These six highly-illustrated volumes provide the first truly global, interdisciplinary history of youth covering the last 2,500 years. Leading scholars from around the world have …
Winner of the 2020 PROSE Award for Multivolume Reference/Humanities How has our relationship with ‘work’ changed for different cultures over the centuries? What effect has it …
Music has been significant in social, religious, and political ritual, and in education, art, and entertainment in all human cultures from antiquity to today. A Cultural History of …
From ancient times to our modern age western empires have shaped societies around the world. From trade patterns and migration to sexuality, race and the environment, empire has …
How have ideas of the tragic influenced Western culture? How has tragedy been shaped by its social and cultural conditions? In a work that spans 2,500 years, these ambitious …
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 …
A Cultural History of the Home provides a comprehensive survey of the domestic space from ancient times to the present. Spanning 2800 years, the six volumes explore how different …
Across six volumes, A Cultural History of the Emotions explores how emotions have changed over the course of human history, but also how emotions have themselves created and …
Shortlisted by the North American Society for Sport History for its 2022 Anthologies Award From gladiatorial combat to knightly tournaments and from hunting to games and gambling, …
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 …
