Social & cultural history books

Popular media plays an important role in collective imaginations of history. The volume investigates this phenomenon...  Read More >>

Stories, statistics and meticulous maps reveal new insights into forgotten rural history of 1953 East Coast Floods....  Read More >>

The Boyce Papers give readers a rare insight into the milieu of the artists of the mid-Victorian period  Read More >>

Why were eschatological movements so pervasive in early modern times? This volume provides some answers to this...  Read More >>

This book investigates how ideas of and discourses about Europe have been affected by images of the Mediterranean...  Read More >>

Courtly Pastimes analyzes the underlying rationales for such activities: to display power and prestige, to acquire...  Read More >>

Poon analyzes the ways in which British colonists and Chinese leaders, backed by the rhetoric of public health and...  Read More >>

This volume seeks to identify both the content and the ways that the ‘Greek genius’ has long worked at the political,...  Read More >>

This volume offers the first comprehensive survey of regime change in Italy in the period c.1494-c.1559.  Read More >>

This collection of essays situates George Gascoigne in context as the pre-eminent writer of the early part of Queen...  Read More >>

This book looks at the representation and practice of chastity in selective ancient Indian texts. It studies how...  Read More >>

The volume focuses on how ‘modernity’ has also been a struggle for access to public spaces, and non-institutional...  Read More >>

In contrast to the extensive contemporary literature about anarchist politics and ideas, this book focuses on the...  Read More >>

This book challenges the prevalent assumptions of caste, hierarchy, and social mobility in pre-colonial and colonial...  Read More >>

The Routledge History of Emotions in the Modern World brings together a diverse array of scholars to offer an overview...  Read More >>

This political history studies the phenomenal growth of the modern British state’s interest in collecting, collating...  Read More >>

This volume examines the library of the Abbasid caliphs, known as ‘The House of Wisdom’ (‘Bayt al-Hikma’), exploring...  Read More >>

Originating in the popular Sociología en Cuarantena blog, this volume provides a detailed and multifaceted analysis...  Read More >>

This book explores the manner in which human societies understood and managed scarce water resources. Focusing on...  Read More >>

This is the first critical study of Clara Dorothea Rackham née Tabor (1875-1966), a towering figure in the suffrage,...  Read More >>

Using the example of New Walk Museum, Leicester, and its’ collections, the complexity, multi-causality, and reasons...  Read More >>

This book provides the definitive account of the making of the 1942 Beveridge Report and its influence on wartime...  Read More >>

In the attempts to unify divided peoples on the basis of a shared past, both historical and mythical, this book...  Read More >>

Authored by a unique combination of university academics and heritage professionals this book offers new perspectives...  Read More >>

This book provides a comprehensive and multifaceted analysis of the Sámi society and its histories and people, offering...  Read More >>