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.
Russia’s French Connection: A History of the Lasting French Imprint on Russian Culture
1st Edition
By Adam Coker
August 01, 2022
While it is generally acknowledged that Russia’s culture has been influenced by France, the present study goes beyond the Francophile preferences of the noble elite and examines Russian society more broadly, exploring those elements of French cultural influence that are still relevant today. ...
Science in the Metropolis: Vienna in Transnational Context, 1848–1918
1st Edition
Edited
By Mitchell G. Ash
August 01, 2022
This book presents new research on spaces for science and processes of interurban and transnational knowledge transfer and exchange in the imperial metropolis of Vienna in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Chapters discuss Habsburg science policy, metropolitan natural history ...
The Cultural Life of Risk and Innovation: Imagining New Markets from the Seventeenth Century to the Present
1st Edition
Edited
By Chia Yin Hsu, Thomas M. Luckett, Erika Vause
August 01, 2022
How did "innovation" become something to strive for, an end in itself? And how did "the market" come to be thought of as the space of innovation? This edited volume provides the first historical examination of how innovations are conceived, marketed, navigated and legitimated from a global ...
The Humanities in Transition from Postmodernism into the Digital Age
1st Edition
By Nigel A. Raab
August 01, 2022
The Humanities in Transition explores how the basic components of the digital age will have an impact on the most trusted theories of humanists. Over the past two generations, humanists have come to take basic postmodern theories for granted whether on language, knowledge or time. Yet Michel ...
Transatlantic Encounters in History of Education: Translations and Trajectories from a German-American Perspective
1st Edition
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By Fanny Isensee, Andreas Oberdorf, Daniel Töpper
August 01, 2022
In the last twenty years, transnational perspectives have gained momentum in the field of historical-educational research. Scholars have made substantial efforts to rethink nation-based historiographies by reconstructing and reinterpreting the cross-border encounters and intertwined processes that ...
Cultural Organizations, Networks and Mediators in Contemporary Ibero-America
1st Edition
Edited
By Diana Roig-Sanz, Jaume Subirana
September 30, 2021
This book proposes an innovative conceptual framework to explore cultural organizations at a multilateral level and cultural mediators as key figures in cultural and institutionalization processes. Specifically, it analyzes the role of Ibero-American mediators in the institutionalization of ...
Soldiers and Their Horses: Sense, Sentimentality and the Soldier-Horse Relationship in The Great War
1st Edition
By Jane Flynn
September 30, 2021
The soldier-horse relationship was nurtured by The British Army because it made the soldier and his horse into an effective fighting unit. Soldiers and their Horses explores a complex relationship forged between horses and humans in extreme conditions. As both a social history of Britain in the ...
The Magic Lantern at Work: Witnessing, Persuading, Experiencing and Connecting
1st Edition
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By Martyn Jolly, Elisa deCourcy
September 30, 2021
For centuries, various new media technologies have provided individuals with a set of powerful tools to affect their audiences. Among these the magic lantern show was perhaps the most pervasive, and persuasive. Around the world audiences gathered together in darkened rooms to see a sequence of ...
Women Photographers of the Pacific World, 1857–1930
1st Edition
By Anne Maxwell
September 30, 2021
This is the first book to examine the lives and works of women photographers active in the settler colonial nations of the Pacific Rim from 1857–1930. The few histories of women’s photography that have been written so far have been confined to developments in Britain, France, Germany and the USA, ...
Aboriginal Protection and Its Intermediaries in Britain’s Antipodean Colonies
1st Edition
Edited
By Samuel Furphy, Amanda Nettelbeck
June 30, 2021
This collection brings together world-leading and emerging scholars to explore how the concept of "protection" was applied to Indigenous peoples of Britain’s antipodean colonies. Tracing evolutions in protection from the 1830s until the end of the nineteenth century, the contributors map the ...
Children and Globalization: Multidisciplinary Perspectives
1st Edition
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By Hoda Mahmoudi, Steven Mintz
June 30, 2021
Globalization has carried vast consequences for the lives of children. It has spurred unprecedented waves of immigration, contributed to far-reaching transformations in the organization, structure, and dynamics of family life, and profoundly altered trajectories of growing up. Equally important, ...
Reform, Revolution and Crisis in Europe: Landmarks in History, Memory and Thought
1st Edition
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By Bronwyn Winter, Cat Moir
June 30, 2021
Today Europe stands at a crossroads unlike any it has faced since 1945. Since the 2008 financial crash, Europe has weathered the Greek debt crisis, the 2015 refugee crisis, and the identity crisis brought about by Brexit in 2016. The future of the European project is in doubt. How will Europe ...