Social and cultural history Books

Book SynopsisRebekka von Mallinckrodt is Professor for Early Modern History at the University of Bremen and a Member of the Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Germany. She has worked in the fields of religious studies, the history of the body, postcolonial and slavery studies. From 2015 to 2021, she is leading the ERC Consolidator Grant Project The Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation and its Slaves. With regard to sports and physical exercise she has published Bewegtes Leben Körpertechniken in der Fruhen Neuzeit/Life on the Move Body Techniques in the Early Modern Period (Harrassowitz, 2008), Sports and Physical Exercise in Early Modern Culture (with Angela Schattner, Routledge, 2016), and numerous articles on the cultural and social history of running, swimming, and diving.Table of ContentsVOLUME 4: A CULTURAL HISTORY OF SPORT IN THE AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT EDITED BY REBEKKA VON MALLINCKRODT, UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN, GERMANY 1. The Purpose of Sport, Mike Huggins 2. Sporting Time and Sporting Space, Rebekka von Mallinckrodt and Angela Schattner 3. Products, Training and Technology, Dave Day 4. Rules and Order, Wolfgang Behringer 5. Conflict and Accommodation, Elisabeth Belmas 6. Inclusion, Exclusion and Segregation, Rebekka von Mallinckrodt 7. Minds, Bodies, and Identities, Laurent Turcot 8. Representation, Alexis Tadié

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Book SynopsisShortlisted by the North American Society for Sport History for its 2022 Anthologies Award From gladiatorial combat to knightly tournaments and from hunting to games and gambling, sport has been central to human culture. A Cultural History of Sport presents the first extensive history from classical antiquity to today, covering all forms and aspects of sport. Chapter titles are identical across each of the volumes. This gives the choice of reading about a specific period in one of the volumes, or following a theme across history by reading the relevant chapter in each of the six. Themes (and chapter titles) are: the purpose of sport; sporting time and sporting space; products, training and technology; rules and order; conflict and accommodation; inclusion, exclusion and segregation; minds, bodies and identities; representation.The six volumes cover: 1 Antiquity (800 BCE to 600 CE); 2 Medieval Age (600 to 1450); 3 Renaissance (1450

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Book SynopsisHow has Hinduism been shaped over time? What are continuities and changes in its cultural history of textual, social, ritual, visual, political, philosophical, and theological perspectives and practices?Spanning over 4,000 years, A Cultural History of Hinduism provides an authoritative survey of one of the world's oldest religious traditions in its social and cultural contexts, from ancient times to the present. With 55 experts from academic disciplines such as history, religion studies, art history, anthropology and philosophy, the work represents inclusive narratives and aims to generate new cultural history questions. Chapter titles are identical across each of the volumes. This gives the choice of reading about a specific period in one of the volumes, or following a theme across history by reading the relevant chapter in each of the six.The six volumes cover: 1 Antiquity (2000 200 BCE); 2 Classical Age (200 BCE 800 CE); 3 Post-Classic

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Book SynopsisJames Davis is Reader in History, Queen's University Belfast, UK.

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Book SynopsisTim Reinke-Williams is Senior Lecturer in History, University of Northampton, UK.

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Book SynopsisIlja Van Damme is Professor in Urban History, University of Antwerp, Belgium.

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Book SynopsisVicki Howard is Visiting Fellow in the Department of History, University of Essex, UK.

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Book SynopsisJonathan Hsy is Associate Professor of English at The George Washington University, USA. His books include Trading Tongues: Merchants, Multilingualism, and Medieval Literature (2013) and he has published widely on disability issues.Tory V. Pearman is Associate Professor of English at Miami University, USA. Her previous books include Women and Disability in Medieval Literature (2010) and Disability and Knighthood in Malory's Morte Darthur (2019).Joshua R. Eyler is Director of Faculty Development and Lecturer in Writing and Rhetoric at the University of Mississippi, USA. His books include How Humans Learn: The Science and Stories behind Effective College Teaching (2018) and Disability in the Middle Ages: Reconsiderations and Reverberations (2010).Table of ContentsList of Illustration Notes of Contributors Series Preface Introduction: Disabilities in Motion, Jonathan Hsy, George Washington University, USA Tory V. Pearman, Miami University, Hamilton, USA and Joshua R. Eyler, Rice University, USA Chapter 1: Atypical Bodies: Seeking after Meaning in Physical Difference, John P. Sexton, Bridgewater State University, USA Chapter 2: Mobility Impairments: The Social Horizons of Disability in the Middle Ages, Richard H. Godden, Louisiana State University, USA Chapter 3: Chronic Pain and Illness: Reinstating Crip-Chronic Histories to Forge Affirmative Disability Futures, Alicia Spencer-Hall, Queen Mary, University of London, UK Chapter 4: Blindness: Evolving Religious and Secular Constructions and Responses, Edward Wheatley, Loyola University Chicago, USA Chapter 5: Deafness: Reading Invisible Signs, Julie Singer, Washington University in St. Louis, USA Chapter 6: Speech: Medieval Representations of Speech Impairments, Kisha G. Tracy, Fitchburg State University, USA Chapter 7: Learning Difficulties: Ideas about Intellectual Diversity in Medieval Thought and Culture, Eliza Buhrer, Colorado School of Mines, USA Chapter 8: Mental Health Issues: Folly, Frenzy, and the Family, Aleksandra Pfau, Hendrix College, USA Author and Editor Biographies References Index

