Social & Cultural History

Suitable for 2nd and 3rd year options within Media Studies, Cultural Studies and Sociology courses; can also be used as supplementary text at all levels on undergraduate Media Studies, Cultural Studies and Sociology. This book shows how the release of the free market in the last part of the twentiet..

Markets and Myths is an introductory text written by an international group of specialists, which offers a challenging yet highly accessible analysis of media development in five major European countries from 1945 to the end of the twentieth century...

Markets and Myths is an introductory text written by an international group of specialists, which offers a challenging yet highly accessible analysis of media development in five major European countries from 1945 to the end of the twentieth century...

Before contraception was generally available, and when abortion was fraught with danger, infanticide was a common solution to the problem of unwanted children. Massacre of the Innocents, first published in 1986, shows the causes and consequences of the high tide of infanticide in Victorian Britain. ..

This collection sets out to analyze the influence of women's movements on the emergence of Europe's welfare state from the 1880s to the 1950s, and the limits of that influence. It compares the women's movements - and social policies concerning women - in the dictatorships of Italy, Germany and Spain..

This festschrift in honour of Eric Dunning – the leading sports sociologist in the English- speaking world – addresses his contributions to the sociological and historical study of sport with reflections from leading international academics._x000D_ This volume was previously published as a special i..

The memoirs of John Macdonald provide a rich panorama of life in the company of blind fiddlers, maid-servants, the Scottish aristocracy, soldiers, historians, Oriental Princes, servants of the East India Company and men of great wealth...

Focusing on seven literary texts produced in the post-millennial period, this monograph examines the relationship between space and Republican memory and the reconfigurations of power in the Civil War, Franco Dictatorship, Transition and the resurgence period. Ryan combines scholarship on the histor..

Focusing on seven literary texts produced in the post-millennial period, this monograph examines the relationship between space and Republican memory and the reconfigurations of power in the Civil War, Franco Dictatorship, Transition and the resurgence period. Ryan combines scholarship on the histor..

A historical exploration of the connection between the practice of letter writing and the emotional, economic, familial, and gendered experiences of men and women separated by migration. It was originally published as a special issue of The History of Family...

This book studies everyday writing practices among ordinary people in a poor rural society in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Using the abundance of handwritten material produced, disseminated and consumed some centuries after the advent of print as its research material, the book's focus is on i..

An innovative collection addressing the emergence of modern identities and cultural forms in urban England over the past 100 years. `This book will help set the agenda for cultural analysis for years to come.' - Jeffrey Weeks, South Bank Univ...