Subjects: Anthropology (General) History (General)

Inspired by the idea of revolution and excitement about the ways archaeology is being used in social justice arenas, this volume seeks to visualize archaeology as part of a movement by redefining what archaeology is and does for the greater good.

Subjects: Archaeology History (General) Political and Economic Anthropology

Subjects: History (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality Cultural Studies (General) Sociology

Subjects: History (General) Political and Economic Anthropology Development Studies

Subjects: Peace and Conflict Studies Anthropology (General) History (General)

This volume brings together theoretical and practical considerations to provide transnational memory scholars with an interdisciplinary investigation into agency—the “who” and the “how” of cross-border commemoration that motivates activists and fascinates observers.

Subjects: History (General) Sociology Memory Studies

The region of Alsace, located between the hereditary enemies of France and Germany, served as a trophy of war four times between 1870–1945. With each shift, French and German officials sought to win the allegiance of the local populace. In response to these pressures, Alsatians invoked regionalism—articulated as a political language, a cultural vision, and a community of identity—not only to define and defend their own interests against the nationalist claims of France and Germany, but also to push for social change, defend religious rights, and promote the status of the region within the larger national community.

Subject: History (General)

Subject: History (General)

From ancient Greece to modern-day bestsellers, the studies gathered in Analysing Historical Narratives offer a wide-ranging look at the techniques used by historical texts, showing how in spite of the pursuit of objectivity, narrative strategies inevitably derive from historians’ contemporary concerns.

Subject: History (General)

Subject: History (General)

Archaeogaming as Scholarly Play encourages readers to step into the intersection of archaeology and video games in order to critically examine how these games (re)present the past and those associated with exhuming it, be they archaeologists or adventurers.

Subjects: Archaeology Anthropology (General) History (General)

How can we study the impact of rules on the lives of past people using archaeological evidence? To answer this question, Archaeologies of Rules and Regulation presents case studies drawn from across Europe and the United States, exploring the use of archaeological evidence in understanding the relationship between rules, lived experience, and social identity.

Subjects: Archaeology History: Medieval/Early Modern Sociology History (General)

By drawing parallels between the past and present – for example, the coal mines of the nineteenth-century northeastern Pennsylvania and the sweatshops of the twenty-first century in Bangladesh – we can have difficult conversations about the past and advance our commitment to address social justice issues.

Subjects: Archaeology History (General) Political and Economic Anthropology

Subjects: Archaeology History (General) Heritage Studies

Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality History (General)

Subjects: History (General) Literary Studies

Lost among current debates over slavery reparations is the fact that such payments were once widespread—except the “victims” were not slaves, but slaveholders deprived of their labor. This landmark study analyzes the debates over compensation within France and Great Britain, establishing a compelling analysis of the Atlantic slave trade’s aftermath.

Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century History (General) Colonial History

Subject: History (General)

Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) History (General) Media Studies Literary Studies

Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) History (General) Sociology

Subjects: History (General) Sociology

Subjects: History (General) Cultural Studies (General)

Subjects: History (General) Anthropology (General)

Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality History (General) Cultural Studies (General)

Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Refugee and Migration Studies History (General)

Few people in the history of the United States embody ideals of the American Dream more than Nathan Harrison. His is a story with prominent themes of overcoming staggering obstacles, forging something-from-nothing, and evincing gritty perseverance. This book uses spectacular recent discoveries from the Nathan Harrison cabin site to offer new insights and perspectives into this most American biography.

Subjects: Archaeology Heritage Studies History (General) Anthropology (General)

Subjects: History (General) History: 18th/19th Century

Subject: History (General)

The newly awakened interest in the lives of craftspeople in Turkey is highlighted in this collection, which uses archival documents to follow Ottoman artisans from the late 15th century to the beginning of the 20th. The authors examine historical changes in the lives of artisans, focusing on the craft organizations (or guilds) that underwent substantial changes over the centuries.
 

Subjects: History (General) Political and Economic Anthropology

Subjects: History (General) History: 20th Century to Present Genocide History

Subject: History (General)

Despite the wealth of empirical research into the interrelationships of gender and labor available, little is known about the forms of classification and categorization shaping these social phenomena. Categories in Context enriches our understanding of how cognitive categories such as status, law, and rights have been produced, comprehended, appropriated, and eventually transformed in France and Germany.

Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality History (General) Sociology

Subjects: History (General) History: 18th/19th Century

Cesare Lombroso’s Legacy in Latin America: How His Controversial Popularity as a Criminologist Remains argues that the study of ethnography in Latin America should give more attention to the Lombroso school and the academic exchange between relatively marginal national anthropologies, such as the Italian and the various Latin American schools.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology History (General) Sociology

Changes in the Air looks at New Orleans and its changing cultural responses to hurricanes over three centuries, carefully exploring the complex interplay of sociopolitical, economic, legal, and cultural factors in the development or stagnation of adaptive practices.

