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Forthcoming Social & Cultural History Books

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Forthcoming Books

  1. Public and Popular History

    Edited by Jerome De Groot

    This interdisciplinary collection considers public and popular history within a global framework, seeking to understand considerations of local, domestic histories and the ways they interact with broader discourses. Grounded in particular local and national situations, the book addresses the issues...

    To Be Published June 3rd 2012 by Routledge

  2. Alcohol in World History

    By Gina Hames

    Series: Themes in World History

    From the origins of drinking to the use and abuse of alcohol in the present day, this global historical study draws on approaches and research from biology, anthropology, sociology and psychology. Topics covered include: the impact of colonialism alcohol before the world economy...

    To Be Published June 17th 2012 by Routledge

  3. Woody Guthrie

    Writing America's Songs

    By Ronald Cohen

    Series: Routledge Historical Americans

    Woody Guthrie is the most famous and influential folk music composer and performer in the history of the United States. His most popular song, "This Land is Your Land" has become the country's unofficial national anthem, known to every school child since the 1960s. His influence exceeded the realm...

    To Be Published June 24th 2012 by Routledge

  4. Gandhi's Spinning Wheel and the Making of India

    By Rebecca Brown

    Series: Routledge Studies in South Asian History

    Gandhi’s use of the spinning wheel was one of the most significant unifying elements of the nationalist movement in India. Spinning was seen as an economic and political activity that could bring together the diverse population of South Asia, and allow the formerly elite nationalist movement to...

    To Be Published June 30th 2012 by Routledge

  5. Hindu Mahasabha in Colonial North India, 1915-1930

    Constructing Nation and History

    By Prabhu Bapu

    Series: Routledge Studies in South Asian History

    Hindu nationalism has emerged as a political ideology represented by the Hindu Mahasabha. This book explores the campaign for Hindu unity and organisation in the context of the Hindu-Muslim conflict in colonial north India in the early twentieth century. It argues that India's partition...

    To Be Published July 5th 2012 by Routledge

  6. Japan’s Outcaste Abolition

    The Struggle for National Inclusion and the Making of the Modern State

    By Noah Y. McCormack

    Series: Asia's Transformations

    The Tokugawa Shogunate, which governed Japan for two and a half centuries until the mid-1860s, classed people into hierarchically ranked status groups (mibun). The early Tokugawa rulers legally established these status groups through the late-sixteenth and early-seventeenth centuries, adapting and...

    To Be Published July 9th 2012 by Routledge

  7. Remapping Citizenship and the Nation in African-American Literature

    By Stephen Knadler

    Series: Routledge Transnational Perspectives on American Literature

    Through a reading of periodicals, memoirs, speeches, and fiction from the antebellum period to the Harlem Renaissance, this study re-examines various myths about a U.S. progressive history and about an African American counter history in terms of race, democracy, and citizenship. Reframing 19th...

    To Be Published July 10th 2012 by Routledge

  8. British Student Activism in the Long Sixties

    By Caroline Hoefferle

    Series: Routledge Studies in Modern British History

    Based on empirical evidence derived from university and national archives across the country and interviews with participants, British Student Activism in the Long Sixties reconstructs the world of university students in the 1960s and 1970s. Student accounts are placed within the context of a wide...

    To Be Published July 17th 2012 by Routledge

  9. Nabokov, History and the Texture of Time

    By Will Norman

    Series: Routledge Transnational Perspectives on American Literature

    This book argues that the apparent evasion of history in Vladimir Nabokov’s fiction conceals a profound engagement with social, and therefore political, temporalities. While Nabokov scholarship has long assumed the same position as Nabokov himself — that his works exist in a state of historical...

    To Be Published July 18th 2012 by Routledge

  10. Race, Remembering, and Jim Crow’s Teachers

    By Hilton Kelly

    Series: Studies in African American History and Culture

    This book explores a profoundly negative narrative about legally segregated schools in the United States being "inherently inferior" compared to their white counterparts. However, there are overwhelmingly positive counter-memories of these schools as "good and valued" among former students,...

    To Be Published July 18th 2012 by Routledge