Social and cultural history Books

Book SynopsisConnected Women explores the links between 84 pioneering women in order to show the indomitable strength of womankind. Trade Review'I would definitely recommend I Know A Woman by Kate Hodges. It’s the most amazing book that explores the different connections between a variety of women.’ -- Maya Jama

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Book SynopsisThis is an introduction to the Industrial Revolution which offers an integrated account of the economic and social aspects of change during the period.Trade Review'Students will find this volume demanding and challenging, but their perceptions of both the Industrial Revolution controversy and eighteenth- and nineteenth-century social, economic and industrial history will emerge enlightened and their interest in the period stimulated.' Business History 'This is a textbook but one that can be read with profit by both professionals and students...Hudson frequently succeeds in neatly summarizing complex discussions. She brings her surveys of the literature right up-to-date and her knowledge of recent work is impressive...a lively and well-written text.' Economic History ReviewTable of ContentsPart 1 Writing and rewriting history: perspectives on the industrial revolution; the economy and the state; agriculture and the industrial revolution. Part 2 The industrial revolution: regions and industries; demography and labour; consumption and commerce; class and gender.

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Book SynopsisThis small and beautifully illustrated book tells the story of this remarkable find, focussing on the discovery, scientific investigation, interpretation of the hoard, and the parallels and context in the Roman world.

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Book SynopsisPower; the power of the gods; the power of Greek cities; the power of the human body: all these were celebrated at the ancient Olympic Games. This title revolves around the Games of 416 BC a turning point in Greek politics when a cold war between Athens and other major cities was about to erupt into bloody fighting.

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Book SynopsisLondon: a view from the streets brings together and interprets vivid images of the changing faces of London, featuring never-before-seen works from the rich collection of the British Museum. A broad range of pieces from artists including Canaletto, Hogarth, Cruikshank, Whistler and George Scharfe are all engagingly explored by Anna Maude, herself an expert on prints and drawings of London.

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Book SynopsisGermany Divided explores a selection of unpublished and unseen works from some of the leading names in contemporary art. Showcased are key works from six artists who re-defined art in Germany in the second half of the twentieth century: Georg Baselitz; Marcus Lüpertz; Blinky Palermo; A.R. Penck; Sigmar Polke and Gerhard Richter.

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Book SynopsisAimed at the general reader and relevant to many academic disciplines, this book explores the ways people acquired new information, organised their ideas and reached their conclusions.Trade Review"'Affirmative and enjoyable' The Art Newspaper; 'Visually and textually stunning...' The Good Book Guide"Table of ContentsPreface by Neil MacGregor, Director of the British Museum; Part I: The 'Universal' Museum; 1 'Aimed at universality and belonging to the nation': The Enlightenment and the British Museum; 2 Collectors and commemoration: portrait sculpture and paintings in the British Museum; 3 'Most curious, splendid and useful': the King's Library of George III; 4 The King's Library and its architectural genesis; 5 Ancient glory and modern learning: the sculpture-decorated library; Part II: The Natural World; 6 Challenging the dogma: classifying and describing the natural world; 7 Natural history collectors and their collections: 'simpling macaronis' and instruments of empire; 8 The nature of the earth and the fossil debate; 9 Rocks, fossils and the emergence of palaeontology; Part III: The Artificial World; 10 The ordering of the artificial world: collecting, classification and progress; 11 'The King loves medals': the study of coins in Europe and Britain; 12 Engraved gems: the lost art of antiquity; 13 Words and pictures: Greek vases and their classification; 14 Between antiquarianism and experiment: Hans Sloane, George III and collecting science; 15 King George III's topographical collection: a Georglan view of Britain and the world; Part IV: Ancient Civilizations: New Interpretations; 16 Ideas of antiquity: classical and other ancient civilizations in the age of Enlightenment; 17 The discovery of British antiquity; 18 From Persepolis to Babylon and Nineveh: the rediscovery of the ancient Near East; 19 'The curse of Babel': the Enlightenment and the study of writing; 20 Sacred history? The difficult subject of religion; Part V: Voyages of Discovery; 21 Venture to the exterior; 22 Romancing the Americas: public expeditions and private research c. 1778-1827; 23 Irresistible objects: collecting in the Pacific and Australia in the reign of George III; 24 Trade and learning: the European 'discovery' of the East; 25 Africa: in the shadow of the Enlightenment

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Book SynopsisDue to its arid climate, Egypt preserves a unique range and abundance of evidence providing insights into the emergence and establishment of new religions, their relationship to each other and the pagan past. The book reveals the different types of sacred buildings - synagogue, church, and mosque - and explains their architectural history.

