Modern matters: A blow-by-blow account of groundbreaking modernismThe modern art adventure began roughly 150 years ago in Paris. A circle of painters, whom we now know as Impressionists, began paintin
Of the almost 11 million Africans who came to the Americas between 1500 and 1870, two-thirds came to Spanish America and Brazil. Over four centuries, Africans and their descendants—both free and ensla
The Rhine River is Europe's most important commercial waterway, channeling the flow of trade among Switzerland, France, Germany, and the Netherlands. In this innovative study, Mark Cioc focuses on the
A fascinating work rich in detail, Summerfolk explores the ways in which Russia's turbulent past has shaped the function of the dacha and attitudes toward it.
Although it has a rich historiography, and from the late ninth century is rich in textual evidence, northern Iberia has barely featured in the great debates of early medieval European history of recen
Every night, Bailey dreams about magical dresses: dresses made of crystals and rainbows, dresses made of flowers, dresses made of windows. . . . Unfortunately, when Bailey's awake, no one wants to hea
Winner of the Women's History Network Book Prize, 2013This book examines women's experiences of motherhood in England in the years between 1945 and 2000. Based on a new body of 160 oral history interv
How has the washing machine changed the way we spend money? Using the washing of clothes as a microcosm of household economics Wörsdorfer examines the evolution of technology and practice over a perio
When the Blackfoot Indians were confined to reservations in the late nineteenth century, their pictographic representations of warfare kept alive the rituals associated with war, which were essential
Alfred’s Castle is a small enclosed site south of the Ridgeway on the Berkshire Downs, excavated between 1998 and 2000 by a team from Oxford University. This was the third site excavated by the Hillfo
The vast majority of European countries have never had a Newton, Pasteur or Einstein. Therefore a historical analysis of their scientific culture must be more than the search for great luminaries. Stu
"Few places in Canada have been painted as frequently as the valley of the Bow River in Alberta," according to Armstrong (emeritus, history, York U.) and Nelles (Canadian history, McMaster U./emeritus
The British Film Institute (BFI) is one of the UK's oldest and most important government-supported cultural institutions. From a modest start in the 1930s it grew rapidly after the war to encompass ev
In this massive volume, the editors have assembled the first systematic global and comparative history of textile workers from 1650 to 2000, covering textile production from pre-industrial times throu
Understandings of sexuality and sex education have changed dramatically, and in this collection, the authors explore the various texts that were used to teach, to entertain, to sanction and to form a
