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General | Historical Film | Cinema, Radio, Television, Interactive Media | Cinema

Rome History, Military | Rome History | Rome (Italy) History, Military | Rome (Italy) History

Civilization | Agriculture | Cooking | History | Food

"The latest volume in the Cambridge Histories of Philosophy series, The Cambridge History of Philosophy in the Nineteenth Century brings together twenty-nine... 
Philosophy, Modern

Jews and the Military is the first comprehensive and comparative look at Jews' involvement in the military and their attitudes toward war from the 1600s until... 
Cultural assimilation | Jews | History | Identity | Jewish soldiers | General- History | Europe | Judaism | General- Religion | Other- Hbjd- Hrj- Hbw | Modern | Military | 20th century | Religion | 19th century

"The modern bicycle as we know it today was developed in England in the 1880s. A decade later, cycling was already a popular spectator sport and a recreational... 
Cycling | Social aspects | History | Bicycles | Social history

"In this compelling volume, Tyler Stovall takes a transnational approach to the history of modern France, and by doing so draws the reader into a key aspect of... 
Cultural pluralism | Political culture | France Politics and government | Popular culture | Nationalism | France Relations | Transnationalism | France History | History | Social aspects | Political aspects

"The End of American Childhood takes a sweeping look at the history of American childhood and parenting, from the nation's founding to the present day.... 
Parenting | Families | Children | History | United States | Education | Sociology

This title challenges existing accounts of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in which political developments are explained in terms of the rise of the... 
Monarchy | Nationalism | Kings and rulers | History | World politics | History, Modern | Nation-state

A new and innovative account of British sociology's intellectual origins that uses previously unknown archival resources to show how the field's forgotten... 
Hobhouse, L. T. 1864-1929 | History | Sociology | History of Science and Technology | Philosophy & Social Aspects | Science and Technology Studies | Europe/Great Britain | Social and Cultural History | Sociology/General | Social History | Social theory | Social & cultural history | Biology, life sciences | History of science | Modern/19th Century | Intellectual life-History

Through a variety of case studies, Transnational Histories of Youth in the Twentieth Century examines the emergence of youth and young people as a central... 
History | Youth | America-History

A masterfully researched and compelling history of Iran from 1501 to 2009 This history of modern Iran is not a survey in the conventional sense but an... 
Iran History

In their earliest encounters with Asia, Europeans almost uniformly characterized the people of China and Japan as white. This was a means of describing their... 
History | Racism | PDX | JFC | JFSL | Science | Social History | General | HBTB | Social Science | Ethnic Studies | Western countries | History of Science & Technology | East Asians | Race identity | Sociology | National characteristics, East Asian | 18th century | Race awareness | 19th century | Western countires

This book demonstrates the international dimension of eugenic racial policy and of scientific racism over the course of the twentieth century.. 
History | Eugenics | Racism | Ethnicity

Imperial Japanese soldiers were notorious for blindly following orders, and their enemies in the Pacific War derided them as "cattle to the slaughter." But, in... 
Military discipline | Sociology, Military | Insubordination | Japan History, Military | History | Japan | History, Military | 1868–1945

Architecture, Modern

01 02 Pain almost always lacks justification, but it does have a story. The gestures of the virgin martyrs, the mockery that accompanied Don Quixote's... 
Pain in literature | Suffering in art | Pain in art | Pain | Suffering | History | Suffering in literature | Philosophy | Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900 | Modern European History | History of ideas | Social History | Sociology of the Body | History of medicine | Global and Transnational History | Cultural History | Europe/Western | Modern/General | Social and Cultural History | European history | World History

Study and teaching | Historiography | Methodology | History

Science, technology, and medicine all contributed to the emerging modern Japanese empire and conditioned key elements of post-war development. As the only... 
Medicine | Since 1868 | Technology | Japan | Science | History | Japan History | Asian History | History of Medicine | History of Science & Technology | Japanese History | japan | medicine | Science - Japan - History