Social and cultural history

A lively study of the function of theatre entertainment in the First World War, 1914-18.

With a communicative approach to the phenomenon of terrorism and new archival sources, the book documents Meinhof's journalism and terrorism (1959-1976) and challenges many of the established narratives that have calcified around the story of Meinhof and the history of Germany's most infamous terrorist group.

This book illuminates intricate and unexpected connections among the past of academic feminism, the geopolitics of the Cold War, and the concept of intersectionality as it is articulated in scholarship on and by U.

James Mussell provides an accessible account of the digitization of nineteenth-century newspapers and periodicals.

Bringing together the work of a ground-breaking group of scholars working on the Italian Risorgimento to consider how modern Italian national identity was first conceived and constructed politically, the book makes a timely contribution to current discussions about the role of patriotism and the nature of nationalism in present-day Italy.

The authors in this volume analyze spiritual kinship in Europe from the end of the Middle Ages to the Industrial Age.

Elephants, lions, tigers and leopards evoke fascination and awe, fear and excitement.

A refreshing insight into a previously neglected area of popular British cinema - the holiday film - including historical information about the British holiday and analyses of key films from the 1900s to the recent past.

A repositioning of French women's struggle for suffrage within the distinct cultural landscape of the masculine honour system.

The first book to compare and contrast the rise of mass circulation press in Britain and America.

A valuable and objective reassessment of the role of Serbia and Serbs in WWII.

Traces the movement from mutualism to individualism in the context of American family life.

This book critically assessesthird-wave feminist strategies for advancing a feminist 'politics of the self' within the late modern, postfeminist gender order - a context where gender equality has been mainstreamed, feminism has been dismissed, and a neoliberal culture of self-management has become firmly entrenched.

'Reading has a history.

Bringing together research from a variety of countries and periods, this volume introduces readers to the diverse approaches used to recover the evidence of reading through history in different societies, and asks whether reading practices are always conditioned by specific local circumstances or whether broader patterns might emerge.

We inhabit a textually super-saturated and increasingly literate world.

The Trial of the Haymarket Anarchists is the culmination of seven years of research into the 1886 Haymarket bombing and subsequent trial.

Anti-apartheid was one of the most significant international causes of the late twentieth century.

This book charts the social and cultural history of the scientific technique known as 'tissue culture'.

This innovative project unites leading scholars of English, History and French to examine the challenges of teaching early modern literature, history and culture within higher education.

Providing comparative and international contexts to understand the history of the making of the teacher in Victorian England, this is a compelling account of the development during this time of teacher training, inspections and certification - reforms which shaped the good teacher as a modern and moral individual.

A widespread and still contemporary political phenomenon that exercises a profound effect on societies, settler colonialism structures relationships both historically and culturally diverse.

A unique look at the meaning of the taste for wine in Britain, from the establishment of a Commonwealth in 1649 to the Commercial Treaty between Britain and France in 1860 - this book provides an extraordinary window into the politics and culture of England and Scotland just as they were becoming the powerful British state.

This book presents an accessible and fascinating account of theoretical debates around identity and work, recent empirical trends and methodological arguments concerning the role of oral testimony and its interpretation.

The first account of the emergence and demise of preventive health care for workers.

A unique study of how a deeply religious country like India acquired the laws and policies of a secular state, highlighting the contradictory effects of British imperial policies, the complex role played by Indian Christians, and how this highly divided community shaped its own identity and debated that of their new nation.

An examination of population movements, both forced and voluntary, within the broader context of Europe in the aftermath of the Second World War, in both Western and Eastern Europe.

Irish culture is obsessed with the past, and this book asks why and how.

An international trade emerged between 1870-1895 that incorporated the circulation of books among countries worldwide.

An examination of how the US military in Hawaii is depicted by museum curators, memorial builders, film makers, and newspaper reporters.

A fascinating collection of essays by renowned and emerging scholars exploring how everyday matters from farting to friendship reveal extraordinary aspects of early modern life, while seemingly exceptional acts and beliefs - such as those of ghosts, prophecies, and cannibalism - illuminate something of the routine experience of ordinary people.

Propaganda during the Battle of Britain contributed to high national morale and optimism, with 'The 'Few's' prowess and valour projected through Air Ministry communiques and daily claims 'scores'.

Telling the stories of mothers, fathers and children in their own words, Vaizey recreates the experience of family life in Nazi Germany.

This collection of essays by leading scholars in the field reveals the major contribution of puritan women to the intellectual culture of the early modern period.

This overview of the history of the Sokol, the Czech nationalist gymnastic organization, from its founding in 1862 until the outbreak of World War I emphasizes its role in articulating national values and facilitating mass mobilization in the political context of the multinational Habsburg state.

Wordsworth: A Poet's History examines the range of Wordsworth's poetry and criticism over the course of his career.

To the British soldiers of the Great War who heard about it, 'shell shock' was uncanny, amusing and sad.

This book explores ideas of violent femininity across generic and disciplinary boundaries during the nineteenth century.

During the 1930s Europe was convulsed by political violence.

This book addresses the literary, cultural and historical questions surrounding the reconceptualization of fame between 1750-1830.

The execution of British matron Edith Cavell by occupying German forces was portrayed by the allies as one of the key atrocities of the Great War.

These essays trace the femme fatale across literature, visual culture and cinema, exploring the ways in which fatal femininity has been imagined in different cultural contexts and historical epochs, and moving from mythical women such as Eve, Medusa and the Sirens via historical figures such as Mata Hari to fatal women in contemporary cinema.

Following the spirit of Benjamin's Arcades Project, this book acts as a kaleidoscope of change in the 21st century, tracing its different reflections in the international contemporary while seeking to understand individual/collective reactions to change through a series of creative methodologies.

This volume brings together scholars from across Europe to critically examine TV history programming in a period of political, economic and cultural change.

A unique exploration of the changing ideas about the place of voluntarism and health care within society in Britain since the 1960s.

An exploration of how the theme of Anti-Americanism was employed by influential sections of the West German media to oppose the modernisation of the Federal Republic of Germany during the 'long 1950s'.

Radio was one of the major weapons used in the Cold War and The Undivided Sky gives a lively and comprehensive account of radio programming and audience responses in the divided Germany of the 1960s by looking at the reportage of major war-crimes trials of the time, issues of the Holocaust and German national identity.

We live in the age of international crime but when did it begin?

This collection of essays explores the broad range of influences which have shaped the distribution of authority within British homes and families - religion, commercial advertising, governments, welfare professionals, medical experts, psychologists and the law.

An in-depth study of the reception of Democratic ideas in mid-19th Century Spain on the provincial and local level, and how they influenced the political process and fuelled the numerous conspiracies and insurrections directed at the Bourbon monarchy, between the failed uprisings in Spain in 1848 and the First Republic in 1873.