Books in the Studies for the International Society for Cultural History series

This book questions the subjects and boundaries of cultural history in France - with regard to neighboring approaches such as cultural, media and gender studies - to elaborate a "social history of representations" and depict the major questions underlying the historical debate in the 21st century.

The essays in this collection examine emotional responses to art and music, the role of emotions in contemporary notions of gender and sexuality and theoretical questions as to their use.

By studying the development of Italy's penal system, Pires Marques provides valuable insights into the wider political culture of European society. Focusing on the rise of fascism in Spain and Portugal as well as Italy, he examines the role of religious, economic and political factors in the making of penal laws.

The San Francisco Bay Area was a meeting point for radical politics and counterculture in the 1960s. Until now there has been little understanding of what made political culture here unique. This work explores the development of a regional culture of radicalism in the Bay Area, one that underpinned both political protest and the counterculture.

Early modern physicians and surgeons tried desperately to understand breast cancer, testing new medicines and radically improving operating techniques. In this study, the first of its kind, Kaartinen explores the emotional responses of patients and their families to the disease in the long eighteenth century.

Multiculturalism is a global phenomenon with a long history. The essays in this collection cover both historical perspectives, taking in the work of Hobbes, Tocqueville, Nietzsche and Arendt among others, and contemporary Eastern and Western approaches, including Marxism, anarchism, Islam, Daoism, Indian and African philosophies.

The original studies presented in this book show how people's experiences of Jewishness perpetually probe, test, and shape the boundaries between what is Jewish and what is non-Jewish, and that these boundaries shape the spatiotemporal linkages that we call history.

The volume examines the role of artistic and academic refugees from National Socialism acting as "cultural mediators" or "agents of knowledge" and offers a global analysis of the processes of cultural translation and knowledge transfer affecting culture, and sciences, but also everyday life.