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 Carlà -Uhink: filippo.carla-uhink @ uni-potsdam.de
Fat Bodies in Early Modern Europe
1st Edition
Edited
By Holly Fletcher, Christine Ott, Jill Burke
April 06, 2026
Discussions of fat, and its relationship to both health and beauty, are ever-present in the modern age, yet how did people in the early modern period understand and experience fatness? This interdisciplinary cultural history--edited by an art historian, a historian, and a specialist in literary ...
Practices of Reunification: The Continuation of Refugee Life After 1945
1st Edition
Edited
By Susanne Korbel, Philipp Strobl
December 15, 2025
The volume explores the role of refugees and displaced persons (DPs) in Europe after 1945. It expands conventional narratives about post-National Socialist societies, which are characterized by victim myths, narratives of Trümmerfrauen (rubble women), and the reconstruction of supposedly ...
A Cultural Study of Mary and the Annunciation: From Luke to the Enlightenment
1st Edition
By Gary Waller
October 14, 2024
This book traces the history of the Annunciation, exploring the deep and lasting impact of the event on the Western imagination. Waller explores the Annunciation from its appearance in Luke’s Gospel, to its rise to prominence in religious doctrine and popular culture, and its gradual decline in ...
Cultural Histories of Sociabilities, Spaces and Mobilities
1st Edition
By Colin Divall
October 14, 2024
For the majority of us the opportunity to travel has never been greater, yet differences in mobility highlight inequalities that have wider social implications. Exploring how and why attitudes towards movement have evolved across generations, the case studies in this essay collection range from ...
McLuhan's Global Village Today: Transatlantic Perspectives
1st Edition
By Angela Krewani
October 14, 2024
Marshall McLuhan was one of the leading media theorists of the twentieth century. This collection of essays explores the many facets of McLuhan’s work from a transatlantic perspective, balancing applied case studies with theoretical discussions....
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 ...
New Perspectives on Jewish Cultural History: Boundaries, Experiences, and Sensemaking
1st Edition
Edited
By Maja Gildin Zuckerman, Jakob Egholm Feldt
December 13, 2021
This book presents original studies of how a cultural concept of Jewishness and a coherent Jewish history came to make sense in the experiences of people entangled in different historical situations. Instead of searching for the inconsistencies, discontinuities, or ruptures of dominant grand ...
Cultural History in France: Local Debates, Global Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Evelyne Cohen, Anaïs Fléchet, Pascale Gœtschel, Laurent Martin, Pascal Ory
June 30, 2021
This volume, which gathers contributions presented at the annual conferences of l'Association pour le développement de l'histoire culturelle (ADHC), questions the subjects and boundaries of cultural history in France – with regard to neighboring approaches such as cultural studies, media studies, ...
Excavating Modernity: Physical, Temporal and Psychological Strata in Literature, 1900-1930
1st Edition
Edited
By Eleanor Dobson, Gemma Banks
June 30, 2020
This book scrutinizes physical, temporal and psychological strata across early twentieth-century literature, focusing on geological and archaeological tropes and conceptions of the stratified psyche. The essays explore psychological perceptions, from practices of envisioning that mimic looking at a...
Humour in the Arts: New Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Vivienne Westbrook, Shun-liang Chao
June 30, 2020
This collection demonstrates the usefulness of approaching texts—verbal, visual and aural—through a framework of humour. Contributors offer in-depth discussions of humour in the West within a wider cultural historical context to achieve a coherent, chronological sense of how humour proceeds from ...