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) History (General) Urban Studies Sustainable Development Goals

Subjects: History (General) Educational Studies Gender Studies and Sexuality

Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality History (General)

Subject: History (General)

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) History (General) Heritage Studies

Subjects: History (General) History: 20th Century to Present Gender Studies and Sexuality

Subjects: History (General) Cultural Studies (General) Literary Studies

Collective and State Violence in Turkey provides a wide range of case studies and historiographical reflections on the alarming recurrence of violence in Turkish history, as atrocities against varied ethnic-religious groups from the nineteenth century to today have propelled the nation’s very sense of itself.

Subjects: History (General) Genocide History Peace and Conflict Studies

Subjects: Museum Studies History (General) Anthropology (General)

This is the first comprehensive economic history of the Basotho people of Southern Africa and spans from the 1820s to the present day. The book documents what the Basotho have done on their own account, focusing on their systematic exclusion from trade and their political efforts to insert themselves into their country’s commerce.

Subjects: History (General) Political and Economic Anthropology Colonial History

An interdisciplinary approach to conceptual history that broadens the scope of this influential theoretical tradition, with a particular focus on cultural concepts found in art history, comparative literature, cultural studies, and German studies, among others. In doing so, it also contributes to the methodological development in these fields of research.

Subjects: History (General) Cultural Studies (General) Literary Studies

Bringing together leading scholars from across Europe, this volume represents a landmark intervention in the historiography of concepts. With clarifying overviews of such contested theoretical terrain as translatability, spatiality, and center-periphery dynamics, it also provides valuable insights into the current era of disenchantment with the European project.

Subject: History (General)

This innovative and interdisciplinary volume explores the central paradox of globalization and illuminates historical moments that range from antiquity to the era of Google Earth through contributions that trace the emergence of the world in multitudinous representations, practices, and human experiences.

Subjects: History (General) Cultural Studies (General) Anthropology (General)

Conservation’s Roots illuminates the diversity of practices in premodern environmental history across Europe from the Middle Ages to the brink of modernity. It emphasizes that the ways in which we currently understand “conservation” in the West, which is generally presumed to be a modern invention, are deeply rooted in the environmental practices and regulation of medieval and early modern Europe.

Subjects: History (General) Environmental Studies (General) Sustainable Development Goals

Subject: History (General)

Subjects: History (General) History: 18th/19th Century

Contemplating Historical Consciousness draws on three decades of applied research to tease out what has been learned from the field. Leading scholars from around the world reflect on their practice as historians, ethnographers, social scientists and demographers in order to explore the possibilities and limitations of research into historical consciousness.

Subjects: History (General) Theory and Methodology

Across thirteen case studies, this volume investigates the 1970s/80s “deregulatory moment” from a variety of historical perspectives, including transnational, comparative, pan-European, and national approaches. Collectively, they challenge an interpretive framework that treats individual decades in isolation and ignores broader trends that extend to the end of the Second World War.

Subjects: History (General) Political and Economic Anthropology History: 20th Century to Present

The contributions to this volume revisit Ronald E. Robinson’s theory of colonial collaboration in a range of historical contexts by melding it with theoretical perspectives derived from postcolonial studies and transnational history. Its case studies range globally over the course of four centuries, exploring the varied, complex interactions between imperial and local actors.

Subjects: Colonial History History (General)

Subjects: History (General) Cultural Studies (General) Literary Studies

Critical approaches to public archaeology have been in use since the 1980s, however only recently have archaeologists begun using critical theory in conjunction with public archaeology to challenge dominant narratives of the past. This volume brings together current work on the theory and practice of critical public archaeology from Europe and the United States to illustrate the ways that implementing critical approaches can introduce new understandings of the past and reveal new insights on the present.

Subjects: Archaeology Anthropology (General) History (General)

Subjects: History (General) Refugee and Migration Studies

The cultural borders of Europe are today more visible than ever, creating uncertainty for liberal democratic traditions, and questions of legitimacy, political representation, and the legal bases for citizenship. This book provides a wide-ranging exploration of these lines of demarcation in a variety of European regions and historical eras.

Subjects: History (General) Cultural Studies (General)

Subjects: History (General) Cultural Studies (General)

Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) History (General) Sociology

Subjects: Anthropology (General) History (General) Political and Economic Anthropology

In recent years, activists and policymakers have increasingly turned to mobilizing older technologies in their pursuit of sustainability, and waste recycling and bicycles both exemplify this development. This series of fascinating case studies traces the twin histories of biking and recycling, providing valuable context for today’s policy challenges.

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) History (General) Transport Studies Sustainable Development Goals

Subjects: Jewish Studies History (General)

“Philipp Ther's newest contribution to the burgeoning literature on ethnic cleansing, forced deportation, and population transfer in the Twentieth Century is admirable in a number of ways. [It] is a genuinely comprehensive treatment of one of the most central problems of modern European history.”  ·  Norman Naimark, H-Soz-u-Kult

“A groundbreaking study…based on an impressive amount of facts and balances… This analytically dense, well-written book is highly recommended for a broad audience.”  ·  Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

Subjects: Genocide History History (General)

Subjects: History (General) Sociology

Subjects: Peace and Conflict Studies Anthropology (General) History (General)

An overview of grieving and memorialization – from a diverse, international group of academics – ranging from traditional modes of expression to contemporary modes that revolve around the digital world.

Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) History (General) Archaeology

Subject: History (General)

A seeming constant in the history of capitalism, greed has nonetheless undergone considerable transformations over the last five hundred years. This multilayered account offers a fresh take on an old topic, showing how evolving ideas about greed became formative elements of the modern experience.

Subject: History (General)

Subject: History (General)

Subjects: History (General) Political and Economic Anthropology

Messianic ideas of impending redemption have inspired and engendered struggles for justice, yet also violent utopian ideologies. This book analyzes the double-edged legacy of Judeo-Christian theologies of history by exploring their impact on subsequent philosophies of history and political ideologies, from Ancient Judaism, through German Romanticism, to contemporary radical thought.

Subjects: Anthropology of Religion History (General)

The contributions assembled here focus on the complex role of language in Africa’s historical development. From prehistoric dynamics of wealth and poverty to the conceptual foundations of postcolonial nationalism, each engages with African intellectual history while analyzing the regional and global contexts in which categories like “work” and “land” take shape.

Subject: History (General)

Why is Germany imagined as the ‘land of music’? How has that image been made over time? Exploring examples that range from Bruckner to the Beatles, from classical song to sex-club dance music, a team of historians and musicologists explores these perennial questions in innovative and exciting ways.

Subjects: Media Studies History (General) Cultural Studies (General) Performance Studies

Subject: History (General)

Subjects: History (General) History: 20th Century to Present

Subject: History (General)

Subjects: History (General) Jewish Studies

Subjects: Educational Studies History (General) Sociology

Subjects: History (General) Cultural Studies (General)

The History and Function of Empathy in Historical Studies is the first comprehensive account of empathy’s place in historical scholarship, history pedagogy, and the philosophy of history. It explains how empathy became central to teaching history in schools, and traces its roots in nineteenth-century German historicism.

Subjects: History (General) Educational Studies

An innovative interdisciplinary volume that explores the conceptual and lived relations between the academic fields of religion and heritage. A wholistic approach is taken to considering emplacement — a broad interrelation of objects, peoples, histories and places — in the analysis of relations between religion and heritage.

Subjects: Heritage Studies Anthropology of Religion History (General) Cultural Studies (General)

Spanning Europe, Asia and the Pacific, Encounters with Emotions investigates experiences of face-to-face transcultural encounters from the seventeenth century to the present. The case-studies presented in this volume explore the cultural aspects of nature and the bodily dimensions of nurture in order to trace the historical trajectories that shape our understandings of current cultural boundaries and effects of globalization.

Subjects: History (General) Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)

Political action and historical research have been deeply intertwined for nearly as long as the historical profession has existed. In this insightful collection, practicing historians analyze, reflect on, and share their experiences of this complex relationship.

Subjects: History (General) Peace and Conflict Studies Sociology

Subjects: Urban Studies Cultural Studies (General) History (General)

At a time when anthropologists claim new ethnographic experiences, a second chance should be given to older ethnographic texts. Recovering monographs produced c.1870-1922 that dispute canonic models of writing culture, the present volume challenges the assumption that fieldwork carried out within a single context by a single individual, with its corresponding output, the monograph, was a twentieth-century invention.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) History (General) Colonial History

This illuminating collective meditation on historical practice show how “ethos”— evoking a society’s “fundamental character” as well as knowledge and commitment—can serve as a conceptual lodestar for understanding as a narrative, a form of consciousness, and an ethical-political orientation.

Subject: History (General)

Subject: History (General)

Subject: History (General)

Subjects: History (General) History: 20th Century to Present

Subjects: History (General) Sociology

Subjects: History (General) Cultural Studies (General) Memory Studies

One of the premier historiographers alive today, Jörn Rüsen has made enormous contributions to the methods and theoretical framework of history. In Evidence and Meaning, Rüsen surveys the seismic changes that have shaped the historical profession over the last half-century, while offering a clear, economical account of his theory of history.

Subject: History (General)

Expeditions played a major role in the development of anthropology, but their significance has been eclipsed by the discipline’s valorization of the lone observer. This rich assessment of cross-cultural research and team-based travel is part of a new historical turn that regards expeditions as cultural formations, and provides new and compelling perspectives on the histories of anthropology and empire.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) History (General) Travel and Tourism

Subject: History (General)

Subject: History (General)

By bringing together in one place specific objects, materials, and features indicating ritual, religious, or magical belief used by people around the world and through time, this tool will assist archaeologists in identifying evidence of belief-related behaviors and broadening their understanding of how those behaviors may also be seen through less obvious evidential lines.

Subjects: Archaeology History (General) Anthropology of Religion

Drawing on a range of multidisciplinary perspectives, this volume investigates the concepts and practices of comparison from the early modern period to the present. Each contribution demonstrates how comparison has helped to drive the seemingly irresistible dynamism of the modern world, with a particular focus on what comparison looks like “in action.”

