Social & Cultural History Books

New and Published Books

1. Sport in Capitalist Society

   A Short History

   By Tony Collins

   Why are the Olympic Games the driving force behind a clampdown on civil liberties? What makes sport an unwavering ally of nationalism and militarism? Is sport the new opiate of the masses? These and many other questions are answered in this new radical history of sport by leading historian of...

   Published April 3rd 2013 by Routledge
2. Leisure and the Changing City 1870 - 1914 (Routledge Revivals)

   By Helen Meller

   Series: Routledge Revivals

   By the late nineteenth century, the city had become the dominant social environment of Britain, with the majority of the population living in large cities, often with over 100, 000 inhabitants. The central concern of this book, first published in 1976, is to assess how successful the late...

   Published March 31st 2013 by Routledge
3. Memory and History

   Understanding Memory as Source and Subject

   Edited by Joan Tumblety

   Series: Routledge Guides to Using Historical Sources

   How does the historian approach memory and how do historians use different sources to analyze how history and memory interact and impact on each other? Memory and History explores the different aspects of the study of this field. Taking examples from Europe, Australia, the USA and Japan and...

   Published March 26th 2013 by Routledge
4. Memorylands

   Heritage and Identity in Europe Today

   By Sharon Macdonald

   Memorylands is an original and fascinating investigation of the nature of heritage, memory and understandings of the past in Europe today. It looks at how Europe has become a ’memoryland’ – littered with material reminders of the past, such as museums, heritage sites and memorials; and at how this...

   Published March 25th 2013 by Routledge
5. Architecture, Print Culture and the Public Sphere in Eighteenth-Century France

   By Richard Wittman

   Series: The Classical Tradition in Architecture

   This book focuses on the complex ways in which architectural practice, theory, patronage, and experience became modern with the rise of a mass public and a reconfigured public sphere between the end of the seventeenth century and the French Revolution. Presenting a fresh theoretical...

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
6. Social Histories of Disability and Deformity

   Bodies, Images and Experiences

   Edited by David M. Turner, Kevin Stagg

   Series: Routledge Studies in the Social History of Medicine

   Collecting together essays written by an international set of contributors, this book provides an important contribution to the emerging field of disability history. It explores changes in understandings of deformity and disability between the sixteenth and twentieth centuries, and reveal the ways...

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
7. 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
8. Communist Indochina

   By R. B. Smith

   Edited by Beryl Williams

   Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia

   This book examines the history of communist Indochina, from the foundation of the Indochinese Communist Party in 1929-30 to the end of the 1970s. It explores the impact of the Japanese invasion of Indochina in 1940, and the subsequent relationship between the Japanese occupiers and the Vichy French...

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
9. Encyclopedia of Traditional British Rural Sports

   Edited by Tony Collins, John Martin, Wray Vamplew

   Series: Routledge Sports Reference Series

   Providing a social, economic and political study of field sports and those other activities and customs labelled as rural sports, from the earliest of times to the present day in all of the United Kingdom and Ireland.This book brings together several distinct types of traditional rural sports with...

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
10. German Orientalism

    The Study of the Middle East and Islam from 1800 to 1945

    By Ursula Wokoeck

    Series: Culture and Civilization in the Middle East

    During the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth, German universities were at the forefront of scholarship in Oriental studies. Drawing upon a comprehensive survey of thousands of German publications on the Middle East from this period, this book presents a detailed history of the...

    Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge