This work explores the ways in which a range of women, as consorts, regents, mistresses, factional power players, attendants at court, or as objects of... Læs mere
Visualizing the Street investigates the social and cultural significance of new developments at the intersection of visual culture and urban space.
Cohabiting peers learned from one another in medieval religious communities (11th-12th century), not top-down but peer-to-peer. This volume focuses on the way in which day-to-day interpersonal exchanges of knowledge functioned in practice.
The first ever ethnography of the newest commodity boom in China and the way it changed the economic fate of pastoralists on the Tibetan plateau.
This book explores one of the untold stories of the American military occupation of Japan, from 1945 to 1952, that of efforts by the Supreme Commander for the Allied Power's (SCAP) Arts and Monuments Division for the preservation of Japan's cultural heritage.
The study adds a new focus on female letter writing, the formation of social networks, and the gender dynamics at play in the households and communities of early modern Florence and Tuscany.
Infanticide in Tudor and Stuart England explores one of society's darkest crimes using archival sources and discussing its representation in the drama, pamphlets and broadside ballads of the early modern period.
This book provides original, nuanced insights into social meanings of money and wealth in moral economies of Asia.
This book examines the media history of swarm research and its significance to current socio-technological processes.
Visions of Electric Media is an historical examination into the early history of television, as it was understood during the Victorian and Machine ages. We will journey through the history of 'television'.
The phenomenon of martyrdom is more than 2000 years old but, as contemporary events show, still very much alive. Martyrdom: Canonisation, Contestation... Læs mere
This book examines Singapore through its imaginative representations, revealing a vital perceptual layer beyond physical structures and engineered spaces.