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41. Living in the City

    Urban Institutions in the Low Countries, 1200–2010

    Edited by L.A.C.J. (Leo) Lucassen, W.H. (Wim) Willems

    Series: Routledge Studies in Cultural History

    The city is a place to find shelter, a market place, and an elevator for social mobility and success. But the city is also a place that frightens people and that can marginalize newcomers. Living in the City tries to understand what pulls people to the city since the High Middle Ages, focusing on...

    Published December 21st 2011 by Routledge
42. Migration, Ethnicity, and Mental Health

    International Perspectives, 1840-2010

    Edited by Angela McCarthy, Catharine Coleborne

    Series: Routledge Studies in Cultural History

    Most investigations of foreign-born migrants emphasize the successful adjustment and settlement of newcomers. Yet suicide, heavy drinking, violence, family separations, and domestic disharmony were but a few of the possible struggles experienced by those who relocated abroad in the nineteenth and...

    Published December 21st 2011 by Routledge
43. Rethinking the Welfare Rights Movement

    By Premilla Nadasen

    Series: American Social and Political Movements of the 20th Century

    The welfare rights movement was an interracial protest movement of poor women on AFDC who demanded reform of welfare policy, greater respect and dignity, and financial support to properly raise and care for their children. In short, they pushed for a right to welfare. Lasting from the early 1960s...

    Published December 20th 2011 by Routledge
44. Historical Disasters in Context

    Science, Religion, and Politics

    Edited by Andrea JANKU, Gerrit Schenk, Franz Mauelshagen

    Series: Routledge Studies in Cultural History

    Growing concerns about climate change and the increasing occurrence of ever more devastating natural disasters in some parts of the world and their consequences for human life, not only in the immediately affected regions, but for all of us, have increased our desire to learn more about disaster...

    Published December 20th 2011 by Routledge
45. Religious Cultures in Early Modern India

    New Perspectives

    Edited by Rosalind O'Hanlon, David Washbrook

    Series: Routledge South Asian History and Culture Series

    Religious authority and political power have existed in complex relationships throughout India’s history. The centuries of the ‘early modern’ in South Asia saw particularly dynamic developments in this relationship. Regional as well as imperial states of the period expanded their religious...

    Published December 20th 2011 by Routledge
46. West Germans and the Nazi Legacy

    By Caroline Sharples

    Series: Routledge Studies in Modern European History

    This book constitutes a new history of the complex memory cultures that persisted within post-war West Germany, examining the attitudes of ordinary people to the second wave of Nazi war crimes trials ushered in during the 1960s. It explores responses to the prospect of continuing investigations,...

    Published December 20th 2011 by Routledge
47. A History of Management Thought

    By Morgen Witzel

    For the past three thousand years people have been thinking about the problems of management. This book shows how thinking about management has evolved and changed. It shows how changing social, political and technological forces have challenged people to think about management in new ways, and how...

    Published December 19th 2011 by Routledge
48. Persian Documents

    Social History of Iran and Turan in the 15th-19th Centuries

    Edited by Kondo Nobuaki

    Series: New Horizons in Islamic Studies

    After the Mongol period, Persian was the official written language in Iran, Central Asia and India. A vast amount of documents relating to administration and social life were produced and yet, unlike Ottoman and Arabic documents, Persian historical resources have received very little critical...

    Published December 19th 2011 by Routledge
49. Sex, Sin and Suffering

    Venereal Disease and European Society since 1870

    Edited by Roger Davidson, Lesley A. Hall

    Series: Routledge Studies in the Social History of Medicine

    This volume brings together for the first time a series of studies on the social history of venereal disease in modern Europe and its former colonies. It explores, from a comparative perspective, the responses of legal, medical and political authorities to the 'Great Scourge'. In particular, how...

    Published December 12th 2011 by Routledge
50. Routledge Companion to Sports History

    Edited by S. W. Pope, John Nauright

    Series: Routledge International Handbooks

    The field of sports history is no longer a fledgling area of study. There is a great vitality in the field and it has matured dramatically over the past decade. Reflecting changes to traditional approaches, sport historians need now to engage with contemporary debates about history, to be...

    Published December 11th 2011 by Routledge