Social and cultural history Books

Between the twelfth and fifteenth centuries in Europe, not all women fit the stereotype of passive housewife and mother. Many led bold and dynamic lives. In this collection of historical portraits, Maria Teresa Brolis tells the fascinating tales of...

The Nation of Islam's Secret Relationship between Blacks and Jews has been called one of the most serious anti-Semitic manuscripts published in years. This work of so-called scholars received great celebrity from individuals like Louis Farrakhan, Leonard...

First published in the early 20th century, this book contributed significantly to an understanding of the forces at work in the evolution of family institutions in the United States. The first of a three-volume series, the text describes the American...

This story of Cicero and the Catilinarian Conspiracy is set within and offers a case study of the political, military, economic and social crises besetting the late Roman Republic in the era of the "Roman Revolution." The book chronicles the efforts of...

The streets of Roman cities have received surprisingly little attention until recently. Traditionally the main interest archaeologists and classicists had in streets was in tracing the origins and development of the orthogonal layout used in Roman...

This book proposes a fundamental relationship between exile and mapping. It seeks to understand the cartographic imperative inherent in the exilic condition, the exilic impulses fundamental to mapping, and the varied forms of description proper to both...

This book investigates the relationship between heritage and development from the global visions articulated by UNESCO and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to local activism, livelihood innovations and political strategies employed in diverse...

The History and Bioethics of Medical Education: "You've Got to Be Carefully Taught" continues the Routledge Advances in the History of Bioethics series by exploring approaches to the teaching of bioethics from disparate disciplines, geographies, and...

Reconsidering Extinction in Terms of the History of Global Bioethics continues the Routledge Advances in the History of Bioethics series by exploring approaches to the bioethics of extinction from disparate disciplines, from literature, to social...

This book offers a comparative perspective on Northern and Southern European laws and customs concerning women's property and economic rights. By focusing on both Northern and Southern European societies, these studies analyse the consequences of...

This book applies three overlapping bodies of work to generate fresh approaches to the study of criminal justice in England and Ireland between 1660 and 1850. First, crime and justice are interpreted as elements of the "public sphere" of opinion about...

This study engages with the emerging field of energy humanities to provide close readings of several early American oriental-observer tales. The popular genre of orientalism offered Americans a means to critique new ideas of identity, history, and...

This book explores the extent of parallelism and cross-influence between Catholic Social Teaching and the work of the world's oldest human rights institution, the International Labour Organisation (ILO). Sometimes there is a mutual attraction between...

This book focuses on alternative types of slave narratives, especially courtroom testimony, and interrogates how such narratives were produced, the societies (both those that were majority slave societies and those in which slaves were a distinct...

The Old Lion Departs The Great Adventure Begins A Lion Roars in East Africa White Rhino and Giant Eland Down the Nile; Khartoum to Cairo European Whirl Peace Emissary Last Rites: England The Old Lion is Dead: Epilogue and Dramatis Personae

The purpose of this book is to offer a solution to the current situation in the Middle East. This land is fraught with tension and is longing for peace, for which numerous attempts in the past have failed. The religious connection to this region...

In the decades following the Second World War, women from all walks of life became increasingly frustrated by the world around them. Drawing on long-standing political traditions, these women bound together to revolutionize social norms and contest...

Florence Nightingale is known as a hospital reformer, a social reformer, and the founder of professional nursing; few realize that she worked closely with doctors on these issues. As Nightingale's first supporters and colleagues, doctors contributed to...

By the late nineteenth century, Canadian women had begun forging careers as professional actresses, appearing not just in Canada, but in the United States, Britain, Australia, and New Zealand. They played an integral role in theatrical networks and...

Hundreds of thousands of British and Irish men, women, and children crossed the Atlantic during the seventeenth century as indentured servants. Many had agreed to serve for four years, but large numbers had been trafficked or "spirited away" or were sent...

In the 1950s, the causal link between smoking and lung cancer surfaced in medical journals and mainstream media. Yet the best years for the Canadian cigarette industry were still to come, as per capita cigarette consumption rose steadily in the 1960s and...

An Indian Winter: Or With The Indians In The Rockies is a non-fiction book written by James Willard Schultz and published in 1912. The book is a personal account of Schultz's experiences living with Native American tribes in the Rocky Mountains during...

""An Exposition Of Isaiah Fifty-Two, 13, 14, 15 And Fifty-Three: Delivered Before The Council Of The Senate In The Law School On Friday, April 28, 1882"" is a book written by Salomon Marcus Schiller-Szinessy in 1882. The book is a detailed analysis of...

