Social History

A half century ago gay men and lesbians were all but invisible in the media and, in turn, popular culture. With the lesbian and gay liberation movement came a profoundly new sense of homosexual community and empowerment and the emergence of gay people...

Through the speeches, essays and interviews of some of the most compelling individuals in American history who stood against the key conflicts of their lifetimes, this book gives remarkable insight into wartime dissent in the U.S. from the revolutionary...

The Public Prints is the first comprehensive study of the role of the earliest American newspapers in the society and culture of the eighteenth century. In the hands of Charles E. Clark, American newspaper publishing becomes a branch of the English world...

Who exactly are the intellectuals ? This term is so widely used today that we forget that it is a recent invention, dating from the late nineteenth century. In Birth of the Intellectuals, the renowned historian and sociologist Christophe Charle shows...

A historiographical analysis of human geography and a social history of nationalist separatism and cultural identity in southern Senegal. This book is a spatial history of the conflict in Casamance, the portion of Senegal located south of The Gambia...

Lurking beneath Bath's genteel spa town facade is a tangle of hidden quirky lives and unusual events. Take Lola Montez, siren, harpy, courtesan, Royal mistress and Spanish dancer, born in County Sligo as Eliza Rosanna Gilbert. Her flamboyant lifestyle...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915553331Author John LucasFormat PaperbackPage Count 74Imprint Shoestring PressPublisher Shoestring Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781877578588Author Maire LeadbeaterFormat PaperbackPage Count 344Imprint Otago University PressPublisher Otago University PressWeight(grams) 1030g

Astor. Rockefeller. McCormick. Belmont. All family names that still adorn buildings, streets and charity foundations. While the men blazed across America with their oil, industry, and railways, the matriarchs founded art museums, opera houses, and...

Since the Gold Rush, California has represented a land of opportunity and bounty for a special breed of Americans. Heading west in pursuit of sunshine, riches, and elusive dreams, the early mavericks of California set out to make their fortunes--and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783825360931Author Cornelia WildeFormat HardbackPage Count 295Imprint Universitatsverlag WinterPublisher Universitatsverlag WinterWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604190540Author Hunter LewisFormat PaperbackPage Count 221Imprint Axios PressPublisher Axios PressWeight(grams) 272g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783447101486Author Dr Nicola McLellandFormat HardbackPage Count 444Imprint HarrassowitzPublisher HarrassowitzWeight(grams) 1021gDimensions(mm) 244mm * 175mm...

2008 Association of American University Presses Award for Jacket Design The Art of Ill Will is a comprehensive history of American political cartooning, featuring over two hundred illustrations. From the colonial period to contemporary cartoonists like...

Thoroughly documented, a worldwide selection of places representing many attempts made by mankind through the ages to re-create a paradise on Earth."Paradises got off to a bad start early on. The one the Bible had arranged had to rapidly close its pearly...

Wine: A Social and Cultural History of the Drink that Changed our Lives is a wine history with a difference. Most histories of wine (like Hugh Johnson’s The Story of Wine, Paul Lukacs’s Inventing Wine, and Rod Phillips’s own A Short History of Wine) are...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781328974839Author Simon SchamaFormat HardbackPage Count 480Imprint Ecco PressPublisher Ecco PressWeight(grams) 603g

First published in 1978, The Indonesian Tragedy is a controversial book that argues that Indonesia’s lack of economic development is due to the blind attempt to force a Western economic model on a population, whose culture and psychology are unsuited to...

First published in 1970, Modern English Society is primarily concerned with the period since the Great Exhibition of 1851. Judith Ryder and Harold Silver begin by surveying the consequences, good and ill, of industrialization, and go on to explore the...

Journalist Omar Mouallem uncovers the surprising history of Muslim communities thriving in the west, challenging assumptions about belonging and identity, in this beautifully written, award-winning book.Omar Mouallem grew up in a Muslim household, but...

