Routledge Studies in Cultural History
About the Book Series
This series aims to present both case studies and the latest theoretical perspectives on the subject. It is not confined to any particular period or school of thought and seeks to provide a broad range of topics and events from around the world.
Electroconvulsive Therapy in America: The Anatomy of a Medical Controversy
1st Edition
By Jonathan Sadowsky
March 22, 2019
Electroconvulsive Therapy is widely demonized or idealized. Some detractors consider its very use to be a human rights violation, while some promoters depict it as a miracle, the "penicillin of psychiatry." This book traces the American history of one of the most controversial procedures in ...
Jesuits at the Margins: Missions and Missionaries in the Marianas (1668-1769)
1st Edition
By Alexandre Coello de la Rosa
March 22, 2019
In the past decades historians have interpreted early modern Christian missions not simply as an adjunct to Western imperialism, but a privileged field for cross-cultural encounters. Placing the Jesuit missions into a global phenomenon that emphasizes economic and cultural relations between Europe ...
Language as a Scientific Tool: Shaping Scientific Language Across Time and National Traditions
1st Edition
Edited
By Miles MacLeod, Rocío G. Sumillera, Jan Surman, Ekaterina Smirnova
March 22, 2019
Language is the most essential medium of scientific activity. Many historians, sociologists and science studies scholars have investigated scientific language for this reason, but only few have examined those cases where language itself has become an object of scientific discussion. Over the ...
Madness in Cold War America
1st Edition
By Alexander Dunst
March 22, 2019
This book tells the story of how madness came to play a prominent part in America’s political and cultural debates. It argues that metaphors of madness rise to unprecedented popularity amidst the domestic struggles of the early Cold War and become a pre-eminent way of understanding the ...
Minor Knowledge and Microhistory: Manuscript Culture in the Nineteenth Century
1st Edition
By Sigurður Gylfi Magnússon, David Olafsson
March 22, 2019
This book studies everyday writing practices among ordinary people in a poor rural society in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Using the abundance of handwritten material produced, disseminated and consumed some centuries after the advent of print as its research material, the book's focus is on ...
The Place of the Social Margins, 1350-1750
1st Edition
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By Andrew Spicer, Jane L. Stevens Crawshaw
March 22, 2019
This interdisciplinary volume illuminates the shadowy history of the disadvantaged, sick and those who did not conform to the accepted norms of society. It explores how marginal identity was formed, perceived and represented in Britain and Europe during the medieval and early modern periods. It ...
Travelling Notions of Culture in Early Nineteenth-Century Europe
1st Edition
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By Hannu Salmi, Asko Nivala, Jukka Sarjala
March 22, 2019
The notions of culture and civilization are at the heart of European self-image. This book focuses on how space and spatiality contributed to defining the concepts of culture and civilization and, conversely, what kind of spatial ramifications "culture" and "civilization" entailed. These questions ...
Visualizing Jews Through the Ages: Literary and Material Representations of Jewishness and Judaism
1st Edition
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By Hannah Ewence, Helen Spurling
March 22, 2019
This volume explores literary and material representations of Jews, Jewishness and Judaism from antiquity to the twenty-first century. Gathering leading scholars from within the field of Jewish Studies, it investigates how the debates surrounding literary and material images within Judaism and in ...
A History of Euphoria: The Perception and Misperception of Health and Well-Being
1st Edition
By Christopher Milnes
December 13, 2018
Very few people have not at some point in their lives believed themselves or their loved ones to be reasonably healthy when, in "reality", sickness was encroaching or never went away. Health has been deceiving us for thousands of years, but rarely have we entirely dispensed with it as a concept. ...
Migration, Ethnicity, and Mental Health: International Perspectives, 1840-2010
1st Edition
Edited
By Angela McCarthy, Catharine Coleborne
August 23, 2018
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 ...
Enlightenment and Political Fiction: The Everyday Intellectual
1st Edition
By Cecilia Miller
July 24, 2018
The easy accessibility of political fiction in the long eighteenth century made it possible for any reader or listener to enter into the intellectual debates of the time, as much of the core of modern political and economic theory was to be found first in the fiction, not the theory, of this age. ...
Scotland and the Caribbean, c.1740-1833: Atlantic Archipelagos
1st Edition
By Michael Morris
June 14, 2018
This book participates in the modern recovery of the memory of the long-forgotten relationship between Scotland and the Caribbean. Drawing on theoretical paradigms of world literature and transnationalism, it argues that Caribbean slavery profoundly shaped Scotland’s economic, social and cultural ...