Böcker i Routledge Studies in Cultural History-serien

This book illustrates how current transformations in media invite us to revisit earlier periods of travel writing and their media environments, and to explore the ways in which contemporary forms of mediation are prefigured by earlier practices and forms.

An historical analysis of French loanwords in the Russian language, this book traces patterns of French influence upon Russian culture. Following this lexical study, two major Franco-Russian events are studied: Immigration to Russia following the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars.

Aimed at postgraduate students of the English language and all those interested in the history of the English language, this work explores new worlds and offers an original and fascinating etymological journey through nineteenth-century science in its broadest sense.

This groundbreaking longue duree historical study explores some of the ways in which people in Western societies and cultures have experienced and made sense of health, well-being and euphoria: the "reality" and the sickly illusion.

This international analysis of theatrical case studies illustrates the ways that theater was an arena both of protest and, simultaneously, racist and imperialist exploitations of the colonized and enslaved body.

This volume of wide-ranging essays by sport historians and sociologists examines the complex relations of war, peace and sport through a series of case studies from South and North America, Europe, North Africa, Asia and New Zealand.

This second part of the 2 volume collection compromises a collection of essays in English by leading scholars on 19th century academia and trade presenting the latest developments in international scholarship on the numismatic world in the long 19th century.

This book covers a wide range of topics related to honor and shame in European historical societies: history of law and literature, social- and ancient history as well as theoretical contributions on the state of research and the importance of honor and shame in traditional societies.

This book examines the concept of piracy as an instrument for the advancement of legal, economic, and political agendas associated with early modern imperial conflicts in the Caribbean.

This first part of a 2 volume collection compromises a collection of essays in English by leading scholars on 19th century academia and trade presenting the latest developments in international scholarship on the numismatic world in the long 19th century.

This book presents new research on "thick spaces" of scientific research and processes of interurban and transnational knowledge transfer and exchange in Vienna in the late 19th and early 20th centuries - infrastructural preconditions for the explosion of creativity known as "Vienna 1900."

This book focuses on the ethnically composite nature of the Mediterranean cities and their cultural heritage. Contributors investigate the traces left by centuries of interethnic play on the urban scene of cities such as Acre and Cyprus, Genoa and Venice, Rome and Istanbul, Cordoba and Tarragona.

This book is part of an ongoing transnational turn in cultural history.

With a focus on the object and where it is situated, in time (memory) and space (mobility), Memory, Mobility and Material Culture embodies a multidisciplinary and cross-disciplinary approach.

In a wide arc from the Paleolithic to the present day, this book explores the changing structure of human experience and its impact on the dynamics of cultures, civilizations and political ideas.

This is the first volume that examines dangerous gift-giving across centuries and disciplines. Bringing to the fore the subject that features as an aside in gift studies, it offers new insights into the ambivalent and troubled history of gift-giving.

Focusing on the Portuguese Empire, this book examines colonial press issued in "metropolitan" spaces and in colonies, disclosing dissonant narratives and problematizations of colonial empires.

This collection explores post-Soviet nostalgia as a discursive practice serving a variety of agendas. The authors show how post-Soviet feelings of loss and displacement are turned into effective tools of state building, as well as into weapons for resistance and the assertion of individual autonomy.

This book illustrates how current transformations in media invite us to revisit earlier periods of travel writing and their media environments, and to explore the ways in which contemporary forms of mediation are prefigured by earlier practices and forms.

Driven by their curiosity about how emotional catalysts function in history, the volume¿s authors offer a collection of texts that give insight into the emotional aspects of particular events, processes, texts, and works of history; they show how history happens because of emotions.

This is the first edited volume dedicated to the study of East Asian-German cinema from 1919 to the present. It reveals German perceptions of East Asia and East Asian perceptions of Germany through analysis of feature films, essay films and documentaries by both German and East Asian directors.

The Afterlife of the Shoah in Central and Eastern European Cultures is a collection of essays by literary scholars from Germany and Central Eastern Europe offering insight into the specific ways of representing the Shoah and its aftereffects as well as its entanglement with other catastrophic events in the region.