Routledge Studies in Cultural History
About the Book Series
This series aims to present both case studies and the latest theoretical perspectives on the subject. It is not confined to any particular period or school of thought and seeks to provide a broad range of topics and events from around the world.
The Irish and the Origins of American Popular Culture
1st Edition
By Christopher Dowd
August 14, 2020
This book focuses on the intersection between the assimilation of the Irish into American life and the emergence of an American popular culture, which took place at the same historical moment in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. During this period, the Irish in America underwent a period of ...
War Experience and Memory in Global Cultures Since 1914
1st Edition
Edited
By Angela K. Smith, Sandra Barkhof
August 14, 2020
This edited collection explores and develops representations of war experience from 1914 to the ongoing conflicts of the 21st century, through the specific lens of memory. It builds on recent explorations of the importance of war experience in shaping cultural memory that have focused on the ...
Anxieties of Belonging in Settler Colonialism: Australia, Race and Place
1st Edition
By Lisa Slater
June 30, 2020
This book analyses the anxiety "well-intentioned" settler Australian women experience when engaging with Indigenous politics. Drawing upon cultural theory and studies of affect and emotion, Slater argues that settler anxiety is an historical subjectivity which shapes perception and senses of ...
Libraries, Books, and Collectors of Texts, 1600-1900
1st Edition
Edited
By Annika Bautz, James Gregory
June 30, 2020
This book presents the collectors’ roles as prominently as the collections of books and texts which they assembled. Contributors explore the activities and networks shaping a range of continental and transcontinental European public and private collections during the Renaissance, Enlightenment and ...
The Transatlantic Genealogy of American Anglo-Saxonism
1st Edition
By Michael Modarelli
June 30, 2020
This book traces the myth of Anglo-Saxonism as it crosses from Britain to the New World as both a cultural construct and ideological nation-building tool. Through extensive investigations of both early American and English cultural attitudes toward Anglo-Saxonism and similar texts, the book ...
Fascism and the Masses: The Revolt Against the Last Humans, 1848-1945
1st Edition
By Ishay Landa
December 17, 2019
Highlighting the "mass" nature of interwar European fascism has long become commonplace. Throughout the years, numerous critics have construed fascism as a phenomenon of mass society, perhaps the ultimate expression of mass politics. This study deconstructs this long-standing perception. It argues ...
Donations, Inheritance and Property in the Nordic and Western World from Late Antiquity until Today
1st Edition
Edited
By Ole-Albert Rønning, Helle Møller Sigh, Helle Vogt
December 12, 2019
Donations, Inheritance and Property in the Nordic and Western World from Late Antiquity until Today presents an examination of Nordic donation and gift-giving practices in the Nordic and Western world, beginning in late Antiquity and extending through to the present day. Through chapters ...
Cultural Histories of Crime in Denmark, 1500 to 2000
1st Edition
Edited
By Tyge Krogh, Louise Nyholm Kallestrup, Claus Bundgård Christensen
December 10, 2019
Taking the kingdom of Denmark as its frame of reference, this volume presents a range of close analyses that shed light on the construction and deconstruction of crime and criminals, on criminal cultures and on crime control from 1500 to 2000.Historically, there have been major changes in the legal...
Respectability as Moral Map and Public Discourse in the Nineteenth Century
1st Edition
By Woodruff D. Smith
December 10, 2019
Despite the fact that respectability is universally recognized as a feature of nineteenth-century society, it has seldom been studied as a subject in itself. In this path-breaking book, Woodruff D. Smith interprets respectability as a highly significant cultural phenomenon, incorporating both a ...
The British Anti-Psychiatrists: From Institutional Psychiatry to the Counter-Culture, 1960-1971
1st Edition
By Oisín Wall
December 10, 2019
The British anti-psychiatric group, which formed around R.D. Laing, David Cooper, and Aaron Esterson in the 1960s, burned bright, but briefly, and has left a long legacy. This book follows their practical, social, and theoretical trajectory away from the structured world of institutional psychiatry...
The Romantic Idea of the Golden Age in Friedrich Schlegel's Philosophy of History
1st Edition
By Asko Nivala
December 10, 2019
The nineteenth-century Romantic understanding of history is often confused with the longing for the past Golden Age. In this book, the Romantic idea of Golden Age is seen from a new angle by discussing it in the context of Friedrich Schlegel’s works. Interestingly, Schlegel argued that ...
Tattoo Histories: Transcultural Perspectives on the Narratives, Practices, and Representations of Tattooing
1st Edition
Edited
By Sinah Theres Kloß
November 28, 2019
Tattoo Histories is an edited volume which analyses and discusses the relevance of tattooing in the socio-cultural construction of bodies, boundaries, and identities, among both individuals and groups. Its interdisciplinary approach facilitates historical as well as contemporary perspectives. ...