Social and cultural history

Creole Noise is a history of Creole, or 'dialect', literature and performance in the English-speaking Caribbean, from the late eighteenth century to the early twentieth century.

This book describes and analyses the provincial government's role in municipal and regional planning.

Charts the making of colonial spaces in settler colonies of the Pacific Rim during the last two centuries.

From the seventeenth century until the Holocaust, Germany's Jews lurched between progress and setback, between fortune and terrible misfortune.

This book is about the ways that ordinary people in town and country creatively define themselves, their families and their social networks.

This is the fascinating biography, first published in 1985, of the remarkable Bengali religious leader Swami Pranavananda who lived in the turbulent years of the early twentieth century.

“A much-needed study of the aesthetics and cultural mores of the Third Reich .

Arguing that the suffering of combatants is better understood through philosophy than psychology, as not trauma, but exile, this book investigates the experiences of torturers, UAV operators, cyberwarriors, and veterans to reveal not only the exile at the core of becoming a combatant, but the evasion from exile at the core of being a noncombatant.

Over the past two decades, the fields of linguistic anthropology and sociolinguistics have complicated traditional understandings of the relationship between language and identity.

This historical study looks at how reformers have used urban planning and architecture to improve the health of urban residents of the United States.

A study of the history of modern insomnia, this book explores how poets, journalists, and doctors of the Victorian period found themselves in near-universal agreement that modernity and sleep were somehow incompatible.

First published in 1996, "e;Remove Not the Ancient Landmark"e; explores the ways that public monuments symbolize and convey moral values.

The book's broad theme is that the evolution of the power to control labour flows among different territorial jurisdictions was of major importance in the formation of a system of states.

In this volume, Lena Sommestad explores the significance of rural womanhood in the formation of Sweden's gender-egalitarian welfare state in the early 20th century.

Throughout history, marriage has been used as a method of creating and strengthening bonds between elites and the societies over which they ruled.

During the age of empires (1800 1900), marriage was a key transition in the life course worldwide, a rite of passage everywhere with major cultural significance.

First published in 2005, this book argues that, due to political and ideological shifts in the last decades of the nineteenth century a new depiction of social class was possible in the English novel.

With 110 million members worldwide, Baptists are surpassed only by Roman Catholic and Orthodox groups as the largest segment of Christians.

This book offers an historical analysis of the culture of animal-dependent science in Britain from 1945 to the present, exploring key areas of animal experimentation such as warfare, medical science and law from a gendered perspective.

The eighteenth century was a time of great cultural change in Britain.

Changes in the routines of domestic life were among the most striking social phenomena of the period between the two World Wars, when the home came into focus as a problem to be solved: re-imagined, streamlined, electrified, and generally cleaned up.

This book presents an alternative view of cosmopolitanism, citizenship and modernity in early 20th-century India through the multiple lenses of mysticism, travel, friendship, art, and politics.

Mapping Space, Sense, and Movement in Florence explores the potential of digital mapping or Historical GIS as a research and teaching tool to enable researchers and students to uncover the spatial, kinetic and sensory dimensions of the early modern city.

Homoerotic Sensibilities in Late Imperial China is the richest exploration to date of late imperial Chinese literati interest in male love.

Observers of Iran have often ascribed the main cause of the revolution to economic problems under the Shah's regime.

This book explains Italy s endless political instability and its historical, cultural and economic roots.

This book explores one of the most dramatic and scandalous events in the movement for American democratic reform.

First published in 1977, this book studies three important nineteenth-century novelists: Mrs Gaskell, William Hale White and Thomas Hardy.

First published in 1969, this book presents a one-volume anthology of Charles Booth's Life and Labour of the People in London, the classic early study of the poor in the urban environment.

Through object-based case studies of garments from the ancient past through to the 21st century, Margaret Maynard reveals the countless ways the temporal is woven into our attire.

The emergence of a widespread 'plantation complex', in which slave labour produced crops such as sugar on large estates funded by European capital, was a phenomenon of the New World.

The pursuit of authenticity is a contemporary obsession.

Drawing together contributions from scholars in a wide range of fields inside Classics and Drama, this volume traces the development of comedic performance and examines the different characteristics of Greek and Roman comedy.

This concise biography tells the story of John Dewey, a pioneer of pragmatism and the first original school of philosophy created in America.

Sentimentalism is usually studied through US-British relations after the American Revolution or in connection to national reforms like the abolitionist movement.

The preamble of the original constitution of the Southern Baptist Convention describes the purpose of the SBC as eliciting, combining, and directing the energies of the whole denomination in one sacred effort, for the propagation of the Gospel.

Catholic polemical works, and their portrayal of Protestants in print in particular, are the central focus of this work.

Obsolescence is fundamental to the experience of modernity, not simply one dimension of an economic system.

"e;On the Edge of Empire"e; is a well-written, carefully researched, and persuasively argued book that delineates the centrality of race and gender in the making of colonial and national identities, and in the re-writing of Canadian history as colonial history.

This book sheds new light on early twentieth-century secularism by examining campaigns to challenge dominant Christian approaches to the teaching of morality and citizenship in English schools, and to offer superior alternatives.

How do we understand, imagine and remember childhood?

A compelling journey through Britain's recent past, from postwar idealisms to the rise of consumerism and the road to Brexit.

In Domestic Economies, Susanna Rosenbaum examines how two groups of women-Mexican and Central American domestic workers and the predominantly white, middle-class women who employ them-seek to achieve the "e;American Dream.

Children have posed a longstanding dilemma for liberalism.

Understanding the Victorians paints a vivid portrait of an era of dramatic change, combining broad survey with close analysis and introducing students to the critical debates on the nineteenth century taking place among historians today.

Examines the extensive use of animal commodities in Victorian Britain and the humanitarian and ecological issues raised by their consumption.

Ubiquitous illegal lotteries known as policy flourished in Chicago's Black community during the overlapping waves of the Great Migration.