Social and cultural history

Formed on the South Side of Chicago in 1968 at the height of the civil rights, Black power, and Black arts movements, the AFRICOBRA collective created a new artistic visual language rooted in the culture of Chicago's Black neighborhoods.

Early Modern English Noblewomen and Self-Starvation: The Skull Beneath the Skin is a unique exploration of why early modern noblewomen starved themselves, how they understood their behaviour, and how it was interpreted and received by their contemporaries.

Until the 18th century or even later, beer was the staple drink of most men and women at all levels of society.

Who made the first snowman?

First published in 1976.

The ten essays in this book explore the intersection of race and class in the study of labour on three continents.

Sport and the Home Front contributes in significant and original ways to our understanding of the social and cultural history of the Second World War.

Mittlerweile wohnen weltweit zum ersten Mal in der Geschichte mehr Menschen in Städten als auf dem Land.

Workers who loaded and unloaded ships have formed a distinctive occupational group over the past two centuries.

One of the most successful books ever published and the basis of one of the most popular and highly praised Hollywood films of all time, Gone With the Wind has entered world culture in a way that few other stories have.

Britain's Living Past is a celebration of the best of the past, of things that have been preserved because they still matter to the community.

Within the frame of family farming, this book offers a longitudinal study of the Castra district in North-West Tasmania from first European settlement to the end of the twentieth century.

Beginning with the Black Death in 1348 and extending through to the demise of Habsburg rule in 1700, this second edition of Spanish Society, 1348-1700 has been expanded to provide a wide and compelling exploration of Spain's transition from the Middle Ages to modernity.

This book examines the intersection of urban society and modern politics among Jews in turn of the century Warsaw, Europe's largest Jewish center at the time.

This book is an economic, historical, and sociological examination of rural textile industries in the Lower Rhineland beginning in the sixteenth century, culminating with the age of factory organization in the early 1800s.

The countries of Latin America have suffered through numerous foreign interventions and domestic wars in the nearly two centuries that have followed its independence.

Pauper policies examines how policies under the old and New Poor Laws were conceived, adopted, implemented, developed or abandoned.

Explore the struggle for racial justice in Britain through the lens of one of Britain's most prominent and controversial black journalists and campaigners.

Philip Webb was a British architect known as a founder of the Arts and Crafts movement and also a key member of the Pre-Raphaelite circle.

Discover the epic history of human exploration and migration, and the stories of fearless pioneers the world over, with this stunning tour of history - map by map.

This book examines the contribution of archaeology to the study of the social, economic, religious, and other developments in England from the end of the Roman period at the start of the fifth century to the beginnings of the Renaissance at the end of the fifteenth century.

Originally published in 1976, this is the account of British society's response to the threat of disease.

Engaging the Crusades is a series of volumes which offer windows into a newly emerging field of historical study: the memory and legacy of the crusades.

During the Coronation of King Charles III and Queen Camilla, the Christian Church will take centre stage once again, as the established religion in England.

Most studies of ancient Greek politics focus on formal institutions such as the political assembly and the law courts, and overlook the role that informal social practices played in the regulation of the political order.

This pioneering survey evaluates the notions of class and order throughout European history since 1500.

In this fully updated edition with a new foreword by Andre Liebich, David M.

The New Yorker contributor’s fascinating account of Irish history from legendary kings to occupation, independence, and modern political strife.

';Superbly intelligent[a] rewarding Sapiens-style big history.

A history of Egypt''s first teacher-training school, exploring 130 years of tension over the place of Islamic ideas and practices within modernized public spheres.

Seit der Öffnung des Landes vor 150 Jahren übt Japan auf den Westen eine magische Anziehung aus.

Although the connection between the invention of printing and the Protestant Reformation of the sixteenth century has long been a scholarly commonplace, there is still a great deal of evidence about the relationship to be presented and analysed.

The story of Isaac Newton's decades in London - as ambitious cosmopolitan gentleman, President of London's Royal Society, Master of the Mint, and investor in the slave trade.

An essential starting point for anyone wanting to learn about life in the largest empire in history, this two-volume work encapsulates the imperial experience from the 16th-21st centuries.

Around 1900 cities in Southern and Eastern Europe were persistently labeled "e;backward"e; and "e;delayed.

Medieval Literature and Social Politics brings together seventeen articles by literary historian Stephen Knight.

The second son of a modest gentry family, John Lilburne was accused of treason four times, and put on trial for his life under both Charles I and Oliver Cromwell.

This is the first volume to take a broad historical sweep of the close relation between medicines and poisons in the Western tradition, and their interconnectedness.

In 1997, M.

Regional newspapers around the globe are fighting to survive in the face of challenges to their economic model, due to the constant influx of new technology.

This invaluable resource covers all aspects of 1920s political, artistic, popular, and economic culture in America, supporting the AP U.

The experience of suburban modernity looks at the history of the London suburbs in the interwar years.

In the early twentieth century, the magic of radio was new, revolutionary, and poorly understood.

This pioneering book elevates the senses to a central role in the study of food history because the traditional focus upon food types, quantities, and nutritional values is incomplete without some recognition of smell, touch, sight, hearing, and taste.

This book, first published in 1991, analyses the role of women in the Eritrean struggle for independence.

Benefiting from Montreal's remarkable archival records, Sherry Olson and Patricia Thornton use an ingenious sampling of twelve surnames to track the comings and goings, births, deaths, and marriages of the city's inhabitants.

It is often assumed that those outside of academia know very little about the Middle Ages.