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Book SynopsisD. Christopher Gabbard is Associate Professor of English at the University of North Florida, USA. He is the author of A Life Beyond Reason and serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies.Susannah B. Mintz is Professor of English at Skidmore College, USA. She is author of Unruly Bodies: Life Writing by Women with Disabilities, The Disabled Detective and is co-editor of a critical volume on the essayist Nancy Mairs.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Notes of Contributors Series Preface Introduction, Christopher Gabbard, University of North Florida, USA and Susannah B. Mintz, Skidmore College, USA Ch 1: Atypical Bodies: Anomalous Bodies in the Eighteenth Century, Sara van den Berg, Saint Louis University, USA Ch. 2: Mobility Impairment, David Turner, Swansea University, UK Ch. 3: Chronic Pain: Chronic Pain and Illness in the Long Eighteenth Century, Isabella Lucy Cooper, University of Maryland, USA Ch. 4: Blindness: Conversations with the Blind, or “Aren’t You Surprised I Can Speak?” Kate E. Tunstall, University of Oxford, UK Ch 5: Deafness: Deafness in the Age of Enlightenment, Kristin Lindgren, Haverford College, USA Ch. 6: Speech: Speech and Disability in the Long Eighteenth Century, Dwight Codr, University of Connecticut, USA and Jared Richman, Colorado College, USA Ch. 7: Learning Difficulties: Intellectual disability in the long eighteenth century, C. F. Goodey, University of Leicester, UK and Simon Jarrett, Birkbeck University, UK Ch. 8: Mental Health Issues: Listening for Ghosts: Madpeople in the Eighteenth Century, Allison Hobgood, Willamette University, USA Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisMartha Stoddard Holmes is Professor of Literature and Writing Studies at California State University San Marcos, USA. Joyce L. Huff is Associate Professor of English at Ball State University, USA.Trade ReviewThe contributions this book features will be of immense value to students and scholars who are new to the field. As a whole, the book will also serve as a useful reference work for experienced researchers in the field looking to recap their knowledge or find inspiration for new directions of research. * Literature & History, Ball State University Libraries *Table of ContentsList of Illustration Notes of Contributors Series Preface Introduction: Negotiating Normalcy in the Long Nineteenth Century, Joyce L. Huff, Ball State University, USA and Martha Stoddard Holmes, California State University, USA Chapter 1: Atypical Bodies: The Cultural Work of the Nineteenth-Century Freak Show, Nadja Durbach, University of Utah, USA Chapter 2: Mobility Impairment: From the Bath Chair to the Wheelchair, Karen Bourrier, University of Calgary, Canada Chapter 3: Chronic Pain and Illness: “The Wounded Soldiery of Mankind,” Maria Frawley, George Washington University, USA Chapter 4: Blindness: Creating and Consuming a Non-Visual Culture, Vanessa Warne, University of Manitoba, Canada Chapter 5: Deafness: Representation, Sign Language, and Community, c. 1800-1920, Esme Cleall, University of Sheffield, UK Chapter 6: Speech: Dysfluent Temporalities in the Long Nineteenth Century, Daniel Martin, MacEwan University, Canada Chapter 7: Learning Difficulties: The Transformation of “Idiocy” in the Nineteenth Century, Patrick McDonagh, Concordia University, Canada Chapter 8: Mental Health Issues: Alienists, Asylums, and the Mad, Elizabeth J. Donaldson, New York Institute of Technology, USA Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisDavid T. Mitchell is Professor of English at George Washington University, USA.Sharon L. Snyder is an independent researcher.Mitchell and Snyder are editors of the Encyclopaedia of Disability, Volume Five: A History of Disability in Primary Sources (2005) and, most recently, The Matter of Disability [with Susan Antebi] (2019). Together they are also co-authors of influential books in Disability Studies including Narrative Prosthesis (2000), Cultural Locations of Disability (2006), and The Biopolitics of Disability (2015).Table of ContentsList of Illustration Notes of Contributors Series Preface Introduction: What We Talk About When We Talk About Disability – David T. Mitchell & Sharon L. Snyder, George Washington University, USA Ch 1: Atypical Bodies – Bee Scherer, Canterbury Christ Church University, UK Ch 2: Mobility Impairment – Fiona Kumari Campbell, University of Dundee, UK Ch 3: Chronic Pain - Theodora Danylevich. George Washington University, USA Ch 4: Blindness - Tanya Titchkosky & Rod Michalko, University of Toronto, Canada Ch 5: Deafness - Sam Yates, George Washington University, USA Ch 6: Speech - Zephyrous Zahari, George Washington University, USA Ch 7: Learning difficulties – Owen Barden, Hope Liverpool University, UK Ch 8: Mental Health Issues - Anne McGuire, University of Toronto, Canada Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisHow has human response to genocide evolved over time? What effect has it had on our understanding of the cause and consequences of genocide? Spanning 2,800 years of human history, A Cultural History of Genocide offers the first comprehensive, interdisciplinary overview of genocide from ancient times to the present day. With six highly illustrated volumes all written by leading scholars, this is the definitive reference work on the subject of genocide. Individual volume editors ensure the cohesion of the whole, and to make it as easy as possible to use, chapter titles are identical across each of the volumes. This gives the choice of reading about a specific period in one of the volumes, or following a theme across history by reading the relevant chapter in each of the six. The six volumes cover: 1. - Ancient World (800 BCE - 800 CE); 2. - Middle Ages (800 - 1400); 3. - Early Modern World (1400 - 1789); 4. - Long Nineteenth Century (1789 - 1914); 5. - Era of To

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Book SynopsisA Cultural History of Education is the first comprehensive and interdisciplinary overview of the cultural history of education from ancient times to the present day. With six illustrated volumes covering 2800 years of human history, this is the definitive reference work on the subject, comprising:1. A Cultural History of Education in Antiquity (500 BC - 500 AD)2. A Cultural History of Education in the Medieval Age (500 - 1450)3. A Cultural History of Education in the Renaissance (1450 - 1650)4. A Cultural History of Education in the Age of Enlightenment (1650 - 1800)5. A Cultural History of Education in the Age of Empire (1800 - 1920)6. A Cultural History of Education in the Modern Age (1920 - present)Each volume adopts the same thematic structure, covering: church, religion and morality; knowledge, media and communications; children and childhood; family, community and sociability; learners and learning; teachers and teaching; literacies; life-histories. This enables readers to