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Book SynopsisThe origins of the NHS are the subject of this study that presents evidence on the key players who participated in the founding of the system. The author also traces those who opposed the NHS.Table of ContentsPart 1 Politicians Prescribe: Introduction; Conservatives; Liberals: Past and Present; Cabinet Colleagues; The Minister. Part 2 Doctors Differ: Introduction; A Royal Physician; A Royal College; A Royal Speech; At the Cafe Royal; Away from the Cafe Royal; A Battle Royal. Part 3 Disciples Decide: Disciples Decide.

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Book SynopsisIn the illuminating and entertainingOne Kiss or Two?Andy Scott goes down the rabbit hole to take a closer look at what greetings are all about.Through in-depth research and his personal experiences, and with the help of experts, Scott takes us on a captivating journey through a subject far richer than we might have expected.Trade Review'To kiss or not to kiss? This delightful book explores greeting etiquette across different cultures and provides a great deal of entertainment. I thoroughly recommend it' Jane Goodall‘With meticulous research, acute insight, infectious curiosity and gentle humour... this book introduces us to ourselves’ Kate Fox, bestselling author of Watching the English‘After reading this book, I feel liberated’ Literary Review'Kissing hello is a social minefield... fortunately, Andy Scott may have some answers' The Times'Scott s winning study combines scholarly rigour with a voice that is funny, warm and humane. I can t imagine a better guide to the intricate art of saying hello' Joe Moran, author of Queuing for Beginners'From Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi s deathclamp handshake to the penis-offering Walbiri in the Australian outback, learn the perfect greeting globally' New Scientist, Best Book of the Year'Diplomat Andy Scott speculates on the origins of the cheek-kissing tradition... and how to avoid a social faux pas no matter where you are' Conde Nast Traveler'Fascinating... by the end of Scott s book, you see that if we stopped greeting, the world would come to an end' The Lady'From the ubiquitous handshake to the, thankfully, less popular genital grab, Andy Scott's vade mecum of the social science and background to the world's many greetings is infallible reading for any member of civilised society' William Hanson, British etiquette coach and columnist'Andy Scott has written an utterly charming and fascinating book. I will never be able to look at a handshake or a hug the same way again.' Joshua Foer, internationally bestselling author of Moonwalking with Einstein and co-founder of Atlas Obscura'Who would have guessed that so much lies behind a greeting? As Scott demonstrates so ably, it's not just etiquette, but also history, evolution and brain function... popular science writing at its best' Chris Frith, Emeritus Professor of Neuropsychology, UCL

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Book SynopsisIn this remarkable study, Pamela Sambrook rescues from obscurity the contribution of a former member of Napoleon''s Imperial Guard to the development of specialist hotels and catering in the formative years of the railway network in England and France. In doing so, she interrogates what lies behind some of Zenon Vantini''s very real achievements, legacies and disasters. She asks how far he was driven by his familial background in Elba and his involvement in the political turmoil of early-nineteenth-century France, and to what extent his whole life was known to those around him.Vantini''s extraordinary life encapsulates the change between two very different worlds - the old imperial past and the new age of entrepreneurial risk-taking. Never shaking off his old political loyalties, he believed resolutely that the mobility afforded by railway travel would change Europe fundamentally. In the long view he was a component part in the very early years of an industry which arguably changed EngTrade ReviewZenon Vantini grasped the opportunities presented by political and economic developments in nineteenth-century Europe in a truly exemplary fashion. On his native Elba, he encountered the exiled Napoleon, whom he joined for the Hundred Days. Then, having pursued domestic service in Britain, he conceived the idea of catering for railway travellers, via a chain of hotels that encompassed the continent. Vantini's fascinating transnational career is memorably explored by Pamela Sambrook in this engrossing study. Malcolm Crook, emeritus professor of French History, Keele University This was a most enjoyable read, highly informative and the book has page turning qualities making it difficult to put down. The excitement of the chase is not immediately apparent, but develops well before Napoleon enters stage left. Paul Anderton, former Adult Education Tutor, Keele University Zenon Vantini leased and managed the first railway-owned hotel (at Euston) and the first railway refreshment rooms (at Wolverton). He organised the first continental rail tours ten years before Thomas Cook. Probably no railway pioneer had a more unusual and exotic back-story, yet he is virtually unknown, even to specialist historians. This book fills a significant gap in transport history. Peter Brown, Transport historian, formerly reviews editor of the Journal of the Railway & Canal Historical Society The author has written a lively, fully referenced book about a subject who was difficult to research because of the paucity and widely-scattered nature of the sources. Peter Brown, in Journal of the Railway & Canal Historical SocietyTable of ContentsChapter 1. Introducing Zenon Vantini, 1797-1870 Part 1: 1825-c.1847. England Chapter 2. Extravagant Housekeeping Chapter 3. Changing from Road to Rail Chapter 4. Birth of Railway Hotels - Euston and Fleetwood Chapter 5. Dangers of Refreshment Rooms - Wolverton Chapter 6. Doorstep to France and the North of England Part 2: c.1843-1860s. France Chapter 7. Birth of the Foreign Package Holiday Part 3: 1797-1815, Elba Chapter 8. Elba, the Vantinis and the Arrival of Napoleon Chapter 9. Napoleon's Households and Administration Chapter 10. The Vantinis during the Exile Chapter 11. To France and Waterloo Part 4: 1816-1832. Interludes Chapter 12. You may not believe this Part 5: 1797-1870. Vantini, a Whole Life Chapter 13. Zenon's Daughters Chapter 14. Vantini in Retrospect

