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A Cultural History of Race in the Modern and Genomic Age

The period from the 1920s to the present is marked by the rise of eugenics, the expansion and hardened enforcement of immigration laws, legal apartheid, the continuance of race pseudoscience, and the rise…

A Cultural History of Genocide in the Era of Total War

The period between the two World Wars was characterized by an acceleration of mass violence across the world. Developments in technology, communications, ideology, global political and economic integratio…

A Cultural History of Furniture in the Age of Empire and Industry

The 19th century in Western culture was a time of both confidence and turbulence. Industrial development produced a growing middle class as well as efficiency, convenience, and innovation across a range o…

A Cultural History of Race in the Renaissance and Early Modern Age

The past is always an interpretive act from the lens of the present. Through the lens of critical race theory, the essays collected here explore new analytical models, theoretical frameworks, and methodol…

A Cultural History of Race in the Age of Empire and Nation State

This volume covers the cultural history of race in 'the long 19th century' - the age of empire and nation-state, a transformative period during which a modern world had been forged and complex and hierarc…

Gillian Ramsey Neugebauer

Ramsey Neugebauer, G: Social and Cultural History of the Hel

Explore the detailed and personal stories of real people living throughout the Hellenistic worldIn A Social and Cultural History of the Hellenistic World, author Gillian Ramsey Neugebauer paints a vivid p…

U. S. Marine Band

Liberty For All: An Interactive CD Of History And Culture

Richard Legay

The Cultural Histories of Radio Luxembourg and Europe n°1

"Richard Legay's cultural history of European youth radio in the Long Sixties is a major contribution in a neglected area which provides important detail about the stations, Radio Luxembourg and Euro…

Fay Bound Alberti

The Face

Writer and historian Fay Bound Alberti synthesizes over twenty years of research to offer a breathtaking cultural history of our most decisive---and sometimes divisive---body part.What's in a face? And ho…

Virginia Cox

The Italian Renaissance

The extraordinary creative energy of Renaissance Italy lies at the root of modern Western culture. In this study, Virginia Cox offers a fresh vision of this iconic moment in cultural history. This book ex…

Judith M Barringer

Olympia

A comprehensive and richly illustrated history of one of the most important athletic, religious, and political sites in the ancient Greek and Roman worldThe memory of ancient Olympia lives on in the form …

Jahrbuch für Europäische Geschichte / European History Yearbook, Band 21, Cultural Sovereignty beyond the Modern State

In the past 25 years or more, political observers have diagnosed a crisis of the sovereign nation state and the erosion of state sovereignty through supranational institutions and the global mobility of c…

Tami Parr

Goats in America

In Goats in America Tami Parr calls attention to these disregarded animals, uncovering the remarkable stories behind everything from goat meat and milk to goat yoga and more.

Personal Religion in the Ancient Greek World

Much is known about the manifold ways in which ancient Greek religious beliefs and practices map onto the social and political structures of the ancient Greek polis. The way in which the individual served…

Fay Bound Alberti

The Face

A pioneering study into how we interpret faces and what they reveal about us, from a world-renowned cultural historianWhat's in a face?The face is one of our quintessential features and is the only part o…

Wolfgang Müller-Funk,

Cruelty

In a humane world, cruelty should not exist, and yet it has been a feature of our societies since time immemorial. From individual acts of cruelty to systematic torture and mass murder, cruelty has been h…

Interiors in the Age of Enlightenment

Exploring the culture of interior design and architecture in the Age of the Enlightenment

Colonial Cyprus

An original, innovative, and timely study on the cultural history of Cyprus under British rule, offering a new interpretative framework for studying the island's colonial past. The book focuses on the oft…

Anna Fishzon, Ian Beilin

Fin de Siècle Europe

An examination of the most significant social, artistic, intellectual, and political developments in Europe at the turn of the 20th century (1870 to 1914), Fin de Siècle Europe provides a comprehensive ap…