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.
Science in the Metropolis: Vienna in Transnational Context, 1848–1918
1st Edition
Edited
By Mitchell G. Ash
August 01, 2022
This book presents new research on spaces for science and processes of interurban and transnational knowledge transfer and exchange in the imperial metropolis of Vienna in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Chapters discuss Habsburg science policy, metropolitan natural history ...
The Cultural Life of Risk and Innovation: Imagining New Markets from the Seventeenth Century to the Present
1st Edition
Edited
By Chia Yin Hsu, Thomas M. Luckett, Erika Vause
August 01, 2022
How did "innovation" become something to strive for, an end in itself? And how did "the market" come to be thought of as the space of innovation? This edited volume provides the first historical examination of how innovations are conceived, marketed, navigated and legitimated from a global ...
The Humanities in Transition from Postmodernism into the Digital Age
1st Edition
By Nigel A. Raab
August 01, 2022
The Humanities in Transition explores how the basic components of the digital age will have an impact on the most trusted theories of humanists. Over the past two generations, humanists have come to take basic postmodern theories for granted whether on language, knowledge or time. Yet Michel ...
Transatlantic Encounters in History of Education: Translations and Trajectories from a German-American Perspective
1st Edition
Edited
By Fanny Isensee, Andreas Oberdorf, Daniel Töpper
August 01, 2022
In the last twenty years, transnational perspectives have gained momentum in the field of historical-educational research. Scholars have made substantial efforts to rethink nation-based historiographies by reconstructing and reinterpreting the cross-border encounters and intertwined processes that ...
The Medieval and Early Modern Garden in Britain: Enclosure and Transformation, c. 1200-1750
1st Edition
Edited
By Patricia Skinner, Theresa Tyers
March 31, 2021
What was a "garden" in medieval and early modern British culture and how was it imagined? How did it change as Europe opened up to the wider world from the 16th century onwards? In a series of fresh approaches to these questions, the contributors offer chapters that identify and discuss ...
Negotiating Memory from the Romans to the Twenty-First Century: Damnatio Memoriae
1st Edition
Edited
By Øivind Fuglerud, Kjersti Larsen, Marina Prusac-Lindhagen
September 15, 2020
Manipulation of the past and forced erasure of memories have been global phenomena throughout history, spanning a varied repertoire from the destruction or alteration of architecture, sites, and images, to the banning or imposing of old and new practices. The present volume addresses these ...
Tattoo Histories: Transcultural Perspectives on the Narratives, Practices, and Representations of Tattooing
1st Edition
Edited
By Sinah Theres Kloß
November 28, 2019
Tattoo Histories is an edited volume which analyses and discusses the relevance of tattooing in the socio-cultural construction of bodies, boundaries, and identities, among both individuals and groups. Its interdisciplinary approach facilitates historical as well as contemporary perspectives. ...
Print Culture and the Formation of the Anarchist Movement in Spain, 1890-1915
1st Edition
By James Michael Yeoman
October 08, 2019
This book analyzes the formation of a mass anarchist movement in Spain over the turn of the twentieth century. In this period, the movement was transformed from a dislocated collection of groups and individuals into the largest organized body of anarchists in world history: the anarcho-syndicalist ...
Who Was William Hickey?: A Crafted Life in Georgian England and Imperial India
1st Edition
By James R. Farr
September 25, 2019
This book analyzes an example of life-writing, an autobiography that was written in the early nineteenth century and will appeal to readers of many disciplines who are interested in understanding the interconnectedness of memory, textual narrative, and ideas of selfhood. Moreover, this book ...
Musical Culture and the Spirit of Irish Nationalism, 1848–1972
1st Edition
By Richard Parfitt
August 27, 2019
Musical Culture and the Spirit of Irish Nationalism is the first comprehensive history of music’s relationship with Irish nationalist politics. Addressing rebel songs, traditional music and dance, national anthems and protest song, the book draws upon an unprecedented volume of material to explore ...
A History of Euphoria: The Perception and Misperception of Health and Well-Being
1st Edition
By Christopher Milnes
December 13, 2018
Very few people have not at some point in their lives believed themselves or their loved ones to be reasonably healthy when, in "reality", sickness was encroaching or never went away. Health has been deceiving us for thousands of years, but rarely have we entirely dispensed with it as a concept. ...
Migration, Ethnicity, and Mental Health: International Perspectives, 1840-2010
1st Edition
Edited
By Angela McCarthy, Catharine Coleborne
August 23, 2018
Most investigations of foreign-born migrants emphasize the successful adjustment and settlement of newcomers. Yet suicide, heavy drinking, violence, family separations, and domestic disharmony were but a few of the possible struggles experienced by those who relocated abroad in the nineteenth and ...