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Book SynopsisThe gripping history of a venerable publishing house and its behind-the-scenes sagasTrade ReviewHumphrey Carpenter s history of the firm, completed by other hands after his death in 2005, is an evocation of a vanished age - Jeremy Lewis, Daily Telegraph A treasure-trove of fascinating information paced into Humphrey Carpenter s riveting history of the world s longest surviving publishing house...Terrific - Val Hennessy, Daily Mail'The late Humphrey Carpenter, a delightful and generous-minded man to whose memory I doff my cap, died while still at work on the manuscript of Seven Lives' - Independent on Sunday The highs and lows of the literary world are reported with panache in this fascinating book. Superb photographs too - Tatler'The highs and lows of the literary world are reported with panache in this fascinating book. Superb photographs too. - Tatler A fitting tribute to a remarkable publisher' - The Sunday Herald A fine testimony to Humphrey s unobtrusive scholarship and narrative skills...a major contribution to our knowledge of publishing practices and the history of the book - Byron Journal, Andrew Nicholson

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Book SynopsisIn late March 1975, as the Vietnam War raged, an Australian voluntary aid worker named Rosemary Taylor approached the Australian Embassy seeking assistance to fly 600 orphans out of Saigon to safety. Rosemary and Margaret Moses, two former nuns from Adelaide, had spent eight years in Vietnam during the war, building up a complex of nurseries to house war orphans and street waifs as the organisation that built up around them facilitated international adoptions for the children. As the North Vietnamese forces closed in on their nurseries, they needed a plan to evacuate the children, or all their work might count for little ... Based on extensive archival and historical research, and interviews of some of those directly involved in the events described, Operation Babylift details the last month of the Vietnam War from the perspective of the most vulnerable victims of that war: the orphans it created. Through the story of the attempt to save 600 children, we see h

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Book SynopsisA landmark event years in the making, a brilliant global narrative that unravels the defining story of the past thousand years of human historyNo other phenomenon has shaped human history as decisively as capitalism. It structures how we live and work, how we think about ourselves and others, how we organize our politics. Sven Beckert, author of the Bancroft Prize–winning Empire of Cotton, places the story of capitalism within the largest conceivable geographical and historical framework, tracing its history during the past millennium and across the world. An epic achievement, his book takes us into merchant businesses in Aden and car factories in Turin, onto the terrifyingly violent sugar plantations in Barbados, and within the world of women workers in textile factories in today’s Cambodia.Capitalism, argues Beckert, was born global. Emerging from trading communities across Asia, Africa, and Europe, capitalism’s radical recasting of economic life rooted itself only gradually. But then it burst onto the world scene, as a powerful alliance between European states and merchants propelled them, and their economic logic, across the oceans. This, Beckert shows, was modern capitalism’s big bang, and one of its epicenters was the slave labor camps of the Caribbean. This system, with its hierarchies that haunt us still, provided the liftoff for the radical transformations of the Industrial Revolution. Fueled by vast productivity increases along with coal and oil, capitalism pulled down old ways of life to crown itself the defining force of the modern world. This epic drama, shaped by state-backed institutions and imperial expansion, corresponded at no point to an idealized dream of free markets.Drawing on archives on six continents, Capitalism locates important modes of agency, resistance, innovation, and ruthless coercion everywhere in the world, opening the aperture from heads of state to rural cultivators. Beckert shows that despite the dependence on expansion, there always have been, and are still, areas of human life that the capitalist revolution has yet to reach. By chronicling capitalism’s global history, Beckert exposes the reality of the system that now seems simply “natural.” It is said that people can more easily imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism. If there is one ultimate lesson in this extraordinary book, it’s how to leave that behind. Though cloaked in a false timelessness and universality, capitalism is, in reality, a recent human invention. Sven Beckert doesn’t merely tote up capitalism’s debits and credits. He shows us how to look through and beyond it to imagine a different and larger world.

