Social and cultural history

In A New Type of Womanhood, Natasha Kirsten Kraus retells the history of the 1850s woman's rights movement.

Discover the fascinating lives of the iconic figures that have shaped Scotland from the early nineteenth century to the present day.

Cetaceans are one of the most unknown groups in the animal kingdom.

A History Today Book of the YearFinalist for the Lambda Literary Award'A beautiful, brilliant, lively book that weaves together fascinating and moving examples with thoughtful analysis.

Since 1997, the war in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo has taken more than 6 million lives and shapes the daily existence of the nation's residents.

Drawing on expressive and material culture, Young shows that money was not enough to make the genteel middle class.

Shadow Tribe offers the first in-depth history of the Pacific Northwests Columbia River Indians -- the defiant River People whose ancestors refused to settle on the reservations established for them in central Oregon and Washington.

From pre-European contact to the present day, people living in what is now the United States have constantly manipulated their environment.

Despite its failure to unseat King James II, the Monmouth Rebellion had a profound influence upon English politics.

Fashion is intimately tied to the material world.

In their growing awareness of the need to keep alive Canada's heritage, individuals, community groups, and small historical societies have long felt the need for a basic guide to the preservation of buildings, particularly buildings which, though they may not warrant provincial or federal protection, are nevertheless important to the history and values of their communities.

During the era of the French revolution, patriots across Europe tried to introduce a national uniform.

Throughout the 1970s the Gay Liberation Front (GLF) initiated an anarchic campaign that permanently changed the face of Britain.

First Published in 1967.

The Early Middle Ages, which marked the end of the Roman Empire and the creation of the kingdoms of Western Europe, was a period central to the formation of modern Europe.

The Sunday Times bestselling edition of Chips Channon's remarkable diaries.

The study of funeral monuments is a growing field, but monuments erected to commemorate children have so far received little attention.

Writing Material Culture History 2e examines the methodologies used in the historical study of material culture.

Focusing on concepts that have been central to investigation of the history and politics of marginalized and disenfranchised populations, this book asks how discourses of 'subalternity' and 'difference' simultaneously constitute and interrupt each other.

Queens Consort, Cultural Transfer and European Politics examines the roles that queens consort played in dynastic politics and cultural transfer between their natal and marital courts during the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries.

This book identifies and describes the first stage in the advent and growth of English education in India.

In 1903 Tsar Nicholas II issued a decree allowing the confiscation of Armenian Church property, marking the low point in relations between imperial Russia and its Armenian subjects.

A landmark study of racism, inequality, and police violence that continues to hold important lessons todayThe Kerner Report is a powerful window into the roots of racism and inequality in the United States.

This book seeks to overcome the tension between 'western' and 'non-western' categories and tools in the study of global history, showing how most western approaches to the social sciences and history have developed through transnational and colonial interactions.

In this collection of interdisciplinary essays, experts from Britain and the United States in the fields of nineteenth-century literature, and social and cultural history explore new directions in the field of Victorian life writing.

This book, first published in 1980, is an invaluable assessment of SOE's contribution to the Allied victory.

Blessed by a booming economy, the United States experienced the benefits of technology in the 1950s, with television and the automobile transforming the way people lived, and the space race offering new challenges.

The purpose of this study, first published in 1990, is to investigate the Americanization of an immigrant church in rural North America.

What does the term "e;reading"e; mean?

Methodism, originally founded in the eighteenth century, has grown into a large and influential Protestant denomination.

What did it mean to be a 'rebel woman' in the interwar years?

This book combines different decolonial approaches from around the world to offer a roadmap for updating names and naming practices, restoring and protecting precolonial ones, and reimagining or recontextualizing the relationship between place, identity, and names.

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Focusing on six popular British girls' periodicals, Kristine Moruzi explores the debate about the shifting nature of Victorian girlhood between 1850 and 1915.

Cultural Amnesia: A Masterful Collection of Essays on Twentieth-Century Luminaries, from Louis Armstrong to Franz KafkaIn Cultural Amnesia, acclaimed critic Clive James presents a series of captivating essays on the artists, thinkers, and cultural figures who shaped the twentieth century.

This book examines the role of artists in Egypt during the 2011 revolution, when street art from graffiti to political murals became ubiquitous facets of revolutionary spaces.

A pioneering study on the causes and consequences of the Dutch famine of 1944–1945.

Four major waves of immigration from the colonial period to the present are examined, exploring the causes and consequences.

Multinational Enterprise and Transnational Regions offers an innovative approach to the study of the history of transnational economic regions.

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

This volume brings together a series of papers at Kalamazoo as well as some contributed papers inspired by the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of Lynn White Jr.

The groundbreaking two-term President of Ireland tells the stories of her lifeWhen a young Mary McAleese told a priest that she planned to become a lawyer, the priest dismissed the idea: she knew no one in the law, and she was female.

American History through Hollywood Film offers a new perspective on major issues in American history from the 1770s to the end of the twentieth century and explores how they have been represented in film.

As a food, milk has been revered and ignored, respected and feared.

Killing the Indian Maiden examines the fascinating and often disturbing portrayal of Native American women in film.

In her extensively researched exploration of China in British children's literature, Shih-Wen Chen provides a sustained critique of the reductive dichotomies that have limited insight into the cultural and educative role these fictions played in disseminating ideas and knowledge about China.

This book depicts how Freud's cocaine and Benjamin's hashish illustrate two critiques of modernity and two messianic emancipations through the pleasures of intoxicating discourse.

First published in 1994.