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A Cultural History of Medicine in the Middle Ages

The Middle Ages (c.500-c.1500) are wellknown for the growth of universities and urban regulations, plague pandemics, increasingly sophisticated ways of causing injury in warfare, and abiding frameworks fo…

A Cultural History of Objects in the Modern Age

A Cultural History of Objects in the Modern Age covers the period 1900 to today, a time marked by massive global changes in production, transportation, and information-sharing in a post-colonial world. Ne…

Jessica O'Leary

Renaissance Masculinities, Diplomacy, and Cultural Transfer

Federico and Ferrante Gonzaga came of age during a time of intense change in sixteenth-century Italy: The Italian Wars (1494-1559). The first and third-born sons of Isabella d'Este and Francesco Gonzaga s…

A Cultural History of Disability in the Modern Age

If eugenics -- the science of eliminating kinds of undesirable human beings from the species record -- came to overdetermine the late 19th century in relation to disability, the 20th century may be best c…

Alistair Swale

A Cultural History of Late Meiji Japan

Scholarship on Japan s development from the late nineteenth century to the early twentieth century has, perhaps quite understandably, been dominated by attention given to Japan s emergence as a world powe…

A Cultural History of Medicine in the Modern Age

A Cultural History of Medicine presents an authoritative survey from ancient times to the present. The set of six volumes covers over 2500 years of history, charting the changes in medical experience, kno…

A Cultural History of Color in the Modern Age

A Cultural History of Color in the Modern Age covers the period 1920 to the present, a time of extraordinary developments in colour science, philosophy, art, design and technologies. The expansion of prod…

A Cultural History of Chemistry in the Early Modern Age

Traces chemical debates and practices within their cultural, social and political contexts during the period from 1500-1700.

Roberto Dellisanti

Cultural and Creative Industries and Regional Development

This book explores the role of the cultural and creative industries (CCIs) as drivers of local economic development. More specifically, it builds on two novel perspectives in order to interpret the phenom…

Creative Tools and the Softwarization of Cultural Production

This book explores how creativity is increasingly designed, marketed, and produced with digital products and services - a process referred to as softwarization. If 'being creative' has developed into one …

Amani Roberts

The Quiet Storm

From hits to history, explore the impact of R&B's iconic groups that shaped our culture. R&B groups once dominated the airwaves, shaping generations with their rhythms. But as the industry evolved, these…

The Women of Mexico's Cultural Renaissance

This book consists of a collection of essays by Mexican writer Elena Poniatowska in their first English translation, and a critical introduction. The highly engaging essays explore the lives of seven tran…

Heather Renee Sottong

Transnational Dante

Opens the field of Dante Studies to further transnational studies of the Divine Comedy's circulation, translation, and global influence This fascinating book examines how Dante was repurposed by Argentin…

A Cultural History of Color in the Medieval Age

A Cultural History of Color in the Medieval Age covers the period 500 to 1400. The medieval age saw an extraordinary burst of color - from illuminated manuscripts and polychrome sculpture to architecture …

Nigerian Women in Cultural, Political and Public Spaces

This book will provide empirical engagements of African women in the private and public spaces and their adaptations, alterations and and integration of the private and public spaces. This approach is con…

A Cultural History of Plants in the Post-Classical Era

Unravels the cultural history of plants from 500-1400, when ancient uses and meanings of plants were preserved but overlaid with new developments in agriculture, landscapes, medicines, eating habits and a…

Tahnia Ahmed

Religious and Cultural Difference in Modern British Political Cartoons

"Focusing on British broadsheets such as The Times and The Guardian, and tabloid publications such as The Sun and The Daily Mail, this book looks at the visualization of post-colonial Britain through cart…

A Cultural History of Disability in the Middle Ages

The Middle Ages was an era of dynamic social transformation, and notions of disability in medieval culture reflected how norms and forms of embodiment interacted with gender, class, and race, among other …

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