Social and cultural history

Examining a range of sex trade accounts from state documents, activist groups, folk narratives, and key figures in Polish, Ukrainian, and Yiddish literature, this book applies new materialist perspectives to cultural history, coloniality, and imperiality in the study of Europe's eastern borderlands.

This volume forms a unique and remarkable enterprise in the context of contemporary Japanese literature, social studies and the nature of Japanese society.

Wenn sie in Prag uber die Hauptstrae gehe, kreuzten mehr Bekannte ihren Weg als in Berlin, schrieb die emigrierte Arztin und Sozialdemokratin Kate Frankenthal.

Re-Membering Hospitality in the Mediterranean examines the embodied praxis of hospitality-whether through the ritual modes of religious history, the pages of literature, the visual arts, dystopian narratives of the future, or the realpolitik of shelter and asylum.

Post-Cold War historiography of modern Central Asia has been characterized by a focus on cultural history.

In 1818 the Royal Forest of Exmoor was sold by the Crown to the Worcestershire ironfounder John Knight.

This book focuses on a biographical and cultural rendering of Adlai E.

This book focuses on a biographical and cultural rendering of Adlai E.

This is the first critical history of the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century monuments of Westminster Abbey.

This book offers a comprehensive exploration of the intricate relationship between radicalism and sociability in late Georgian parliamentary and extra-parliamentary politics, focusing on the Foxite-Whig faction.

What does it mean to fight for women's rights in the 21st century?

This is the first edited collection to focus on women, gender, and history education in Canada.

This is the first edited collection to focus on women, gender, and history education in Canada.

The making and remaking of Bukovina, a disputed Eastern European borderland, from the eighteenth century to the present dayBukovina, when it has existed on official maps, has always fit uneasily among its neighbors.

Why did early modern Europeans hunt for witches?

Why did early modern Europeans hunt for witches?

This book explores the development of coffee substitutes in nineteenth-century Sweden.

As the COVID-19 pandemic struck peoples throughout the world, it disproportionately devastated Native American communities.

This book will argue that lodging is a hugely ignored, largely invisible but critical sector of housing provision and economic contributor of burgeoning African cities.

This book will argue that lodging is a hugely ignored, largely invisible but critical sector of housing provision and economic contributor of burgeoning African cities.

This book proposes a new historical framework for the analysis of the relationship between communist Poland and neutral Austria during the final decade of the Cold War.

As the COVID-19 pandemic struck peoples throughout the world, it disproportionately devastated Native American communities.

This textbook examines encounters between different cultures during the Global Age, outlining their historical, social, political, and economic contexts.

This textbook examines encounters between different cultures during the Global Age, outlining their historical, social, political, and economic contexts.

This book is the first comprehensive study of the history, nature, and purposes of peace museums, comprising twenty-one essays by a leading authority in the field.

The making and remaking of Bukovina, a disputed Eastern European borderland, from the eighteenth century to the present dayBukovina, when it has existed on official maps, has always fit uneasily among its neighbors.

This book examines the search for 'occult' or hidden forces in the two centuries after Newton's theory of gravity.

This book examines the search for 'occult' or hidden forces in the two centuries after Newton's theory of gravity.

There have been many books about the doctors of the Third Reich and their atrocities.

There have been many books about the doctors of the Third Reich and their atrocities.

Through a meticulous analysis of various historical sources, the authors of this book have uncovered a wealth of information on the trade of salt and tobacco in Guizhou province, southwest of China, in the 1930s and 1940s.

Through a meticulous analysis of various historical sources, the authors of this book have uncovered a wealth of information on the trade of salt and tobacco in Guizhou province, southwest of China, in the 1930s and 1940s.