A celebration of Britain’s diverse housing styles from the twentieth and twenty-first century. Leading architectural critics reveal the story of the modern the modern home, and the social and political…

These essays document the American experience as recorded in popular sound, relating topics concerning 20th century music to issues of politics, society and culture. The focus is to place music…

Traces the economic, political, and social evolution of New York State’s fourth largest city during the twentieth century.

This text starts by addressing the nature and interpretation of crime across the 20th century, and ends by looking at shifting responses to crime, particularly with reference to the police…

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This book analyzes important social, political, and economic matters from pre-colonial to postcolonial Nigeria. Issues discussed include contemporary problems of poverty, unemployment, leadership and governance crises, entrepreneurship, urbanization, and the…

This is the first study of mass media in Germany from a social and cultural-historical perspective. Beyond the conventional focus on organizational structures or aesthetic content, it investigates the impact…

Only women and inferior men are difficult to deal with. - Confucius Two thousand years after Confucius, the contributors to this book ask if Chinese women have succeeded in changing…