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Book SynopsisFor readers of On Trails, this is an incisive, utterly engaging exploration of walking: how it is fundamental to our being human, how we''ve designed it out of our lives, and how it is essential that we reembrace it.I''m going for a walk. How often has this phrase been uttered by someone with a heart full of anger or sorrow? Or as an invitation, a precursor to a declaration of love? Our species and its predecessors have been bipedal walkers for at least six million years; by now, we take this seemingly arbitrary motion for granted. Yet how many of us still really walk in our everyday lives?Driven by a combination of a car-centric culture and an insatiable thirst for productivity and efficiency, we''re spending more time sedentary and alone than we ever have before. If bipedal walking is truly what makes our species human, as paleoanthropologists claim, what does it mean that we are designing walking right out of our

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Book SynopsisThis book outlines the history of theatres and music halls from the late 16th century to the present time, noting changing fashions in entertainment and evolving official attitudes to safety that have, at various times, influenced the architectural characters of the buildings.

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Book SynopsisLondon's sewers could be called the city's forgotten underground: mostly unseen subterranean spaces that are of absolutely vital importance, the capital's sewers nonetheless rarely get the same degree of attention as the Tube. Paul Dobraszczyk here outlines the fascinating history of London's sewers from the nineteenth century onwards, using a rich variety of colour illustrations, photographs and newspaper engravings to show their development from medieval spaces to the complex, citywide network, largely constructed in the 1860s, that is still in place today. This book explores London's sewers in history, fiction and film, including how they entice intrepid explorers into their depths, from the Victorian period to the present day.Table of ContentsIntroduction /The Filthy City /Planning the New Sewers / Constructing the New Sewers /Cathedrals of Sewage /Exploring London’s Sewers / Further Reading / Places to Visit /Index

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Book SynopsisDealing only with the most important historical developments, this is a comprehensive and accessible survey for all newcomers to the subject.Trade ReviewThe author is to be congratulated on a text that compresses a great deal of authoritative information and yet remains very readable. The author focuses on major themes and developments, as well as the historical background from which they arose. His writing is succinct and lucid, making use of primary and secondary sources, in which he shows a remarkable range of scholarship...Daftary's book provides an excellent overview of the history of the Ismailiyya from its inception to the present. Its particular focus is the sect's history, but its doctrines also receive ample treatment. The reader is introduced both to the primary sources and to the scholarly literature- eloquent proof of the author's great erudition. The chapters of the book complement one another to form a fascinating tale that is readable and fluent; at the same time they stand as independent units, any of which can be read on its own. Daftary deserves high prase for this exemplary project, which will be eminently useful for both scholars and students The author is to be congratulated on a text that compresses a great deal of authoritative information and yet remains very readable. The author focuses on major themes and developments, as well as the historical background from which they arose. His writing is succinct and lucid, making use of primary and secondary sources, in which he shows a remarkable range of scholarship...Daftary's book provides an excellent overview of the history of the Ismailiyya from its inception to the present. Its particular focus is the sect's history, but its doctrines also receive ample treatment. The reader is introduced both to the primary sources and to the scholarly literature- eloquent proof of the author's great erudition. The chapters of the book complement one another to form a fascinating tale that is readable and fluent; at the same time they stand as independent units, any of which can be read on its own. Daftary deserves high prase for this exemplary project, which will be eminently useful for both scholars and students

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Book SynopsisFrom current day sectarianism to the Free Church, religion has had a dominant effect upon society in Scotland for centuries. In this topical and thought-provoking book, Callum Brown examines the role of religion in the making of modern Scottish society. Tackling important contemporary themes such as the role of the Kirk in national identity and the growth of secularisation, he explains the history of Catholicism, Presbyterianism and Episcopalism over the last 250 years in an accessible and readable way.Table of ContentsPiety and progress; the church structure in Scotland 1707-1997; patterns of religious adherence; religion in rural society 1707-1890; the challenge of the cities 1780-1890; the "social question" 1890-1939 - the crisis of religious ideology; the haemorrhage of faith 1939-1997 - the crisis of church connection; religion, identity and conflict in Scotland since 1707.