Subject: History (General)

During the nineteenth century, a change developed in the way architectural objects from the distant past were viewed by contemporaries. Architectural heritage often was (and still is) an important element of nation building. Authors address the process of building national myths around certain architectural objects. National narratives are questioned, as is the position architectural heritage played in the nineteenth and the early twentieth centuries. 

Subjects: Heritage Studies History (General) Cultural Studies (General)

Subjects: History (General) History: 20th Century to Present Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology

The “forgotten majority” of German merchants in London between the end of the Hanseatic League and the end of the Napoleonic Wars became the largest mercantile Christian immigrant group in the eighteenth century. Using previously neglected and little used evidence, this book assesses the causes of their migration, the establishment of their businesses in the capital, and the global reach of the enterprises.

Subjects: History (General) History: 18th/19th Century

Former Neighbors, Future Allies is a key bridge into the research and perspectives needed to nurture ethnography’s growing role in German studies. This volume creates a space for dialogue between North American Germanists and ethnographers in and of the German-speaking world, enriching both fields in the process.

Subjects: History (General) Anthropology (General)

Subjects: Film and Television Studies Anthropology (General) History (General)

Subjects: History (General) History: 20th Century to Present

Subject: History (General)

Drawing on a set of interviews and a thousand letters written over fifty years, Friendship, Power, and Everyday Life considers how a group of women, self-defined as non-political, experienced, accepted, rejected, or countered the exercise of power across twentieth-century regimes in Germany.

Subjects: History (General) Sociology Gender Studies and Sexuality

Subjects: History (General) History: 20th Century to Present

Subjects: History (General) Cultural Studies (General) Memory Studies

Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Cultural Studies (General) History (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality

“This collection of essays addresses important topics in the history of European feminisms.  It goes beyond national histories to examine transnational contacts, comparisons, and transfers… The essays are by an interesting collection of authors, some already very well known in the field, and others promising junior scholars.”  ·  Ann Taylor Allen, University of Louisville

Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality History (General)

Jean Quataert’s former students, colleagues, and collaborators come together in Gender in Germany and Beyond to not only celebrate Quataert’s shaping of the field of modern German, Women’s and transnational history, but also to expand on that scholarship, setting a precedent for the future of the field.

Subjects: History (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality

Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality History (General)

Subjects: History (General) History: 18th/19th Century

Subject: History (General)

Subject: History (General)

Subject: History (General)

Subject: History (General)

Subjects: History (General) Sociology

The Greek Revolution of 1821 reshaped the Eastern Mediterranean and reverberated across the globe. Moving beyond traditional nationalist historiography, this study draws on recent transnational and Ottoman-centered scholarship to examine how diaspora networks, European Philhellenes, and great power rivalries transformed a regional revolt into an international cause.

Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century History (General)

Gustav Stresemann has become a steadfast icon and key figure in understanding contemporary German and European history. Renowned historian Karl Heinrich Pohl draws on new archival material and extensive research to supplement our previous knowledge of Stresmann’s life and work.

Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present History (General)

Subjects: History (General) Memory Studies Political and Economic Anthropology

What happens when versions of the past become silenced, suppressed or privileged due to urban restructuring? In this volume, the authors explore a variety of attempts to interrupt and interrogate urban restructuring, and to imagine alternative forms of urban organization, produced by diverse coalitions of resisting groups and individuals. Armed with historical narratives, oral histories, objects, physical built environment, memorials and intangible aspects of heritage that include traditions, local knowledge, experiences and memories, authors challenge the ‘devaluation’ of their neighbourhoods in official heritage and development narratives.

Subjects: Heritage Studies Cultural Studies (General) History (General)

Subject: History (General)

Subject: History (General)

Subjects: History (General) Cultural Studies (General) Memory Studies

Subject: History (General)

Subjects: History (General) Cultural Studies (General)

Subject: History (General)

Subjects: Theory and Methodology History (General)

Subject: History (General)

Subjects: History (General) History: 20th Century to Present

Subject: History (General)

Subjects: History (General) Literary Studies Anthropology (General) Sociology

Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) History (General) Media Studies

As a Slavic-speaking religious and ethnic “Other” living just a stone’s throw from the symbolic heart of the continent, the Muslim peoples of Bosnia and Herzegovina have long occupied a liminal space in the European imagination. This volume assembles contributions from historians, anthropologists, political scientists, and literary scholars to examine the political, social, and discursive dimensions of Bosnian Muslims’ encounter with the West.

Subjects: History (General) Anthropology of Religion

Drawing on twenty years of research, this book examines the historical perspective of a Pacific people who saw “globalization” come and go. It asks the question: What does it mean to claim that global connections are in the past rather than the present or the future?

Subjects: Anthropology (General) History (General) Cultural Studies (General)

This comprehensive study takes a fresh look at the diverse understandings and interpretations of the concept of liberalism in Europe during the last several centuries, encompassing not just the familiar movements, doctrines, and political parties that fall under the heading of “liberal” but also the intertwined historical currents of thought behind them.

