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.
Contact, Conquest and Colonization: How Practices of Comparing Shaped Empires and Colonialism Around the World
1st Edition
Edited
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
Edited
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
Edited
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 ...
Landscape and Identity in the Modern Basque Country, 1800 to 1936
1st Edition
By Maitane Ostolaza
December 30, 2022
Landscape and Identity in the Modern Basque Country, 1800 to 1936 studies the relationship between landscape and modern identities in the Basque Country. Using an interdisciplinary approach that combines cultural history and geography, it analyses the process of historical construction of the ...
Revolutionary Ukraine, 1917-2017: History’s Flashpoints and Today’s Memory Wars
1st Edition
By Myroslav Shkandrij
December 19, 2022
This book examines four dramatic periods that have shaped not only Ukrainian, but also Soviet and Russian history over the last hundred years: the revolutionary struggles of 1917-20, Stalin’s "second" revolution of 1928-33, the mobilization of revolutionary nationalists during the Second World War,...
Charles Kingsley: Faith, Flesh, and Fantasy
1st Edition
Edited
By Jonathan Conlin, Jan Marten Ivo Klaver
August 01, 2022
Novelist, poet, Anglican priest, and controversialist, Charles Kingsley (1819–75) epitomizes the bustling Victorian man of faith and letters, a prolific polymath as ready to break a lance with John Henry Newman over Christian doctrine as he was to preach to schoolchildren on the virtues of manly, ...
Controversial Heritage and Divided Memories from the Nineteenth Through the Twentieth Centuries: Multi-Ethnic Cities in the Mediterranean World, Volume 2
1st Edition
Edited
By Marco Folin, Heleni Porfyriou
August 01, 2022
What is the role of cultural heritage in multi-ethnic societies, where cultural memory is often polarized by antagonistic identity traditions? Is it possible for monuments that are generally considered as a symbol of national unity to become emblems of the conflictual histories still undermining ...
Cultures and Practices of Coexistence from the Thirteenth Through the Seventeenth Centuries: Multi-Ethnic Cities in the Mediterranean World, Volume 1
1st Edition
Edited
By Marco Folin, Antonio Musarra
August 01, 2022
This book focuses on the ethnically composite, heterogeneous, mixed nature of the Mediterranean cities and their cultural heritage between the late middle ages and early modern times. How did it affect the cohabitation among different people and cultures on the urban scene? How did it mold the ...
History as Performance: Political Movements in Galicia Around 1900
1st Edition
By Dietlind Hüchtker
August 01, 2022
This study analyzes history as performance: as the interaction of actors, plays, stages and enactments. By this, it examines women’s politics in Habsburg Galicia around 1900: a Polish woman active in the peasant movement, a Ukrainian feminist, and a Jewish Zionist. It shows how the movements ...
How Books, Reading and Subscription Libraries Defined Colonial Clubland in the British Empire
1st Edition
By Sterling Joseph Coleman, Jr.
August 01, 2022
How Books, Reading and Subscription Libraries Defined Colonial Clubland in the British Empire argues that within an entangled web of imperial, colonial and book trade networks books, reading and subscription libraries contributed to a core and peripheral criteria of clubbability used by the "select...