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Book SynopsisLouise Wallenberg is Associate Professor of Fashion Studies and holds a PhD in Cinema Studies. She was the establishing Director of the Centre for Fashion Studies, 2006-2013.Andrea Kollnitz is is Associate Professor of Art History and Senior Lecturer at the Centre for Fashion Studies at Stockholm University.Trade ReviewOverall, this is an enjoyable book … [W]ill be of interest to general scholars of the modernist period as well as those with a specific interest in dress and fashion history. * The Journal of Dress History *Table of ContentsList of Figures Notes on Contributors Acknowledgments Introduction by Louise Wallenberg and Andrea Kollnitz PART I: ‘Fashion, Change, Modernism’ 1.Sven-Olov Wallenstein, ‘Tarde, Simmel and the Logic of Fashion’ 2.Patrizia Calefato, ‘Italian Futurismo and Fashion’ 3.Ulrich Lehmann, ‘Modernism v. Feminism: George Sand, Paul Gavarni and Trousers for Women’ 4.Louise Wallenberg, ‘Ménilmontant: Time, Space and Urbanity’ 5.Olga Vainshtein, ‘Designing the Future: Constructivist Laboratory of Fashion’ PART II: ‘Creators and Creations’ 6.Caroline Evans, ‘Paris-New York 1925: Jean Patou’s Advertising’ 7.Alessandra Vaccari, ‘The Slit Skirt: Fashion and Empathy in the Tango Era’ 8.Andrea Kollnitz, ‘Look at Me! Fashion as Expression and Strategy in Isaac Grünewald’s and Sigrid Hjertén’s Painting and Self–Staging’ 9.Astrid Söderbergh Widding, ‘Mago’s Modernism: Fashion and the Modern from Smiling Summer Night to Hour of the Wolf’ Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisA Cultural History of Leisure presents historians, and scholars and students of related fields, with the first comprehensive and interdisciplinary overview of the cultural history of leisure from ancient times to modernity. With six highly illustrated volumes covering 2,500 years, this is the definitive reference work on the subject, comprising:Volume 1: A Cultural History of Leisure in Antiquity (500BC-500AD)Volume 2: A Cultural History of Leisure in the Medieval Age (500-1450)Volume 3: A Cultural History of Leisure in the Renaissance (1450-1650)Volume 4: A Cultural History of Leisure in the Age of Enlightenment (1650-1800)Volume 5: A Cultural History of Leisure in the Age of Empire (1800-1920)Volume 6: A Cultural History of Leisure in the Modern Age (1920-2000+)Each volume adopts the same thematic structure, covering: the idea of leisure; the performing arts and their audiences; the cerebral arts and their publics; sports and games

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Book SynopsisDenise Eileen McCoskey is a Professor of Classics and Affiliate in Black World Studies at Miami University (Ohio), USA. She is the author of Race: Antiquity and Its Legacy (2012), and has published widely on the meanings of race in classical antiquity, as well as the way ancient racial identities have been misrepresented in more modern eras. She is currently at work on a project examining the role of eugenics in early twentieth-century American classical scholarship.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations General Editor’s Preface, Marius Turda Introduction, Denise Eileen McCoskey 1. Definitions and Representations of Race, Sarah Debrew 2. Race, Environment, Culture, Joseph Skinner 3. Race and Religion, Denise Kimber Buell 4. Race and Science, David Kaufman 5. Race and Politics, Grant Parker 6. Race and Ethnicity, Naoise Mac Sweeney 7. Race and Gender, Shelley P. Haley 8. Race and Sexuality, Jackie Murray 9. Anti-Race, Dan-el Padilla Peralta Notes Bibliography Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisThomas Hahn teaches in the English Department at the University of Rochester, USA. In addition to more than 50 scholarly publications, he has edited Sir Gawain: Eleven Romances and Tales (1995), as well as a number of academic collections: these include Reconceiving Chaucer: Literary Theory and Historical Interpretation (1990); Retelling Stories: Structure, Context, and Innovation in Traditional Narratives (1997); Robin Hood in Popular Culture: Violence, Transgression, and Justice (2000); and Race and Ethnicity in the Middle Ages (2001).Table of ContentsList of Illustrations General Editor’s Preface, Marius Turda Introduction, Cord Whitaker 1. Definitions and Representations of Race, Christine Chism 2. Race, Environment, Culture, Suzanne Conklin Akbari 3. Race and Religion, David Nirenberg 4. Race and Science, Maaike van der Lugt 5. Race and Politics, Geraldine Heng 6. Race and Ethnicity, Thomas Hahn 7. Race and Gender, Sarah Salih 8. Race and Sexuality, Steven F. Kruger 9. Anti-Race, William Chester Jordan and Helmut Reimitz Notes Bibliography Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisKimberly Anne Coles is Associate Professor of English at the University of Maryland, USA. She is the author of Religion, Reform, and Women's Writing in Early Modern England (2008), and Bad Humor: Race and Religious Essentialism in Early Modern England (2022). She has co-edited several collections on the topics of race and gender. She also serves on the Editorial Board of Renaissance Quarterly.Dorothy Kim teaches Medieval Literature at Brandeis University, USA. Her research focuses on critical race, gender and sexuality, digital humanities, medieval women's literary cultures, medievalism, Jewish/Christian difference, book history, digital media, and the alt-right. She is the associate editor for the Journal of Early Middle English and the co-editor for the medieval to early modern section of Literature Compass.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations List of Tables General Editor’s Preface, Marius Turda Introduction, Kimberly Ann Coles and Dorothy Kim 1. Definitions and Representations of Race, Geraldine Heng 2. Race, Environment, Culture, Adam Miyashiro 3. Race and Religion, Dorothy Kim 4. Race and Science, Rebecca Redfern and Joseph T. Hefner 5. Race and Politics, Matthew Vernon 6. Race and Ethnicity, Kathy Lavezzo 7. Race and Gender, Dorothy Kim and Michelle M. Sauer 8. Race and Sexuality, M. W. Bychowski and Robert Sturges 9. Anti-Race, Asa Simon Mittman Notes Bibliography Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisNicholas Hudson is Professor of English at the University of British Columbia, Canada. He is the author of Samuel Johnson and Eighteenth-Century Thought (1988), Writing and European Thought (1994), Samuel Johnson and the Making of Modern England (2001) and A Political Life of Samuel Johnson (2013). In the area of Race Studies, he has published From Nation to Race: The Origin of Racial Classification in Eighteenth-Century Thought' (1996), Hottentots and the Evolution of European Racism' (2004) and The Hottentots Venus' and the Changing Aesthetics of Race, 1600 1850' (2008).Table of ContentsList of Illustrations General Editor’s Preface, Marius Turda Introduction, Nicholas Hudson 1. Definitions and Representations of Race, Dennis Austin Britton 2. Race, Environment, Culture, Jean E. Feerick 3. Race and Religion, Robert Bernasconi 4. Race and Science, Suman Seth 5. Race and Politics, Matthew Bennett 6. Race and Ethnicity, Noémie Ndiaye 7. Race and Gender, Carl Plasa 8. Race and Sexuality, Nicholas Hudson 9. Anti-Race, Roxann Wheeler Notes Bibliography Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisMarina B. Mogilner holds the Edward and Marianna Thaden Chair in Russian and East European Intellectual History at the University of Illinois at Chicago, USA. She is a founding editor of Ab Imperio Quarterly and the author of Homo Imperii: A History of Physical Anthropology in Russia (2013). Her recently finished new book, A Race for the Future: Scientific Visions of Modern Russian Jewishness (1860s1930s), considers strategies and meanings of Jewish self-racialization in the Russian Empire and early Soviet Union.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations General Editor’s Preface, Marius Turda Introduction, Marina B. Mogilner 1. Definitions and Representations of Race, Roland Cvetkovski 2. Race, Environment, Culture, Emily Kern 3. Race and Religion, Marwa Elshakry 4. Race and Science, Projit Bihari Mukharji 5. Race and Politics, Sergey Glebov 6. Race and Ethnicity, Richard McMahon 7. Race and Gender, Maria Sophia Quine 8. Race and Sexuality, Myrna Perez Sheldon 9. Anti-Race, Lynn M. Hudson Notes Bibliography Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisHow have definitions of race varied and changed over time? What impact have religion, science and politics had on race throughout history, and how has our concept of it been changed as a result? These ambitious questions are answered by 61 experts who - drawing on perspectives from history, sociology, anthropology, literature and medical humanities - deepen our understanding of how race has developed conceptually and in reality between antiquity and the present day. Individual volume editors ensure the cohesion of the whole, and to make it as easy as possible to use, chapter titles are identical across each of the volumes. This gives the choice of reading about a specific period in one of the volumes, or following a theme across history by reading the relevant chapter in each of the six.The six volumes cover: 1. Antiquity (500 BCE - 800 CE); 2. Middle Ages (800 - 1350); 3. Renaissance and Early Modern Age (1350 - 1550) ; 4. Reformation and Enlightenment (1550 - 1760)

