Studies for the International Society for Cultural History
About the Book Series
In both research and teaching, the study of cultural history is burgeoning, with a variety of interpretations of culture cross-fertilizing between disciplines – history, critical theory, literature and media, anthropology and ethnology, and many more. This series focuses on the study of conceptual, affective and imaginative worlds of the past, and sees culture as encompassing both textual production and social practice. It seeks to highlight historical and cultural processes of meaning-making and explore the ways in which people of the past made sense of their world.
Submissions are invited from established scholars and first-time authors alike. Prospective authors should send a detailed proposal with a rationale, chapter outlines and at least two sample chapters alongside a brief author’s biography and an anticipated submission date to:
A. Dana Weber [email protected]
Filippo CarlĂ -Uhink:Â filippo.carla-uhink @ uni-potsdam.de
Cultural Translation and Knowledge Transfer on Alternative Routes of Escape from Nazi Terror: Mediations Through Migrations
1st Edition
Edited
By Susanne Korbel, Philipp Strobl
May 31, 2023
The book investigates and compares the role of artistic and academic refugees from National Socialism acting as "cultural mediators" or "agents of knowledge" between their origin and host societies. By doing so, it locates itself at the intersection of the recently emerging field of the history of ...
Uisneach or the Center of Ireland
1st Edition
By Frédéric Armao
December 30, 2022
The hill of Uisneach lies almost exactly at the geographical center of Ireland. Remarkably, a fraction at least of the ancient Irish population was aware of that fact. There is no doubt that the place of Uisneach in Irish mythology, and more broadly speaking the Celtic world, was of utmost ...
Reconstructing Minds and Landscapes: Silent Post-War Memory in the Margins of History
1st Edition
Edited
By Marja Tuominen, T. G. Ashplant, Tiina Harjumaa
August 01, 2022
Mental and material reconstruction was an ongoing process after World War II, and it still is. This volume combines a detailed treatment of post-war cultural reconstruction in Finnish Lapland – a region on the geographical and historical margins of its nation-state – with comparative case studies ...
A Cultural History of the Radical Sixties in the San Francisco Bay Area
1st Edition
By Anthony Ashbolt
January 20, 2016
The San Francisco Bay Area was a meeting point for radical politics and counterculture in the 1960s. Until now there has been little understanding of what made political culture here unique. This work explores the development of a regional culture of radicalism in the Bay Area, one that underpinned...
A History of Emotions, 1200–1800
1st Edition
By Jonas Liliequist
January 20, 2016
The essays in this collection examine emotional responses to art and music, the role of emotions in contemporary notions of gender and sexuality and theoretical questions as to their use....
Breast Cancer in the Eighteenth Century
1st Edition
By Marjo Kaartinen
January 20, 2016
Early modern physicians and surgeons tried desperately to understand breast cancer, testing new medicines and radically improving operating techniques. In this study, the first of its kind, Kaartinen explores the emotional responses of patients and their families to the disease in the long ...
Crime and the Fascist State, 1850–1940
1st Edition
By Tiago Pires Marques
January 20, 2016
By studying the development of Italy's penal system, Pires Marques provides valuable insights into the wider political culture of European society. Focusing on the rise of fascism in Spain and Portugal as well as Italy, he examines the role of religious, economic and political factors in the making...
Statistics, Public Debate and the State, 1800–1945: A Social, Political and Intellectual History of Numbers
1st Edition
By Jean-Guy Prevost, Jean-Pierre Beaud
January 20, 2016
Based around a number of illustrative case studies, this book charts the development of our modern-day reliance on statistics. Topics covered include scientific innovations, administrative issues and the use of numbers in politics. By looking at these aspects of statistics together, the authors are...