Subject: History (General)

In Search of Worldviews argues that in-depth anthropological studies are the best data-driven way to provide accurate information from local perspectives on everyday topics such as women’s roles, why Islam is overtaking other major religions, why democracy has difficulty taking hold, how minorities cope, and formal and informal methods of conflict resolution.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Development Studies History (General)

Subjects: History (General) History: 18th/19th Century Sociology

Providing a comprehensive set of guidance to assist researchers wishing to carry out, curate and disseminate field research at a historic burial ground, chapters offer up to date methods for surface and subsurface survey and for the recording and archiving of burial monument data. Also included is the archaeological potential of pet cemeteries and other pet memorials.

Subjects: Archaeology History (General) Anthropology (General)

Literal and metaphorical excavations at Sweet Briar College reveal how African American labor enabled the transformation of Sweet Briar Plantation into a private women’s college in 1906. Despite being built and maintained by African American families, the college did not integrate its student body for sixty years after it opened. Invisible Founders challenges our ideas of what a college “founder” is, restoring African American narratives to their deserved and central place in the story of a single institution.

Subjects: Archaeology History (General) Educational Studies Heritage Studies

Subject: History (General)

Subjects: History (General) Political and Economic Anthropology Sociology

Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second largest city located on the Ukrainian-Russian historical borderland, has often been overlooked given its historic role. Kharkov/Kharkov for the first time uncovers the city’s long history, from the 17th century to today, and its process of becoming a borderland and undergoing regional reconfiguration, modernization and development of national mythologies.

Subjects: History (General) Urban Studies

David Warren Sabean was a pioneer in the historical-anthropological study of kinship, community, and selfhood in early modern and modern Europe. The significance of Sabean’s scholarship is reflected in original research contributed by former students and essays written by his contemporaries, demonstrating Sabean’s impact on the discipline of history.

Subjects: History (General) Anthropology (General)

Notwithstanding Nordic countries’ reputation for strong labour movements, the fortunes of organized labour have varied widely throughout the region and across different historical periods. Together, the essays collected here explore themes such as work, unions, politics and migration in the Nordic states from the early modern period to the twenty-first century.

Subjects: History (General) Political and Economic Anthropology

Subjects: History (General) Refugee and Migration Studies Gender Studies and Sexuality Sociology

“This is an important fresh look at modern intellectual history at the interface of philosophy and Jewish thought. It has a persuasive line of argument and illuminating discussions of the subject. It adds a crucial strand to the weave of modern intellectual history and argues that, unless close attention is paid to the dimension of Jewish thought in this project, this history remains misunderstood.”  ·  Willi Goetschel, University of Toronto

Subjects: Jewish Studies History (General)

Focusing on how cataclysmic events within primarily Central and Eastern Europe have been transmitted across borders and generations, this volume interrogates how the theory of historical lessons has evolved, ultimately providing a useful framework for comprehending contemporary conflicts and issues.

Subjects: History (General) History: 20th Century to Present Peace and Conflict Studies

Subjects: Theory and Methodology History (General) Sociology

Subjects: History (General) Cultural Studies (General)

Subjects: Museum Studies History (General) Archaeology

Authors investigate the multifaceted character of maritime landscapes and maritime oriented communities in California’s equally diverse cultural landscape; viewed through an archaeological lens, and emphasizing social behavior and community as material culture in order to reveal intersections and commonalities.

Subjects: Archaeology History (General) Anthropology (General)

Subject: History (General)

Belief in magic and particularly the power of witchcraft was a deep and enduring presence in popular culture; people created and concealed many objects to protect themselves from harmful magic.  Detailed are the principal forms of magical house protection in Britain and beyond from the fourteenth century to the present day.

Subjects: Archaeology History (General) Anthropology of Religion

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) History (General)

Subject: History (General)

Subjects: History (General) Cultural Studies (General)

Subject: History (General)

In studies of a common European past, there is a significant lack of scholarship on the former Eastern Bloc countries. This volume offers a reflection on memory in an Eastern European historical context, one that can be measured against and applied to historical experience in other parts of Europe.

Subjects: History (General) Sociology Memory Studies

Increasingly, scholars understand memory to be a fluid, dynamic process, rather than a reified object. Embodying this elastic approach, this state-of-the-field collection systematically explores the transcultural, transgenerational, transmedial, and transdisciplinary dimensions of memory—four key concepts that have sometimes been studied in isolation but never in such an integrated manner.

Subjects: History (General) Cultural Studies (General) Memory Studies

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies History (General)

The essays collected here reconstruct the experiences of vagrants, laborers, religious exiles, refugees, and other migrants during the last five hundred years of German history. These diverse contributions identify important commonalities between eras and contextualize Germany within broader migration histories.

Subjects: History (General) Mobility Studies Refugee and Migration Studies

Subjects: History (General) History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present Sociology

Using this handbook, researchers learn to develop historical and archaeological research questions anchored in dynamic network analysis (DYRA). Undergraduate and graduate students, as well as professional historians and archaeologists can consult on issues that range from hypothesis-driven research to critiquing dominant historical narratives, especially those that have tended ignore the diversity of the archaeological record.