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Book SynopsisDebbie Felton is Professor of Classics at the University of Massachussetts, Amherst, USATable of ContentsList of Illustrations List of Tables Series Preface List of Abbreviations Introduction: Ancient Analogues for Modern Tales Debbie Felton 1. Forms of the Marvelous: Prodigies and Wonders in Antiquity Graham Anderson 2. Adaptations: Transmission, Translation, and Diffusion of Ancient Tales Emanuele Lelli 3. Gender and Sexuality: Reading Females, Males, and Other in Asian Folktales Serinity Young 4. Human and Non-Human: The Animal in Greek and Roman Fable Kenneth Kitchell 5. Monsters and the Monstrous: Ancient Expressions of Cultural Anxiety Debbie Felton 6. Spaces: Borders, Fringes, and Thresholds in the Ancient Folktale Julia Doroszewska and Janek Kucharski 7. Socialization: Fairy Tales as Vehicles of Moral Messages Dominic Ingemark and Camilla Asplund Ingemark 8. Power: Uses and Abuses of Authority in Ancient Tales Debbie Felton Notes Bibliography Notes on Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisSusan Aronstein is Professor of English at the University of Wyoming, USA.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Series Preface Introduction: Once Upon A Time in the Middle Ages Susan Aronstein 1. Forms of the Marvelous: Fairy Stories, or Stories about Fairies? Richard Firth Green 2. Adaptations: Like a Fairy Tale Shyama Rajendran 3. Gender and Sexuality: The Beauties and Beasts of Medieval Romance Lynn Shutters 4. Human and Non-Human: Writing the Fairy, Reading Melusine Sarah L. Higley 5. Monsters and the Monstrous: Tracking Medieval Monsters into Fairy-Tale Worlds Christine M. Neufeld 6. Spaces: Place, Non-Place, and Identity in the Medieval Fairy World Helen Fulton 7. Socialization: Renegotiation and Reconciliation Usha Vishnuvajjala 8. Power: Patronage, Subversion, Seduction, and Challenge Melissa Ridley Elmes Notes Bibliography Notes on Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Series Preface Introduction: The Emergence of the Classic Fairy-Tale Tradition Anne E. Duggan, Wayne State University, USA Chapter 1: The Age of the merveilleux: Forms of Marvelous in the Eighteenth Century Tatiana Korneeva, University of Venice and Freie Universität Berlin Chapter 2: Fairy-Tale Adaptations in the Long Eighteenth Century Charlotte Trinquet du Lys, University of Central Florida, USA Chapter 3: Gender and Sexuality Aileen Douglas, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Chapter 4: The Human and the Non-Human in Fairy Tales, 1650-1800 Lewis C. Seifert, Brown University, USA Chapter 5: Monsters and the Monstrous: Of Ogre Pyramids, Ruby-Eyed Dragons, and Gnomes with Crooked Spines Kathryn A. Hoffmann, University of Hawai‘I, USA Chapter 6:Space and Narrative Strategies in Eighteenth-Century Tales in East and West Richard van Leeuwen, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands Chapter 7: Slight Channels: Socialization in Tales of Wonder Rania Huntington, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA Chaper 8: Political and Social Power in Fairy and Oriental Tales Anne E. Duggan, Wayne State University, USA Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisNaomi J. Wood is Professor of English and Director of Undergraduate Studies at Kansas State University, USA.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Series Preface Introduction: Fairy Tales and the Long Nineteenth Century Naomi Wood 1. Forms of the Marvelous Laurence Talairach 2. Adaptation Jan Susina 3. Gender and Sexuality Amy Billone 4. Humans and Non-Humans: Uncanny Encounters in the Grimms’ Tales Nicole Thesz 5. Monsters and the Monstrous Zeynep Cakmak and Sarah Marsh 6. Spaces: Physical, Liminal, and Other John Pennington 7. Socialization: Civilizing Child’s Play Michelle Beissel Heath 8. Power Molly Clark Hillard Notes References Notes on Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Series Preface Introduction: Fairy Tale in the Modern Age Andrew Teverson 1. Forms of the Marvelous Sara Cleto and Brittany Warman 2. Adaptation Mayako Murai 3. Gender and Sexuality Jeana Jorgensen 4. Humans and Non-humans: Nature, Anima, Matter Amy Greenhough 5. Monsters and the Monstrous Christa Jones and Claudia Schwabe 6. Spaces: The Magically Real Spaces of Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Fairy Tale Sara Upstone 7. Socialization: Traditional Wonder Tales and Other Guides for Growing Up Jill Terry Rudy 8. Power: The Archaeology of a Genre Kimberly J. Lau Notes Bibliography Notes on Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisWhat has driven humanity to expand across the globe? How was it achieved? And what has it meant to be on the receiving end - not the explorer but the explored?In a work that spans more than 5,000 years, these questions are addressed by 40 experts, each contributing their overview of a theme applied to a period in history. Aided by a wide range of case material, they illustrate the meaning of exploration in a global context from antiquity to the present day. Individual volume editors ensure of the cohesion of the whole and, to make it as easy as possible to use, chapter titles are identical across each of the volumes. This gives the choice of reading about a specific period in a single volume, or following a theme across history by reading the relevant chapter in each of the six.The six volumes cover: 1. Antiquity; 2. The Middle Ages; 3. The Early Modern Age; 4. The Age of Expansion and Enlightenment; 5. The Industrial Age; 6. The Modern Age.Themes

