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1. Empires and Boundaries

   Race, Class, and Gender in Colonial Settings

   Edited by Harald Fischer-Tiné, Susanne Gehrmann

   Series: Routledge Studies in Cultural History

   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...

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
2. A Social History of Disability in the Middle Ages

   Cultural Considerations of Physical Impairment

   By Irina Metzler

   Series: Routledge Studies in Cultural History

   What was it like to be disabled in the Middle Ages? How did people become disabled? Did welfare support exist? This book discusses social and cultural factors affecting the lives of medieval crippled, deaf, mute and blind people, those nowadays collectively called "disabled." Although the word did...

   Published March 6th 2013 by Routledge
3. Americans Experience Russia

   Encountering the Enigma, 1917 to the Present

   Edited by Choi Chatterjee, Beth Holmgren

   Series: Routledge Studies in Cultural History

   Americans Experience Russia analyzes how American scholars, journalists, and artists envisioned, experienced, and interpreted Russia/the Soviet Union over the last century. While many histories of diplomatic, economic, and intellectual connections between the United States and the Soviet Union can...

   Published November 27th 2012 by Routledge
4. Histories of Postmodernism

   Edited by Mark Bevir, Jill Hargis, Sara Rushing

   Series: Routledge Studies in Cultural History

   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...

   Published June 20th 2012 by Routledge
5. Neutrality in Twentieth-Century Europe

   Intersections of Science, Culture, and Politics after the First World War

   Edited by Rebecka Lettevall, Geert Somsen, Sven Widmalm

   Series: Routledge Studies in Cultural History

   Whether in science or in international politics, neutrality has sometimes been promoted, not only as a viable political alternative but as a lofty ideal – in politics by nations proclaiming their peacefulness, in science as an underpinning of epistemology, in journalism and other intellectual...

   Published May 28th 2012 by Routledge
6. Politics of Memory

   Making Slavery Visible in the Public Space

   Edited by Ana Lucia Araujo

   Series: Routledge Studies in Cultural History

   The public memory of slavery and the Atlantic slave trade, which some years ago could be observed especially in North America, has slowly emerged into a transnational phenomenon now encompassing Europe, Africa, and Latin America, and even Asia – allowing the populations of African descent,...

   Published April 17th 2012 by Routledge
7. Living in the City

   Urban Institutions in the Low Countries, 1200–2010

   Edited by L.A.C.J. (Leo) Lucassen, W.H. (Wim) Willems

   Series: Routledge Studies in Cultural History

   The city is a place to find shelter, a market place, and an elevator for social mobility and success. But the city is also a place that frightens people and that can marginalize newcomers. Living in the City tries to understand what pulls people to the city since the High Middle Ages, focusing on...

   Published December 21st 2011 by Routledge
8. Migration, Ethnicity, and Mental Health

   International Perspectives, 1840-2010

   Edited by Angela McCarthy, Catharine Coleborne

   Series: Routledge Studies in Cultural History

   Most investigations of foreign-born migrants emphasize the successful adjustment and settlement of newcomers. Yet suicide, heavy drinking, violence, family separations, and domestic disharmony were but a few of the possible struggles experienced by those who relocated abroad in the nineteenth and...

   Published December 21st 2011 by Routledge
9. Historical Disasters in Context

   Science, Religion, and Politics

   Edited by Andrea JANKU, Gerrit Schenk, Franz Mauelshagen

   Series: Routledge Studies in Cultural History

   Growing concerns about climate change and the increasing occurrence of ever more devastating natural disasters in some parts of the world and their consequences for human life, not only in the immediately affected regions, but for all of us, have increased our desire to learn more about disaster...

   Published December 20th 2011 by Routledge
10. Film, History and Cultural Citizenship

    Sites of Production

    Edited by Tina Mai Chen, David S. Churchill

    Series: Routledge Studies in Cultural History

    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...

    Published December 8th 2011 by Routledge