Social and cultural history

This collection captures key themes and issues in the broad history of addiction and vice in the Anglo-American world.

Picnics are happy occasions and have always been a diversion from every day cares.

Britain's work camp systems have never before been studied in depth.

The thrust of these five volumes is contained in their title, London Opera Observ'd.

Commonwealth Catholicism is the first comprehensive history of the Catholic Church in the State of Virginia.

This in-depth look at a controversial faction of American Zionism fills a void in the story of American Zionism--and in the story of American Judaism.

This book contains conversations with nineteen African American classical musicians currently performing-or who have previously performed-in America's major symphony orchestras.

“[The] book makes you care what happens to its main protagonist, the U.

The Jews have been an urban people par excellence, and their influence on the urban landscape is unmistakable.

The issue of Muslim reactions to the Franks has been an important part of studies of both the Crusades and Islamic History, but rarely the main focus.

The Mission of Todays Church is a compelling collection of twelve essays from current Baptist leaders addressing three major questions: (1) What does it mean to be a Christian today on individual, group, and societal levels?

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

This new edition is an updated assessment of the ideas and strategies of early French socialists, incorporating recent research which observes the practical and scientific nature of socialist proposals.

New Makers of Modern Culture is the successor to the classic reference works Makers of Modern Culture and Makers of Nineteenth-Century Culture, published by Routledge in the early 1980s.

After World War II, France embarked on a project of modernization, which included the development of the modern mass home.

This volume tackles the role of smell, under-explored in relation to the other senses, in the modern rejection, reappraisal and idealisation of antiquity.

This book offers a direct, actionable plan CMOs can use to map out initiatives that are properly sequenced and designed for success-regardless of where their marketing organization is in the process.

In The Labor of Faith Judith Casselberry examines the material and spiritual labor of the women of the Church of Our Lord Jesus Christ of the Apostolic Faith, Inc.

It is a commonly held belief that medieval Catholics were focussed on the 'bells and whistles' of religious practices, the smoke, images, sights and sounds that dazzled pre-modern churchgoers.

This book examines the overlapping spaces in modern Western cities to explore the small-scale processes that shaped these cities between c.

Historiography, Empire and the Rule of Law considers the intersection of these terms in the historical development of what has come to be known as the 'rule of law'.

This book explores the development of a provincial textile industry in colonial America.

This book presents a comprehensive portrait of how Indians conceived of the idea of India.

Drawing on two years of ethnographic field research among the Navajos, this book explores a controversial Native American ritual and healthcare practice: ceremonial consumption of the psychedelic Peyote cactus in the context of an indigenous postcolonial healing movement called the Native American Church (NAC).

During the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth, German universities were at the forefront of scholarship in Oriental studies.

Looking East examines how English encounters with the Ottoman Empire helped shape national identities and imperial ambitions.

Countless children throughout the world grow up without fathers.

This book of eleven essays by an international group of scholars in medieval studies honors the work of Barbara H.

Completed shortly before Hamas carried out its barbaric October massacre,Hate Speech and Academic Freedomtakes up issues that have consequently gained new urgency in the academy worldwide.

This book looks at the representations of modern war by analysing texts and examining the ways in which authors relate to the atrocious horrors of war.

As late as 1950, many chess clubs in America excluded women.

Few would argue that many challenges face The United Methodist Church.

Winner of the 2015 Saddleback Selection Award from the Historical Society of The United Methodist ChurchDuring the nineteenth century, camp meetings became a signature program of American Methodists and an extraordinary engine for their remarkable evangelistic outreach.

Talking Back to the Indian Act is a comprehensive "e;how-to"e; guide for engaging with primary source documents.

This volume explores how the Cultural Cold War played out in Africa and Asia in the context of decolonization.

This book examines ''informal'' politics, such as gossip and political theatrics, and how they related to more ''formal'' politics of assembly and courts.

Why are Americans so bad at marriage?

A bewildering feature of so much contemporary political violence is its stunning impersonality.

Presents a new understanding of the social and political world of the late republic and the reasons for its fall.

Against the backdrop of international conventions and their implementation, Cultural Property and Contested Ownership explores how highly-valued cultural goods are traded and negotiated among diverging parties and their interests.

Embodying Mexico examines two performative icons of Mexicanness--the Dance of the Old Men and Night of the Dead of Lake Ptzcuaro--in numerous manifestations, including film, theater, tourist guides, advertisements, and souvenirs.

In the late nineteenth century, Spain's most prominent writers - Juan Valera, Leopoldo Alas, and Benito Perez Galdos - made blood a crucial feature of their fiction.

Most social historians writing about working women in pre-nineteenth century Britain have tended to concentrate on fairly large groups, such as factory workers or domestic servants, often in an attempt to reach some conclusions regarding their standards of living and social position.

In this handbook, scholars from around the world offer an up-to-date account of the state of the art in different areas of onomastics, in a format that is both useful to specialists in related fields and accessible to the general reader.

This student guide introduces the key concepts, theories and approaches to the history of emotions while teaching readers how to apply these ideas to historical source material.

This book brings together studies of cultural institutions in Manchester from 1850 to the present day, giving an unprecedented account of the city's cultural evolution.

In the chaotic decades after the death of Alexander the Great, the world of the Greek city-state became deeply embroiled in the political struggles and unremitting violence of his successors' contest for supremacy.

From the early years of the nineteenth century, cultural pessimists imagined in fiction the political forces that might bring about the destruction of London.