Social & Cultural History

Using the Vepsian Renaissance as an example, this volume brings to the surface a literacy-orality dualism new to the discussion around language revival movements. This book addresses the activists, scholars and policymakers involved and opens a discussion about power and agency in the multiple relat..

Squatters have played an important role in the history of urban development and social movements, not least by contributing to changes in concepts of property and the distribution and utilization of urban space. In this volume, an interdisciplinary circle of authors provides a historical perspective..

Squatters have played an important role in the history of urban development and social movements, not least by contributing to changes in concepts of property and the distribution and utilization of urban space. In this volume, an interdisciplinary circle of authors provides a historical perspective..

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Anarchism and syndicalism can be studied as templates for processes of political and cultural globalisation. This volume, however, argues that anarchism and syndicalism cannot be fully understood with reference only to transnationalism. With implications beyond the field of anarchist studies and the..

Reformation and the Visual Arts..

The focus of this book is Methodism in the British Isles in the period 1750-1900. 'Those who want the latest word on Methodism's first century can do better than turn to this collection of essays.' - Hugh McLeod, University of Birmingham..

Despite the fact that respectability is universally recognized as a feature of nineteenth-century society, it has seldom been studied as a subject in itself. This book is a path-breaking interpretation of respectability as a cultural phenomenon in its own right, constructed in the public spheres of ..

In Rethinking German History, first published in 1987, Richard J. Evans argues for a social-historical approach to the German past that pays equal attention to objective social structures and subjective values and experiences. This book will be valuable for students of German history and politics. I..

As a new generation of scholars probe the limits of what we know about the Age of Revolution, this collection reveals a new social history of the period that has often been hidden from view. Contributors pay particular attention to the hidden peoples and forces at work in this Revolutionary world, f..

This innovative volume offers fresh perspectives and directions on the intersection of Hispanic and Jewish studies. It shows how "Jewishness" has played a crucial role in Spanish political, social, and cultural developments in the modern era._x005F_x000D_ This book was originally published as a spec..

This title was first published in 1979: Deftly combining an analysis of socio-economic change and social institutions with political commentary, intellectual biography and theoretical critique, Michael Rose identifiesthe hidden similarities of the different currents in sociologie du travail and acco..