American History

Using an interdisciplinary approach, and covering a range of themes from social welfare to the wider world, this book provides challenging and argumentative interpretations of current situations and prospects...

First Published in 1989. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

First Published in 1989. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

Laws that were imposed by colonizers were as much an attempt to confirm their own identity as to control the more dangerous elements of a potentially unruly populace. This title uses material from both British Parliamentary Papers and colonial archive material to provide evidence of legal change and..

A survey examines American attitudes toward the Vietnam War and the experiences and ideas that turned most people against the war...

First Published in 1990. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

First published in 1980. This book is a study of what different classes of society understood by leisure and how they enjoyed it. It argues that many of the assumptions which have underlain the history of leisure are misleading, and in particular the notions that there was a vacuum in popular leisur..

This title, first published in 1928, is a collection of letters from the Bengali polymath Rabindranath Tagore to C. F. Andrews. The letters have been divided into several chapters, accompanied by introductory notes by Andrews, and provide the reader with an expression of Tagore’s anxiety about moder..

This title, first published in 1928, is a collection of letters from the Bengali polymath Rabindranath Tagore to C. F. Andrews. The letters have been divided into several chapters, accompanied by introductory notes by Andrews, and provide the reader with an expression of Tagore’s anxiety about moder..

Liberating Histories makes an original, scholarly contribution to contemporary debates surrounding the cultural and political relevance of historical practices. It is essential reading for students and scholars interested in historiography and the ethical and political dimensions of the historical d..

Liberating Histories makes an original, scholarly contribution to contemporary debates surrounding the cultural and political relevance of historical practices. It is essential reading for students and scholars interested in historiography and the ethical and political dimensions of the historical d..

During the 18th century medicine became an autonomous discipline and practice. Surgeons justified themselves as skilled practitioners and set themselves apart from the unspecialized, hack barber-surgeons of early modernity. This title presents 17 essays on the relationship between medicine and liter..