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Brings together many of the major papers published by Andrew Scull in the history of psychiatry. These historiographic essays provide a critical perspective on such major figures as Michel Foucault, Roy Porter, and Edward Shorter. This book is useful for students and professionals of the history of medicine and of psychiatry.

Traces the shifts in perspectives on African culture, arts, and philosophy from the conflict with European modernist interventions in the climate of colonialist aggression to the identitarian positions in the climate of globalism, multiculturalism, and mass media. This book looks at African modernity and modernism from postcolonial perspectives.

Offers a critical appraisal of CLR James as a major twentieth-century activist-intellectual, exploring his prolific output spanning decades within genres as diverse as history, philosophy, sociology, literary and cultural criticism, prose fiction, and reportage. This book also analyzes some of the flaws that surfaced within James' writings.

Explores the emergence of a British culture by examining the experiences of English readers between 1707 and 1830 as they grappled with the effusion of Scottish authorship. This book features examples including David Hume, Adam Smith, William Robertson, Robert Burns and Walter Scott.

Germany and the United States of America represent one of the most complex and vivid educational spaces between the 18th and 20th century. This book offers case studies and methodical discussions on transatlantic encounters between the two contexts and draws attention to shifting trajectories.

This book explores theories of the garden, historical sites and literary representations, from the thirteenth to the eighteenth century. It reflects on the impossibility of reconstructing premodern gardens "as they really were," and suggests that this is less important than learning how people in the past engaged with their environment.

Taking the kingdom of Denmark as its frame of reference, this volume presents a range of close analyses that shed light on the construction and deconstruction of crime and criminals, on criminal cultures and on crime control from 1500 to 2000. Historically, there have been major changes in the legal definition of those acts that are legally defi

Through a set of case studies, a team of international scholars analyze the emerging power of the lantern show in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries within politics, religion, travel, science, health, marketing and entertainment.

This book proposes an innovative conceptual framework to explore cultural organizations and cultural mediators, and reappraise the role of Iberoamerica in international cultural relations.

New Perspectives on Russian-American Relations includes seventeen articles on Russian-American relations from leading historians covering topics such as trade, diplomacy, art, war, public opinion, race, culture and more, the essays show the Russian-American relations from the 18th century to now.

This is the first comprehensive history of music's relationship with Irish nationalist history. Addressing rebel songs, traditional music and dance, national anthems and protest song, it draws upon an unprecedented volume of material to explore music's importance across a variety of movements.

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 analyzes an autobiography written in the early 19th century. It will appeal to readers of many disciplines who are interested in understanding the interconnectedness of memory, textual narrative, and ideas of selfhood, within the context of 18th-century London and Imperial India.

This book explores how ideas of "protection" were applied to Indigenous peoples of Britain¿s antipodean colonies. Focusing on historical actors who were intermediaries of protection practices on the ground, it considers the critical role of protection policy in the making of colonial relations.

The case studies in this volume explore how processes of cultural translation and adaptation shape contemporary notions of the heroic across the globe. The book provides fresh perspectives on heroism studies and offers a new angle for global and postcolonial studies.

This book proposes various ways of conceptualizing the body and of examining its relationship to history and historiography. Chapters focus on specific body-related histories, with the overall goal of accentuating the place, the role, and the use of the body in history, culture, and the arts.

This volume sheds light on Nordic families' strategies and methods for transferring significant cultural heritage to the next generations over centuries. It explores why certain values, attitudes, knowledge, and patterns were selected while others were left behind, and how these decisions served and secured families' well-being and values.

By offering a broad empirical approach to different modes of audience participation from the late eighteenth century up to the present, this book not only provides new insights to the expanding field of media history but also challenges the rhetoric of newness that characterizes contemporary discussions of participatory media.

With interdisciplinary analyses of texts whose origins span the diversity of the Jewish and Muslim traditions, the provocative essays collected in Israeli-Palestinian Conflict in the Francophone World offer startling insights into the meaning of the volatile history of this conflict in the Francophone world.

An international team of scholars offers fresh insights into the impact of globalization on children¿s lives, outlooks, and behavior.

This book explores the practices of collectors of books, their networks and actions, as well as the book collections themselves, public and private, during the Renaissance, Enlightenment and modern eras to c.1900.

This collection brings together essays that explore and develop representations of war experience from 1914 to the present, through the lens of memory. Historians, art historians and literary scholars explore a range of different textual spaces, asking how our understanding of the past might impact on our interpretations of the present.