Sporting Cultures, 1650-1850 is a collection of essays that charts important developments in the study of sport in the eighteenth century.
This book makes important assertions not only about the conflicts and negotiations inherent to opposing historiographic traditions, but about ways of overcoming the limitations imposed by those traditions.
This popular primary source reader spans several centuries in over one hundred documents.
Sex and the Weimar Republic shows how, in Weimar Germany, the citizen's right to sexual freedom came with a duty to keep sexuality private, non-commercial, and respectable.
This classic dictionary deals carefully and exhaustively with all the words which occur in Anglo-Saxon poetry and prose.
In this collection of over 100 primary sources, many translated for the first time, Faith Wallis reveals the dynamic world of medicine in the Middle Ages that has been largely unavailable to students and scholars.
For almost thirty years, M. James Penton's Apocalypse Delayed has been the definitive scholarly study of the Jehovah's Witnesses. As a former member of the sect, Penton offers a comprehensive overview of this significant religious movement.
Heller and McElhinny reinterpret sociolinguistics for the twenty-first century with an original approach to the study of language that is situated in the political and economic contexts of colonialism and capitalism.
Building on the sensory ethnographic trend in contemporary sociocultural anthropology, this collection introduces the... Læs mere
The Devil’s Historians offers a passionate corrective to common – and very dangerous – myths about the medieval world.
Preserving on Paper is a critical edition of three seventeenth-century receipt books-handwritten manuals that included a combination of culinary recipes, medical remedies, and household tips which documented the work of women at home.
In these five lectures originally prepared for the CBC, Claude Levi-Strauss, one of the world's greatest living thinkers, offers the insights of a lifetime spent interpreting myths and trying to discover their significance for human understanding.