on hoarding, saving, and management of economic surplus, and their development primarily in urban centres of the Eastern Mediterranean, from the late first to the fifth century.

This book explores the activities of the Nazi regime's vast leisure programme.

This Palgrave Pivot explores the social and cultural impact of global trade at a micro-level from around 1600 to 1950.

This book argues that traditional images and practices associated with shame did not recede with the coming of modern Britain.

This book analyses the 1980s as a nuclear decade, focusing on British and United States fiction.

This book offers a new history of the farmworker in England from 1850 to the present day.

This book challenges a common historical narrative, which portrays medieval Jews as moneylenders who filled an essential economic role in Europe.

This book offers the first comprehensive exploration of how the ancient past has shaped screen stardom in Hollywood since the silent era.

This book is the first full-length treatment of Walter Hussey's work as a patron between 1943 and 1978, first for the Anglican parish church of St Matthew in Northampton, and then at Chichester Cathedral.

This study on Kapsiki-Higi tales compares two corpuses of stories collected over two generations.

This book approaches the Scottish women's suffrage campaign from the point of view of the popular press.

This book explores the 'Black Horror' campaign as an important chapter in the popularisation of racialised discourse in European history.

This book is the first transnational history of rambling and mountaineering.

This book examines Shakespeare's depiction of foreign queens as he uses them to reveal and embody tensions within early modern English politics.

This book sheds new light on early twentieth-century secularism by examining campaigns to challenge dominant Christian approaches to the teaching of morality and citizenship in English schools, and to offer superior alternatives.

This book is the first major study of civilian internment during the First World War as both a European and global phenomenon.

This book examines the myriad identities and portrayals of Edith Cavell, as they have been constructed and handed down by propagandists, biographers and artists.

Sarajevo's Holiday Inn on the Frontline of Politics and War charts the rich history of the city's famous Holiday Inn hotel.

Limiting Outer Space propels the historicization of outer space by focusing on the Post-Apollo period.

This book traces the word 'progressive' through modern British history, from the Enlightenment to Brexit.

This book examines the historic tensions between Jehovah's Witnesses and government authorities, civic organisations, established churches and the broader public.

This volume is the first to provide a book-length study of Pinter's overtly political activity.

This book explores the religious concerns of Enlightenment thinkers from Thomas Hobbes to Thomas Jefferson.

This multi-disciplinary essay collection explores the controversial life and achievements of Sir John Hill (1714-1775), a prolific contributor to Georgian England's literature, medicine and science.

This book explores how the communist cult of the individual was not just a Soviet phenomenon but an international one.

This pioneering collection provides, for the first time, an international and transdisciplinary reflection on youth, history and queer sexualities and genders.

In studies of psychology's role in modernism, Carl Jung is usually relegated to a cameo appearance, if he appears at all.

A concise narrative history that brings the story of the Jewish people marvelously to lifeThis is a sweeping and powerful narrative history of the Jewish people from biblical times to today.

This book challenges the standard conception of the Middle Ages as a time of persecution for Jews.

A major history of the shtetl's golden ageThe shtetl was home to two-thirds of East Europe's Jews in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, yet it has long been one of the most neglected and misunderstood chapters of the Jewish experience.

America was built on stories: tales of grateful immigrants arriving at Ellis Island, Horatio Alger-style transformations, self-made men, and the Protestant work ethic.

'Elegant and multi-focal.

Factory, mine and mill.

Of the many Cold War radio DJs who broadcast to the USSR, Seva Novgorodsev must be near the top of the list.

Berbers, also known as Imazighen, are the ancient inhabitants of North Africa, but rarely have they formed an actual kingdom or separate nation state.

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The definitive history of conversion and assimilation of Jews in Europe and America from the eighteenth century to the presentBetween the French Revolution and World War II, hundreds of thousands of Jews left the Jewish fold-by becoming Christians or, in liberal states, by intermarrying.