On the eve of World War I, ten-year-old Samuel Iwry and his family joined other Jewish refugees in fleeing Poland for Russia. At age twenty-nine, Iwry was forced to flee again--this time from the Soviets--and ended up in Shanghai, joining 20,000 Jewish...

In 1937, the Irish Folklore Commission issued guidance to National Schools countrywide for the collection of stories, folklore, songs, and histories; the pupils of Ireland's schools were charged with the collection, curation, and transcription of the...

The survival of folklore is a rare thing. In a world fixated with the modern and new, many no longer see any relevance in what they consider to be old. But folklore is more than a glimpse into our pasts. It is vibrant and alive, surviving and, indeed,...

 This book is the most comprehensive phonetic compilation of cultural information ever produced about the Lokono-Arawak Tribal Nation, of north-east Amazonia, a must-have publication for any academic, Taino, or Kalinago person wanting to know...

Where is it? What is it? Thinking about events, acting, characters, idiots, rights, truth and fate: The answers are found among Public, Persons, and Prerogatives. Ancient and modern ideas move and merge in this approach.

Inventaire Des Cartulaires Conserves Dans Les Depots Des Archives De L'Etat En Belgique (1895) est un livre de l'Acad�����mie Royale de Belgique. Il s'agit d'un inventaire des cartulaires conserv�����s dans les d�����p�����ts des archives de l'�����tat...

Il libro ""Intorno Al Progetto Di Legge Sull' Imposta Pei Redditi Della Ricchezza Mobile: Discorsi (1863)"" di Luigi Minervini ����� una raccolta di discorsi che affrontano il progetto di legge sull'imposta sui redditi della ricchezza mobile. Pubblicato...

Az Im�����ds�����gos K������nyv Zsid������ Hajadonoknak c������m����� k������nyv Izrael Bak toll�����b������l sz�����rmazik, �����s 1894-ben jelent meg. A k������nyv a zsid������ n�����k sz�����m�����ra k�����sz�����lt, �����s im�����kat,...

Il Vessillo Israelitico: Rivista Mensile Per La Storia, La Scienza E Lo Spirito Del Giudaismo, Anno XXXII, 1884 (1884) di Servi, Flamino ����� una rivista mensile che si concentra sulla storia, la scienza e lo spirito del giudaismo. Questo volume �����...

Il Salterio O Canti Nazionali Del Popolo D'Israele: Spiegati E Commentati (1885) di Consolo, Beniamino ����� un libro che esplora il Salterio, ovvero la raccolta di canti e preghiere del popolo ebraico. L'autore fornisce una spiegazione e un commento...

Il Messia Secondo Gli Ebrei: Studio (1874) di Castelli, David, ����� un libro che esplora la figura del Messia nella tradizione ebraica. L'autore esamina le profezie bibliche riguardanti il Messia e le interpretazioni che gli ebrei hanno dato a queste...

Het Spaarzame Keukenboek (1861) is een kookboek geschreven door Philippe Edouard Cauderlier. Het boek bevat meer dan 500 recepten voor het bereiden van voedsel op een economische manier. Het is bedoeld voor huisvrouwen die willen besparen op hun...

Het Archief Der Stad Reimerswaal (1897) is een boek geschreven door Robert Fruin. Het boek bevat een uitgebreide beschrijving van het archief van de stad Reimerswaal, gelegen in de provincie Zeeland. Het archief bevat belangrijke documenten en informatie...

""Espa�����a y Norte-Am�����rica: La Guerra Actual (1898)"" es un libro escrito por Ricardo Monner Sans que trata sobre la guerra entre Espa�����a y Estados Unidos en 1898. El autor analiza los motivos que llevaron a esta guerra y c������mo se...

Esclavage Et Traite (1838) est un livre �����crit par Agenor De Gasparin qui examine l'histoire et la pratique de l'esclavage et de la traite des esclaves. Le livre explore les origines de l'esclavage, les conditions de vie des esclaves et les...

El Concepto de Organismo Social (1896) es un libro escrito por Vicente Santamaria De Paredes que explora la idea de que las sociedades humanas son organismos vivos en constante evoluci������n. El autor argumenta que las sociedades tienen una estructura y...

Das Buch ""Einleitung in den Thalmud"" von Hermann L. Strack wurde im Jahr 1894 ver������ffentlicht. Es handelt sich dabei um eine umfassende Einf�����hrung in den Talmud, der eine der wichtigsten Schriften des Judentums ist. Der Autor beschreibt die...

Das Buch ""Ein Compendium: Der Judischen Gesetzeskunde Aus Dem Vierzehnten Jahrhundert"" von David Rosin wurde erstmals im Jahr 1871 ver������ffentlicht. Es handelt sich um eine Zusammenstellung von Texten aus dem 14. Jahrhundert, die sich mit der...