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Book SynopsisThis volume introduces the reader to every important aspect of the society of Sparta, the dominant power in southern Greece from the seventh century BC and the great rival of democratic Athens in the fifth and fourth centuries.Trade ReviewAcademics and students alike will welcome this addition to the useful Edinburgh Readings on the Ancient World series ! as an introductory reader for the advanced study of Sparta, it is difficult to see how [the] book could be bettered. Academics and students alike will welcome this addition to the useful Edinburgh Readings on the Ancient World series ! as an introductory reader for the advanced study of Sparta, it is difficult to see how [the] book could be bettered.

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Book SynopsisThe author of this text challeges the the conventional view of the Scottish nobility as violent, unlearned and backward, with the aim of demonstrating that the nobility were as steeped in contemporary European debates and movements as they were rooted in local society.

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Book SynopsisJean Bottero and his colleagues take the reader on a voyage of discovery into the public and private realms of the lives of our first civilized ancestors, looking at everyday life in Ancient Mesopotamia.Trade ReviewWritten for the most part by acknowledged masters of Assyriology and underpinned by decades of scholarly engagement with that enormous and intractable mass of cuneiform texts ! that permit an intimate insight into all aspects of human activity that is unrivalled in the study of ancient civilizations ! What this book offers is a series of well-written chapters on a selection of the most absorbing, intriguing or otherwise appealing topics in ancient Mesopotamian history ! the volume is lively and interesting and will be read with profit and enjoyment by undergraduate and general reader alike. Written for the most part by acknowledged masters of Assyriology and underpinned by decades of scholarly engagement with that enormous and intractable mass of cuneiform texts ! that permit an intimate insight into all aspects of human activity that is unrivalled in the study of ancient civilizations ! What this book offers is a series of well-written chapters on a selection of the most absorbing, intriguing or otherwise appealing topics in ancient Mesopotamian history ! the volume is lively and interesting and will be read with profit and enjoyment by undergraduate and general reader alike.

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Book SynopsisIain Hutchison's book traces the major developments in a particularly turbulent phase ofScottish history.

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Book SynopsisFrom a small city college in the sixteenth century the University of Edinburgh grew to be one of the world's greatest centres of scholarship, research and learning. Its history is told here by three of its leading historians with wit, verve and style.Trade ReviewAn urgent purchase for all concerned with and interested in the university! valuable and consistently readable! an extraordinary wealth of illustration! a fascinating set of glimpses into student life! This is a book to be welcomed. -- Ian Campbell An urgent purchase for all concerned with and interested in the university! valuable and consistently readable! an extraordinary wealth of illustration! a fascinating set of glimpses into student life! This is a book to be welcomed.

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Book SynopsisAll memories invoke imagined pasts, but do the ways we remember share a common imaginary? In seeking to interpret Scottish culture in the recent past as a series of encounters with modernity, this study draws on a wide range of sources to explore relationships between perceptions of place, belonging and identity in one nation.Trade ReviewA tour de force by Andrew Blaikie, who tells us that the Scots didn't invent the modern world; we only imagined it. And in so doing, we have become creatures of those images. -- David McCrone, Edinburgh University A tour de force by Andrew Blaikie, who tells us that the Scots didn't invent the modern world; we only imagined it. And in so doing, we have become creatures of those images.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements; List of illustrations; Chapter 1 Scotland and the places of memory; SECTION 1 ENCOUNTERING MODERNITY: Chapter 2 Before and after modernity: the legacy of Adam Ferguson; Chapter 3 The eyes of modernity: John Grierson's sociology; SECTION II PLACING IDENTITIES: Chapter 4 Among the wee Nazareths: myths of moral community; Chapter 5 Retrieving 'that invisible leeway': landscapes, cultures, belonging; SECTION III LOCAL VISIONS: Chapter 6 A pattern of islands: photographs in the cultural account; Chapter 7 Remembering 'The Forgotten Gorbals'; Chapter 8 Finding ways home; Index

