Concentrating largely on the 'middle ranks' of society in Renaissance Italy – artisans, merchants, and professionals such as bankers and lawyers – this book focuses on new social subjects, new documents and unusual objects. Using innovative methods of inquiry and interdisciplina…
This open access book surveys drinking in Britain between the Licensing Act of 1869 and the wartime regulations imposed on alcohol production and consumption after 1914. This was a period marked by the expansion of the drink industry and by increasingly restrictive licensing law…
This book critically engages with the contemporary breakdown of trust between Muslim and non-Muslim communities in the West. It argues that a crisis of trust currently hampers intercultural relations and obstructs full participation in citizenship and civil society for those who…
'I have hardly come across a book that is as comprehensive and as insightful as this study, which clearly shows in how many different ways the notion of integration can be and has been conceptualised and interpreted, not only in the literature, but also in practice.' - Han Entzi…
This book provides an in-depth multidisciplinary analysis of the major social and political processes affecting Hungarians in Romania after the overthrow of the Communist regime in 1989. The volume highlights the interdependence between the ethno-political strategies of minority…
This book explores the overlooked history of racial mixing in Britain during the course of the twentieth century, a period in which there was considerable and influential public debate on the meanings and implications of intimately crossing racial boundaries. Based on research t…
Civilizing emotions: concepts in the nineteenth-century Asia and Europe
by Wigen, Einar, Benesch, Oleg, Pernau, Margrit, Kia, Mana, Bashkin, Orit, Majumdar, Rochona, Jordheim, Helge, Saada, Emmanuelle, Bailey, Christian, Singh, Mohinder, Messner, Angelika C., Park, Myoungkyu, Ifversen, Jan
