Sydney George Checkland, Sarah Jane Checkland, Adrian Cachinero Vasiljevic, Mark Phillips, Sebastien Derivaux, Kevin Wong, Rebecca Hiscott, Lynn Slobogian
Explores the cult status popularity of Kurt Vonnegut in the Soviet Union during the height of the Cold War era, uncovering the work of translators, cultural diplomacy, and socio-political and literary contexts at play in the 1970s. Why,...Loe edasi...
Why, at the height of the Cold War, was Kurt Vonnegut freely published in Russian translation in the top literary journals and book series in the USSR?Sarah D. Phillips explores a fascinating yet little-known chapter in the history...Loe edasi...
The definitive overview of furniture through history, covering 4,500 years of furniture as material, social, and cultural object. Furniture is an artifact so what can it tell us about culture? What social, religious, political, and econ...Loe edasi...
Across 6 volumes and including chapters by more than 50 experts, this set explores the changing face of the Fairy Tale from antiquity to the present day. How have the fairy tales of different cultures changed over the centuries? What do th...Loe edasi...
A Cultural History of Education is the first comprehensive and interdisciplinary overview of the cultural history of education from ancient times to the present day. With six illustrated volumes covering 2800 years of human history, this is...Loe edasi...
Examines 12,500 years of human-botanical interaction across the world. Winner of the 2022 Society of Economic Botany’s Daniel F. Austin AwardA Cultural History of Plants presents a global exploration of how plants hav...Loe edasi...
The first detailed and authoritative survey of chemistry and its central role in society over the last 5000 years. Selected as a CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title 2023From prehistoric metal extraction to medieval alchemy to mode...Loe edasi...
What role has war played in the historical and contemporary formation of societies across the globe? How have different classes and communities been impacted, and how have different civilisations over the last 2,500 years commemorated and remember...Loe edasi...
How have definitions of race varied and changed over time? What impact have religion, science and politics had on race throughout history, and how has our concept of it been changed as a result? These ambitious questions are answered by 61 experts...Loe edasi...
In a work spanning 2,500 years, 55 experts examine the meaning of love: what it feels like, how it should be expressed on the body and in language, its representation in art and literature, its explanation by theology and by science, and who should...Loe edasi...
With coverage extending from prehistory to the modern day these six highly illustrated, interdisciplinary volumes are the first definitive reference work covering the cultural history of slavery and human trafficking.Volumes cover:...Loe edasi...
A comprehensive six-volume reference work which thematically covers the history of genocide from antiquity through to the present day. How has human response to genocide evolved over time? What effect has it had on our understanding of the...Loe edasi...
Throughout history, how has the sea served as a site for cross-cultural exchange, trade and migration? As historians, how do the fields of naval history, maritime history and oceanic history intersect?56 experts, 48 chapters and over 1,700...Loe edasi...