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Book SynopsisDrawing heavily from the State Papers of the King, Henry VIII and the Merchants traces Stephen Vaughan's careers as a servant of Thomas Cromwell and of Henry VIII in the 16th century. Stephen Vaughan, a Londoner with an international outlook, was a member of the Company of Merchant Taylors, as well as a Merchant Adventurer in the Low Countries. As a young man Vaughan was drawn into the employ of Thomas Cromwell and worked in his private office. Thus, Vaughan became heavily involved in the world of government and court politics at a time when the style, tempo and effectiveness of official life in London was changing rapidly and the world was quickly opening up as his travels to Europe drew him into the enticing world of business and finance. For the first time, this notable study uncovers the secrets of Vaughan's life from his relatively humble beginning to his high power career as an ambassador, spy, and financial agent of the crown on the Bourse at Antwerp. What is more, on a wTable of ContentsFrontispiece List of Illustrations List of Maps List of Tables Preface Introduction 1. London in 1500 2. Antwerp at the Beginning of the Golden Age 3. A New Century, New Rulers, and New Ways on the Money Market 4. Stephen Vaughan: His Family and Youth 5. Vaughan as a Diplomat 6. War with France 7. The Final Years in Antwerp 8. Stephen's Legacy Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisJeffrey S. Hardy is Associate Professor of History at Brigham Young University, USA. He is the author of The Gulag after Stalin: Redefining Punishment in Khrushchev's Soviet Union, 1953-1964 (2016).Trade ReviewThis concise history of the Gulag is the latest in Bloomsbury’s excellent Russian Shorts series … Hardy's book is unique in that it examines the contested memory of the Gulag in the post-Soviet period, in particular the role played by politicians, NGOs and survivors, and he questions how state-sponsored monuments and museums commemorating Gulag victims can coexist alongside political repression in Russia today. * Pushkin House Bookshop Newsletter *Table of ContentsList of Figures Preface Introduction 1 Revolutionary Dreams and Early Soviet Confinement 2 Building the Gulag 3 Everyday Life in Stalin’s Camps 4 World War II and the Zenith of the Gulag System 5 The Gulag After Stalin 6 Remembering the Gulag and its Victims Notes Select Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIs trauma a transhistorical, transnational phenomenon? Gender and Trauma challenges the standard history that has led to our contemporary understanding of psychological trauma to answer this question, and to explore the impact of gender in the experience and understanding of emotional distress. Bringing together eleven case studies from all over the world, it draws on methods from history, gender and communication studies to consider how trauma has been understood over the 20th and 21st centuries. Encompassing histories from Australia, Britain, Indonesia, Italy, the Soviet Union, Timor Leste, the United States and Vietnam, these examples demonstrate how gender and trauma are inextricably linked, and how the term trauma' has evolved over time. With chapters on war, political repression, displacement, rape and childbirth, the cases showcased in this volume highlight two pivotal transformations across the 20th century. First, the transformation of the trauma sufferer from perpetratTrade ReviewThis book transforms our understanding of the history of psychological trauma. By placing gender at the centre of its inquiry, this powerful study probes the traumatic dimensions of war, survival, displacement, sexual violence, childbirth, and mental illness. Tracking the gender lines of trauma and its socio-cultural history, the essays in this volume offer some of the most innovative considerations of emotional and mental distress, traumatic memory and the long term, devastating, impacts of war and sexual violence. In doing so, these scholars collectively disrupt the dominant and linear master narrative, which has considered trauma as a masculine journey travelled through war, from the shell shock of World War I through the neurosis of World War II, to the discovery of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder post the Vietnam War. In this book, trauma is neither linear, gender normative, nor geographically contingent, rather it is a complex fluid phenomenon with collective and personal dimensions that intersect with gender, power, place and time * Lindsey Earner-Byrne, Chair in Irish Gender History at University College Cork, Ireland *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements 1. Gender and Trauma since 1900. Paula A. Michaels and Christina Twomey, 2. Trauma in Post-WWI Italy: Experiences, Erasures, and Denials. Martina Salvante 3. Trauma, child refugees, and humanitarians in the Spanish Civil War and World War II: A Case Study of Esme Odgers. Joy Damousi 4. Servitude, Displacement, and Trauma: Jewish Refugee Domestics in Great Britain 1938-45. Jennifer Craig-Norton 5. ‘Combat Exhaustion’ vs. ‘Psychoneurosis’: American Psychiatrists and the Terminology of War Trauma during World War II. Rebecca Jo Plant 6. POWs into Citizens: Repatriation, Gender and the Civilian Resettlement Units in Great Britain. Elizabeth Roberts-Pedersen 7. Soviet Maternity Care and Competing Narratives of Trauma. Paula A. Michaels 8. Trauma and sexual violence: narratives and cases in late-twentieth century Australia. Lisa Featherstone 9. Psychological, Embodied and Gendered Trauma in Militarized Kampala (Uganda). Benjamin Twagira 10. ‘The Missing Ones’: Vietnamese Diasporic Memory and Women’s Narratives of Loss. Nathalie Huynh Chau Nguyen 11. Refiguring ‘Trauma’: Women’s Narratives of Suffering in Post-Conflict Timor-Leste. Hannah Loney 12. Changing the Story: women and trauma in Australian narratives of mental illness. Katie Holmes Consolidated Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisOffering an introduction to the world's seas as a platform for global exchange and connection, Michael North offers an impressive world history of the seas over more than 3,000 years. Exploring the challenges and dangers of the oceans that humans have struggled with for centuries, he also shows the possibilities and opportunities they have provided from antiquity to the modern day. Written to demonstrate the global connectivity of the seas, but also to highlight regional maritime power during different eras, A World History of the Seas takes sailors, merchants and migrants as the protagonists of these histories and explores how their experiences and perceptions of the seas were consolidated through trade and cultural exchange. Bringing together the various maritime historiographies of the world and underlining their unity, this book shows how the ocean has been a vital and natural space of globalization. Carrying goods, creating alliances, linking continents and conveying culturTrade ReviewAccessible, refreshing and bold. Michael North confidently guides his readers through stormy seas and past breezy islands to discover the rich history of fisheries, exploration, migration and trade. The book offers a sweeping narrative that places the world seas at the forefront of human endeavour and cultural mediation. * Peter Borschberg, Dept. of History, National University of Singapore & Distinguished Visiting Scholar, Dept. of History, National Cheng Kung University, Singapore and Taiwan *In this work, Michael North has reminded us that before navigating the world’s vast oceans, there was a correspondingly prominent exploration of the seas. These smaller watery expanses served as a vital historical springboard guiding us into the “Age of Sail.” Through his astute organization, North has delivered an important book that is equally informative as it is accessible to those outside of this field. * Rainer F. Buschmann, Professor of History, California State University Channel Islands, USA *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. The Sea in Antiquity 2. North Sea, Baltic Sea and Black Sea: The Vikings 3. Red Sea, Arabian Sea, South China Sea: The Maritime Silk Road 4. Mediterranean: The rise of the Maritime Republics 5. Metropoles on the North and Baltic Seas 6. Indian Ocean: Europe meets Asia 7. Atlantic: Expanding horizons and exchanges 8. Pacific: Exploration and Encounter 9. Global Seas: From Sail to Steam and the Communication Revolution 10. Dangerous Seas: Exploitation, Pollution and the Refugee