Taste and Power

Leora Auslander

• Paperback | Engels | Studies on the History of Society and Culture | nr. 24
• Louis XIV, regency, rococo, neoclassical, empire, art nouveau, and historicist pastiche: furniture styles march across French history as regimes rise ... Lees meer

Women Writing Opera

Jacqueline Letzter, Robert Adelson

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies on the History of Society and Culture | nr. 43
• In the age of the French Revolution, opera was the locus of cabals, intrigues, and violent journalistic invective. Yet it was also a period when women... Lees meer

Fascist Spectacle

Simonetta Falasca-Zamponi

• Paperback | Engels | Studies on the History of Society and Culture | nr. 28
• This richly textured cultural history of Italian fascism traces the narrative path that accompanied the making of the regime and the construction of M... Lees meer

Politics and Theater

Sheryl Kroen

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies on the History of Society and Culture | nr. 40
• Moliére's anticlerical comedy Tartuffe is the unique prism through which Sheryl Kroen views postrevolutionary France in the years of the Restoration. ... Lees meer

Publishing and Cultural Politics in Revolutionary Paris, 1789-1810

Carla Hesse

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies on the History of Society and Culture
• In 1789, French revolutionaries initiated a cultural experiment that radically transformed the three basic elements of French literary civilization--a... Lees meer

Moral Communities

Mark D Steinberg

• Paperback | Engels | Studies on the History of Society and Culture | nr. 14
• This valuable study offers a rare perspective on the social and political crisis in late Imperial Russia. Mark D. Steinberg focuses on employers, supe... Lees meer

The Three-Piece Suit and Modern Masculinity

David Kuchta

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies on the History of Society and Culture | nr. 47
• In 1666, King Charles II felt it necessary to reform Englishmen's dress by introducing a fashion that developed into the three-piece suit. We learn wh... Lees meer

Beyond the Cultural Turn

• Paperback | Engels | Studies on the History of Society and Culture | nr. 34
• Nothing has generated more controversy in the social sciences than the turn toward culture, variously known as the linguistic turn, culturalism, or po... Lees meer

The Wedding of the Dead

Gail Kligman

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies on the History of Society and Culture
• This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the bri... Lees meer

The Emerging Female Citizen

Theresa Ann Smith

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies on the History of Society and Culture | nr. 53
• Eighteenth-century Spanish women were not idle bystanders during one of Europe's most dynamic eras. As Theresa Ann Smith skillfully demonstrates in th... Lees meer

The Wedding of the Dead

Gail Kligman

• Paperback | Engels | Studies on the History of Society and Culture
• This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the bri... Lees meer

Limited Livelihoods

Sonya O Rose

• Paperback | Engels | Studies on the History of Society and Culture | nr. 13
• In the massive reorganization of lives and livelihoods that accompanied industrial capitalism in England, gender was a pivotal force. Through her anal... Lees meer

Producing Desire

Dror Ze'evi

• Paperback | Engels | Studies on the History of Society and Culture | nr. 52
• This highly original book brings into focus the sexual discourses manifest in a wealth of little-studied source material--medical texts, legal documen... Lees meer

Wondrous in His Saints

Philip M Soergel

• Paperback | Engels | Studies on the History of Society and Culture | nr. 17
• At the close of the sixteenth century, despite Protestant attempts to discourage popular devotion to saints and shrines, the Roman Church in Bavaria i... Lees meer

The People of Paris

Daniel Roche

• Paperback | Engels | Studies on the History of Society and Culture | nr. 2
• In his collective portrait of the common people, Roche offers a rich and fascinating description of their lives-their housing, food, dress, financial ... Lees meer

The Family on Trial in Revolutionary France

Suzanne Desan

• Paperback | Engels | Studies on the History of Society and Culture | nr. 51
• In a groundbreaking book that challenges many assumptions about gender and politics in the French Revolution, Suzanne Desan offers an insightful analy... Lees meer

Territories of Grace

Keith P Luria

• Paperback | Engels | Studies on the History of Society and Culture | nr. 11
• Territories of Grace offers a sophisticated model of cultural change in early modern rural society, by examining the religion of villagers in the Fren... Lees meer

On the Postcolony

Achille Mbembe

• Paperback | Engels | Studies on the History of Society and Culture | nr. 41
• Achille Mbembe is one of the most brilliant theorists of postcolonial studies writing today. In On the Postcolony he profoundly renews our understandi... Lees meer

The Fabrication of Labor

Richard Biernacki

• Paperback | Engels | Studies on the History of Society and Culture | nr. 22
• This monumental study demonstrates the power of culture to define the meaning of labor. Drawing on massive archival evidence from Britain and Germany,... Lees meer

Publishing and Cultural Politics in Revolutionary Paris, 1789-1810

Carla Hesse

• Paperback | Engels | Studies on the History of Society and Culture
• In 1789, French revolutionaries initiated a cultural experiment that radically transformed the three basic elements of French literary civilization--a... Lees meer

Beyond the Pale

Benjamin Nathans

• Paperback | Engels | Studies on the History of Society and Culture | nr. 45
• A surprising number of Jews lived, literally and figuratively, "beyond the Pale" of Jewish Settlement in tsarist Russia during the half-century before... Lees meer

Iconography of Power

Victoria E. Bonnell

• Paperback | Studies on the History of Society and Culture
• A sociological study of Soviet political posters that analyzes the shifts that took place in the images, messages, styles, and functions of political ... Lees meer

Crescendo of the Virtuoso

Paul Metzner

• Paperback | Engels | Studies on the History of Society and Culture | nr. 30
• During the Age of Revolution, Paris came alive with wildly popular virtuoso performances. Whether the performers were musicians or chefs, chess player... Lees meer