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Book SynopsisBlaikie explores how our different ways of seeing influence the relationship between place and belonging. He argues that our memories, however brief or complex, invoke imagined pasts. But do our recollections share a common frame of reference? Blaikie's cross-disciplinary exploration sets out to answer this question. Includes numerous case studies.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements; List of illustrations; Chapter 1 Scotland and the places of memory; SECTION 1 ENCOUNTERING MODERNITY: Chapter 2 Before and after modernity: the legacy of Adam Ferguson; Chapter 3 The eyes of modernity: John Grierson's sociology; SECTION II PLACING IDENTITIES: Chapter 4 Among the wee Nazareths: myths of moral community; Chapter 5 Retrieving 'that invisible leeway': landscapes, cultures, belonging; SECTION III LOCAL VISIONS: Chapter 6 A pattern of islands: photographs in the cultural account; Chapter 7 Remembering 'The Forgotten Gorbals'; Chapter 8 Finding ways home; Index

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Book SynopsisA clear overview of the major cultural forms of 1960s America -- fiction and poetry; music and performance; film and television; art and photography -- and influential texts of the decade.Table of ContentsList of Figures; List of Case Studies; Chronology of 1960s American Culture; Introduction: The Intellectual Context; 1. Music and Performance; 2. Film and Television; 3. Fiction and Poetry; 4. Art and Photography; 5. New Social Movements and Creative Dissent; Conclusion: The Cultural Legacy of the 1960s; Notes; Bibliogrpahy; Index.

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Book SynopsisThis book charts the changing complexion of American culture in one of the most culturally vibrant of twentieth-century decades. It provides a vivid account of the major cultural forms of 1960s America - music and performance; film and television; fiction and poetry; art and photography - as well as influential texts, trends and figures of the decade: from Norman Mailer to Susan Sontag; from Muhammad Ali''s anti-war protests to Tom Lehrer''s stand-up comedy; from Bob Dylan to Rachel Carson; and from Pop Art to photojournalism. A chapter on new social movements demonstrates that a current of conservatism runs through even the most revolutionary movements of the 1960s and the book as a whole looks to the West and especially to the South in the making of the sixties as myth and as history.Trade ReviewJust when it seems as if there might be nothing new to be said about the 1960s, Sharon Monteith has crafted an original and highly valuable new take on the decade and its legacies. She combines perceptive cultural analysis and shrewd aesthetic judgements with a firm grasp of historical and social context. The result is a smart, engaging and persuasive introduction to the decade's complex cultural politics. -- Brian Ward, Professor of American Studies, University of Manchester Just when it seems as if there might be nothing new to be said about the 1960s, Sharon Monteith has crafted an original and highly valuable new take on the decade and its legacies. She combines perceptive cultural analysis and shrewd aesthetic judgements with a firm grasp of historical and social context. The result is a smart, engaging and persuasive introduction to the decade's complex cultural politics.Table of ContentsList of Figures; List of Case Studies; Chronology of 1960s American Culture; Introduction: The Intellectual Context; 1. Music and Performance; 2. Film and Television; 3. Fiction and Poetry; 4. Art and Photography; 5. New Social Movements and Creative Dissent; Conclusion: The Cultural Legacy of the 1960s; Notes; Bibliogrpahy; Index.

