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Holocaust Consciousness in Contemporary Britain
Series: Routledge Studies in Cultural History
The Holocaust is a pervasive presence in British culture and society. Schools have been legally required to deliver Holocaust education, the government helps to fund student visits to Auschwitz, the Imperial War Museum's permanent Holocaust Exhibition has attracted millions of visitors, and Britain...
Published May 30th 2013 by Routledge
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Race, Science, and the Nation
Reconstructing the Ancient Past in Britain, France and Germany
Series: Routledge Studies in Cultural History
Across the nineteenth century, scholars in Britain, France and the German lands sought to understand their earliest ancestors: the Germanic and Celtic tribes known from classical antiquity, and the newly discovered peoples of prehistory. New fields – philology, archeology and anthropology –...
Published May 21st 2013 by Routledge
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Empires and Boundaries
Race, Class, and Gender in Colonial Settings
Series: Routledge Studies in Cultural History
Empires and Boundaries: Rethinking Race, Class, and Gender in Colonial Settings is an exciting collection of original essays exploring the meaning and existence of conflicting and coexisting hierarchies in colonial settings. With investigations into the colonial past of a diversity of regions...
Published April 23rd 2013 by Routledge
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A Social History of Disability in the Middle Ages
Cultural Considerations of Physical Impairment
Series: Routledge Studies in Cultural History
What was it like to be disabled in the Middle Ages? How did people become disabled? Did welfare support exist? This book discusses social and cultural factors affecting the lives of medieval crippled, deaf, mute and blind people, those nowadays collectively called "disabled." Although the word did...
Published March 6th 2013 by Routledge
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Americans Experience Russia
Encountering the Enigma, 1917 to the Present
Series: Routledge Studies in Cultural History
Americans Experience Russia analyzes how American scholars, journalists, and artists envisioned, experienced, and interpreted Russia/the Soviet Union over the last century. While many histories of diplomatic, economic, and intellectual connections between the United States and the Soviet Union can...
Published November 27th 2012 by Routledge
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Histories of Postmodernism
Series: Routledge Studies in Cultural History
Histories of Postmodernism reexamines the history of the constellation of ideas and thinkers associated with postmodernism. The increasingly dominant historical narrative depicts a relatively smooth development of ideas from Friedrich Nietzsche and Martin Heidegger, through a range of French...
Published June 20th 2012 by Routledge
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Neutrality in Twentieth-Century Europe
Intersections of Science, Culture, and Politics after the First World War
Series: Routledge Studies in Cultural History
Whether in science or in international politics, neutrality has sometimes been promoted, not only as a viable political alternative but as a lofty ideal – in politics by nations proclaiming their peacefulness, in science as an underpinning of epistemology, in journalism and other intellectual...
Published May 28th 2012 by Routledge
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Politics of Memory
Making Slavery Visible in the Public Space
Series: Routledge Studies in Cultural History
The public memory of slavery and the Atlantic slave trade, which some years ago could be observed especially in North America, has slowly emerged into a transnational phenomenon now encompassing Europe, Africa, and Latin America, and even Asia – allowing the populations of African descent,...
Published April 17th 2012 by Routledge
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Living in the City
Urban Institutions in the Low Countries, 1200–2010
Series: Routledge Studies in Cultural History
The city is a place to find shelter, a market place, and an elevator for social mobility and success. But the city is also a place that frightens people and that can marginalize newcomers. Living in the City tries to understand what pulls people to the city since the High Middle Ages, focusing on...
Published December 21st 2011 by Routledge
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Migration, Ethnicity, and Mental Health
International Perspectives, 1840-2010
Series: Routledge Studies in Cultural History
Most investigations of foreign-born migrants emphasize the successful adjustment and settlement of newcomers. Yet suicide, heavy drinking, violence, family separations, and domestic disharmony were but a few of the possible struggles experienced by those who relocated abroad in the nineteenth and...
Published December 21st 2011 by Routledge
Forthcoming Books
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Identity, Aesthetics, and Sound in the Fin de Siècle: Redesigning Perception
To Be Published July 24th 2013 -
Disease and Crime: A History of Social Pathologies and the New Politics of Health
To Be Published September 4th 2013 -
Critical Perspectives on Colonialism: Writing the Empire from Below
To Be Published November 13th 2013 -
The Afterlife of Used Things: Recycling in the Eighteenth Century
To Be Published November 24th 2013 -
Shadows of the Slave Past: Memory, Heritage, and Slavery
To Be Published December 14th 2013 -
Old World Empires: Cultures of Power and Governance in Eurasia
To Be Published February 27th 2014