Explores the history of sanatoria and of winter sports between 1860 and 1914 in Switzerland. This book offers an overall view of the growth of health and sports tourism in Switzerland.
This book looks at the period 2015–18 in French politics, which witnessed the emergence of a new political order centred on Emmanuel Macron. It asks... Læs mere
Examines the pivotal influence of the succession question on the politics, religion and culture of the post-Armada years of Queen Elizabeth’s reign -- .
Explores the rapid rise of cheap print and how it permeated Venetian urban culture in the Renaissance -- .
This book examines the political works of Andrew Michael Ramsay (1683–1743) within the context of early eighteenth-century British and French political thought. -- .
Looks at the history of the London suburbs in the interwar years -- .
From the turbulent years following the French Revolution to the fiction of Jane Austen, this book charts the rise of a self-regulating reader, who possesses both moral and cultural authority. -- .
Investigates what is done to the bodies of the victims after they are killed -- .
Mapping theoretical and empirical terrains, this volume suggests that the management of dead bodies is related to the constitution and... Læs mere
This book is premised on the view that the idea of the avant garde has an increased importance in these times of global political crisis. Much cultural... Læs mere
Assesses how social democratic parties have responded, at the national as well as at the European Union level, to the 2008 financial crash -- .
A medical and social history of English spas and hydropathic centres from the early nineteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries -- .