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Book SynopsisA clear overview of the major cultural forms of 1930s America: literature and drama, music and radio, film and photography, art and design, and case studies of influential texts and practitioners of the decade.Trade ReviewVivid, wide-ranging and original, David Eldridge is a perceptive guide, conducting his readers through the maze of American culture in the 1930s. This is a book to inspire students, inform general readers and challenge scholars to generate further research. -- Nicholas J. Cull, Director of the Public Diplomacy Program, University of Southern California Each chapter handles a different form of 1930s expression with a sure and light touch, and Eldridge's synchronic approach matches the multifarious ethos of the era very well. -- Catherine Gander, University of East Anglia Journal of American Studies This particular volume will be of interest to historians of American culture who are not specialists in the interwar period, and it would also be a good book for instructors to consider using in undergraduate courses on the period. The book contains detailed timelines of various cultural developments in the 1930s as well as a thorough and well-chosen bibliography, features that add to a solid synthetic cultural history of the 1930s. -- Michael Stamm, Michigan State university American Journalism Vivid, wide-ranging and original, David Eldridge is a perceptive guide, conducting his readers through the maze of American culture in the 1930s. This is a book to inspire students, inform general readers and challenge scholars to generate further research. Each chapter handles a different form of 1930s expression with a sure and light touch, and Eldridge's synchronic approach matches the multifarious ethos of the era very well. This particular volume will be of interest to historians of American culture who are not specialists in the interwar period, and it would also be a good book for instructors to consider using in undergraduate courses on the period. The book contains detailed timelines of various cultural developments in the 1930s as well as a thorough and well-chosen bibliography, features that add to a solid synthetic cultural history of the 1930s.Table of ContentsList of Figures; List of Case Studies; Acknowledgements; Chronology of 1930s American Culture; Introduction: The Intellectual Context; 1. Literature and Drama; 2. Film and Photography; 3. Music and Radio; 4. Art and Design; 5. New Deal Culture; Conclusion: The Cultural Legacy of the 1930s; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisA clear overview of the major cultural forms of 1940s America: fiction and non-fiction (specifically newspapers and magazines), music and radio, film and theatre, serious and popular visual arts, and case studies of influential texts and practitioners of the decade.Table of ContentsList of Figures; List of Case Studies; Acknowledgements; Chronology of 1940s American Culture; Introduction: The Intellectual Context; 1. Fiction and Journalism; 2. Radio and Music; 3. Theatre and Film; 4. Visual Arts, Serious and Popular; 5. The Arts of Sacrifice and Consumption; Conclusion: The 1940s in the Contemporary American Imagination; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisThis book is an account of murder and politics in Africa, and an historical ethnography of southern Annang communities during the colonial period.Table of ContentsCONTENTS; 1. INTRODUCTION; 'Murder at Ikot Okoro - Leopard Alleged'; Leopard Men in Fact and Fiction; A Social History of Murder; 2. OF LEOPARDS AND LEADERS; Power and Personhood; Trade and Transformation; Conversion and Conquest; 3. RESISTANCE AND REVIVAL, 1910-1929; The Landscape of Power; The Spirit Movement; The Women's War; 4. PROGRESSIVES AND POWER, 1930-38; Americans and Anthropology; 'We shall not be ruled by our children'; Women and the 'Infamous Traffic'; 5. WAR AND PUBLIC, 1939-1945; 'John Bull' and the Reading Public; Cassava and Crime; 'Audacious Leopards' and 'Atrocious Deeds'; 6. INLAWS AND OUTLAWS, 1946; 'The Time of Accusation'; 'What is at the bottom of the leopard man epidemic?'; 'The leopard that hides its spots'; 7. DIVINATIONS AND DELEGATIONS, 1947; Police and Prophecy; The Ibibio Union Touring Delegation; The Man-Eating Leopard of Ikot Udoro; 8. THE POLITICS OF 'IMPROVEMENT', 1947-1960; The Leopards' Legacy; Nationalist Trajectories; Expectations Revisited; 9. ECHOES OF EKPE OWO.

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Book SynopsisThis history uses a regional basis to examine large-scale issues through specific local and regional events.Trade ReviewEven as a boy growing up in the Vale of Leven in the 1940s and 50s I was aware of the complex, almost contradictory culture to which I belonged. What I did not realise, because I never took the trouble to find out, was the rich historical background to the place I took so much for granted. Now I realise that West Dunbartonshire was a story waiting to be told. At last, in this volume, it has been told, and told with passion and eloquence. West Dunbartonshire should be proud of this achievement, and it should take heart from its rich and turbulent past as it navigates itself into the future. -- Richard Holloway, former Professor of Divinity at Gresham Coll London and Bishop of Edinburgh, presently Chairman of the Scottish Arts Council and FRSE. Even as a boy growing up in the Vale of Leven in the 1940s and 50s I was aware of the complex, almost contradictory culture to which I belonged. What I did not realise, because I never took the trouble to find out, was the rich historical background to the place I took so much for granted. Now I realise that West Dunbartonshire was a story waiting to be told. At last, in this volume, it has been told, and told with passion and eloquence. West Dunbartonshire should be proud of this achievement, and it should take heart from its rich and turbulent past as it navigates itself into the future.Table of ContentsIntroduction to West Dunbartonshire and the themes of book, Professor Ian Brown; Early languages and history, Dr Simon Taylor; History and political development of region, Professor Ted Cowan; Economic and modern, Professor Richard Finlay; Enlightenment, arts and literature of urban development, Professor Alan Riach; Entertainment and popular culture, Paul Maloney; Sport, its players and supporters, Bob Crampsey; Conclusion, Professor Ian Brown.

