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.
The Enlightenment, Philanthropy and the Idea of Social Progress in Early Australia: Creating a Happier Race?
1st Edition
By Ilya Lazarev
September 30, 2020
This book seeks to highlight the influence of the Enlightenment idea of social progress on the character of the "civilising mission" in early Australia by tracing its presence in the various "civilising" attempts undertaken between 1788 and 1850. It also represents an attempt to marry the history ...
The History of the Vespa: An Italian Miracle
1st Edition
By Andrea Rapini
September 30, 2020
Despite the symbolic capital and the global commercial success of the Vespa scooter, there is no academic book dealing with its history, only literature produced by the company itself or by scooter enthusiasts. The origins of the Vespa are shrouded in mist, entrusted more to myth than to historical...
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 ...
Historical Memory of Central and East European Communism
1st Edition
Edited
By Agnieszka Mrozik, Stanislav Holubec
August 14, 2020
Every political movement creates its own historical memory. The communist movement, though originally oriented towards the future, was no exception: The theory of human history constitutes a substantial part of Karl Marx’s and Friedrich Engels’s writings, and the movement inspired by them very soon...
The Irish and the Origins of American Popular Culture
1st Edition
By Christopher Dowd
August 14, 2020
This book focuses on the intersection between the assimilation of the Irish into American life and the emergence of an American popular culture, which took place at the same historical moment in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. During this period, the Irish in America underwent a period of ...
War Experience and Memory in Global Cultures Since 1914
1st Edition
Edited
By Angela K. Smith, Sandra Barkhof
August 14, 2020
This edited collection explores and develops representations of war experience from 1914 to the ongoing conflicts of the 21st century, through the specific lens of memory. It builds on recent explorations of the importance of war experience in shaping cultural memory that have focused on the ...
Anxieties of Belonging in Settler Colonialism: Australia, Race and Place
1st Edition
By Lisa Slater
June 30, 2020
This book analyses the anxiety "well-intentioned" settler Australian women experience when engaging with Indigenous politics. Drawing upon cultural theory and studies of affect and emotion, Slater argues that settler anxiety is an historical subjectivity which shapes perception and senses of ...
Libraries, Books, and Collectors of Texts, 1600-1900
1st Edition
Edited
By Annika Bautz, James Gregory
June 30, 2020
This book presents the collectors’ roles as prominently as the collections of books and texts which they assembled. Contributors explore the activities and networks shaping a range of continental and transcontinental European public and private collections during the Renaissance, Enlightenment and ...
The Transatlantic Genealogy of American Anglo-Saxonism
1st Edition
By Michael Modarelli
June 30, 2020
This book traces the myth of Anglo-Saxonism as it crosses from Britain to the New World as both a cultural construct and ideological nation-building tool. Through extensive investigations of both early American and English cultural attitudes toward Anglo-Saxonism and similar texts, the book ...
Fascism and the Masses: The Revolt Against the Last Humans, 1848-1945
1st Edition
By Ishay Landa
December 17, 2019
Highlighting the "mass" nature of interwar European fascism has long become commonplace. Throughout the years, numerous critics have construed fascism as a phenomenon of mass society, perhaps the ultimate expression of mass politics. This study deconstructs this long-standing perception. It argues ...
Donations, Inheritance and Property in the Nordic and Western World from Late Antiquity until Today
1st Edition
Edited
By Ole-Albert Rønning, Helle Møller Sigh, Helle Vogt
December 12, 2019
Donations, Inheritance and Property in the Nordic and Western World from Late Antiquity until Today presents an examination of Nordic donation and gift-giving practices in the Nordic and Western world, beginning in late Antiquity and extending through to the present day. Through chapters ...
Cultural Histories of Crime in Denmark, 1500 to 2000
1st Edition
Edited
By Tyge Krogh, Louise Nyholm Kallestrup, Claus Bundgård Christensen
December 10, 2019
Taking the kingdom of Denmark as its frame of reference, this volume presents a range of close analyses that shed light on the construction and deconstruction of crime and criminals, on criminal cultures and on crime control from 1500 to 2000.Historically, there have been major changes in the legal...