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.
Post-Soviet Nostalgia: Confronting the Empire’s Legacies
1st Edition
Edited
By Otto Boele, Boris Noordenbos, Ksenia Robbe
November 07, 2024
Bringing together scholars from Russia, the United States and Europe, this collection of essays is the first to explore the slippery phenomenon of post-Soviet nostalgia by studying it as a discursive practice serving a wide variety of ideological agendas. The authors demonstrate how feelings of ...
The Natural History of a Neapolitan Miracle: The Secret of San Gennaro’s Blood
1st Edition
By Francesco de Ceglia
November 01, 2024
This book examines Naples’s patron saint, Gennaro, the history of his blood relic, and the mystery of its periodical liquefaction. Three times a year, Neapolitans gather to witness the recurring phenomenon of the liquefaction of San Gennaro’s blood. From the seventeenth century to the present, ...
Critical Perspectives on Colonialism: Writing the Empire from Below
1st Edition
Edited
By Fiona Paisley, Kirsty Reid
October 14, 2024
This collection brings much-needed focus to the vibrancy and vitality of minority and marginal writing about empire, and to their implications as expressions of embodied contact between imperial power and those negotiating its consequences from "below." The chapters explore how less powerful and ...
Historical Disasters in Context: Science, Religion, and Politics
1st Edition
Edited
By Andrea JANKU, Gerrit Schenk, Franz Mauelshagen
October 14, 2024
Growing concerns about climate change and the increasing occurrence of ever more devastating natural disasters in some parts of the world and their consequences for human life, not only in the immediately affected regions, but for all of us, have increased our desire to learn more about disaster ...
Living in the City: Urban Institutions in the Low Countries, 1200�2010
1st Edition
Edited
By L.A.C.J. (Leo) Lucassen, W.H. (Wim) Willems
October 14, 2024
The city is a place to find shelter, a market place, and an elevator for social mobility and success. But the city is also a place that frightens people and that can marginalize newcomers. Living in the City tries to understand what pulls people to the city since the High Middle Ages, focusing on ...
Reassessing the Transnational Turn: Scales of Analysis in Anarchist and Syndicalist Studies
1st Edition
Edited
By Constance Bantman, Bert Altena
October 14, 2024
This edited volume reassesses the ongoing transnational turn in anarchist and syndicalist studies, a field where the interest in cross-border connections has generated much innovative literature in the last decade. It presents and extends up-to-date research into several dynamic historiographic ...
A History of the Cultural Travels of Energy: From Aristotle to the OED
1st Edition
By Peter Hjertholm
October 09, 2024
This book offers a cultural history of the travels of energy in the English language, from its origins in Aristotle’s ontology, where it referred to the activity-of-being, through its English usage as a way to speak about the inherent nature of things, to its adoption as a name for the mechanics of...
Histories, Adaptations, and Legacies of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
1st Edition
Edited
By Randal Rogers
October 09, 2024
While providing critical reflections on the work across generations of enthusiasts, this is the first book exclusively dedicated to John le Carré’s 1974 novel and its adaptations in radio, TV, and film. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy stands among the most reproduced espionage tales of all time, with ...
Modern Murders: The Turn-of-the-Century's Backlash Against Melodramatic and Sensational Representations of Murder, 1880–1914
1st Edition
By Lee Michael-Berger
October 09, 2024
Modern Murders is the first comprehensive study of murder representations during the turn of the century, drawing on previously neglected archival material to explore the intellectual, cultural, and artistic contexts of the period. Most studies view the abundance of murder representations ...
Academia and Trade: The Numismatic World in the Long Nineteenth Century, Volume 1
1st Edition
Edited
By Stefan Krmnicek, Hadrien Rambach
October 08, 2024
This first part of a 2-volume collection comprises a collection of essays in English by leading scholars on the 19th-century Academia and Trade presenting the latest developments in international scholarship on the numismatic world in the long 19th century. In the 19th century, developments in the ...
Honor and Shame in Western History
1st Edition
Edited
By Jörg Wettlaufer, David Nash, Jan Frode Hatlen
October 08, 2024
This book covers a wide range of topics related to honor and shame in European historical societies: history of law and literature, social and ancient history, as well as theoretical contributions on the state of research and the importance of honor and shame in traditional societies. Honor and ...
Institutions and Individuals: The Numismatic World in the Long Nineteenth Century, Volume 2
1st Edition
Edited
By Stefan Krmnicek, Hadrien Rambach
October 08, 2024
This second part of the 2 volume collection comprises a collection of essays in English by leading scholars on 19th century institutions and individuals presenting the latest developments in international scholarship on the numismatic world in the long 19th century. In the 19th century, ...