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.
Death in Dublin During the Era of James Joyce’s Ulysses
1st Edition
By Patrick Callan
June 22, 2026
The funeral of Paddy Dignam in James Joyce’s Ulysses serves as the pivotal event of the ‘Hades’ episode. This volume explores how Dignam’s interment in Glasnevin Cemetery allowed Joyce the freedom to consider the conventions, rituals and superstitions associated with death and burial in Dublin. ...
Forms of Temporality and Historical Time in the Work of Johann Gottfried Herder
1st Edition
Edited
By Liisa Steinby, Johannes Schmidt
May 21, 2026
This edited collection is the first volume solely dedicated to research on Johann Gottfried Herder’s understanding of history, time, and temporalities. Although his ideas on time mark an important transition period that advanced the emergence of the modern world, scholars have rarely addressed ...
Growing Old in a Better World: Age and Ageing in the Utopian Imagination
1st Edition
By Robert Troschitz
May 21, 2026
As utopias question social ills and express human wants and unfulfilled dreams, they offer insights into the problems, desires and ideals of a certain time. This book uses this lens to examine cultural representations of ageing and old age in utopian writings from the Renaissance till today. The ...
Shores, Surfaces and Depths: Oceanic Cultures of Tourism and Leisure
1st Edition
Edited
By Felicity Picken, Emma Waterton
May 21, 2026
This book examines the oceanic presence in life on Earth, and the ways that we engage with the oceanic worlds for play, pleasure, adventure, and the pursuit of leisure and escape through tourism and travel. The oceanic ‘turn’ across the social sciences and humanities has produced a still ...
The Natural History of a Neapolitan Miracle: The Secret of San Gennaro’s Blood
1st Edition
By Francesco de Ceglia
May 21, 2026
This book examines Naples’s patron saint, Gennaro, the history of his blood relic, and the mystery of its periodical liquefaction. Three times a year, Neapolitans gather to witness the recurring phenomenon of the liquefaction of San Gennaro’s blood. From the seventeenth century to the present, ...
Pedagogy as Politics in Rabindranath Tagore's Santiniketan Ashram
1st Edition
By Ankita Banerjee
April 12, 2026
This book demonstrates that Rabindranath Tagore, the poet-educator, was an intensely political figure with a distinctive vision of politics. Its innovative approach treats the educational pedagogy of Tagore practised at his ashram in Santiniketan as the most eloquent expression of his political ...
Erotic Discourses in History, Culture and the Arts
1st Edition
Edited
By Aleksandra Musiał-Pudełko, Nina Augustynowicz, Agnieszka Podruczna
February 04, 2026
This volume examines the enduring entanglement of erotic desire with political, cultural, and historical change. Bringing together interdisciplinary scholarship, it explores how sex, sexuality, and eroticism both shape and are shaped by historical narratives, across diverse periods, geographies, ...
Travel and Space in Nineteenth-Century Europe
1st Edition
By Anna P.H. Geurts
December 25, 2025
This detailed study of eighty European journeys examines the everyday spatial concerns of nineteenth-century travelers, with a focus on travelers from the Netherlands and North Sea region. From common soldiers in revolutionary Belgium to guests of the tsars in Russia, many of their travel accounts ...
Construction Toys and Modern European Culture: Education, Politics, and Technology, 1830 to 1940
1st Edition
By Artemis Yagou
December 08, 2025
This innovative take on construction toys explores the development and use of building-inspired playthings between 1830 and 1940 as they became the educational toys par excellence for industrialised and industrialising societies in Europe and elsewhere. Playful and instructive at the same time, and...
Reconciling Art and Technology: A Shared Cognitive History
1st Edition
By Subrata Dasgupta
November 27, 2025
This book examines two venerable cultures, art and technology, and uses the young "interdiscipline" of cognitive history combined with case studies of both ancient and modern artifacts to explore, and unveil, some of the bridges by which this reconciliation of two seemingly distant and oppositional...
Embodied Labour: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Work's Cultural Heritage in Modern Europe
1st Edition
Edited
By Marta Kurkowska-Budzan, Aleksandra Galasińska
November 25, 2025
In a world where physical labour seems to disappear from dominant public narratives, Embodied Labour offers an in-depth, interdisciplinary analysis of the bodily experiences of work and their significance as elements of European cultural heritage. This collection examines the physical dimension of ...
Czech and Polish Sound Memories of the Second World War: Museums, Literature, Sound Art
1st Edition
By Radmila Švaříčková Slabáková, Marcin Filipowicz, Dobrawa Lisak-Gębala, Sławomir Wieczorek, Andrea Hanáčková
November 02, 2025
This book investigates the crucial yet often overlooked role of sound in shaping the memory of the Second World War. Through an interdisciplinary and transnational approach, this volume addresses a notable gap in memory studies and argues that auditory experiences are central to how war is ...