Crisis Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe Battle of Marathon changed the course of history in ancient Greece. To many, the impossible seemed to have been achieved - the mighty Persian Empire halted in its advance. What happened that day, why was the battle fought, and how did people make sense of it? This bold new history of the battle examines how the conflict unfolded and the ideas attached to it in antiquity and beyond. Many thought the battle offered lessons in how people should behave, with heroism to be emulated and faults to be avoided. While the battle itself was fought in one day, the battle for the idea of Marathon has lasted ever since. After immersing you in the battle, this work will help you to explore how the ancient Athenians used the battle in their relations between themselves and others, and how the battle continued to be used to express ideas about gods, empire, and morality in the age of Alexander and his successors, at Rome and in Greece under the Roman Empire, and in the ages after antiquity, even inTrade ReviewClearly and engagingly written ... The great strength of this book is not just in its recreation of the narrative of the battle or excellent discussion of the historiographic problems surrounding it ... but also in its exploration of cultural history. Another particularly strong feature is that the book accords the Persians an integral place in the story and gives Persian cultural receptions of the battle their due ... This is a very good, stimulating book. * The Classical Review *A well thought out and organised treatment, clearly and economically written ... this is a good and worthwhile book. * Classics for All *Nevin’s book is an important contribution to the study of ancient Greek warfare. * The Journal of Hellenic Studies *Sonya Nevin’s sensible examination of the Battle of Marathon is a carefully crafted study of myth-busting importance. As she weaves together the story, she manages to give the Persians their rightful place in the battle without losing sight of the brilliance of the Greek effort. Balanced studies of this kind are much needed. -- Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones, Professor and Chair of Ancient History, Cardiff University, UKAn exciting inclusion on a university reading list, but also has an immediacy and accessibility which would appeal to the informed general reader. * Journal of Classics Teaching *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Athenians at a Turning Point 2. The Greek World 3. Persia 4. Revolt in Ionia 5. The Plain of Marathon 6. The Fight 7. Surviving Marathon 8. Events after Marathon 9. Memories of Marathon in Fifth-Century Art and Literature 10. Marathon beyond the Fifth-Century 11. Marathon under Rome 12. Marathon after Antiquity Afterword Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe first decades of the new century shake old certainties. In a whirlwind of profound changes, do we have more history or less? Does history overwhelm us in all domains of life or is historical understanding in yet another crisis? The answers do not come easily. The recent demise of humanities education, the technological alterations of our social lifeworlds and the human condition, the anthropogenic changes in the Earth system, the growing sense of memory, trauma and historical injustice as alternative approaches to the past, seem to entail contradictions and complexities that do not fit very well with our existing notions of historical understanding. Historical thought as we know it is facing manifold challenges, and we struggle to grasp a larger picture that could encompass them.Boasting a range of contributions from leading scholars, this volume attempts just that. In an innovative collection of short essays, Historical Understanding explores the current shape of hisTrade ReviewWith its rich collection of diverse and distinctive voices - each attuned to some aspect or other of contemporary global and planetary problems that tend to undo settled ideas about the historian's endeavor - this important volume bears critical witness to the challenges that presently confront the very conception of 'historical understanding.' The book does not propose any grand solutions but no discussion of where history is at today can afford to proceed in ignorance of this book. A key collection for our times. * Dipesh Chakrabarty, Lawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor of History, South Asian Languages and Civilizations, and the College, University of Chicago, USA *If you think history is an outmoded discipline, read this book. Presentism, trauma, and environmental crises may have buried many twentieth-century approaches to the past, but they have also given birth to a plurality of new practices. This volume displays the richness of history now. * Julia Adeney Thomas, Associate Professor of History, University of Notre Dame, USA *The notion of historical understanding provides a perfect framework for uniting diverse contemporary perspectives and capturing the bewildering and exciting historical moment we find ourselves in. This volume embraces and amplifies this brilliantly, mainly by bringing together an impressive array of top-notch historians and their theorists, who probe many crucial popular as well as professional problems and possibilities of our historically-minded world. Sometimes radical, sometimes hopeful, always interesting, this volume is a superb introduction to how we think about the past and future today. * David Gary Shaw, Professor of History, Wesleyan University, USA *Table of ContentsIntroduction, Historical Understanding Today, Zoltán Boldizsár Simon, (Bielefeld University, Germany) Part I: The Historical Present Historicities 1. The Texture of the Present, François Hartog (EHESS, France) 2. Framing the Polychronic Present, Victoria Fareld (Stockholm University, Sweden) 3. Caught between Past and Future: On the Uses of Temporality for Political Exclusion, Moira Pérez (University of Buenos Aires, Argentina) 4. In Sync/Out of Sync, Helge Jordheim, (University of Oslo, Norway) 5. Favoring an Offensive Presentism, Lars Deile, (Bielefeld University, Germany) Histories 6. Infinite History, Marnie Hughes-Warrington, (Australian National University, Australia) 7. History of the Present: Or, Two Approaches to Causality and Contingency, Stefanos Geroulanos, (New York University, USA) 8. Theses on Theory and History WILD ON COLLECTIVE, Ethan Kleinberg, (Wesleyan University, USA) Joan Wallach Scott, (Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, USA), Gary Wilder, (CUNY, USA) 9. Can Historians Be Replaced by Algorithms?, Jo Guldi, (Southern Methodist University, USA) Part II. History and the Future Historicities 10. Planetary Futures, Planetary History, Zoltán Boldizsár Simon, (Bielefeld University, Germany) 11. Future-Oriented History, Marek Tamm, (Tallinn University, Estonia) 12. What Future for the Future? Utopian Lessons from a Global Pandemic, Patrícia Vieira (University of Coimbra, Portugal) Histories 13. The Future as a Domain of Historical Inquiry, David Staley, (Ohio State University, USA) 14. Periodization of the Future, Cornelius Holtorf, (Linnaeus University, Sweden) 15. History and Technology Futures: Where History and Technology Assessment Come Together, Silke Zimmer-Merkle, (Institute for Technology Karlsruhe, Germany) 16. Tomorrow is the Question: Modernity and the Need for Strong Narratives about the Future – and the Past, Franz-Josef Arlinghaus, (Bielefeld University, Germany) Part III: Relations to the Past Historicities 17. Probing the Limits of a Metaphor: On the Stratigraphic Model in History and Geology, Chris Lorenz, (Ruhr University Bochum, Germany) 18. Against the Historicist Tradition of Historical Understanding, Jörg van Norden, (Bielefeld University, Germany) 19. Historical Understanding and Reconciliation after Violent Conflict, Berber Bevernage, (Ghent University, Belgium), Kate E. Temoney (Montclair State University, USA) 20. The Cross-Cultural Appeal of the ‘Mirror’ Metaphor—History as Practical Past, Q. Edward Wang (Rowan University, USA) Histories 21. Mouse-Eaten Records, Erica Fudge (University of Strathclyde, UK) 22. Lines of Sight: The Historical Certitude of Digital Reenactment, Vanessa Agnew, (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany) 23. The DNA Archive, Jermoe de Groot (University of Manchester, UK) 24. Doing History and the Pre-Conceptual, Suman Gupta (The Open University, UK) Conclusion, Historical Understanding Today: Incidental Remarks, Lars Deilie (Bielefeld University, Germany)

