Routledge Studies in Cultural History
About the Book Series
This series aims to present both case studies and the latest theoretical perspectives on the subject. It is not confined to any particular period or school of thought and seeks to provide a broad range of topics and events from around the world.
Old World Empires: Cultures of Power and Governance in Eurasia
1st Edition
By Ilhan Niaz
May 23, 2019
This book is a sweeping historical survey of the origins, development and nature of state power. It demonstrates that Eurasia is home to a dominant tradition of arbitrary rule mediated through military, civil and ecclesiastical servants and a marginal tradition of representative and responsible ...
The Afterlife of Used Things: Recycling in the Long Eighteenth Century
1st Edition
Edited
By Ariane Fennetaux, Amélie Junqua, Sophie Vasset
May 23, 2019
Recycling is not a concept that is usually applied to the eighteenth century. “The environment” may not have existed as a notion then, yet practices of re-use and transformation obviously shaped the early-modern world. Still, this period of booming commerce and exchange was also marked by scarcity ...
The Invention of Race: Scientific and Popular Representations
1st Edition
Edited
By Nicolas Bancel, Thomas David, Dominic Thomas
May 23, 2019
This edited collection explores the genesis of scientific conceptions of race and their accompanying impact on the taxonomy of human collections internationally as evidenced in ethnographic museums, world fairs, zoological gardens, international colonial exhibitions and ethnic shows. A deep ...
The Holocaust in the Twenty-First Century: Contesting/Contested Memories
1st Edition
Edited
By David M. Seymour, Mercedes Camino
May 17, 2019
This volume locates and explores historical and contemporary sites of contested meanings of Holocaust memory across a range of geographical, geo-political, and disciplinary contexts, identifying and critically engaging with the nature and expression of these meanings within their relevant...
New Perspectives on Russian-American Relations
1st Edition
Edited
By William Benton Whisenhunt, Norman E. Saul
May 07, 2019
New Perspectives on Russian-American Relations includes eighteen articles on Russian-American relations from an international roster of leading historians. Covering topics such as trade, diplomacy, art, war, public opinion, race, culture, and more, the essays show how the two nations related ...
Transnational South America: Experiences, Ideas, and Identities, 1860s-1900s
1st Edition
By Ori Preuss
April 16, 2019
At the crossroad of intellectual, diplomatic, and cultural history, this book examines flows of information, men, and ideas between South American cities—mainly the port-capitals of Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro—during the period of their modernization. The book reconstructs this largely ...
A Cultural History of Sound, Memory, and the Senses
1st Edition
Edited
By Joy Damousi, Paula Hamilton
March 22, 2019
The past 20 years have witnessed a turn towards the sensuous, particularly the aural, as a viable space for critical exploration in History and other Humanities disciplines. This has been informed by a heightened awareness of the role that the senses play in shaping modern identity and ...
Case Studies and the Dissemination of Knowledge
1st Edition
Edited
By Joy Damousi, Birgit Lang, Katie Sutton
March 22, 2019
The case study has proved of enduring interest to all Western societies, particularly in relation to questions of subjectivity and the sexed self. This volume interrogates how case studies have been used by doctors, lawyers, psychoanalysts, and writers to communicate their findings both within the ...
Conciliation on Colonial Frontiers: Conflict, Performance, and Commemoration in Australia and the Pacific Rim
1st Edition
Edited
By Kate Darian-Smith, Penelope Edmonds
March 22, 2019
Spanning the late 18th century to the present, this volume explores new directions in imperial and postcolonial histories of conciliation, performance, and conflict between European colonizers and Indigenous peoples in Australia and the Pacific Rim, including Aotearoa New Zealand, Hawaii and the ...
Electroconvulsive Therapy in America: The Anatomy of a Medical Controversy
1st Edition
By Jonathan Sadowsky
March 22, 2019
Electroconvulsive Therapy is widely demonized or idealized. Some detractors consider its very use to be a human rights violation, while some promoters depict it as a miracle, the "penicillin of psychiatry." This book traces the American history of one of the most controversial procedures in ...
Jesuits at the Margins: Missions and Missionaries in the Marianas (1668-1769)
1st Edition
By Alexandre Coello de la Rosa
March 22, 2019
In the past decades historians have interpreted early modern Christian missions not simply as an adjunct to Western imperialism, but a privileged field for cross-cultural encounters. Placing the Jesuit missions into a global phenomenon that emphasizes economic and cultural relations between Europe ...
Language as a Scientific Tool: Shaping Scientific Language Across Time and National Traditions
1st Edition
Edited
By Miles MacLeod, Rocío G. Sumillera, Jan Surman, Ekaterina Smirnova
March 22, 2019
Language is the most essential medium of scientific activity. Many historians, sociologists and science studies scholars have investigated scientific language for this reason, but only few have examined those cases where language itself has become an object of scientific discussion. Over the ...