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.
Madness in Cold War America
1st Edition
By Alexander Dunst
March 22, 2019
This book tells the story of how madness came to play a prominent part in America’s political and cultural debates. It argues that metaphors of madness rise to unprecedented popularity amidst the domestic struggles of the early Cold War and become a pre-eminent way of understanding the ...
Minor Knowledge and Microhistory: Manuscript Culture in the Nineteenth Century
1st Edition
By Sigurður Gylfi Magnússon, David Olafsson
March 22, 2019
This book studies everyday writing practices among ordinary people in a poor rural society in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Using the abundance of handwritten material produced, disseminated and consumed some centuries after the advent of print as its research material, the book's focus is on ...
The Place of the Social Margins, 1350-1750
1st Edition
Edited
By Andrew Spicer, Jane L. Stevens Crawshaw
March 22, 2019
This interdisciplinary volume illuminates the shadowy history of the disadvantaged, sick and those who did not conform to the accepted norms of society. It explores how marginal identity was formed, perceived and represented in Britain and Europe during the medieval and early modern periods. It ...
Travelling Notions of Culture in Early Nineteenth-Century Europe
1st Edition
Edited
By Hannu Salmi, Asko Nivala, Jukka Sarjala
March 22, 2019
The notions of culture and civilization are at the heart of European self-image. This book focuses on how space and spatiality contributed to defining the concepts of culture and civilization and, conversely, what kind of spatial ramifications "culture" and "civilization" entailed. These questions ...
Visualizing Jews Through the Ages: Literary and Material Representations of Jewishness and Judaism
1st Edition
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By Hannah Ewence, Helen Spurling
March 22, 2019
This volume explores literary and material representations of Jews, Jewishness and Judaism from antiquity to the twenty-first century. Gathering leading scholars from within the field of Jewish Studies, it investigates how the debates surrounding literary and material images within Judaism and in ...
A History of Euphoria: The Perception and Misperception of Health and Well-Being
1st Edition
By Christopher Milnes
December 13, 2018
Very few people have not at some point in their lives believed themselves or their loved ones to be reasonably healthy when, in "reality", sickness was encroaching or never went away. Health has been deceiving us for thousands of years, but rarely have we entirely dispensed with it as a concept. ...
Migration, Ethnicity, and Mental Health: International Perspectives, 1840-2010
1st Edition
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By Angela McCarthy, Catharine Coleborne
August 23, 2018
Most investigations of foreign-born migrants emphasize the successful adjustment and settlement of newcomers. Yet suicide, heavy drinking, violence, family separations, and domestic disharmony were but a few of the possible struggles experienced by those who relocated abroad in the nineteenth and ...
Enlightenment and Political Fiction: The Everyday Intellectual
1st Edition
By Cecilia Miller
July 24, 2018
The easy accessibility of political fiction in the long eighteenth century made it possible for any reader or listener to enter into the intellectual debates of the time, as much of the core of modern political and economic theory was to be found first in the fiction, not the theory, of this age. ...
Scotland and the Caribbean, c.1740-1833: Atlantic Archipelagos
1st Edition
By Michael Morris
June 14, 2018
This book participates in the modern recovery of the memory of the long-forgotten relationship between Scotland and the Caribbean. Drawing on theoretical paradigms of world literature and transnationalism, it argues that Caribbean slavery profoundly shaped Scotland’s economic, social and cultural ...
Neutrality in Twentieth-Century Europe: Intersections of Science, Culture, and Politics after the First World War
1st Edition
Edited
By Rebecka Lettevall, Geert Somsen, Sven Widmalm
May 24, 2017
Whether in science or in international politics, neutrality has sometimes been promoted, not only as a viable political alternative but as a lofty ideal – in politics by nations proclaiming their peacefulness, in science as an underpinning of epistemology, in journalism and other intellectual ...
Americans Experience Russia: Encountering the Enigma, 1917 to the Present
1st Edition
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By Choi Chatterjee, Beth Holmgren
May 10, 2017
Americans Experience Russia analyzes how American scholars, journalists, and artists envisioned, experienced, and interpreted Russia/the Soviet Union over the last century. While many histories of diplomatic, economic, and intellectual connections between the United States and the Soviet Union can ...
Politics of Memory: Making Slavery Visible in the Public Space
1st Edition
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By Ana Lucia Araujo
March 30, 2016
The public memory of slavery and the Atlantic slave trade, which some years ago could be observed especially in North America, has slowly emerged into a transnational phenomenon now encompassing Europe, Africa, and Latin America, and even Asia – allowing the populations of African descent, ...