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Book SynopsisIn this book, editors Mario Slugan and Daniël Biltereyst present a theoretical reconceptualization of early cinema. To do so, they highlight the latest methods and tools for analysis, and cast new light on the experience of early cinema through the application of these concepts and methods.The international host of contributors evaluate examples of early cinema across the globe, including The May Irwin Kiss (1896), Un homme de têtes (1900), The Terrible Turkish Executioner (1904) and Tom Tom the Piper's Son (1905). In doing so, they address the periodization of the era, emphasizing the recent boon in the availability of primary materials, the rise of digital technologies, the developments in new cinema history, and the persistence of some conceptualizations as key incentives for rethinking early cinema in theoretical and methodological terms. They go on to highlight cutting-edge approaches to the study of early cinema, including the use of the MediathreadTrade ReviewThis outstanding collection, expertly curated by the editors, interrogates the current state of early cinema study by re-examining how we have come to understand this complex phenomenon and suggesting what more there is to learn. Adopting distinct approaches, uncovering novel sources, and providing exciting scholarly discoveries, New Perspectives on Early Cinema History more than fulfills the promise of its title. -- Charlie Keil, University of Toronto, CanadaFifty years ago, studying the first decades of film claimed a special place in the wider history of cinema. Since then, it has become one of the liveliest and most productive areas for theorising not only old but increasingly also new media, as this welcome collection of new studies demonstrates. -- Ian Christie, Birkbeck College, University of London, UKTable of ContentsList of figures List of contributors Acknowledgements Introduction: New perspectives on early cinema - Mario Slugan and Daniël Biltereyst PART ONE: CONCEPTS AND THEORIES 1. Animated pictures according to Georges Méliès: A sober and unpretentious remediation, or when Méliès took a stand against … the cinema! - André Gaudreault 2. Attraction/narration/illustration: A third paradigm for early cinema - Valentine Robert 3. ‘The very act itself, even to the smack’: Early cinema, presence and experience - Gert Jan Harkema 4. Lost love on a hot summer day: The absorptive experience of the first film show in Denmark - Casper Tybjerg PART TWO: APPROACHES, METHODS AND SOURCES 5. Revisiting the fiction/non-fiction distinction: Early cinema and the philosophy of imagination - Mario Slugan 6. Using Mediathread for gesture analysis in the cinema of attractions - Danae Kleida 7. Librettos as source material for film history: The case of early Russian cinema - Anna Kovalova PART THREE AUDIENCES AND EXPERIENCES 8. Narrative cinema as a separate attraction: Archie L. Shepard’s newspaper publicity - Paul S. Moore 9. Mapping Black moviegoing in Harlem, New York City, 1909–14 - Agata Frymus 10. Attraction, narration, performance: A historical-pragmatic perspective on early cinema - Frank Kessler and Sabine Lenk 11. The other panicking audience: A New Cinema History approach to early cinemagoing, cinema fires, disasters and panics - Daniël Biltereyst Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Abbreviations and Conventions List of Illustrations Introduction: Cabbage Soup and Oysters Chapter 1: Steppe and Field Chapter 2: Meadow and Dairy Chapter 3: Pond and River Chapter 4: Forest and Moor Chapter 5: Garden and Orchard Chapter 6: Hive and Refinery Afterword Further Reading Index