A persuasive account of the philosophy and power of nonviolence organizing, and a resource for building and sustaining effective social movements. Despite the rich history of nonviolent philosophy, many people today are unfamiliar with the basic...

From the adolescent thrill of getting a driver's license to the dreaded commutes of adulthood, from vintage muscle cars to electric vehicles, this groundbreaking book reveals the outsized impact the car has had—and will continue to have—on the lives of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780907123132Author Malcom SeymourFormat PaperbackImprint Five Leaves PublicationsPublisher Five Leaves Publications

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780884483380Author Richard CheekFormat PaperbackPage Count 198Imprint Historic New EnglandPublisher Historic New England

In Making Modern Girls, Abosede A. George examines the influence of African social reformers and the developmentalist colonial state on the practice and ideology of girlhood as well as its intersection with child labor in Lagos, Nigeria. It draws from...

Tea drinking in Victorian England was a pervasive activity that, when seen through the lens of a century's perspective, presents a unique overview of Victorian culture. Tea was a necessity and a luxury; it was seen as masculine as well as feminine; it...

Hear the author interview on NPR's Morning Edition If you believe the experts, "child's play"; is serious business. From sociologists to psychologists and from anthropologists to social critics, writers have produced mountains of books about...

Now available in paperback, Tracy K'Meyer's book is a thoughtful and engaging portrait of Koinonia Farm, an interracial Christian cooperative founded in 1942 by two white Baptist ministers in southwest Georgia. The farm was begun as an expression of...

The issue of death has loomed large in Chinese cities in the modern era. Throughout the Republican period, Shanghai swallowed up lives by the thousands. Exposed bodies strewn around in public spaces were a threat to social order as well as to public...

Over the four centuries discussed, the Jews of Quebec realized that they belonged to a unique society in North America. Their commitment to defend their rights and their extensive contributions to numerous sectors of activity have fostered the...

While Adolf Hitler was seizing power in Germany, Adrien Arcand was laying the foundations in Quebec for his Parti national social chretien. The Blue Shirts, as its members were called, wore a military uniform and prominently displayed the swastika...

Blood, Sweat, and Fear will interest everyone concerned with the causes of workplace violence, and in particular scholars and students of labour history, sociology, sociological criminology, masculinity studies, and studies of race and of violence.Book...

This book will interest a broad audience of historians, political scientists, and scholars of Canadian and cultural studies; students of Canadian diplomatic and cultural history; and those general readers interested in whether Canada is becoming a...

Scholars and students of the history of medicine, the history of law, and social history, will enjoy this engagingly written book about drugs, alcohol, tobacco use, and legislation in Canada. This book will also be of interest to professionals who work...

This book will be of interest to scholars and students of Canadian history, the global sixties, student and youth movements, and labour history.Book InformationISBN 9780774826884Author Ian MilliganFormat PaperbackPage Count 252Imprint University of...

This book will be of value not only to historians and medical anthropologists but also to clinicians and government officials charged with planning responses to pandemic diseases.Book InformationISBN 9780774822121Author Magda FahrniFormat HardbackPage...

Soon after the arrival of Doukhobors to British Columbia, newimmigrants clashed with the state over issues such as land ownership,the registration of births and deaths, and school attendance. Aspositions hardened, the conflict, often violent, intensified...

Selling British Columbia is an entertaining examination of the development of the tourist industry in British Columbia between 1890 and 1970. Michael Dawson argues that in order to understand the roots of the fully-fledged consumer culture that emerged...

This book will appeal to scholars and students interested in Canadianhistory, identity, nationalism, and social movements.Book InformationISBN 9780774825245Author Jessica SquiresFormat HardbackPage Count 376Imprint University of British Columbia...

This is a book about identity and remembrance. This anthology presents personal narratives and historical photographs that illuminate the diversity of immigrant experiences in North and South Carolina since 1700. The broad focus of the book encompasses...