Subjects: Archaeology History (General) Anthropology (General)

Subject: History (General)

Subjects: History (General) History: 20th Century to Present

Germany’s leading role in EU economic policy following the 2008 financial crisis is in a sense only the latest step in a long history of attempts at political unification through economic integration. This volume follows this trajectory in German-speaking lands from the late Renaissance until the close of the twentieth century.

Subject: History (General)

With a focus on new research, this book explores the history of non-elite populations in cities from Caracas to Vienna, and Paris to Belgrade. Contributors’ research both asks classical socio-historical questions and takes narration seriously, engaging with novels, films, local history accounts, petitions to municipal authorities, and interviews with alternative cinema activists.

Subjects: Urban Studies History (General) Sociology

Subjects: History (General) Media Studies Literary Studies Film and Television Studies

Subjects: History (General) Cultural Studies (General) Literary Studies

Focused on the German-speaking parts of the former Habsburg Empire, this book offers a series of analyses of the interplay of nationalism’s discursive and institutional facets. Christian Karner develops a distinctive, longue durée perspective on Austrian nationalism, which traces nationalist politics from the late eighteenth century to today’s digital age.

Subjects: History (General) Sociology

Subjects: History (General) Environmental Studies (General)

Subjects: Development Studies History (General) Sociology

This volume brings together international experts on American history and foreign affairs to assess the cumulative impact of the United States’ efforts to end wars. It offers essential perspectives on both the Cold War and post-9/11 eras and demonstrates just how high the stakes are as the US confronts the possibility of war without end.

Subjects: Peace and Conflict Studies History: 20th Century to Present History (General)

Is global violence on the decline? Steven Pinker’s highly-publicized argument that human violence across the world has been dramatically abating continues to influence discourse among academics and the general public alike.

Subjects: History (General) Sociology

Informing current debate about the future of the humanities, this volume focuses discussions on the Bildung’s original German context using a multi-disciplinary perspective root out the interesting ways that Bildung continues to shape our understanding of self-formation.

Subjects: History (General) Educational Studies

When this work – one that contributes to both the history and anthropology fields – first appeared in 1982, it was hailed as a landmark study of the role of folklore in nation-building. In this expanded edition, a new introduction by the author and a foreword by Sharon Macdonald document its importance for current debates about Greece’s often contested place in the complex politics of the European Union.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) History (General)

Subjects: Theory and Methodology History (General)

Subject: History (General)

Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) History (General)

This tightly organized collection locates the essence of European parliamentarism in four key aspects—deliberation, representation, responsibility, and sovereignty—and explores the ways in which they have been contested, reshaped, and implemented in various states and regions, including familiar western European formations alongside those from central, eastern, and southern Europe.

Subject: History (General)

Subjects: History (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality

Subject: History (General)

Subjects: History (General) Sociology

This boldly interdisciplinary volume explores the ways that historical and contemporary actors in the U.S. have crossed such borders—whether national, cultural, ethnic, racial, or conceptual. These essays suggest new ways to understand borders while encouraging connection and exchange, even as social and political forces continue to try to draw lines around and between people.

Subjects: History (General) Mobility Studies Cultural Studies (General)

Subjects: History (General) History: 20th Century to Present

Subjects: History (General) History: 20th Century to Present Gender Studies and Sexuality

Subjects: History (General) History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General)

Subjects: Jewish Studies History (General) Refugee and Migration Studies

Political Networks and Social Movements examines the relationship between the State and social movements under the administration of current Bolivian president Evo Morales. Author Soledad Valdivia Rivera analyzes how this linkage has come to transform the essence of the Bolivian political process as we know it.

Subjects: Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology History (General)

Leading us beyond current narratives on the decline of kinship which assume kinship’s existence since the dawn of civilization, The Politics of Making Kinship interrogates kinship’s geneses, constructions, elaborations, implementations, and enforcing agents across a long view of European history, and demonstrates how kinship is woven through modern societies.

Subjects: History (General) Political and Economic Anthropology Anthropology (General)

Politics of the Dunes explores the ways in which the Open City’s architectural and urban practice is devoted to keeping open the utopian possibility for multiplicity, pluralism, and democratization in the face of authoritarianism, a powerful mode of postcolonial environmental urbanism that can inform architectural practices today.

Subjects: Urban Studies Sociology History (General)

Subjects: History (General) Refugee and Migration Studies

This comprehensive volume demonstrates that the question of how to care for the poor has had significant implications for German history throughout the modern era. Here, eight leading historians provide essential case studies and syntheses of current research into German welfare, from the Holy Roman Empire to the present day.

Subjects: History (General) Sociology

The Poor Laws in the United Kingdom left a built and material legacy of over two centuries of legislative provision for the poor and infirm. Workhouses represent the first centralized, state-organized system for welfare. This volume forms a social archaeology of the lived experience of poverty and health in the nineteenth century.

