Taste and Power

Leora Auslander

• Paperback | Engels | Studies on the History of Society and Culture | nr. 24
• Louis XIV, regency, rococo, neoclassical, empire, art nouveau, and historicist pastiche: furniture styles march across French history as regimes rise ... Lees meer

Obstinate Hebrews

Ronald Schechter

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies on the History of Society and Culture | nr. 49
• Presents a study of representations of Jews in eighteenth-century France - both by Gentiles and Jews themselves. This work offers fresh perspectives o... Lees meer

Territories of Grace

Keith P Luria

• Paperback | Engels | Studies on the History of Society and Culture | nr. 11
• Territories of Grace offers a sophisticated model of cultural change in early modern rural society, by examining the religion of villagers in the Fren... Lees meer

The Struggle for the Breeches

Anna Clark

• Paperback | Engels | Studies on the History of Society and Culture | nr. 23
• Linking the personal and the political, Anna Clark depicts the making of the working class in Britain as a "struggle for the breeches." The late eight... Lees meer

Limited Livelihoods

Sonya O Rose

• Paperback | Engels | Studies on the History of Society and Culture | nr. 13
• In the massive reorganization of lives and livelihoods that accompanied industrial capitalism in England, gender was a pivotal force. Through her anal... Lees meer

Moral Communities

Mark D Steinberg

• Paperback | Engels | Studies on the History of Society and Culture | nr. 14
• This valuable study offers a rare perspective on the social and political crisis in late Imperial Russia. Mark D. Steinberg focuses on employers, supe... Lees meer

Crime, Cultural Conflict, and Justice in Rural Russia, 1856-1914

Stephen P Frank

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies on the History of Society and Culture | nr. 31
• This book is the first to explore the largely unknown world of rural crime and justice in post-emancipation Imperial Russia. Drawing upon previously u... Lees meer

The Collective and the Individual in Russia

Oleg Kharkhordin

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies on the History of Society and Culture | nr. 32
• Oleg Kharkhordin has constructed a compelling, subtle, and complex genealogy of the Soviet individual that is as much about Michel Foucault as it is a... Lees meer

The Family on Trial in Revolutionary France

Suzanne Desan

• Paperback | Engels | Studies on the History of Society and Culture | nr. 51
• In a groundbreaking book that challenges many assumptions about gender and politics in the French Revolution, Suzanne Desan offers an insightful analy... Lees meer

The New Biography

• Paperback | Engels | Studies on the History of Society and Culture | nr. 38
• The New Biography looks at the life stories of eight famous women in nineteenth-century France who became public figures even though they lived in a s... Lees meer

Jazz, Rock, and Rebels

Uta G Poiger

• Paperback | Engels | Studies on the History of Society and Culture | nr. 35
• In the two decades after World War II, Germans on both sides of the iron curtain fought vehemently over American cultural imports. Uta G. Poiger trace... Lees meer

Publishing and Cultural Politics in Revolutionary Paris, 1789-1810

Carla Hesse

• Paperback | Engels | Studies on the History of Society and Culture
• In 1789, French revolutionaries initiated a cultural experiment that radically transformed the three basic elements of French literary civilization--a... Lees meer

Fascist Spectacle

Simonetta Falasca-Zamponi

• Paperback | Engels | Studies on the History of Society and Culture | nr. 28
• This richly textured cultural history of Italian fascism traces the narrative path that accompanied the making of the regime and the construction of M... Lees meer

An Ottoman Tragedy

Gabriel Piterberg

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies on the History of Society and Culture | nr. 50
• In the space of six years early in the seventeenth century, the Ottoman Empire underwent such turmoil and trauma-the assassination of the young ruler ... Lees meer

Listening in Paris

James H Johnson

• Paperback | Engels | Studies on the History of Society and Culture | nr. 21
• Beginning with the simple question, "Why did audiences grow silent?" Listening in Paris gives a spectator's-eye view of opera and concert life from th... Lees meer

France and the Cult of the Sacred Heart

Raymond Jonas

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies on the History of Society and Culture | nr. 39
• In a richly layered and beautifully illustrated narrative, Raymond Jonas tells the fascinating and surprisingly little-known story of the Sacré-Coeur,... Lees meer

The Wedding of the Dead

Gail Kligman

• Paperback | Engels | Studies on the History of Society and Culture
• This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the bri... Lees meer

Venice's Hidden Enemies

John Martin

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies on the History of Society and Culture | nr. 16
• Exploring how Renaissance Venice, a city renowned for its political freedom, also became a centre of religious dissent, this study offers a recreation... Lees meer

Art Nouveau in Fin-De-Siecle France

Debora L Silverman

• Paperback | Engels | Studies on the History of Society and Culture | nr. 7
• Winner, 1990 Berkshire Conference Book Award Art Nouveau in Fin-de-Siecle France: Politics, Psychology, and Style explores the shift in the locus of m... Lees meer

Politics and Theater

Sheryl Kroen

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies on the History of Society and Culture | nr. 40
• Moliére's anticlerical comedy Tartuffe is the unique prism through which Sheryl Kroen views postrevolutionary France in the years of the Restoration. ... Lees meer

Beyond the Cultural Turn

• Paperback | Engels | Studies on the History of Society and Culture | nr. 34
• Nothing has generated more controversy in the social sciences than the turn toward culture, variously known as the linguistic turn, culturalism, or po... Lees meer

The Emancipation of Writing

Ian McNeely

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies on the History of Society and Culture | nr. 48
• The Emancipation of Writing is the first study of writing in its connection to bureaucracy, citizenship, and the state in Germany. Stitching together ... Lees meer

Wondrous in His Saints

Philip M Soergel

• Paperback | Engels | Studies on the History of Society and Culture | nr. 17
• At the close of the sixteenth century, despite Protestant attempts to discourage popular devotion to saints and shrines, the Roman Church in Bavaria i... Lees meer

What Difference Does a Husband Make?

Elizabeth D Heineman

• Paperback | Engels | Studies on the History of Society and Culture | nr. 33
• In October 1946, seven million more women than men lived in occupied Germany. In this study of unwed, divorced, widowed, and married women at work and... Lees meer