Social & Cultural History

The Pleasures of the Imagination examines the birth and development of English "high culture" in the eighteenth century. It charts the growth of a literary and artistic world fostered by publishers, theatrical and musical impresarios, picture dealers and auctioneers, and presented to th public in co..

The book seeks to investigate how legal and social norms influenced the structuration of fathers’ positions, authority and power—a structuration embedded in the family context, the inner workings of the household, and the various social and political spaces outside the home – over a long period. The..

The author provides a political, economic and social explanation of the German Question in context, arguing that Germany has fluctuated all too frequently and catastrophically between being either a power centre or a power vacuum...

This book investigates the uses of crusader medievalism – the memory of the crusades and crusading rhetoric and imagery – in Britain, from Walter Scott’s The Talisman (1825) to the end of the Second World War. It seeks to understand why and when the crusades and crusading were popular, how they fitt..

First published in 1930, this volume aimed to provide an overview of folk-lore through the unrecorded traditions found within popular fiction, custom, belief, magic and ritual, attempting a reconstruction of humanity’s spiritual history through popular rather than elite voices...

This book goes beyond the cultural histories of dystopia and utopia and into the problem of how societal futures are produced. Through a unique collection of national and transnational cases, it covers the struggle around future visions and prediction in the global Cold War era...

Despite the enormous amount of material about Nazism, there has been no substantial work on its emblem, the swastika. This original contribution examines the popular appeal of the archaic image of the swastika: the tradition of the symbol...

Despite the enormous amount of material about Nazism, there has been no substantial work on its emblem, the swastika. This original contribution examines the popular appeal of the archaic image of the swastika: the tradition of the symbol...

This book will be essential reading for students studying globalisation, the global media, new media technology, identity and cultural development in cultural studies, media studies, sociology and politics courses.The Transformation of the Media situates the media, and more theoretical concerns, wit..

First published in 1978, this multi-disciplinary study embraces a wide selection of topics ranging from family intimacy and authoritarianism to the family as a unit for launching social reforms. Subjects treated in the nine essays include the Victorian attitude to childbirth, the role of the nanny, ..

In 1849, the Morning Chronicle, a leading Victorian newspaper, embarked on a social investigation of working class life in England and Wales. First published in 1973, this book reflects through the survey the highly complex nature of nineteenth-century social structure throughout England and South W..

The War for Independence and the Transformation of American Society..