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.
Imaginary Athens: Urban Space and Memory in Berlin, Tokyo, and Seoul
1st Edition
By Jin-Sung Chun
August 01, 2022
This book comprehensively examines architecture, urban planning, and civic perception in three modern cities as they transform into national capitals through an entangled, transnational process that involves an imaginative geography based on embellished memories of classical Athens. Schinkel’s ...
Irish Writers and the Thirties: Art, Exile and War
1st Edition
By Katrina Goldstone
August 01, 2022
This original study focusing on four Irish writers – Leslie Daiken, Charles Donnelly, Ewart Milne and Michael Sayers – retrieves a hitherto neglected episode of Thirties literary history which highlights the local and global aspects of Popular Front cultural movements. From interwar London to the ...
Popular New Orleans: The Crescent City in Periodicals, Theme Parks, and Opera, 1875–2015
1st Edition
By Florian Freitag
August 01, 2022
New Orleans is unique – which is precisely why there are many Crescent Cities all over the world: for almost 150 years, writers, artists, cultural brokers, and entrepreneurs have drawn on and simultaneously contributed to New Orleans’s fame and popularity by recreating the city in popular media ...
Rituality and Social (Dis)Order: The Historical Anthropology of Popular Carnival in Europe
1st Edition
By Alessandro Testa
August 01, 2022
Carnival has been described as one of the foundational elements of European culture, bearing an emblematic and iconic status as the festive phenomenon par excellence. Its origins are partly obscure, but its stratified and complex history, rich symbolic diversity, and sundry social configurations ...
Russia’s French Connection: A History of the Lasting French Imprint on Russian Culture
1st Edition
By Adam Coker
August 01, 2022
While it is generally acknowledged that Russia’s culture has been influenced by France, the present study goes beyond the Francophile preferences of the noble elite and examines Russian society more broadly, exploring those elements of French cultural influence that are still relevant today. ...
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 ...
Cultural Organizations, Networks and Mediators in Contemporary Ibero-America
1st Edition
Edited
By Diana Roig-Sanz, Jaume Subirana
September 30, 2021
This book proposes an innovative conceptual framework to explore cultural organizations at a multilateral level and cultural mediators as key figures in cultural and institutionalization processes. Specifically, it analyzes the role of Ibero-American mediators in the institutionalization of ...
Soldiers and Their Horses: Sense, Sentimentality and the Soldier-Horse Relationship in The Great War
1st Edition
By Jane Flynn
September 30, 2021
The soldier-horse relationship was nurtured by The British Army because it made the soldier and his horse into an effective fighting unit. Soldiers and their Horses explores a complex relationship forged between horses and humans in extreme conditions. As both a social history of Britain in the ...
The Magic Lantern at Work: Witnessing, Persuading, Experiencing and Connecting
1st Edition
Edited
By Martyn Jolly, Elisa deCourcy
September 30, 2021
For centuries, various new media technologies have provided individuals with a set of powerful tools to affect their audiences. Among these the magic lantern show was perhaps the most pervasive, and persuasive. Around the world audiences gathered together in darkened rooms to see a sequence of ...