Subjects: Archaeology History (General) Political and Economic Anthropology

“…a fascinating topic for architects, urban designers and urban master planners…the interaction of political power, political-philosophical ideas about the state, and built form...The contributors are clearly experts on their topics, and no single author could ever have handled the [subject matter] with this combination of breadth and depth.” · Sir Peter Hall, University College London

Subjects: Urban Studies History (General)

Subjects: Literary Studies History (General) Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology

After over a decade of austerity in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, what lies next for European societies? This edited collection brings together sociologists, social movement specialists, political scientists, and other scholars to look specifically at how Portuguese youth have navigated this politically and economically difficult period.

Subjects: Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology History (General) Sustainable Development Goals

Subjects: History (General) History: 20th Century to Present

Subject: History (General)

Subjects: History (General) History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present Sociology

Based on extensive research in Brandt’s personal archives, additional studies in international archives, and interviews with contemporary witnesses, this book traces Brandt’s nearly lifelong efforts towards the full reintegration of a united Germany into the community of European countries.

Subjects: History (General) History: 20th Century to Present Peace and Conflict Studies

Subjects: Peace and Conflict Studies Anthropology (General) History (General)

In 2015, both Portugal and Spain passed laws enabling descendants of Sephardi Jews to obtain citizenship, an historic offer of reconciliation. Drawing from scholarly and first-person essays, Reparative Citizenship for Sephardi Descendants analyzes the memory and afterlives of those who were wronged, and how reconciliatory rights impact the lives of those affected.

Subjects: History (General) Cultural Studies (General) History: 20th Century to Present

Covering numerous European nations, this volume explores social ties, poverty, and how their relationship informed the strategies of governments in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Through studies of neglected children, the homeless, and the unemployed, it provides a comparative perspective on the perceptions, representations, and experiences of poverty and welfare.

Subjects: History (General) Sociology

Subject: History (General)

Subjects: History (General) History: 20th Century to Present Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology

Subjects: Literary Studies History (General)

Subject: History (General)

Subjects: History (General) History: Medieval/Early Modern History: 18th/19th Century

Rivers figure prominently in a nation’s historical memory, and the Volga and Mississippi have special importance in Russian and American cultures. Despite being forced into submission for modern-day hydrological regimes, the Volga and Mississippi Rivers persist in the collective memory and continue to offer solace, recreation, and sustenance. Through their histories we derive a more nuanced view of human interaction with the environment.

Subjects: History (General) Environmental Studies (General) Memory Studies

Subjects: History (General) History: 20th Century to Present Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology

Subjects: History (General) Cultural Studies (General)

Subject: History (General)

Subject: History (General)

Heritage studies necessarily must deal with strong emotions and political commitments. In this, it poses particular challenges for teachers and their students. Guided by a shared focus on these “sensitive pasts,” the contributors to this volume draw on new theoretical and empirical research to provide valuable insights into heritage pedagogy.

Subjects: History (General) Educational Studies Heritage Studies

Subject: History (General)

“In all cases, the research is solid, not drawing from a single source, such as a series of   letters, but including a broad range of historical evidence. The analyses themselves are nicely nuanced and all connect with the main theoretical issues of the field, providing a lively discussion and indicating new directions for research. Scholars from many fields focusing on family and kinship, as well as general readers with an interest in family relations, will enjoy and find stimulation in this volume.”  ·  Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute

Subjects: History (General) Sociology

Subject: History (General)

Subject: History (General)

Subjects: Colonial History History (General)

Subject: History (General)

Subjects: History (General) History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present Sociology

Subject: History (General)

Subject: History (General)

Over world history, Southeast Asia’s contribution to the world economy (during the late prehistoric and early historic periods) has not been given much attention. This book attempts to recalibrate these interactions of Southeast Asia with other parts of the world economy, and gives the region its due instead of treating it as little more than a region of peripheral entrepôts.

Subjects: Archaeology History (General) Political and Economic Anthropology

Subject: History (General)

Subjects: Jewish Studies History (General)

Subjects: History (General) History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present

Tap water enables the development of cities in locations with insufficient natural resources to support such populations. This archaeological examination of the New York City watershed reveals the cultural costs of urban water systems. Urban water systems do more than reroute water from one place to another. At best, they redefine communities. At worst, they erase them.

Subjects: Archaeology History (General) Political and Economic Anthropology Sustainable Development Goals

Thinking Russia’s History Environmentallybrings together an international set of scholars to showcase the contribution that the study of Russian environments makes to the global environmental field. It challenges the stereotypes of Russian history, highlighting lesser-known features of the nation’s environments…

Subjects: History (General) Environmental Studies (General)

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Sociology History (General)

While taking a critical look at the labor and social issues related to timber, the story of labor, immigration, and development around the San Francisco Bay region is told through the lens of an archaeological case study of a major player of the timber industry between 1885 and 1920. Timber, Sail, and Rail recounts the mill operations and broadly examines its intersections with other industries, such as shipping, brick manufacture, rail companies, lime production, and other lesser enterprises.

