Society and culture: general

There is no shortage of iconic masculine imagery of the soldier in American film and literature-one only has to think of George C.

Exploring the fate of the ideal of the English gentleman once the empire he was meant to embody declined, Praseeda Gopinath argues that the stylization of English masculinity became the central theme, focus, and conceit for many literary texts that represented the "e;condition of Britain"e; in the 1930s and the immediate postwar era.

During the first generation of black participation in U.

Within the familiar clash of religious conservatism and secular liberalism Paul Maltby finds a deeper discord: an antipathy between Christian fundamentalism and the postmodern culture of disenchantment.

Some cities, through hardship or glory or a combination of both, produce extraordinary women.

Before the rise of private homes as we now understand them, the realm of personal, private, and local relations in England was the parish, which was also the sphere of poverty management.

Since the 1980s, many activists and writers have turned from identity politics toward ethnic religious traditions to rediscover and reinvigorate their historic role in resistance to colonialism and oppression.

Across the centuries, the acts and arts of black heroism have inspired a provocative, experimental, and self-reflexive intellectual, political, and aesthetic tradition.

In his examination of a wide array of court papers from Albemarle County, a rural Virginia slaveholding community, Kirt von Daacke argues against the commonly held belief that southern whites saw free blacks only as a menace.

The Color of Power is a fascinating examination of the changing politics of race in Oakland, California.

RICHMOND WAS NOT only the capital of Virginia and of the Confederacy; it was also one of the most industrialized cities south of the Mason-Dixon Line.

Rambles of a Runaway from Southern Slavery tells of an extraordinary life in and out of slavery in the United States and Canada.

The arrival of English settlers in the American Southeast in 1670 brought the British and the Native Americans into contact both with foreign peoples and with unfamiliar gender systems.

Ralph Ellison and Kenneth Burke focuses on the little-known but important friendship between two canonical American writers.

Maria Stewart is believed by many to have been the first American woman of any race to give public political speeches.

'Powerful, intelligent and vital - one of the year's must-reads' Hannah Nathanson, Features Director, ELLEFeaturing contributions from Candice Carty-Williams, Jessica Horn, Ebele Okobi, Funmi Fetto and Freddie Harrel.

Despite their peaceful, bucolic appearance, the tree-lined streets of South African suburbia were no refuge from the racial tensions and indignities of apartheid's most repressive years.

This collection of essays, organized around the theme of the struggle for equality in the United States during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, also serves to honor the renowned Civil War historian James McPherson.

When William Henry Hunt married Ida Alexander Gibbs in the spring of 1904, their wedding was a dazzling Washington social event that joined an Oberlin-educated diplomat's daughter and a Wall Street veteran who could trace his lineage to Jamestown.

The debate over the affair between Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings rarely rises above the question of "e;Did they or didn't they?

Barack Obama's inauguration as the first African American president of the United States has caused many commentators to conclude that America has entered a postracial age.

Commemoration lies at the poetic, historiographic, and social heart of human community.

Over the past four decades, the foreign-born population in the United States has nearly tripled, from about 10 million in 1965 to more than 30 million today.

'Instagram's answer to David Sedaris.

The Personals reveals how classified ads are not just a few commercial lines of text in print or online - they can be a treasure trove of fascinating human stories; stories of love, loss, loneliness, redemption and hope.

A SUNDAY TIMES SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEARA FINANCIAL TIMES SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEARLONGLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR'Personal, political, powerful and about so much more than race and sport.

As featured on BBC Radio 2 and BBC Radio 5 LiveSelected as one of the Independent's 10 best pregnancy books for expectant parentsBirth is a feminist issue.

As millions of Jews immigrated to the United States from Eastern Europe starting in the 1870s, they brought with them not only their religious heritage but also a definitive idea of the place and value of art and aesthetics in society.

'A formidable, brave and important book' Robert Macfarlane'Absolutely brilliant.

Apart from a handful of exotic--and almost completely unreliable--tales surrounding his life, Richard Potter is almost unknown today.

In the mid-eighteenth century, many British authors and literary critics anxiously claimed that poetry was in crisis.

In our troubled world, looking back to ancient wisdom can shed light on fresh solutions.

The Sunday Times BestsellerFrom the award-winning writer of The Times Magazine's 'Spinal Column': a deeply moving, darkly funny, inspirational memoir'It's beautiful - full of love and light - and an exploration into not only how, but why we survive, despite everything' Christie Watson, author of The Language of KindnessOn Good Friday, 2010 Melanie Reid fell from her horse, breaking her neck and fracturing her lower back.

What exactly is goodness?

One of Planetizen's Top Ten Books of 2006"e;But for Birmingham,"e; Fred Shuttleworth recalled President John F.

From the highly entertaining and global online phenomenon, Brother, comes a perfect how-to for millennial men everywhere.

She inspired the songs.

HarperCollins is proud to present our range of timeless literary classics.

From prehistoric Scotland to the Brexit referendum, this little book covers all of the main events in Scottish history.

From the bestselling author of This Naked MindIt's YOUR body.

'This is a funny and beautiful book.

This textbook features a groundbreaking collection of chapters co-written by Aboriginal authors.

At a time where, after decades of progress in gender and sexual rights, people in many parts of the world are facing new forms of resistance and opposition to gender equality, this timely publication confirms the continuing importance and relevance of gender and women's studies.

This short textbook provides an introduction to queer theory, exploring its key genealogies and terms as well as its application across various academic disciplines and to contemporary life more generally.

Carrington's beguiling letters take us beyond the Bloomsbury group to discuss sexual mores, how to be an artist, and what it is to be truly oneself.

In January 1856, Margaret Garner-an enslaved woman on a Kentucky plantation-ran with members of her family to the free state of Ohio.

Contradictory ideals of egalitarianism and self-reliance haunt America's democratic state.

With Mathilde Blind: Late-Victorian Culture and the Woman of Letters, James Diedrick offers a groundbreaking critical biography of the German-born British poet Mathilde Blind (1841-1896), a freethinking radical feminist.

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY WIREDIn this brilliant smart-thinking book about the power and influence of social media, Professor Sinan Aral shows how 'hyper-socialization' has profoundly changed us.