Social and cultural history

The Spanish and Portuguese empires that existed in the Americas for over three hundred years resulted in the creation of a New World population in which a complex array of racial and ethnic distinctions were embedded in the discourse of power.

High above the mountaintops on the Isle of Mull, a huge bird is soaring.

First published in 1980.

We habitually categorize the world in binary logics of 'animate' and 'inanimate', 'natural' and 'supernatural', 'self' and 'other', 'authentic' and 'inauthentic'.

What happens if we read nineteenth-century and Victorian texts not for the autonomous liberal subject, but for singularity-for what is partial, contingent, and in relation, rather than what is merely "e;alone"e;?

On December 29, 1890, the U.

This book, first published in 1978, examines the local and international aspects of the struggle for Greek union with Cyprus - Enosis.

First Published in 1967.

Tabernae were ubiquitous in all Roman cities, lining the busiest streets and dominating their most crowded intersections in numbers far exceeding those of any other form of building.

Policing the Factory describes the operation of various private policing agencies, employed to track down and prosecute workplace offenders.

Press, Power, and Culture in Imperial Brazil introduces recent Brazilian scholarship to English-language readers, providing fresh perspectives on newspaper and periodical culture in the Brazilian empire from 1822 to 1889.

This series concentrates on women and the soldiers in the ranks whose lives they shared, assembling a wide body of evidence of their romantic entanglements and domestic concerns.

Detailing the development of a new Western attitude to children and their place in society, this book tells the story of Italy's forgotten children at the end of the nineteenth century - foundlings, street children, factory and mine workers, emigrants and delinquents - and illustrates the efforts of the recently unified Italian state to help them.

How devastating viruses, pandemics, and other natural catastrophes swept through the far-flung Roman Empire and helped to bring down one of the mightiest civilizations of the ancient worldHere is the monumental retelling of one of the most consequential chapters of human history: the fall of the Roman Empire.

This title compiles influential essays by Alfred Kroeber, written in the last decade of his life, reflecting his deep exploration of human culture, civilization, and history through an anthropological lens.

How Rabbi Stephen S.

Entre 1867 et 2000, le gouvernement canadien a placé plus de 150 000 enfants autochtones dans des pensionnats d’un bout à l’autre du pays.

This book revisits the context and causes of the first war between Jews and Romans (AD 66 to 74).

A practical, step-by-step guide to rearing freshwater mussels, one of the most imperiled groups of animals in the world.

Este libro está organizado en tres capítulos que corresponden a características geográficas, temáticas y cronológicas del Magdalena.

In recent decades, indigenous peoples in the Yukon have signed land claim and self-government agreements that spell out the nature of government-to-government relations and grant individual First Nations significant, albeit limited, powers of governance over their peoples, lands, and resources.

Letters from California: 1846-1847 offers an unparalleled glimpse into Californias early days, written during the transformative period surrounding the Mexican-American War.

The guild buildings of Shakespeare's Stratford represent a rare instance of a largely unchanged set of buildings which draw together the threads of the town's civic life.

The need for a third printing of Church and Sect in Canada reflects the continuing interest in this pioneer study of the development of religious organization in Canadian society.

This book explores the Byzantine city and the changes it went through from 610 to 1204.

This book argues that early European Commission officials envisaged an integrated civil Europe from the outset.

For much of the world, Iran's 2009 summer of upheaval was an epic piece of theatre distantly observed.

English culture is confused, muddled and often borrowed.

The Scottish miners experienced enormous changes during these sixty-five years.

What can social spaces tell us about social relations in society?

This book studies how doctors responded to - and helped shape - deep-seated fears about nervous degeneracy and population decline in France between 1750 and 1850.

Murder in the Tower consists of fifteen chapters, each giving an account of a different 17th-century criminal trial.

The year 1968 witnessed one of the great upheavals of the twentieth century, as social movements shook every continent.

Exploring the role of museums, galleries and curators during the upheaval of the Second World War, this book challenges the accepted view of a hiatus in museum services during the conflict and its immediate aftermath.

This first comprehensive study unites musical, literary, documentary and cultural perspectives to shed new light on Ravel''s compositional practice.

Examines an alternative ideology to Zionism that attempted to build a Jewish State outside of Palestine.

For many centuries Jews have been renowned for the efforts they put into their children's welfare and education.

This book will be of interest to those studying French medical and Revolutionary history.

The Humanities in Transition explores how the basic components of the digital age will have an impact on the most trusted theories of humanists.

*WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION*'Deals intensely and critically with urgent questions facing a globalised world' The TimesThe way we think and live, who we vote for and who we fear, has become ever more dictated by our personal identity.

This book focuses on the era during which the cause of tuberculosis had been identified, and public health officials were seeking to prevent it, but scientists had not yet found a cure.

This book was first published in French in the wake of events which have come to be known in Quebec as the 'October crisis of 1970.

Welsh Food Stories explores more than two thousand years of history to discover the rich but forgotten heritage of Welsh foods - from oysters to cider, salted butter to salt-marsh lamb.

In this abundantly illustrated volume, Bernard Herman provides a history of urban dwellings and the people who built and lived in them in early America.

American living standards improved considerably between 1900 and 2000.