Subjects: Archaeology History (General) Transport Studies

Subjects: History (General) Cultural Studies (General) Memory Studies

Guiding the reader through the development of sex education in Poland, Agnieszka Kościańska looks at how it has changed from the 19th century to the present day. The book also identifies the women and men who changed the way sex was written about in the country, and how they established the field of Polish sexology.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality History (General)

In this wide-ranging volume’s twelve compact essays, scholars from across the disciplines trace Gesamtkunstwerk—the ideal of the “total work of art”—from its foundations in the early nineteenth century to its manifold articulations and reimaginings in the twentieth century and beyond.

Subjects: History (General) Cultural Studies (General) Performance Studies

Subject: History (General)

Subjects: Educational Studies History (General)

Subject: History (General)

Subjects: History (General) Cultural Studies (General) Literary Studies

Subjects: Educational Studies History: 18th/19th Century History (General)

Subjects: History (General) Refugee and Migration Studies

John Quincy Adams warned Americans not to search abroad for monsters to destroy, yet such figures have frequently habituated the discourses of U.S. foreign policy. This collection of essays focuses on counter-identities in American consciousness to explain how foreign policies and the discourse surrounding them develop.

Subjects: History (General) Political and Economic Anthropology

The history of timekeeping is complex and ever progressing. The Unsettled Clock: The Persistence of Time Pluralism explores time pluralism by documenting historical cases and examining its persistence in present time, offering a political and historical analysis of how timekeeping has been shaped, challenged, and manipulated.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General) History (General)

This volume explores the phenomenon of urban violence in order to unveil general developments and historical specificities in a variety of Middle Eastern contexts. The case studies counter notions of a violent Middle East to foster a new understanding of violent behavior in this region.

Subjects: Urban Studies History (General)

Drawing on a wealth of heretofore neglected sources from multiple languages, this book gives a fascinating account of how vampires—whose various incarnations originally developed within the folk traditions of societies throughout the world—came to be inextricably tied to Eastern Europe in the popular imagination.

Subjects: Sociology Literary Studies History (General) Cultural Studies (General)

“…a meticulous study of ethnic groups faring in different regions of contemporary Uzbekistan. Nowadays, when there are so many unjustifiable restrictions imposed by the Karimov regime for foreign students who are eager to study Uzbek society, this book is a lucky example of a scholar who managed, in spite all restrictions, to conduct and complete substantial fieldwork research in four regions of Uzbekistan.” · Alisher Ilkhamov, Independent Scholar

Subjects: Anthropology (General) History (General) Sociology

Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) History (General) Literary Studies

Visions of Humanity focuses on the promises and problems, the successes and the failures of “humanity” as an idea since the 19^th century. Through an international set of contributions, the volume examines the hopes and ambiguities involved in constructing, invoking, and instrumentalizing the “we” of humanity.

Subjects: History (General) Cultural Studies (General)

Subjects: History (General) Urban Studies Refugee and Migration Studies Memory Studies

Drawing on family materials, records, and eyewitness accounts, this book shows the impact of war on individual women caught up in diverse, and often treacherous, situations. Historical and modern chapters draw on vivid stories worldwide to answer the question: “How do women act in dangerous wars?”

Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality History (General)

Although war memoirs constitute a rich, varied literary form, they are often dismissed by historians as unreliable. This collection of essays is the first to explore the modern war memoir, revealing the genre’s surprising capacity for breadth and sophistication while remaining sensitive to the challenges it poses for scholars.

Subjects: History (General) Cultural Studies (General) Literary Studies Memory Studies

Subjects: History (General) Cultural Studies (General)

Every society has a definition of what work is, and isn’t. What Is Work? offers a multi-disciplinary overview of work as it applies to the highly gendered realm of household economies, drawing from scholarship on gender history, economic sociology, family history, civil law, and feminist economics.

Subjects: History (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality

What do ordinary Germans think of their country’s Nazi past? Do young Germans just want to "move on?" Combining observation, interviews, and archival work, the studies conducted in this book explore these questions to reveal the complexity of history and how young Germans view Nazism’s place in contemporary society.

Subjects: History (General) Educational Studies Anthropology (General) Memory Studies

Subjects: Anthropology (General) History (General) Literary Studies Cultural Studies (General)

Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) History (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality

Accessing court records, state archives, oral sources, literary material, memoirs, and newspapers, the contributors to this volume reconstruct women’s lives in the Ottoman Empire, from Aleppo to Sofia, and from Jeddah to Istanbul. The seven chapters offer a wide panorama of the Ottoman urban geography, with a specific concern for gender roles.

Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Urban Studies History (General)

Subject: History (General)

Subjects: History (General) History: 20th Century to Present

The Norwegian Constitution is the oldest functioning constitution in Europe. Its bicentenary in 2014 has inspired the analyses in this volume, where contributors focus on the Constitution as a text to explore new ways of analyzing democratic development. Writing Democracy examines the framing of the Norwegian Constitution, its transformations, and its interpretations during the last two centuries.

Subject: History (General)