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.
Women Photographers of the Pacific World, 1857–1930
1st Edition
By Anne Maxwell
September 30, 2021
This is the first book to examine the lives and works of women photographers active in the settler colonial nations of the Pacific Rim from 1857–1930. The few histories of women’s photography that have been written so far have been confined to developments in Britain, France, Germany and the USA, ...
Aboriginal Protection and Its Intermediaries in Britain’s Antipodean Colonies
1st Edition
Edited
By Samuel Furphy, Amanda Nettelbeck
June 30, 2021
This collection brings together world-leading and emerging scholars to explore how the concept of "protection" was applied to Indigenous peoples of Britain’s antipodean colonies. Tracing evolutions in protection from the 1830s until the end of the nineteenth century, the contributors map the ...
Children and Globalization: Multidisciplinary Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Hoda Mahmoudi, Steven Mintz
June 30, 2021
Globalization has carried vast consequences for the lives of children. It has spurred unprecedented waves of immigration, contributed to far-reaching transformations in the organization, structure, and dynamics of family life, and profoundly altered trajectories of growing up. Equally important, ...
Reform, Revolution and Crisis in Europe: Landmarks in History, Memory and Thought
1st Edition
Edited
By Bronwyn Winter, Cat Moir
June 30, 2021
Today Europe stands at a crossroads unlike any it has faced since 1945. Since the 2008 financial crash, Europe has weathered the Greek debt crisis, the 2015 refugee crisis, and the identity crisis brought about by Brexit in 2016. The future of the European project is in doubt. How will Europe ...
The Greening of the City: Urban Parks and Public Leisure, 1840-1939
1st Edition
By Carole A. O'Reilly
June 30, 2021
Urban parks are a much-loved feature of the city environment. However, our knowledge of the true scale of their impact remains uneven. Much work has been done on their origins and design features, but this book aims to extend this beyond the nineteenth century, examining the fuller flowering of ...
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 ...
Heroism as a Global Phenomenon in Contemporary Culture
1st Edition
Edited
By Barbara Korte, Simon Wendt, Nicole Falkenhayner
December 18, 2020
Heroes and heroic discourse have gained new visibility in the twenty-first century. This is noted in recent research on the heroic, but it has been largely ignored that heroism is increasingly a global phenomenon both in terms of production and consumption. This edited collection aims to bridge ...
The Body in History, Culture, and the Arts
1st Edition
Edited
By Justyna Jajszczok, Aleksandra Musiał
December 18, 2020
The aim of this book is to explore the body in various historical contexts and to take it as a point of departure for broader historiographical projects. The chapters in the volume present the ways in which the body constitutes a valuable and productive object of historical analysis, especially as ...
A History of Shaolin: Buddhism, Kung Fu and Identity
1st Edition
By Lu Zhouxiang
September 30, 2020
Shaolin Monastery at Mount Song is considered the epicentre of the Chan school of Buddhism. It is also well known for its martial arts tradition and has long been regarded as a special cultural heritage site and an important symbol of the Chinese nation. This book is the first scholarly work in ...
Families, Values, and the Transfer of Knowledge in Northern Societies, 1500–2000
1st Edition
Edited
By Ulla Aatsinki, Johanna Annola, Mervi Kaarninen
September 30, 2020
This edited collection sheds light on Nordic families’ strategies and methods for transferring significant cultural heritage to the next generation over centuries. Contributors explore why certain values, attitudes, knowledge, and patterns were selected while others were left behind, and show how ...
Monsters and Borders in the Early Modern Imagination
1st Edition
Edited
By Jana Byars, Hans Peter Broedel
September 30, 2020
This edited collection explores the axis where monstrosity and borderlands meet to reflect the tensions, apprehensions, and excitement over the radical changes of the early modern era. The book investigates the monstrous as it acts in liminal spaces in the Renaissance and the era of Enlightenment. ...
Student Revolt, City, and Society in Europe: From the Middle Ages to the Present
1st Edition
Edited
By Pieter Dhondt, Elizabethanne Boran
September 30, 2020
Due to the strong sense among the student community of belonging to a specific social group, student revolts have been an integral part of the university throughout its history. Ironically, since the Middle Ages, the advantageous position of students in society as part of the social elite ...