Social and cultural history

This volume surveys transnational encounters and entanglements between Germany and East Asia since 1945, a period that has witnessed unprecedented global connections between the two regions.

In The Wesley Challenge Participant Book small groups or whole churches will spend three weeks working through 21 questions that will engage their physical, spiritual and emotional lives and their relationship with God and others.

This New York Times bestselling book offers a new perspective on the smash hit book and film, Sybil, and on multiple personality disorder itself.

Reflecting on the 1960s at 50: A Concise Account of How the 1960s Changed America, for Better and for Worse is a punchy, conversational look at some of the most interesting pieces of cultural and social conflict from the '60s, reflected through the lens of our own vantage point today.

A Companion to American Cultural History offers a historiographic overview of the scholarship, with special attention to the major studies and debates that have shaped the field, and an assessment of where it is currently headed.

This edited collection offers multi-disciplinary reflections and analysis on a variety of themes centred on nineteenth century executions in the UK, many specifically related to the fundamental change in capital punishment culture as the execution moved from the public arena to behind the prison wall.

Research on late nineteenth and early twentieth century German society has concentrated overwhelmingly on life in the cities.

There has been much academic interest in the role of museums as places where understanding of the past is shaped and legitimised for a wide and increasingly diverse public.

It has long been suggested that poverty was responsible for a criminal underclass emerging in Britain during the nineteenth century.

Today the 80-mile-long Moscow Canal is a source of leisure for Muscovites, a conduit for tourists and provides the city with more than 60% of its potable water.

Explains Native American psychology and how its unique perspectives on mind and behavior can bring a focus to better heal individual, social, and global disorders.

What have a deaf nun, the mother of the first baby born to Europeans in North America, and a condemned heretic to do with one another?

Exploring the ethical questions posed by, in, and about children's literature, this collection examines the way texts intended for children raise questions of value, depict the moral development of their characters, and call into attention shared moral presuppositions.

The history of the family has become the source of lively controversy and Ralph Houlbrooke's study has made a major contribution to the debate.

When the first volume of Morton Horwitz's monumental history of American law appeared in 1977, it was universally acclaimed as one of the most significant works ever published in American legal history.

Originally published in 1945.

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Held on June 22, 1938, in Yankee Stadium, the second Louis-Schmeling fight sparked excitement around the globe.

From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Femina'Ramirez blasts a powerful spotlight into the so-called Dark Ages' - Dan SnowSkulduggery, power struggles and politics, The Private Lives of the Saints offers an original and fascinating re-examination of life in Anglo-Saxon England.

Demons of Domesticity offers a social history of the English gas industry from the 1880s to the late 1930s, with an emphasis on the corporations that served London and the Home Counties.

This book examines the roots of contemporary environmental consciousness and action in terms of both popular experience and tradition.

This study examines fully the role that the historic European left has played in developing and espousing anti-Semitic views.

It has long been held that humans need government to impose social order on a chaotic, dangerous world.

Identifies the patterns of our planet's design within the natural landscape *; Explains the geometry inherent in the mountains and coasts on all continents *; Reveals how ancient monuments were built to reflect and enhance the Earth's design, often connecting sites around the world *; Includes detailed maps that show the simple geometrical relationships among the world's mountains, coastlines, islands, and ancient monuments From continent to continent across the globe, Mark Vidler and Catherine Young reveal that order is everywhere on Earth.

Food and the Novel in Nineteenth-Century America revolves around the 1840 presidential election when, according to campaign slogans, candidates were what they ate.

Die Reformation in der Schweiz markierte einen tiefgreifenden Umbruch in der religiösen, sozialen und politischen Landschaft des 16.

Following their entry into Austria and the Sudetenland in the late 1930s, the Germans attempted to impose a policy of cultural imperialism on the countries they went on to occupy during World War II.

A thief and a nobleman, both down on their luck, cross paths on a bitter winters day in 1701.

In this sequel to her 2000 anthology, Valerie Sanders again brings together an influential group of women whose autobiographical accounts of their childhoods show them making sense of the children they were and the women they have become.

The nineteenth century is a key period in the history of the interpretation of the Greek gods.

This title is part of UC Presss Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact.

This collection focuses on the cultural history of the police as an institution from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries.

Exploring the interplay of politics and commerce in one of the most dynamic periods of British history, this book traces the fortunes of the India and Eastern Trading Company Limited, established in 1906 to finance a jute plantation in Assam, north-east India.

A major contribution to our understanding of slavery in the early republic, Deliver Us from Evil illuminates the white South's twisted and tortured efforts to justify slavery, focusing on the period from the drafting of the federal constitution in 1787 through the age of Jackson.

Popular Politics in Nineteenth Century England provides an accessible introduction to the culture of English popular politics between 1815 and 1900, the period from Luddism to the New Liberalism.

Education in Manliness explores the central educational ideal of the Victorian and Edwardian public school.

Louis XIV ruled France for more than half a century and is typically remembered for his absolutism, his patronage of the arts and his lavish lifestyle - culminating in the building of Versailles.

Originating in the popular Sociologia en Cuarantena blog, this volume provides a detailed and multifaceted analysis of the social impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in Spain.

Challenges preconceptions of convict transportation from Britain and Ireland, penal colonies and religion.

This book makes ancient Latin-learning materials usable by modern students for the first time.

This book charts the history of Iran''s sexual revolution from the nineteenth century to today.

This volume of primary sources focuses on the history of emotions in Europe and its empires between 1714 and 1789.

The twentieth century witnessed both the formation of Newfoundland as a self-conscious national entity and the construction of distinct and self-aware middle and upper classes in its capital city.

This volume provides a fresh perspective of the history and legacy of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, as well as the often-disputed memory of it in contemporary Europe.

Anhand von literarischen und historischen Textzeugen des 16.

A collection of essays - including 3 that have never been published before - by one of the leading figures in cultural history.

Medieval Violence provides a detailed analysis of the practice of medieval brutality, focusing on a thriving region of northern France in the late thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries.