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.
Cultural Organizations, Networks and Mediators in Contemporary Ibero-America
1st Edition
Edited
By Diana Roig-Sanz, Jaume Subirana
September 30, 2021
This book proposes an innovative conceptual framework to explore cultural organizations at a multilateral level and cultural mediators as key figures in cultural and institutionalization processes. Specifically, it analyzes the role of Ibero-American mediators in the institutionalization of ...
Soldiers and Their Horses: Sense, Sentimentality and the Soldier-Horse Relationship in The Great War
1st Edition
By Jane Flynn
September 30, 2021
The soldier-horse relationship was nurtured by The British Army because it made the soldier and his horse into an effective fighting unit. Soldiers and their Horses explores a complex relationship forged between horses and humans in extreme conditions. As both a social history of Britain in the ...
The Magic Lantern at Work: Witnessing, Persuading, Experiencing and Connecting
1st Edition
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By Martyn Jolly, Elisa deCourcy
September 30, 2021
For centuries, various new media technologies have provided individuals with a set of powerful tools to affect their audiences. Among these the magic lantern show was perhaps the most pervasive, and persuasive. Around the world audiences gathered together in darkened rooms to see a sequence of ...
Women Photographers of the Pacific World, 1857–1930
1st Edition
By Anne Maxwell
September 30, 2021
This is the first book to examine the lives and works of women photographers active in the settler colonial nations of the Pacific Rim from 1857–1930. The few histories of women’s photography that have been written so far have been confined to developments in Britain, France, Germany and the USA, ...
Aboriginal Protection and Its Intermediaries in Britain’s Antipodean Colonies
1st Edition
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By Samuel Furphy, Amanda Nettelbeck
June 30, 2021
This collection brings together world-leading and emerging scholars to explore how the concept of "protection" was applied to Indigenous peoples of Britain’s antipodean colonies. Tracing evolutions in protection from the 1830s until the end of the nineteenth century, the contributors map the ...
Children and Globalization: Multidisciplinary Perspectives
1st Edition
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By Hoda Mahmoudi, Steven Mintz
June 30, 2021
Globalization has carried vast consequences for the lives of children. It has spurred unprecedented waves of immigration, contributed to far-reaching transformations in the organization, structure, and dynamics of family life, and profoundly altered trajectories of growing up. Equally important, ...
Reform, Revolution and Crisis in Europe: Landmarks in History, Memory and Thought
1st Edition
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By Bronwyn Winter, Cat Moir
June 30, 2021
Today Europe stands at a crossroads unlike any it has faced since 1945. Since the 2008 financial crash, Europe has weathered the Greek debt crisis, the 2015 refugee crisis, and the identity crisis brought about by Brexit in 2016. The future of the European project is in doubt. How will Europe ...
The Greening of the City: Urban Parks and Public Leisure, 1840-1939
1st Edition
By Carole A. O'Reilly
June 30, 2021
Urban parks are a much-loved feature of the city environment. However, our knowledge of the true scale of their impact remains uneven. Much work has been done on their origins and design features, but this book aims to extend this beyond the nineteenth century, examining the fuller flowering of ...
The Medieval and Early Modern Garden in Britain: Enclosure and Transformation, c. 1200-1750
1st Edition
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By Patricia Skinner, Theresa Tyers
March 31, 2021
What was a "garden" in medieval and early modern British culture and how was it imagined? How did it change as Europe opened up to the wider world from the 16th century onwards? In a series of fresh approaches to these questions, the contributors offer chapters that identify and discuss ...
Heroism as a Global Phenomenon in Contemporary Culture
1st Edition
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By Barbara Korte, Simon Wendt, Nicole Falkenhayner
December 18, 2020
Heroes and heroic discourse have gained new visibility in the twenty-first century. This is noted in recent research on the heroic, but it has been largely ignored that heroism is increasingly a global phenomenon both in terms of production and consumption. This edited collection aims to bridge ...
The Body in History, Culture, and the Arts
1st Edition
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By Justyna Jajszczok, Aleksandra Musiał
December 18, 2020
The aim of this book is to explore the body in various historical contexts and to take it as a point of departure for broader historiographical projects. The chapters in the volume present the ways in which the body constitutes a valuable and productive object of historical analysis, especially as ...
A History of Shaolin: Buddhism, Kung Fu and Identity
1st Edition
By Lu Zhouxiang
September 30, 2020
Shaolin Monastery at Mount Song is considered the epicentre of the Chan school of Buddhism. It is also well known for its martial arts tradition and has long been regarded as a special cultural heritage site and an important symbol of the Chinese nation. This book is the first scholarly work in ...