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Book SynopsisIn this collection, contributors from a range of disciplinary positions present the latest empirical research evidence and social theory to examine and debate fundamental issues about bigotry in Scottish football and society.

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Book SynopsisThis scholarly work documents the cinema habits of early twentieth-century Scots, exploring the growth of cinema-going and integrating the study of cinema into wider debates in social and economic history. It draws on archival resources including documentation kept by cinema managers and the diaries and recollections of cinema-goers.Table of ContentsIntroduction; 1. From Variety Hall to Picture House: The Emergence of Scottish Cinema to 1914; 2. Regulating Scottish Cinema: Censorship and the Child Audience; 3. Through War and Peace: The Changing Fortunes of Scottish Silent Cinema, 1914-29; 4. A Seven-Day Wonder?: Cinema and the Scottish Sabbath; 5. An Essential Social Habit: Cinema-going in the early sound era, c.1927-39; 6. Beyond the Dream Palace: The Role of Non-Commercial Cinema in Scotland; 7. To the Summit and Beyond: Cinema-Going in the 1940s; 8. A Flickering Image: Scottish Film Production; Conclusion; Appendices; Bibliography.

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Book SynopsisExamines language and identity in Egypt using theories from discourse analysis and sociolinguistics. This book offers a study of identity in modern Egyptian public discourse. It helps us to decode and understand the messages put forward by the competing factions in Egyptian politics.

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Book SynopsisThis work covers tales from local people whose journey through life has taken them from their homeland to Britain as well as those who left the Southwest for a life overseas. Testimonies and reconstructions tell of child migrants, war brides and African immigrants amongst others.

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Book SynopsisChapters cover food and society in the sixteenth century, kitchens and cooking, what people drank, food and health (including Tudor ideas on healthy eating), setting the table and table manners, feasting and banquets.

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Book SynopsisNo crime in the twentieth century has so deeply shocked mankind as the Holocaust. And none has so stubbornly resisted every attempt to explain it. More than six million people were murdered, and countless more endured horrific suffering. Guido Knopp''s disturbing account is the most complete history of the Holocaust to date.It reveals the appalling truth using the most recent historical research, including minutes of daily briefings by Joseph Goebbels, private papers of the SS Einsatzgruppen in charge of mass murder, and East German State Security documents detailing the deportation of Jews. The book relives the agony of the victims and investigates the motives of the perpetrators. Survivors talk for the first time about their horrifying torture and their eventual escape from Nazi persecution. The persecutors now at last confront the atrocities they committed.This is not an attempt to rewrite the history of the Holocaust, but a searing account of the greatest crime of the twentieth century - if not of all time - using the latest research on the subject.

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Book SynopsisThere have been more prisons in London than in any other European city. Of these, Newgate was the largest, most notorious and worst. Built during the twelfth century, it became a legendary place - the inspiration of more poems, plays and novels than any other building in London. It was a place of cruelty and wretchedness, at various times holding Dick Turpin, Titus Oates, Daniel Defoe, Jack Sheppard and Casanova. Because prisons were privately run, any time spent in prison had to be paid for by the prisoner. Housing varied from a private cell with a cleaning woman and a visiting prostitute, to simply lying on the floor with no cover. Those who died inside - and only a quarter of prisoners survived until their execution day - had to stay in Newgate as a rotting corpse until relatives found the money for the body to be released. Stephen Halliday tells the story of Newgate''s origins, the criminals it held, the punishments meted out and its rebuilding and refo

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Book SynopsisMan and Horse is a magisterial history of the mounted warrior and the relationship with his steed. Andrew Sinclair takes as his inspiration Walter Prescott Webb's seminal work, The Great Plains. The horse until very recently has been the decisive factor in determining military success. Great exponents of the art of equestrian warfare include, Alexander the Great, Hannibal, King Arthur, Saladin, the Knights of the Templar, the Reivers of the Scottish Borders, the Mongols, North American Indians, the Confederate forces during the American Civil War and the Boers. Sinclair also explores the uses of the horse by highwaymen and figures such as Ned Kelly. Andrew Sinclair brilliantly shows that the art of warfare from horseback with its culture of mobility has always been at conflict with the urban domesticated culture. This tension has created much of the great art and culture of humankind. This is a hugely ambitious and exhilarating book that cannot fail to enth

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