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.
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 ...
Anthropology and Race in Belgium and the Congo (1839-1922)
1st Edition
By Maarten Couttenier
May 05, 2025
This book examines the history of Belgian physical anthropology in the long nineteenth century and discusses how the notion of ‘race’ structured Belgian pasts and presents as well as relations between metropole and empire. In a context of competing European nationalisms, Belgian anthropologists ...
British Representations of the Middle East in the Exhibition Space, 1850–1932: Race, Gender, and Morality
1st Edition
By Holly O'Farrell
April 13, 2025
This volume analyses British exhibitions of Middle Eastern (particularly ancient Egyptian and Persian) artefacts during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries – examining how these exhibitions defined British self image in response to the Middle Eastern ‘other’. This study is an original ...
Frameworks of Time in Rousseau
1st Edition
Edited
By Jason Neidleman, Masano Yamashita
January 30, 2025
Frameworks of Time in Rousseau explores the ways in which Jean-Jacques Rousseau envisaged time as a diagnostic tool for understanding the state of society and the predicaments of modernity. Central to his conceptualization of both nature and history, time also plays a unique role in Rousseau’s ...
The Power of Neo-Slave Fiction and Public History: From Slavery to the Enslaved
1st Edition
By Grant Rodwell
January 30, 2025
Professional historians, schools, colleges and universities are not alone in shaping higher-order understanding of history. The central thesis of this book is the belief historical fiction in text and film shape attitudes towards an understanding of history as it moves the focus from slavery to the...
Body, Self and Melancholy: The Self-Narratives and Life of the Nobleman Osvaldo Ercole Trapp (1634-1710)
1st Edition
By Siglinde Clementi
December 18, 2024
This book addresses early modern concepts of the body and the self – focussing on three self-narratives authored by the nobleman Osvaldo Ercole Trapp (1634–1710), a body description from head to foot, autobiographical writings, and a brief chronicle of the House of Trapp-Caldonazzo. Approaching ...
Eating on the Move from the Eighteenth Century to the Present
1st Edition
Edited
By Rita d’Errico, Stefano Magagnoli, Peter Scholliers, Peter J. Atkins
December 18, 2024
This book focuses on food and meals consumed during travel since the transport revolution and examines the ways in which the introduction of new forms of transport (propelled by steam and petrol engines), not only affected the way people travel but also led to a transformation in the way we eat. ...
Philanthropic Celebrity in the Age of Sensibility: A Historical-Comparative Study of the British, French, and Polish Examples, c. 1770–1830
1st Edition
By Adrian Wesołowski
December 18, 2024
This volume, an original combination of biography, cultural history, and media studies, investigates the first moment in history when philanthropy was used as a self-standing claim to fame and philanthropists started being considered as a distinct breed of public figures. In its search for the ...
Revolution and (Post) War, 1917-1922: Spring and Autumn in Europe and the World
1st Edition
Edited
By Clara Serrano, Sergio Neto
December 18, 2024
This book focuses on the Russian Revolution of 1917, the legacy of the First World War, and Mussolini and Italian fascism – offering an important overview of the major themes of the early 20th century. Using a methodical approach and employing a wide range of sources, the nine chapters provide a ...
The Colonial Periodical Press in the Indian and Pacific Ocean Regions
1st Edition
Edited
By Sandra Ataíde Lobo, Jessica Falconi, Remy Dias, Dave A. Smith
December 18, 2024
This book clarifies the crucial role of periodical press in the advance of colonial print cultures and public debates in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. The Colonial Periodical Press in the Indian and Pacific Ocean Regions is a venture of the International Group for Studies of Colonial Periodical ...
Language Change and Nineteenth-Century Science: New Words, New Worlds
1st Edition
By Catherine Watts
November 29, 2024
Have you ever looked at a word and thought: ‘I wonder where that came from’? You might well find the answer in this book, which considers the origin and formation of some of the many thousands of new words that were coined in English during the nineteenth century in the broad field of ‘science’. ...