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.
Tobacco in Russian History and Culture: The Seventeenth Century to the Present
1st Edition
Edited
By Matthew Romaniello, Tricia Starks
April 21, 2011
According to the World Health Organization, approximately seventy percent of men and thirty percent of women in Russia smoke, and the WHO estimated that at the close of the twentieth century 280,000 Russians died every year from smoking-related illnesses – a rate over three ...
Making British Culture: English Readers and the Scottish Enlightenment, 1740–1830
1st Edition
By David Allan
January 06, 2011
Making British Culture explores an under-appreciated factor in the emergence of a recognisably British culture. Specifically, it examines the experiences of English readers between around 1707 and 1830 as they grappled, in a variety of circumstances, with the great effusion of Scottish authorship –...