Social and cultural history

Investigating more than 70 key concepts relating to the performing arts in more than six non-European languages, this volume provides a groundbreaking research tool and one-of-a-kind reference source for theatre, performance and dance studies worldwide.

The 21st Century in 100 Games is an interactive public history of the contemporary world.

This book looks specifically and in depth, for the first time, at masculinity in cheap, lesbian-themed paperbacks of the two decades after WW2.

This book is the first overall survey of the British West Indian press in the early nineteenth century-a critical period in the history of the region.

In Timothie Bright and the Origins of Early Modern Shorthand, J.

This volume collects together a wide selection of primary texts that explain the processes behind the enormous changes undergone by France and Europe between 1787 and 1815, from the origins of the Revolution to the counterrevolution and from Marie-Antoinette to Bonaparte.

First published in 1920, The Music of Spain deals with historical periods, schools and style and appears to embrace everything related to music provided it affects or is affected by Spain in some degree, no matter how small or insignificant.

This volume recounts notable episodes of distortion throughout American media history.

This is a book by and about Frank O.

Berengaria of Navarre was queen of England (1191-99) and lord of Le Mans (1204-30), but has received little attention in terms of a fully encompassing biography from Navarrese, Anglophone, and French perspectives.

This volume collects together a wide selection of primary texts that explain the processes behind the enormous changes undergone by France and Europe between 1787 and 1815, from the origins of the Revolution to the counterrevolution and from Marie-Antoinette to Bonaparte.

Conscience as a Historical Force is the first true analysis of the life and thought of the radically democratic eighteenth-century backcountry figure of Herman Husband (1724-1795) and his heavily metaphorical political and religious writings during the "e;Age of Revolution.

First published in 1920, The Music of Spain deals with historical periods, schools and style and appears to embrace everything related to music provided it affects or is affected by Spain in some degree, no matter how small or insignificant.

This book is the second in a three-part, multi-authored study of Polish American history which aims to present the history of Polish Americans in the United States from the beginning of Polish presence on the continent to the current times, shown against a broad historical background of developments in Poland, the United States and other locations of the Polish Diaspora.

This book is the first overall survey of the British West Indian press in the early nineteenth century-a critical period in the history of the region.

El primer beso político de la historia es el beso que Héctor, domador de caballos, dio a su hijo Astianacte en el nombre de Ilión.

Conscience as a Historical Force is the first true analysis of the life and thought of the radically democratic eighteenth-century backcountry figure of Herman Husband (1724-1795) and his heavily metaphorical political and religious writings during the "e;Age of Revolution.

This book is the second in a three-part, multi-authored study of Polish American history which aims to present the history of Polish Americans in the United States from the beginning of Polish presence on the continent to the current times, shown against a broad historical background of developments in Poland, the United States and other locations of the Polish Diaspora.

Cursed Blessings explores the relationship between sexual nonconformity and religious radical dissent in the early modern Western European world.

'The transformation of the US into an autocracy has advanced.

Was Pope Pius XII secretly in league with Adolf Hitler?

A fascinating collection of first-hand accounts of life in the time of Jane Austen (1775-1817), showing how social standing and etiquette were prime considerations of the period, and revealing the stark contrast between 'upstairs' and 'downstairs' and the lives of men and women.

The Indians known as Seminole are of the Muskokian linguistic stock who before the present century left their congeners and dwelt within the present limits of Georgia and Florida.

This book is a collection of Nai Xia's quintessential works on Silk Road studies.

Women used automobiles as soon as they had access to them.

After the American Revolution, land speculators in the United States desired the bottom portion of the current state of Ohio, with the full Northwest Territory being the ultimate prize.

DIE VORKAMMER DES TODESIm April 1944 wurde das Durchgangslager Bozen errichtet, 9.

It is asserted that domestic slavery has always been a constructive social element: history shows that it has always been destructive.

A rollicking collection of stories featuring the craziest, daftest and most outrageous monarchs the world has ever known.

Das Jubiläumsheft 900 enthält einen mit fast 30 Seiten ungewöhnlich umfangreichen Text: Rainald Goetz' Aufzeichnungen aus seinem Arbeitsjournal des Jahres 2019, in dem es nicht nur, aber sehr viel um Michael Rutschky geht – dessen Tagebücher und auch das Verhältnis zum Merkur-Herausgeber Kurt Scheel, der die undankbare Aufgabe übernahm, die Rutschky-Tagebücher postum zu edieren, in denen sich manch schäbige Bemerkung über ihn findet.

'Sits you at the dressing table of history: a place of dreams, doubts, self-harm and hopes' -Sunday TimesAt the heart of this history is the female body.

The concept of 'Ruakh Ra'ah' (Evil Spirit), is extremely rare in the Tanach, but is found much more frequently in post-Biblical rabbinic literature and even more in publications by rabbis of the last two centuries.

In "e;Journeys and Explorations in the Cotton Kingdom: American Slavery Through Foreigner's Eyes"e;, Frederick Law Olmsted masterfully delves into the heart of American slavery through the perspective of a foreigner.

The book explores how theatre, with its performative capacity, has the power to engage with and affect the politics of its day.

Throughout Suffolk's history, important national figures have played a role in the county.

One of the most prominent theologians in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries was William J.

When Europeans first arrived in North America, between five and eight million indigenous people were already living there.

Since 2005, well over one million prospective immigrants have attempted to cement permanent residency in the UK by taking the Home Office-devised 'Life in the UK' test.

When the Spirit Says Sing!

This book challenges commonplace assertions that the humanities are presently undergoing a severe crisis as a result of a longstanding decline.

Reckoning Methodism addresses the brokenness of The United Methodist Church (UMC) in the United States.

If you're a football fan and you're on Twitter, you probably follow @USASoccerGuy.

The compelling vision of religious life and practice found in Hasidic sources has made it the most enduring and successful Jewish movement of spiritual renewal of all time.

On May 25th, 1946, after 22 years as a congressional secretary, Jane Pratt was elected as North Carolina's first congresswoman.

When Europeans first arrived in North America, between five and eight million indigenous people were already living there.

Blarney Castle, the medieval home of the MacCarthy lords of Muskerry, is one of Ireland's best-known castles.

A delightful collection of 150 profiles of women who refused to confine themselves to the nineteenth-century Victorian model for proper womanhood.

This is the first book-length study into crusading against Christians, examining this complex phenomenon from the twelfth to fifteenth centuries and across numerous regions, from France to Russia and from southern Italy to the Baltic.