Books in the Cultural Sitings series

This multi-disciplinary collection examines the recent wave of political apologies for acts of past injustice.

Examining the emergence of modernism from the fin-de-siecle primitivist project this volume shows how ethnographic materials shaped a variety of high and low discourses (ethnology, social theory, gender construction, classical scholarship, as well as travel photography) at the turn of the century. Illustrated with 98 photographs and drawings.

This book is about the social history of the Arab Jews-Jews living in Arab countries-against the backdrop of Zionist nationalism.

In the mid-18th century, the French naturalist Buffon contended that the New World was in fact geologically new and that it had recently emerged from the water. This text looks at the debate surrounding the geological history of the New World, and the effect on historiographical concepts.

This vanguard collection of original and in-depth essays seeks to explore the intricate interplay of the aesthetic and psychological domains during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and to consider the reasons why a common Modernist project took shape when and in the circumstances it did.

This volume considers museums from personal experience and historical study, and from the memories of museum visitors, curators, and scholars. Representing a variety of fields, the essays range widely over time and place, in exhibitions explored, and types of institutions.

This wide-ranging collection of essays on the cultural history of modern Europe is unified by a concern with how the relation between self and society finds expression in cultural production.

Examining the emergence of modernism from the fin-de-siecle primitivist project this volume shows how ethnographic materials shaped a variety of high and low discourses (ethnology, social theory, gender construction, classical scholarship, as well as travel photography) at the turn of the century. Illustrated with 98 photographs and drawings.

This is the history of the black British women's movement of the 1980s (comprising women of African-Caribbean and South Asian origin), and its place in postwar British politics, racism, and feminism.

This volume considers museums from personal experience and historical study, and from the memories of museum visitors, curators, and scholars. Representing a variety of fields, the essays range widely over time and place, in exhibitions explored, and types of institutions.

This book tells the extraordinary story of a village of peasants and miners who were slaves belonging to the king of Spain and whose local patroness was a vision of the virgin. It explores the ways the royal slaves, assisted by te force of popular religion, achieved a degree of freedom unprecedented in other colonial societies of the New World.

This multi-disciplinary collection examines the recent wave of political apologies for acts of past injustice.

The book explores the social construction of different dimensions of trauma in law and medicine.

Enriched by the methods and insights of social history, the history of mentalites, linguistics, anthropology, literary theory, and art history, intellectual and cultural history are experiencing a renewed vitality. The far-ranging essays in this volume, by an internationally distinguished group of scholars, represent a generous sampling of these new studies.

This wide-ranging collection of essays on the cultural history of modern Europe is unified by a concern with how the relation between self and society finds expression in cultural production.