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.
Cultural Representations of Piracy in England, Spain, and the Caribbean: Travelers, Traders, and Traitors, 1570 to 1604
1st Edition
By Mariana-Cecilia Velázquez
October 07, 2024
This book examines the concept of piracy as an instrument for the advancement of legal, economic, and political agendas associated with early modern imperial conflicts in the Caribbean. Drawing on historical accounts, literary texts, legal treatises, and maps, the book traces the visual and ...
Sport and the Pursuit of War and Peace from the Nineteenth Century to the Present: War Minus the Shooting?
1st Edition
Edited
By Martin Hurcombe, Philip Dine
October 07, 2024
This volume of wide-ranging essays by sport historians and sociologists examines the complex relations of war, peace and sport through a series of case studies from South and North America, Europe, North Africa, Asia and New Zealand. From formal military training in the late nineteenth century to ...
Staging Slavery: Performances of Colonial Slavery and Race from International Perspectives, 1770-1850
1st Edition
Edited
By Sarah J. Adams, Jenna M. Gibbs, Wendy Sutherland
October 07, 2024
This international analysis of theatrical case studies illustrates the ways that theater was an arena both of protest and, simultaneously, racist and imperialist exploitations of the colonized and enslaved body. By bringing together performances and discussions of theater culture from various ...
Forms of Temporality and Historical Time in the Work of Johann Gottfried Herder
1st Edition
Edited
By Liisa Steinby, Johannes Schmidt
September 30, 2024
This edited collection is the first volume solely dedicated to research on Johann Gottfried Herder’s understanding of history, time, and temporalities. Although his ideas on time mark an important transition period that advanced the emergence of the modern world, scholars have rarely addressed ...
Death in Dublin During the Era of James Joyce’s Ulysses
1st Edition
By Patrick Callan
September 27, 2024
The funeral of Paddy Dignam in James Joyce’s Ulysses serves as the pivotal event of the ‘Hades’ episode. This volume explores how Dignam’s interment in Glasnevin Cemetery allowed Joyce the freedom to consider the conventions, rituals and superstitions associated with death and burial in Dublin. ...
Growing Old in a Better World: Age and Ageing in the Utopian Imagination
1st Edition
By Robert Troschitz
September 23, 2024
As utopias question social ills and express human wants and unfulfilled dreams, they offer insights into the problems, desires and ideals of a certain time. This book uses this lens to examine cultural representations of ageing and old age in utopian writings from the Renaissance till today. The ...
The Built Environment through the Prism of the Colonial Periodical Press
1st Edition
Edited
By Alice Santiago Faria, Anne Shelley, Sandra Ataíde Lobo
August 26, 2024
The Built Environment through the Prism of the Colonial Periodical Press is a venture of the International Group for Studies of Colonial Periodical Press of the Portuguese Empire (IGSCP-PE), who are also interested in comparative studies and conceptual discussions. Through a focus on the ...
Urban Popular Culture and Entertainment: Experiences from Northern, East-Central, and Southern Europe, 1870s–1930s
1st Edition
Edited
By Antje Dietze, Alexander Vari
August 26, 2024
This book is part of an ongoing transnational turn in cultural history. Studies on the history of urban popular culture and the entertainment industries increasingly engage with the European or global circulation of genres, actors, and shows, especially during the period of massive growth and ...
A History of Competitive Gaming
1st Edition
By Lu Zhouxiang
May 27, 2024
Competitive gaming, or esports – referring to competitive tournaments of video games among both casual gamers and professional players – began in the early 1970s with small competitions like the one held at Stanford University in October 1972, where some 20 researchers and students attended. By ...
Creating and Opposing Empire: The Role of the Colonial Periodical Press
1st Edition
Edited
By Adelaide Vieira Machado, Isadora de Ataíde Fonseca, Sandra Ataíde Lobo, Robert Newman
May 27, 2024
Focusing on the Portuguese Empire, this book examines colonial press issued in "metropolitan" spaces and in colonies, disclosing dissonant narratives and problematizations of colonial empires. Creating and Opposing Empire is a venture of the International Group for Studies of Colonial Periodical ...
Historical Memory in Greece, 1821–1930: Performing the Past in the Present
1st Edition
By Christina Koulouri
May 27, 2024
This book presents a social and cultural history of collective memory in modern Greece during the first century of state independence, contributing to the debate over the relationship between memory and identity. It discusses how modern Greek society commemorated its distant and recent pasts, both ...
Memory, Mobility, and Material Culture
1st Edition
Edited
By Chiara Giuliani, Kate Hodgson
May 27, 2024
With a focus on the object and where it is situated, in time (memory) and space (mobility), Memory, Mobility, and Material Culture embodies a multidisciplinary and cross-disciplinary approach. The chapters track the movement of the objects and their owner(s), within and between continents, ...