Social and cultural history

This important new book from one of the world's leading sociologists of sport weaves together social theory, history and political economy to provide a highly original analysis of the complex relationship between sport and modernity.

A fascinating journal written after the creation of Derek Jarman s The Last of England, covering the making of the film itself and the origins of its deeply autobiographical content.

From 1983 until 1991, Glam Metal was the sound of American culture.

River-cane baskets woven by the Chitimachas of south Louisiana are universally admired for their beauty and workmanship.

A beautifully illustrated art history and cultural biography, The Street of Wonderful Possibilities focuses on one of the most influential artistic quarters in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries - London's Tite Street, where a staggering amount of talent thrived, including James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Oscar Wilde and John Singer Sargent.

Winner of the National Jewish Book Award in the Holocaust categoryA monumental work of nonfiction on a wartime atrocity, its sixty-year denial, and the impact of its truthJan Gross's hugely controversial Neighbors was a historian's disclosure of the events in the small Polish town of Jedwabne on July 10, 1941, when the citizens rounded up the Jewish population and burned them alive in a barn.

Urban history is a well-established and flourishing field of historical research.

What is slavery?

An overview of the life of the controversial Union Civil War general, William Tecumseh Sherman.

The Spanish Civil War continues to attract attention as a brutal political and military struggle which foreshadowed the wider war across Europe that followed, and it has given rise to myths that have become commonplace since the war ended eighty years ago.

What is poverty and how does it affect family life and children in particular?

For nearly all of the Great War, the Jewish doctor Bernhard Bardach served with the Austro-Hungarian army in present-day Ukraine.

Bounded by the Great War on one side and by the looming shadow of the Second World War on the other, the inter-war period has characteristically been portrayed as a time of great and unrelenting depression.

"e;A delightful and deeply informative new take on the Scots-Irish who, despite being relatively unknown, made a tremendous contribution to America's culture.

How many times have you heard incomplete facts explaining why the dinosaurs and prehistoric man walked on the earth?

Nearly four decades after Sunny Okosun posited, Which Way Nigeria?

The Crystal Pumpkin is an upbeat, uplifting, compelling story which takes the reader on an emotional, historical journey through eighteen years in the life of the author.

It is impossible to understand capitalism without analyzing slavery, an institution that tied together three world regions: Europe, the Americas, and Africa.

In the Caribbean colony of Grenada in 1797, Dorothy Thomas signed the manumission documents for her elderly slave Betty.

A polarizing collection of poetic musings that illuminate the struggles of the African-American male.

A suburban Chicago family comes undone in this ';fresh and riveting' novel of domestic disquiet by an award-winning author (Booklist, starred review).

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This social history of post-Revolutionary South Carolina examines the successful reconciliation of Patriots and Loyalists.

A distinguished professor debunks the assertion that America's Founders were deists who desired the strict separation of church and state and instead shows that their political ideas were profoundly influenced by their Christian convictions.

When you first meet me, you might think that I am a mean guy who is all about business and does not talk to my family as much.

WOMEN'S HISTORY FOR BEGINNERS offers a lively, revealing, and provocative overview of this important (and controversial) academic field.

"e;A deeply felt and largely compelling portrait of an age that indelibly marked everyone who took part in it.

For her first forty years, Jo Haldemans life followed a conventional path.

Faith and World explores the way contemporary Ismaili institutions articulate the ethics of the Qur'an using the language of modern liberal discourse.

Historisches ist in der Öffentlichkeit omnipräsent und zugleich oft heftig umstritten.

Award-winning journalist Simran Sethi explores the history and cultural importance of our most beloved tastes, paying homage to the ingredients that give us daily pleasure, while providing a thoughtful wake-up call to the homogenization that is threatening the diversity of our food supply.

Race in 20th-century German history is an inescapable topic, one that has been defined overwhelmingly by the narratives of degeneracy that prefigured the Nuremberg Laws and death camps of the Third Reich.

Hannah's Dress tells the dizzying story of Berlin's modern history.

A fully illustrated narrative of the Maryland campaign 1862, culminating in Antietam, the bloodiest single day in American military history.

Sketches in the Theory of Culture is a remarkable work by all measures.

This expansive, multivolume reference work provides a broad, multidisciplinary examination of the Civil War period ranging from pre-Civil War developments and catalysts such as the Mexican-American War to the rebuilding of the war-torn nation during Reconstruction.