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.
Shadows of the Slave Past: Memory, Heritage, and Slavery
1st Edition
By Ana Lucia Araujo
March 30, 2016
This book is a transnational and comparative study examining the processes that led to the memorialization of slavery and the Atlantic slave trade in the second half of the twentieth century. Araujo explores numerous kinds of initiatives such as monuments, memorials, and museums as well as heritage...
Race, Science, and the Nation: Reconstructing the Ancient Past in Britain, France and Germany
1st Edition
By Chris Manias
March 03, 2016
Across the nineteenth century, scholars in Britain, France and the German lands sought to understand their earliest ancestors: the Germanic and Celtic tribes known from classical antiquity, and the newly discovered peoples of prehistory. New fields – philology, archeology and anthropology – ...
Disease and Crime: A History of Social Pathologies and the New Politics of Health
1st Edition
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By Robert Peckham
October 16, 2015
This book maps the tensions, overlaps, and contradictions within and between social and biological understandings of disease and crime. It considers how and why disease—and, in particular, infectious disease—has come, reciprocally, to be framed as 'criminal.'...
A Social History of Disability in the Middle Ages: Cultural Considerations of Physical Impairment
1st Edition
By Irina Metzler
September 16, 2015
What was it like to be disabled in the Middle Ages? How did people become disabled? Did welfare support exist? This book discusses social and cultural factors affecting the lives of medieval crippled, deaf, mute and blind people, those nowadays collectively called "disabled." Although the word did ...
Identity, Aesthetics, and Sound in the Fin de Siècle: Redesigning Perception
1st Edition
By Dariusz Gafijczuk
September 16, 2015
This book is an analytic and historical portrait of the volatile decades at the beginning of the 20th century. Engaging with avant-garde art and thought, and concentrating on two of the most controversial and still culturally relevant personalities of Viennese modernism - Sigmund Freud and ...
Rethinking Race, Politics, and Poetics: C.L.R. James' Critique of Modernity
1st Edition
By Brett St Louis
August 19, 2015
Rethinking Race, Politics, and Poetics offers a critical appraisal of C.L.R. James as a major twentieth-century activist-intellectual, exploring his prolific output spanning decades within genres as diverse as history, philosophy, sociology, literary and cultural criticism, prose fiction, and ...
History of Participatory Media: Politics and Publics, 1750–2000
1st Edition
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By Anders Ekström, Solveig Jülich
April 23, 2015
This book argues for a historical perspective on issues relating to the notion of participatory media. Working from a broad concept of media – including essays on the 19th century press, early sound media, photography, exhibitions, television and the internet – the book offers a broad empirical ...
Israeli-Palestinian Conflict in the Francophone World
1st Edition
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By Nathalie Debrauwere-Miller
February 27, 2015
With interdisciplinary analyses of texts whose origins span the diversity of the Jewish and Muslim traditions, the provocative essays collected in Israeli-Palestinian Conflict in the Francophone World offer startling insights into the meaning of the volatile history of this conflict in the ...
The Insanity of Place / The Place of Insanity: Essays on the History of Psychiatry
1st Edition
By Andrew Scull
April 28, 2014
This compelling book brings together many of the major papers published by Andrew Scull in the history of psychiatry over the past decade and a half. Examining some of the major substantive debates in the field from the eighteenth century to the present, the historiographic essays provide a ...
Empires and Boundaries: Race, Class, and Gender in Colonial Settings
1st Edition
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By Harald Fischer-Tiné, Susanne Gehrmann
April 24, 2013
Empires and Boundaries: Rethinking Race, Class, and Gender in Colonial Settings is an exciting collection of original essays exploring the meaning and existence of conflicting and coexisting hierarchies in colonial settings. With investigations into the colonial past of a diversity of regions ...
Histories of Postmodernism
1st Edition
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By Mark Bevir, Jill Hargis, Sara Rushing
June 21, 2012
Histories of Postmodernism reexamines the history of the constellation of ideas and thinkers associated with postmodernism. The increasingly dominant historical narrative depicts a relatively smooth development of ideas from Friedrich Nietzsche and Martin Heidegger, through a range of French ...
Africa after Modernism: Transitions in Literature, Media, and Philosophy
1st Edition
By Michael Janis
December 09, 2011
Africa after Modernism traces shifts in perspectives on African culture, arts, and philosophy from the conflict with European modernist interventions in the climate of colonialist aggression to present identitarian positions in the climate of globalism, multiculturalism, and mass media. By focusing...