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Book SynopsisFrom whiskey in the American Revolution to Spam in WWII, food reveals a great deal about the society in which it exists. Selecting 15 foods that represent key moments in the history of the United States, this book takes readers from before European colonization to the present, narrating major turning points along the way, with food as a guide. US History in 15 Foods takes everyday items like wheat bread, peanuts, and chicken nuggets, and shows the part they played in the making of America. What did the British colonists think about the corn they observed Indigenous people growing? How are oranges connected to Roosevelt''s New Deal? And what can green bean casserole tell us about gender roles in the mid-20th century? Weaving food into colonialism, globalization, racism, economic depression, environmental change and more, Anna Zeide shows how America has evolved through the food it eats.Trade ReviewZeide takes readers on a fascinating tour of American foodways, from the pre-contact era to the present. As she tells the story of fifteen iconic foods and dishes, she traces the key political, social, and economic trends that defined the nation. Food history, this book persuasively shows, is U.S. history. -- Julia Irwin, University of South Florida, USAAnna Zeide has made a convincing case that these fifteen foods can indeed be used to tell the complicated story of a nation. With lively prose and compelling examples, she has written a book with the potential to transform the way readers appreciate the significance of everyday ingredients. -- Jennifer Wallach, University of North Texas, USA[US History in 15 Foods] is well written and enjoyable to read. ... Zeide brings out the exploitative and destructive nature of the modern food system, shedding light on the negative impacts on people and the environment. * H-Net Reviews *Table of Contents1. Pemmican: Food in the Not-So-New World 2. Corn: Colonization and Settlement, 1500-1750 3. Whiskey: Eating and Drinking in a New Nation, 1750-1800 4. Graham Bread: Early Nineteenth-Century Diet and Reform 5. Potlikker: Food and Slavery in the Antebellum South 6. Peanuts: The Civil War, Reconstruction, and After 7. Jell-O: Industrialization in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 8. Spaghetti: Immigration and Consumerism in the 1910s and 1920s 9. Oranges: Food and Agriculture in the Great Depression 10. Spam: Eating in the Second World War 11. Green Bean Casserole: Postwar Foodways 12. Tofu: Food in the Counterculture and Protest Era, 1950-75 13. Chicken Nuggets: Cheap Food and Politics in the 1970 and 1980s 14. Big Mac: McDonaldization and Its Discontents, 1990-2008 15. Korean Tacos: Immigration, Social Media, and America Today Epilogue Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis book reproduces the original 1937 founding pamphlet of Mass-Observation the compelling social research project that ran for decades in the mid-20th century with expert commentary throughout. It also features brand new supporting essays by and informative interviews with prominent scholars of Mass-Observation which reflect on the organisation, its origins and its influence on multiple academic disciplines, including history, sociology and anthropology. An introductory essay by the editor synthesizes the arguments of this material, as well as contributing vital historical context and suggestions for ways in which other disciplines might benefit from the use of Mass-Observation approaches and archival material. There is also a chronology of Mass-Observation, its publications and major figures associated with it. Mass-Observation offers an unparalleled wealth of insights into the lived experiences of Britons in the 20th century and this volume provides the best introduction to it Trade ReviewFor both newcomers and long-time enthusiasts of MO, this book provides insight into the original, ambitious intentions of the founders, useful commentaries on their achievement and its value across disciplines, as well as fascinating interviews with three people whose careers and lives have been closely entwined with the project. * Jill Kirby, Senior Lecturer, University of Sussex, UK *The original Mass-Observation pamphlet from 1937 sets out the philosophy and methods for a pioneering approach to ‘the anthropology of ourselves’ that has had a profound influence on historians, social scientists and cultural studies scholars. Its reissue here, skilfully edited and authoritatively contextualized by Jennifer Purcell and her collaborators, is both welcome and timely. * Brian Lewis, Professor of History, McGill University, Montreal, Canada *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations List of Contributors Chronology Introduction, Jennifer J. Purcell 1. ‘The Observation by Everyone of Everyone’: The Project of Mass-Observation in 1937, Ben Highmore 2. Mass-Observation, Charles Madge and Tom Harrisson 3. Uncivilising Sociology: How Mass Observation can free the discipline, Rachel Hurdley 4. Voices from the Archive, Jennifer J. Purcell Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisHow has higher learning been shaped by people, ideas and knowledge? In a work that spans 2,500 years, 67 experts chart across the social and cultural dynamics of higher learning and education across the centuries.Exploring higher learning rather than universities, the authors examine the full range of the effects of advanced education on their societies. Readers will discover ancient academies, monasteries, temples to professional and technical schools as well as universities. Together the volumes describe the remarkable drama of societies trying to organize knowledge for humanity, with many conflicts, reversals, and triumphs along the way.Individual volume editors ensure the cohesion of the whole, and to make it as easy as possible to use, chapter titles are identical across each of the volumes. This gives the choice of reading about a specific period in one of the volumes, or following a theme across history by reading the relevant chapter in each of the 6.The 6 volumes cover: 1. Antiquity (500 BCE-500 CE); 2. Medieval Age (500-1400); 3. Renaissance (1400-1600); 4. Age of Enlightenment (1600-1760); 5. Age of Industry (1760-1900); 6. Modern Age (1900-present) Themes (and chapter titles) are: cultures; geographies; authorities; teaching; disciplines; communities; materialities; contestations and epitome. The total extent of the pack is approximately 1712 pages. Each volume opens with notes on contributors and an introduction and concludes with notes, bibliography, and an index.The Cultural Histories SeriesA Cultural History of Higher Learning is part of the Cultural Histories Series. Titles are available both as printed hardcover sets for libraries needing just one subject or preferring a one-off purchase and tangible reference for their shelves, or as part of a fully searchable digital library, updated twice a year and available to institutions by annual subscription or on perpetual access. See www.bloomsburyculturalhistory.com for further information or to access content.

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