This book is both an introductory synthesis of Modern Portugal and a collection of studies on state formation. It creates a narrative of a country struggling for modernization, making the Portuguese case a useful tool for wider debates on modernity.
Navigating the Nineteenth-Century Institution
At its core is the pauper voice. This volume explores the New Poor Law and asylums through themes of pauper agency, dissent, and defiance, revealing how the poor negotiated a system that was fluid rather than fixed.
This study describes the evolution and modern practice of the public ritual of life, death, and resurrection in Tlayacapan, Mexico. It discusses how Carnival, Holy Week, and the Day of the Dead evolved after the Spanish conquest and are now used to attract cultural tourism.
Colonies in Conflict
This book traces the little-known history of the British Overseas Territories, the last remnants of the British Empire. It reveals how today’s wars, scandals, and controversies are rooted in a past of conflict, corruption, and neglect by a two-speed Empire.
Women’s Writing in Western Europe
The first study to investigate the legacy of a pioneering generation of women writers for contemporary authors across Western Europe. These studies uncover a complex web of intertextual links, offering new paradigms to think and read with.
Fields of Expertise
Fields of Expertise explores the relationship between experts and power from a historical perspective. Using case studies from Paris and London since 1600, it challenges traditional views on expertise in risk management, medicine, and economic policy.
Industrial Labour and the Environment
This volume brings the history of the environment together with that of work, bridging a cultural divide. It explores how human work impacts ecosystems, from the fractures between workers and communities to the redevelopment of industrial areas.
Anáil an Bhéil Bheo
Anáil an Bhéil Bheo explores orality in modern Irish culture through interdisciplinary essays on literature, folklore, and the arts. Includes major contributions by leading scholars Gearóid Ó Crualaoich and Henry Glassie.
Let’s Talk About Sex
Uncovering the hidden desires and public fears of Australia from 1901 to 1961, this history reveals how sex became a battleground of crucial social, cultural, and political importance.
This volume addresses innovative ways to present cultural heritage primarily in ethnographic and social history museums through recent exhibitions. Essential political issues related to power and the strong influences of the museum are addressed in each section.
From Here to Diversity
From Here to Diversity sees interculturalism as movement without borders. It examines the dynamics of cultural interaction by amplifying new voices: women, non-occidentals, the non-powerful, and forgotten narratives of a past as intercultural as the present.
Fertilizing the Universe
The evolution of life is a cosmic attribute, not confined to Earth. Fertilizing the Universe proposes a new and intriguing theory of extra-terrestrial life, striving to empower humankind to co-create as an ally of the cosmic powers of evolution.
Breaking traditional barriers, this collection compares male and female monarchy across the medieval and early modern eras. International scholars demonstrate how the practical expression of power and image revealed more continuity than change over five centuries.
Venereal Diseases and the Reform Enigma
Many consider misogyny, class conflict and racial paranoia the drivers of venereal disease control policy in the early twentieth century. This book re-examines sources from Edinburgh and Adelaide to reveal a more complex reality of practical disease control.
The story of Spanish iron workers who migrated to south Wales at the turn of the 20th century. Facing poverty, conflict, and racism, they overcame hurdles to integrate through a new language, rugby, and choir membership, eventually becoming Welsh.
This book showcases new approaches to postclassical comedy. The contributions approach New Comedy as theatrical performance and a dynamic player in socio-political discourse, emphasizing its progressiveness and importance for Hellenistic and Roman culture.
A Short History of the Church of England
This book retraces the history of the Church of England, focusing on the complex relations between Church and State and the theological battles that have defined it. Today, its fragile unity is threatened by internal feuds and a secularizing society.
This volume is a political, social, and economic history of Zimbabwe from 1890 to 2008. Including topics such as women’s and human rights, this study brings the history of Zimbabwe almost up to the present day, superseding older volumes.
Yea, Alabama! A Peek into the Past of One of the Most Storied Universities in the Nation
A history of the University of Alabama as never before published. Years of research into newly discovered documents reveal dramatic rivalries, political intrigue, the University’s near-total destruction, and the never-before-told story of slavery.
Beyond Borders
How does scientific knowledge circulate? Is science a national or international endeavour? Challenging the fragmented state of the history of science, this book argues for pluralism and internationalism through a rich diversity of subjects, periods, and geographies.
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