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 Greening of the City: Urban Parks and Public Leisure, 1840-1939
1st Edition
By Carole A. O'Reilly
June 30, 2021
Urban parks are a much-loved feature of the city environment. However, our knowledge of the true scale of their impact remains uneven. Much work has been done on their origins and design features, but this book aims to extend this beyond the nineteenth century, examining the fuller flowering of ...
The Medieval and Early Modern Garden in Britain: Enclosure and Transformation, c. 1200-1750
1st Edition
Edited
By Patricia Skinner, Theresa Tyers
March 31, 2021
What was a "garden" in medieval and early modern British culture and how was it imagined? How did it change as Europe opened up to the wider world from the 16th century onwards? In a series of fresh approaches to these questions, the contributors offer chapters that identify and discuss ...
Heroism as a Global Phenomenon in Contemporary Culture
1st Edition
Edited
By Barbara Korte, Simon Wendt, Nicole Falkenhayner
December 18, 2020
Heroes and heroic discourse have gained new visibility in the twenty-first century. This is noted in recent research on the heroic, but it has been largely ignored that heroism is increasingly a global phenomenon both in terms of production and consumption. This edited collection aims to bridge ...
The Body in History, Culture, and the Arts
1st Edition
Edited
By Justyna Jajszczok, Aleksandra Musiał
December 18, 2020
The aim of this book is to explore the body in various historical contexts and to take it as a point of departure for broader historiographical projects. The chapters in the volume present the ways in which the body constitutes a valuable and productive object of historical analysis, especially as ...
A History of Shaolin: Buddhism, Kung Fu and Identity
1st Edition
By Lu Zhouxiang
September 30, 2020
Shaolin Monastery at Mount Song is considered the epicentre of the Chan school of Buddhism. It is also well known for its martial arts tradition and has long been regarded as a special cultural heritage site and an important symbol of the Chinese nation. This book is the first scholarly work in ...
Families, Values, and the Transfer of Knowledge in Northern Societies, 1500–2000
1st Edition
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By Ulla Aatsinki, Johanna Annola, Mervi Kaarninen
September 30, 2020
This edited collection sheds light on Nordic families’ strategies and methods for transferring significant cultural heritage to the next generation over centuries. Contributors explore why certain values, attitudes, knowledge, and patterns were selected while others were left behind, and show how ...
Monsters and Borders in the Early Modern Imagination
1st Edition
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By Jana Byars, Hans Peter Broedel
September 30, 2020
This edited collection explores the axis where monstrosity and borderlands meet to reflect the tensions, apprehensions, and excitement over the radical changes of the early modern era. The book investigates the monstrous as it acts in liminal spaces in the Renaissance and the era of Enlightenment. ...
Student Revolt, City, and Society in Europe: From the Middle Ages to the Present
1st Edition
Edited
By Pieter Dhondt, Elizabethanne Boran
September 30, 2020
Due to the strong sense among the student community of belonging to a specific social group, student revolts have been an integral part of the university throughout its history. Ironically, since the Middle Ages, the advantageous position of students in society as part of the social elite ...
The Enlightenment, Philanthropy and the Idea of Social Progress in Early Australia: Creating a Happier Race?
1st Edition
By Ilya Lazarev
September 30, 2020
This book seeks to highlight the influence of the Enlightenment idea of social progress on the character of the "civilising mission" in early Australia by tracing its presence in the various "civilising" attempts undertaken between 1788 and 1850. It also represents an attempt to marry the history ...
The History of the Vespa: An Italian Miracle
1st Edition
By Andrea Rapini
September 30, 2020
Despite the symbolic capital and the global commercial success of the Vespa scooter, there is no academic book dealing with its history, only literature produced by the company itself or by scooter enthusiasts. The origins of the Vespa are shrouded in mist, entrusted more to myth than to historical...
Negotiating Memory from the Romans to the Twenty-First Century: Damnatio Memoriae
1st Edition
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By Øivind Fuglerud, Kjersti Larsen, Marina Prusac-Lindhagen
September 15, 2020
Manipulation of the past and forced erasure of memories have been global phenomena throughout history, spanning a varied repertoire from the destruction or alteration of architecture, sites, and images, to the banning or imposing of old and new practices. The present volume addresses these ...
Historical Memory of Central and East European Communism
1st Edition
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By Agnieszka Mrozik, Stanislav Holubec
August 14, 2020
Every political movement creates its own historical memory. The communist movement, though originally oriented towards the future, was no exception: The theory of human history constitutes a substantial part of Karl Marx’s and Friedrich Engels’s writings, and the movement inspired by them very soon...