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.
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. ...
Contact, Conquest and Colonization: How Practices of Comparing Shaped Empires and Colonialism Around the World
1st Edition
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By Eleonora Rohland, Angelika Epple, Antje Flüchter, Kirsten Kramer
January 09, 2023
Contact, Conquest and Colonization brings together international historians and literary studies scholars in order to explore the force of practices of comparing in shaping empires and colonial relations at different points in time and around the globe. Whenever there was cultural contact in the ...
Cultural Histories of Ageing: Myths, Plots and Metaphors of the Senescent Self
1st Edition
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By Margery Vibe Skagen
January 09, 2023
Drawing on sixteenth- to twenty-first-century American, British, French, German, Polish, Norwegian and Russian literature and philosophy, this collection teases out culturally specific conceptions of old age as well as subjective constructions of late-life identity and selfhood. The internationally...
De-Illustrating the History of the British Empire: Preliminary Perspectives
1st Edition
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By Annamaria Motrescu-Mayes
January 09, 2023
De-Illustrating the History of the British Empire aims to offer a timely and inclusive contribution to the evolving cross-disciplinary scholarship that connects visual studies with British imperial historiography. The key purpose of this book is to introduce scholars and students of British ...
Disability and Tourism in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Italy
1st Edition
By Luciano Maffi, Martino Lorenzo Fagnani
January 09, 2023
Attention to the issue of disabilities has intensified in recent decades, prompting States and organizations to respond with appropriate measures to promote inclusion of persons with disabilities in all social environments. This book’s thesis is that the seeds of this inclusivity were planted by ...
The Formal Call in the Making of the Baltic Bourgeoisie
1st Edition
By Kekke Stadin
January 09, 2023
This book studies the making of the bourgeoisie the Baltic Sea region in the nineteenth Century. This region was peripheral in comparison to England and France, with respect to urbanization, economic development, liberalism, and consumption. The bourgeoisie was still a class-to-be. By the end ...