European Cultural Studies Books

New and Published Books

1. Handbook of Cultural Sociology

   Edited by John R. Hall, Laura Grindstaff, Ming-cheng Lo

   The Handbook of Cultural Sociology provides a comprehensive overview of contemporary scholarship in sociology and related disciplines focused on the complex relations of culture to social structures and everyday life. With sixty-five essays written by scholars from around the world, the book...

   Published April 18th 2012 by Routledge
2. The Myth of the Russian Intelligentsia

   Old Intellectuals in the New Russia

   By Inna Kochetkova

   Series: BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies

   Russia is one of the few countries in the world where intellectuals existed as a social group and shared a unique social identity. This book focuses on one of the most important and influential groups of Russian intellectuals - the 1960s generation of shestidesyatniki - often considered the...

   Published December 20th 2009 by Routledge
3. When Greeks think about Turks

   The View from Anthropology

   Edited by Dimitrios Theodossopoulos

   Drawing upon anthropological studies that document culturally specific ways of perceiving ethic Others in Greece and Cyprus, this book explores the cultural boundaries of the categories ‘Greek’ and ‘Turk’, and compares views on what it means to be one of these ethnic groups or both. The...

   Published September 28th 2009 by Routledge
4. Narrating Post/Communism

   Colonial Discourse and Europe's Borderline Civilization

   By Natasa Kovacevic

   Series: BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies

   The transition of communist Eastern Europe to capitalist democracy post-1989 and in the aftermath of the Yugoslav wars has focused much scholarly attention - in history, political science and literature - on the fostering of new identities across Eastern European countries in the absence of the old...

   Published May 11th 2009 by Routledge
5. Arts of Perception

   The Epistemological Mentality of the Spanish Baroque, 1580-1720

   By Jeremy Robbins

   Arts of Perception offers a new account of a key period in Spanish history and culture and a fundamental reassessment of its major writers and intellectuals, including Gracián, Quevedo, Calderón, Saavedra Fajardo, López de Vega, and Sor Juana. Reading these figures in the context of European...

   Published November 12th 2006 by Routledge
6. The Chechens

   A Handbook

   By Amjad Jaimoukha

   Series: Caucasus World: Peoples of the Caucasus

   This book provides a ready introduction and practical guide to the Chechen people and some little-known and rarely-considered aspects of Chechen culture, including customs and traditions, folklore, arts and architecture, music, and literature. It also narrates Chechen history from ancient times and...

   Published January 12th 2005 by Routledge
7. Performing Russia

   Folk Revival and Russian Identity

   By Laura Olson

   This book examines folk music and dance revival movements in Russia, exploring why this folk culture has come to represent Russia, how it has been approached and produced, and why memory and tradition, in these particular forms, have taken on particular significance in different periods. Above all...

   Published January 21st 2004 by Routledge
8. Encyclopedia of Contemporary Italian Culture

   Edited by Gino Moliterno

   This rigorously compiled A-Z volume offers rich, readable coverage of the diverse forms of post-1945 Italian culture. With over 900 entries by international contributors, this volume is genuinely interdisciplinary in character, treating traditional political, economic, and legal concerns, with a...

   Published December 18th 2002 by Routledge
9. Europeanisation, National Identities and Migration

   Changes in Boundary Constructions between Western and Eastern Europe

   Edited by Willfried Spohn, Anna Triandafyllidou

   Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology

   This book provides theoretical and empirical discussion of migration, identity and Europeanisation. With contributions from leading international scholars, it provides both an overview of theoretical perspectives and a comprehensive set of case studies, covering both Eastern and Western Europe....

   Published November 20th 2002 by Routledge
10. The Ukrainian Diaspora

    By Vic Satzewich

    Series: Global Diasporas

    In this fascinating book, Vic Satzewich traces one hundred and twenty-five years of Ukranian migration, from the economic migration at the end of the nineteenth century to the political migration during the inter-war period and throughout the 1960s and 1980s resulting from the troubled relationship...

    Published August 14th 2002 by Routledge