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Carmel Raz

Hearing with the Mind

Hearing with the Mind synthesizes two approaches to music--cognitive psychology and social history--by focusing on the work of John Holden (1729--72), one of the first musical thinkers to propose a detail…

Robert Darnton

The Revolutionary Temper

When a Parisian crowd stormed the Bastille in July 1789, it triggered an event of global consequence: the overthrow of the monarchy and the birth of a new society. Most historians account for the French R…

Jan Dumolyn, Jelle Haemers

Communes and Conflict

In Communes and Conflict, Jan Dumolyn and Jelle Haemers deftly explore the urban rebellions that regularly erupted in Flanders between the thirteenth and sixteenth centuries. They analyse not only how the…

A Cultural History of the Sea in Antiquity

The sea is omnipresent in the ancient cultures of the Mediterranean basin. It is an inexhaustible source of food, but also a well-traveled roadway and a means to communicate, trade with, or wage war again…

A Cultural History of the Sea in the Medieval Age

The cultural history of the sea during the Middle Ages is a young and dynamic field. Born only recently in the literary criticism of European sources, this innovative volume pushes out beyond this Europea…

Clive Chijioke Nwonka, Matthew Harle

Black Arsenal

Arsenal is special. Its multicultural fandom reflects a changing city and a unique relationship with Black British popular culture. Thanks to its decades of fielding iconic Black players on the pitch and …

Mark B Smith

Exit Stalin

A Cultural History of the Sea in the Global Age

In 1972 an image became an icon: 'Blue Marble', a photograph of the Earth as seen from outer space. The picture features prominently the globe's water-covered surface. The ocean connects nature and cultur…

Jon Meacham

The Soul of America

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jon Meacham helps us understand the present moment in American politics and life by looking back at critical times in our history when hope ove…

Helen Pfeifer

Empire of Salons

A history of the Ottoman incorporation of Arab lands that shows how gentlemanly salons shaped culture, society, and governanceHistorians have typically linked Ottoman imperial cohesion in the sixteenth ce…

Alexandra Ghi¿

Welfare Work Without Welfare

Welfare Work Without Welfare argues that women activists, wage workers, and homemakers in the Romanian capital Bucharest became de facto social workers in the interwar period through their "austerity…

Global Europe Underground

Das Buch fragt danach, wie transnationale Wahrnehmungen und Praktiken zur Konstruktion einer linksalternativen Subjektivität beitrugen. Inwieweit wurden in den alternativen Milieus nationale Sozialisation…

The Oxford Handbook of Tourism History

The Oxford Handbook of Tourism History offers a critical survey of the development of the field that unites historical scholarship along thematic lines and uses examples from diverse places to examine a w…

Ian Frazier

Paradise Bronx

Ian Frazier's magnum opus: a love song to New York City's most heterogeneous and alive borough. Ian Frazier, one of our best observers and describers, has been walking the Bronx for fifteen years. Paradis…

Ian Frazier

Paradise Bronx

"Ian Frazier's magnum opus: a love song to New York City's most various and alive borough"--

Erin Vearncombe, Brandon Scott, Hal Taussig, The Westar Institute

After Jesus Before Christianity

From the creative minds of the scholarly group behind the groundbreaking Jesus Seminar comes this provocative and eye-opening look at the roots of Christianity that offers a thoughtful reconsideration of …

Claudia Tomlinson,

Jessica Huntley's Pan-African Life

A biography of radical black reformer, publisher, bookshop owner and Caribbean politician Jessica Huntley (1927-2013).

The Weird World of Eerie Publications

Gory, prurient, and dangerous, this is the story of the most maligned comics in the history of the medium.

Jon Stobart

Life in the Georgian Parsonage

"Bringing together a wide range of source material - from portraits to personal diaries, satirical prints to sermons, to plans and designs of parsonages - Morality and Materiality looks at the houses…