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.
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...
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 ...
Folklore and Nation in Britain and Ireland
1st Edition
Edited
By Matthew Cheeseman, Carina Hart
May 31, 2023
This collection explores folklore and folkloristics within the diverse and contested national discourses of Britain and Ireland, examining their role in shaping the islands’ constituent nations from the eighteenth century to our contemporary moment of uncertainty and change. This book is concerned ...
The Afterlife of the Shoah in Central and Eastern European Cultures: Concepts, Problems, and the Aesthetics of Postcatastrophic Narration
1st Edition
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By Anna Artwinska, Anja Tippner
May 31, 2023
The Afterlife of the Shoah in Central and Eastern European Cultures is a collection of essays by literary scholars from Germany, the US, and Central Eastern Europe offering insight into the specific ways of representing the Shoah and its aftereffects as well as its entanglement with other ...
The German Spa in the Long Eighteenth Century: A Cultural History
1st Edition
By Ute Lotz-Heumann
May 31, 2023
Shifting the focus from the medical use of spas to their cultural and social functions, this study shows that eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century German spas served a vital role as spaces where new ways of perceiving the natural environment and conceptualizing society were disseminated. ...
The Politics and Polemics of Culture in Ireland, 1800–2010
1st Edition
By Pat Cooke
May 31, 2023
As a contribution to cultural policy studies, this book offers a uniquely detailed and comprehensive account of the historical evolution of cultural policies and their contestation within a single democratic polity, while treating these developments comparatively against the backdrop of ...
The Retornados from the Portuguese Colonies in Africa: Memory, Narrative, and History
1st Edition
Edited
By Elsa Peralta
May 31, 2023
Placed in the wider scope of post-war European decolonisation migrations, The Retornados from the Portuguese Colonies in Africa looks at the "Return" of the Portuguese nationals living in the African colonies when they became independent. Using an interdisciplinary research agenda, the book ...
British Concepts of Heroic "Gallantry" and the Sixties Transition: The Politics of Medals
1st Edition
By Matthew J. Lord
January 09, 2023
This book examines the relationship between concepts of heroic "gallantry," as projected by the British honours system, and the sociocultural, political, military and international transitions of the supposed Sixties "cultural revolution." In so doing, it considers how a conservative, hierarchical ...
Coding and Representation from the Nineteenth Century to the Present: Scrambled Messages
1st Edition
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By Anne Chapman, Natalie Hume
January 09, 2023
An exploration of trends and cultures connected to electrical telegraphy and recent digital communications, this collection emerges from the research project Scrambled Messages: The Telegraphic Imaginary 1866–1900, which investigated cultural phenomena relating to the 1866 transatlantic telegraph. ...