Social and cultural history

Francis Watkins was an eminent figure in his field of mathematical and optical instrument making in mid-eighteenth century London.

Performing Power explores 18th-century fabrication of the royal image by focusing on the example of King Gustav III (1746-1792) - one of Sweden's most acclaimed and controversial monarchs - who conspicuously chose theater as the primary media for his image-making and role construction.

For the last decade scholars have been questioning the idea that the Holocaust was not talked about in any way until well into the 1970s.

Every weekday, the wildly popular Tom Joyner Morning Show reaches more than eight million radio listeners.

The idea of the village - unspoilt, unpretentious, unchanging and growing almost organically out of the landscape - is one of the most potent in the English imagination.

What happens to people and the societies in which they live after genocide?

Selected as a Book of the Year 2019 by The Times and Telegraph'Astonishing.

Covering political, military, economic and social history, Norway in the Second World War is the most authoritative book on the subject in the English language.

In this classic book on the meaning of multiculturalism in larger American society, Gary Okihiro explores the significance of Asian American experiences from the perspectives of historical consciousness, race, gender, class, and culture.

'A Baedeker of the past, absorbing and revealing in equal measure' Peter Ackroyd'Brings the age's tortuous splendours and profound murkiness vividly to life' ObserverWhen Dr Johnson published his great Dictionary in 1755, London was the biggest city in Europe.

A comprehensive dissection of the making of urban society in the Low Countries during the middle ages and the sixteenth century.

The Poetry of the Invisible (1937) presents the English poets from the author's own Eastern standpoint.

Movable books are an innovative area of children's publishing.

In this book, Sarah E.

The Experience of Neighbourhood in Medieval and Early Modern Europe contributes to nascent debates on concepts of neighbourliness and belonging, exploring the operation of the pre-modern neighbourhood in social practice.

The Routledge International Handbook of Globalization Studies offers students clear and informed chapters on the history of globalization and key theories that have considered the causes and consequences of the globalization process.

The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Race in American History brings together a number of established scholars, as well as younger scholars on the rise, to provide a scholarly overview for those interested in the role of religion and race in American history.

This volume brings together cutting edge research by historians from Britain, Germany, France, the US, Japan and New Zealand.

An inquisitive, expansive and fascinating exploration of humans as creatures of our own makingOther species adapt to their environments; we alone create ours.

Pemmican Empire explores the fascinating and little-known environmental history of the role of pemmican (bison fat) in the opening of the British-American West.

This is an abridgement of the Pulitzer-Prize winning The Dred Scott Case, making Fehrenbacher's monumental work available to a wider audience.

Identifies town site locations and clarifies entries from the earliest documents and maps of explorers in Alabama This encyclopedic work is a listing of 398 ancient towns recorded within the present boundaries of the state of Alabama, containing basic information on each village's ethnic affiliation, time period, geographic location, descriptions, and (if any) movements.

Finalist for the 2015 National Jewish Book Award--Celebrate 350 Award for American Jewish Studies Between the late 1700s and the 1920s, nearly one-third of the world’s Jews emigrated to new lands.

A grandmother, daughter, and granddaughter take us on a remarkable journey in which the cycles of life - childhood, adolescence, marriage, birthing and child rearing - are presented against the contrasting experiences of three successive generations.

This collection brings together studies of popular performance and politics across the nineteenth century, offering a fresh perspective from an archivally grounded research base.

This book, first published in 1966, focuses on the stories of ordinary people who have stood up to tyrants around the world.

In the English language World War I has largely been analysed and understood through the lens of the Western Front.

A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction of 2011 title In the late 1960s, with popular culture hurtling forward on the sounds of rock music, some brave musicians looked back instead, trying to recover the lost treasures of English roots music and update them for the new age.

This book examines fictional representations of India in novels, plays and poetry produced between the years 1772 to 1823 as historical source material.

The sixteenth century was a critical period both for Spain's formation and for the imperial dominance of her Crown.

Because the elderly chief wanted his visitor to understand the Ojibwe world, and because Hallowell was deeply interested in his subject matter and was such a good listener, Berens freely related his dreams and other stories about encounters with powerful beings.

This was a transformative period in English history.

This indispensible guide to 'Slang, University Wit and Pickpocket Eloquence' contains fascinating insights into the humour and mentality of its compilers.

Stretching 1,200 kilometres across six countries, the colossal mountains of the Alps dominate Europe, geographically and historically.

The Enlightenment and Why It Still Matters tells nothing less than the story of how the modern, Western view of the world was born.

This book provides fresh perspectives on a key period in the history of humanitarianism.

Winner of the 2010 James M.

A beautiful and nostalgic look at the royal tour that captured a generation - the first visit of a reigning monarch to Canada.

First published in 1994, these two volumes are intended as a supplement to the four-volume edition edited by Gordon N.

Although there are many books in English on the city and state of Lucca, this is the first scholarly study to cover the history of the entire region from classical antiquity to the end of the fifteenth century.

Funeral monuments are fascinating and diverse cultural relics that continue to captivate visitors to English churches, yet we still know relatively little about the messages they attempt to convey across the centuries.

This volume draws on a trove of unpublished original material from the pre-1940s to the present to offer a unique historiographic study of twentieth century Methodist missionary work and women's active expression of faith practised at the critical confluence of historical and global changes.

During the 1980s and 1990s, aging Baby Boomer parents constructed a particular type of memory as they attempted to laud their own parents' wartime accomplishments with the label "e;The Greatest Generation.

What did great adventurers eat during their expeditions to the far corners of the world?

Formed in 1951, the Federal Civil Defense Administration said that "e;the importance of women in civil defense can scarcely be overstated.

'Dame Anna Wintour might be one of the best-known and most successful journalists on the planet.

Rubenfeld and the contributors to this collection posit that German physicians betrayed the Hippocratic Oath when they chose knowledge over wisdom, the state over the individual, a fuhrer over God, and personal gain over professional ethics.