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.
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 ...
Travel and Space in Nineteenth-Century Europe
1st Edition
By Anna P.H. Geurts
June 27, 2024
This detailed study of eighty European journeys examines the everyday spatial concerns of nineteenth-century travelers, with a focus on travelers from the Netherlands and North Sea region. From common soldiers in revolutionary Belgium to guests of the tsars in Russia, many of their travel accounts ...
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, ...
The Dangers of Gifts from Antiquity to the Digital Age
1st Edition
Edited
By Alexandra Urakova, Tracey A. Sowerby, Tudor Sala
May 27, 2024
This is the first volume that examines dangerous gift-giving across centuries and disciplines. Bringing to the fore the subject that features as an aside in gift studies, it offers new insights into the ambivalent and troubled history of gift-giving. Dangerous, violent, and self-destructive ...
The History of Experience: A Study in Experiential Turns and Cultural Dynamics from the Paleolithic to the Present Day
1st Edition
By Wolfgang Leidhold
May 27, 2024
In a wide arc from the Paleolithic to the present day, this book explores the changing structure of human experience and its impact on the dynamics of cultures, civilizations, and political ideas. The main thesis is a paradigm shift: the structure of human experience is not a universal constant but...
Reconciling Art and Technology: A Shared Cognitive History
1st Edition
By Subrata Dasgupta
May 14, 2024
This book examines two venerable cultures, art and technology, and uses the young "interdiscipline" of cognitive history combined with case studies of both ancient and modern artifacts to explore, and unveil, some of the bridges by which this reconciliation of two seemingly distant and oppositional...
Travel, Writing and the Media: Contemporary and Historical Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Barbara Korte, Anna Karina Sennefelder
September 25, 2023
The nexus between travel, writing and media in the contemporary world is dense: travel practice is increasingly interwoven with media; representations in old and new media are co-present and converge. Digitisation has had a profound impact on the practice and mediation of travel, but this ...
Audience and Reception in the Early Modern Period
1st Edition
Edited
By John R. Decker, Mitzi Kirkland-Ives
May 31, 2023
Early modern audiences, readerships, and viewerships were not homogenous. Differences in status, education, language, wealth, and experience (to name only a few variables) could influence how a group of people, or a particular person, received and made sense of sermons, public proclamations, ...
East Asian-German Cinema: The Transnational Screen, 1919 to the Present
1st Edition
Edited
By Joanne Miyang Cho
May 31, 2023
This is the first edited volume dedicated to the study of East Asian-German cinema. Its coverage ranges from 1919 to the present, a period which has witnessed an unprecedented degree of global entanglement between Germany and East Asia. In analyzing this hybrid cinema, this volume employs a ...