Social History

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374535841Author Mary MannFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plPublisher Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plWeight(grams)...

A Cultural History of Color in the Age of Enlightenment covers the period 1650 to 1800. From the Baroque to the Neo-classical, color transformed art, architecture, ceramics, jewelry, and glass. Newton, using a prism, demonstrated the seven separate hues,...

A Cultural History of Objects in the Modern Age covers the period 1900 to today, a time marked by massive global changes in production, transportation, and information-sharing in a post-colonial world. New materials and inventions - from plastics to the...

A Cultural History of Objects in the Age of Industry covers the period 1760 to 1900, a time of dramatic change in the material world as objects shifted from the handmade to the machine made. The revolution in making, and in consuming the things which...

A Cultural History of Objects in the Medieval Age covers the period 500 to 1400, examining the creation, use and understanding of human-made objects and their consequences and impacts. The power and agency of objects significantly evolved over this time...

A Cultural History of Color in the Modern Age covers the period 1920 to the present, a time of extraordinary developments in colour science, philosophy, art, design and technologies. The expansion of products produced with synthetic dyes was accelerated...

Celebrities, heroes and champions explores the role of the popular politician in British and Irish society from the Napoleonic Wars to the Second Reform Act of 1867. Covering movements for parliamentary reform up to and including Chartism, Catholic...

Historic house museums-one of the most prevalent types of history museums in the country-have long depicted the owners of the house and their families, but representing the servants has introduced a unique set of challenges. While museum professionals...

'Endlessly captivating' - Tracy Borman'Tantalising' - Gill Hornby'More scandal than Bridgerton's Lady Whistledown' - Helena KellyThe carriages have rolled back into town, cards of invitation are propped up on chimney-pieces, and match-making mamas are...

In the mild climate of the Mediterranean, a rare blossom once bloomed: a prosperous, urbanised society inhabited by various ethnic and religious groups living harmoniously together for nearly two-hundred years. At the apex of this society, ruled a feudal...

From its early days as a sport to build "muscular Christianity" among young men flooding nineteenth-century cities to its position today as a global symbol of American culture, basketball has been a force in American society. It grew through high school...

The idea of distance is one of the defining principles of modern historical method. This volume gives the discussion of historical distance new breadth, flexibility and importance by incorporating diverse modes of representation including photography,...

"Let this book immerse you in the many worlds of environmental justice."-Naomi Klein We are living in a precarious environmental and political moment. In the United States and in the world, environmental injustices have manifested across...

Paris Review contributor Katy Kelleher explores our obsession with gorgeous things, unveiling the fraught histories of makeup, flowers, perfume, silk, and other beautiful objects. April recommended reading by the New York Times Book Review, Vanity Fair,...

For a long time, everything revolved around bread. Providing more than half of people’s daily calories, bread was the life-source of Europe for centuries. In the middle of 19th century, a third of household expenditure was spent on bread. Why, then, does...

On May 29, 1917, Mrs. E. M. Craise, citizen of Denver, Colorado, penned a letter to President Woodrow Wilson, which concluded, We have surrendered to your absolute control our hearts' dearest treasures--our sons. If their precious bodies that have cost...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781773632735Author David McNallyFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Fernwood PublishingPublisher Fernwood PublishingWeight(grams) 152g

Think global, act local! Trades councils are the place workers and unemployed trade unionists, in local and national forums, can come together to pass resolutions and plan actions; in workplaces and on the streets; to change laws, change minds, show...

Student-Centered Oral History explores the overlaps of culturally relevant teaching, student-centered teaching, and oral history to demonstrate how this method empowers students, especially those from historically underrepresented communities. With...

The paperback edition of the bestselling, acclaimed book. While working at the Royal Horticultural Society, Fiona Davison came across a cache of letters from a young gardener who was denied a scholarship by the RHS, on the grounds that she was female...

Drawing together contributions by scholars from a variety of fields, including theater, film and television, sociology, and visual culture, this volume explores the range and diversity of comedic performance and comic forms in the modern age. It covers a...

The modern bathroom is an ingenious compilation of locked doors, smooth porcelain, 4-ply tissue and antibacterial hand soap, but despite this miracle of indoor plumbing, we still can’t bear the thought that anyone else should know that our bodies produce...

This volume highlights the variety of forms comedy took in England, with reference to developments in Europe, particularly France, during the European Enlightenment. It argues that comedy in this period is characterized by wit, satire, and humor,...

The modern bathroom is an ingenious compilation of locked doors, smooth porcelain, 4-ply tissue and antibacterial hand soap, but despite this miracle of indoor plumbing, we still can’t bear the thought that anyone else should know that our bodies produce...

On the night of July 3, 1870, Elizabeth Tilton confessed to her husband that she’d had an affair with their pastor, Henry Ward Beecher. This secret would soon transfix America, for Beecher was the most famous preacher of the day, founder of the most...

South Korea's rapid industrialization occurred with the rise of powerful chaebǒl (family-owned business conglomerates) that controlled vast swaths of the nation's economy. Leader Park Chung Hee's sense of backwardness and urgency led him to rely on...

Most scholars study postrevolutionary Mexican culture as a period in which cultural production significantly shaped national identity through murals, novels, essays, and other artifacts that registered the changing political and social realities in the...

Through the early twentieth century, the British Government locked away over 50,000 innocent people. Their ‘crimes’? Being poor and unyielding. This is their story. 'The heartrending stories Sarah Wise has unearthed beggar belief… beautifully researched...

Vera Holme, known as Jack, left a career as a jobbing actress to become Emmeline Pankhurst's chauffeur and mechanic. Evelina Haverfield was a classic beauty, the daughter of a Scottish baron and fourteen years older than Jack. They met in 1908, fell in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807013328Author Kristin Ann HassFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press

A captivating exploration of Black American civil rights activism through the lens of sport.In Frontline Bodies, Nicolas Martin-Breteau argues that sports are not—and have never been—purely about entertainment for Black Americans. Instead, beginning in...

From the bestselling author of Chums comes an explorer's tale of a naïf getting to understand a complex, glittering, beautiful and often cruel city. Simon Kuper has experienced Paris both as a human being and as a journalist. He has grown middle-aged...

This collection uncovers the wives, daughters, mothers, companions and female assistants who laboured in the shadows of famous men. Revealing the reality of uncredited female contributions throughout history, this book highlights the work of neglected...

Margaret Chase Smith was the first woman in American history elected in both the House of Representatives and the Senate, the first politician to take a public stand against McCarthyism, and the first woman of a major political party to run for president...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788867288526Author Kenneth J BindasFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint ViellaPublisher ViellaWeight(grams) 204g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788790267513Author Mads RungeFormat HardbackPage Count 367Imprint Museum OdensePublisher Museum OdenseWeight(grams) 1772g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788274771864Author Even LangeFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Oslo Academic PressPublisher Oslo Academic PressWeight(grams) 166g

Displacement and citizenship are intricately connected in the contemporary flows of forced migration, internal displacement due to conflict situations, and development-induced migration. A primary site on which claims to cultural citizenship are...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788274771369Author Jan Eivind MyhreFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Oslo Academic PressPublisher Oslo Academic PressWeight(grams) 398g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788251920117Author Eli Johanne EllingsveFormat HardbackPage Count 186Imprint Tapir Academic PressPublisher Tapir Academic PressWeight(grams) 468g