Peter Burke follows up his magisterial Social History of Knowledge, picking up where the first volume left off around 1750 at the publication of the...
In Early Modern Europe the first readers of a book were not those who bought it. They were the scribes who copied the author’s or translator’s...
This book provides a critical history of the movement associated with the journal Annales, from its foundation in 1929 to the present. Burke argues...
In this book Toner offers a new way of looking at Roman society at all levels, not just among the elite, by examining the imperial games and the baths...
This book offers a new perspective on the social history of twentieth-century Europe by investigating the ideals and ideas, the life worlds and...
First published in 1978, this multi-disciplinary study embraces a wide selection of topics ranging from family intimacy and authoritarianism to the...
First published in 1952, this is a full-scale and definitive account of the life and work of Sir Edwin Chadwick. Among the sources used are the...
This edited collection offers a comparative approach to the topic of multiculturalism, including different authors with contrasting arguments from...
Global issues such as climate change and the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis have spurred interest in thinking about the history of the modern...
Electroconvulsive Therapy is widely demonized or idealized. Some detractors consider its very use to be a human rights violation, while some promoters...