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.
Empires and Boundaries: Race, Class, and Gender in Colonial Settings
1st Edition
Edited
By Harald Fischer-Tiné, Susanne Gehrmann
April 24, 2013
Empires and Boundaries: Rethinking Race, Class, and Gender in Colonial Settings is an exciting collection of original essays exploring the meaning and existence of conflicting and coexisting hierarchies in colonial settings. With investigations into the colonial past of a diversity of regions ...
Histories of Postmodernism
1st Edition
Edited
By Mark Bevir, Jill Hargis, Sara Rushing
June 21, 2012
Histories of Postmodernism reexamines the history of the constellation of ideas and thinkers associated with postmodernism. The increasingly dominant historical narrative depicts a relatively smooth development of ideas from Friedrich Nietzsche and Martin Heidegger, through a range of French ...
Africa after Modernism: Transitions in Literature, Media, and Philosophy
1st Edition
By Michael Janis
December 09, 2011
Africa after Modernism traces shifts in perspectives on African culture, arts, and philosophy from the conflict with European modernist interventions in the climate of colonialist aggression to present identitarian positions in the climate of globalism, multiculturalism, and mass media. By focusing...
Film, History and Cultural Citizenship: Sites of Production
1st Edition
Edited
By Tina Mai Chen, David S. Churchill
December 09, 2011
This new book investigates the relationship of film to history, power, memory, and cultural citizenship. The book is concerned with two central issues: firstly, the participation of film and filmmakers in articulating and challenging projects of modernity; and, secondly, the role of film in shaping...
The Politics of Information in Early Modern Europe
1st Edition
Edited
By Sabrina Alcorn Baron, Brendan Dooley
November 01, 2011
In its various European contexts, the invention and spread of newspapers in the seventeenth century had a profound effect on early modern culture and politics. While recent research has explored the role of the newspaper in transforming information into ideology in various European countries, this ...
History of Islam in German Thought: From Leibniz to Nietzsche
1st Edition
By Ian Almond
October 11, 2011
This concise overview of the perception of Islam in eight of the most important German thinkers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries allows a new and fascinating investigation of how these thinkers, within their own bodies of work, often espoused contradicting ideas about Islam and ...
Genre and Cinema: Ireland and Transnationalism
1st Edition
Edited
By Brian McIlroy
September 12, 2011
This impressive volume takes a broad critical look at Irish and Irish-related cinema through the lens of genre theory and criticism. Secondary and related objectives of the book are to cover key genres and sub-genres and account for their popularity. The result offers new ways of looking at Irish ...
Tobacco in Russian History and Culture: The Seventeenth Century to the Present
1st Edition
Edited
By Matthew Romaniello, Tricia Starks
April 21, 2011
According to the World Health Organization, approximately seventy percent of men and thirty percent of women in Russia smoke, and the WHO estimated that at the close of the twentieth century 280,000 Russians died every year from smoking-related illnesses – a rate over three ...
Making British Culture: English Readers and the Scottish Enlightenment, 1740–1830
1st Edition
By David Allan
January 06, 2011
Making British Culture explores an under-appreciated factor in the emergence of a recognisably British culture. Specifically, it examines the experiences of English readers between around 1707 and 1830 as they grappled, in a variety of circumstances, with the great effusion of Scottish authorship –...