Social History

This book tells ten urban histories of science from nine cities-Athens, Barcelona, Budapest, Buenos Aires, Dublin (2 articles), Glasgow, Helsinki, Lisbon, and Naples-situated on the geographical margins of Europe and beyond. Ranging from the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911204862Author Stephen FenderFormat PaperbackImprint Edward Everett RootPublisher Edward Everett RootWeight(grams) 349g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913087654Author Fred NestaFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint Edward Everett RootPublisher Edward Everett RootWeight(grams) 417g

The period of the Enlightenment was marked by innovation in political, cultural, religious, and educational ideas with the aim of improving the experience of human beings in society. Key to intellectual debates and day-to-day life were ideas about the...

Between 1849 and 1930, schooling in what is now British Columbia supported the development of a capitalist settler society. Lessons in Legitimacy examines government-assisted schooling for Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples - public schools, Indian...

Booze, dope, smokes, and weed. Mind-altering, mood-changing substances have been part of human society for millennia. Pleasure and Panic reveals how attitudes toward drug and alcohol consumption have always been deeply embedded in cultural fears and...

The collection is organized around two main principles, stages of life and gender, and is divided into eight chapters: childhood, youth and sexuality, courtship and weddings, married life, economic life, networks and communities, and widowhood and old...

The exploration of what May Sarton calls the "foreign country of old age" usually does not go far beyond the familiar: the focus of aging studies has thus far clearly rested upon North America and Western Europe. This multidisciplinary essay...

This is the first book to examine how Australian fiction writers draw on family histories to reckon with the nation’s colonial past. Located at the intersection of literature, history, and sociology, it explores the relationships between family...

In the Weimar Republic, popular culture was the scene of heated controversies that tested the limits of national cohesion. How could marginal figures like a stigmatized villager, a grub street writer, or an advocate for nudism become flashpoints of...

How do digital media technologies shape or restructure social practice? And which transitions and demarcations of different forms of publicness arise in this context? Simon Holdermann examines this question in his ethnography of everyday life in the High...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807006719Author Kristin Ann HassFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press

Liberating Hellenism from the Ottoman Empire explores two key historical episodes that have generally escaped the notice of modern Greece, the Near East, and their observers alike. In the midst of the highly charged context of West-East confrontation and...

The equilibrium and understanding between India and China that was built on the premise that both were at the same level of development, and hence need to give full play to their complementarities and potentialities, has seemingly shifted, owing to the...

Originally published in 1953. In this collection of essays, prominent midcentury intellectual historians provide critical essays on their field of specialty. This volume gathers work by Harold Cherniss, George Boas, Ludwig Edelstein, Leo Spitzer, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781999491079Author Scott LinehanFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Boulder BooksPublisher Boulder BooksWeight(grams) 240g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781841557489Author Colin PittFormat PaperbackPage Count 114Imprint Unique Motor BooksPublisher Unique Motor BooksWeight(grams) 306g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781990048449Author Angela WanhallaFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint Otago University PressPublisher Otago University Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916178915Author Steve GrudgingsFormat HardbackPage Count 187Imprint Folly Books LtdPublisher Folly Books Ltd

Historical research can be enhanced by methods and resources from various disciplines, ranging from psychology to computer linguistics. With a creative and innovative perspective on ?things we think we know?, Milan van Lange presents a computer-assisted...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910170762Author Nottingham Communist PartyFormat PaperbackPage Count 22Imprint Five Leaves PublicationsPublisher Five Leaves Publications

.Book InformationISBN 9780367627775Author Robert F. CochranFormat PaperbackPage Count 318Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 156g

Cultural pastime, profitable industry, or harmful influence on the nation? Liquor was a tricky issue for municipal, provincial, and federal governments after Confederation. Liquor and the Liberal State traces the takeover of liquor regulation by the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781612545455Author Kay HoflanderFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Brown Books Publishing GroupPublisher Brown Books Publishing GroupWeight(grams) 152g

Memories of Mass Repression presents the results of researchers working with the voices of witnesses. Its stories include the witnesses, victims, and survivors; it also reflects the subjective experience of the study of such narratives. The work...

First published in 2007. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9780415762878Author Wes MantoothFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 340g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781487006976Author Margaret AtwoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint House of Anansi Press Ltd ,CanadaPublisher House of Anansi Press Ltd ,Canada

Renowned artist Han Meilin gives an oral history of the harrowing events that turn his life and fledgling artistic career upside down during the unforgiving times of China's Cultural Revolution.Book InformationISBN 9781838905385Author Feng JicaiFormat...

Over the course of the last half century, queer history has developed as a collaborative project involving academic researchers, community scholars, and the public. Initially rejected by most colleges and universities, queer history was sustained for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912224401Author Bentley B. GilbertFormat HardbackImprint Edward Everett RootPublisher Edward Everett Root

From the shutdown of Planned Parenthood clinics and rising rates of HIV to opposition to marriage equality and bathroom bills, the New South is the epicenter of the new sex wars. Antagonism toward reproductive freedom, partner rights, and transgender...

The middle class is often viewed as the heart of American society, the key to the country's democracy and prosperity. Most Americans believe they belong to this group, and few politicians can hope to be elected without promising to serve the middle class...

Originally published in 1974, this study offers valuable perspectives on the status and roles of women in Stuart England and in the newly settled colonies of North America, particularly Massachusetts and Virginia. Incorporating both new research on the...

Increasingly, 'creolization' is used to analyse 'cultural complexity', 'cosmopolitanism','hybridity', 'syncretism' and 'mixture', prominent and growing characteristics of the global age. The Creolization Reader captures all these meanings. Attention to...

Public in Public History presents international research on the role of the public in public history: the ways people perceive, respond to and influence history-related institutions, events, services and products that deal with the past. The book...

Women have been important contributors to and readers of magazines since the development of the periodical press in the nineteenth century. By the mid-twentieth century, millions of women read the weeklies and monthlies that focused on supposedly...

This edited collection illustrates the way in which women's experiences of academe could be both contextually diverse but historically and culturally similar. It looks at both the micro (individual women and universities) and macro-level (comparative...

In the 1880s, social reform leaders warned that the "unworthy" poor were taking charitable relief intended for the truly deserving. Armed with statistics and confused notions of evolution, these "scientific charity" reformers founded...

Conscience and Convenience was quickly recognized for its masterly depiction and interpretation of a major period of reform history. This history begins in a social context in which treatment and rehabilitation were emerging as predominant after...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783837654158Author Carsten ReinhardtFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint Bielefeld University PressPublisher Bielefeld University PressWeight(grams) 147g