CULTURAL HISTORIES

The Cultural Histories are illustrated, multi-volume sets that survey the social and cultural construction of specific subjects across six historical periods: Antiquity; Medieval Age; Renaissance; Age of Enlightenment; Age of Empire; Modern Age. Each volume discusses the same themes in its chapters so that readers may gain an understanding of a period by reading an entire volume, or follow a theme through history by reading the relevant chapter in each volume. Also available in a fully searchable digital library, www.bloomsburyculturalhistory.com.

A Cultural History of Race

6-Volume Set

Edited by Marius Turda, Oxford Brookes University, UK How have definitions of race varied and changed over time? What impact have religion, science and politics had on race throughout history, and how has our concept of it been changed as a result? These ambitious questions are answered by 60+ experts who – drawing on perspectives from history, sociology, anthropology, literature and medical humanities – deepen our understanding of how race has developed conceptually and in reality between antiquity and the present day. Using a consistent thematic structure, each volume covers: definitions of race; race, environment and culture; race and religion; race and science; race and politics; race and ethnicity; race and gender; race and body; and anti-race.

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UK November 2021 • US November 2021 • 6 vols • c.1,728 pages HB Pack 9781350067578 • £440.00 / $610.00 300 bw illus Series: The Cultural Histories • Bloomsbury Academic

A Cultural History of Hinduism

6-Volume Set

Edited by Karen Pechilis, Drew University, USA This 6 volume set presents an authoritative survey of Hinduism from ancient times to the present, spanning 4,500 years. 1. A Cultural History of Hinduism in the Pre-Classical Age (2000 – 200 BCE) 2. A Cultural History of Hinduism in the Classical Age (200 BCE – 800 CE) 3. A Cultural History of Hinduism in the Post-Classical Age (800 – 1500) 4. A Cultural History of Hinduism in the Age of Empires (1500 – 1857) 5. A Cultural History of Hinduism in the Age of Late Colonialism (1857 – 1947) 6. A Cultural History of Hinduism in the Age of Independence (1947 – 2017) The work takes an interdisciplinary approach to the complex subject of Hinduism, drawing on Religious Studies, Asian Studies, History, Literary Studies, Cultural Studies, Gender Studies, Politics/Political Science, Sociology, and Anthropology.

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UK May 2022 • US May 2022 • 6 vols • c.1,728 pages HB Pack 9781350024434 • £440.00 / $610.00 300 bw illus Series: The Cultural Histories • Bloomsbury Academic

A Cultural History of War

6-Volume Set

Edited by Mary Kathryn Barbier, Mississippi State University, USA and Dennis Showalter, Colorado College, USA 54 experts, 54 chapters and c. 1,728 pages present the first detailed and interdisciplinary reference work on the cultural history of war from the last 2,500 years. The set explores questions such as: What role has war played in the historical and contemporary formation of societies across the globe? How have different classes and communities been impacted? How have different civilisations over the last 2,500 years commemorated and remembered war?

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UK April 2022 • US April 2022 • 6 vols • c.1,728 pages HB Pack 9781350052567 • £440.00 / $610.00 240 bw illus Series: The Cultural Histories • Bloomsbury Academic

A Cultural History of Genocide

6-Volume Set

Edited by Paul R. Bartrop, Florida Gulf Coast University, USA The first comprehensive and interdisciplinary overview, bringing in perspectives from history, cultural studies, literary studies, anthropology, political science, classical studies and religious studies.

How has human response to genocide evolved over time? What effect has it had on our understanding of the cause and consequences of genocide? This set covers 800 BCE to the present under the following themes: Responses to Genocide; Motivations and Justifications for Genocide; Genocide Perpetrators; Genocide Victims; Genocide and Memory; Consequences of Genocide; Representations of Genocide; Causes of Genocide.

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UK September 2021 • US September 2021 • 6 vols • c.1,728 pages HB Pack 9781350034600 • £440 / $610 240 bw illus Series: The Cultural Histories • Bloomsbury Academic

A Cultural History of Ideas

6-Volume Set

Edited by Sophia Rosenfeld and Peter T. Struck, both University of Pennsylvania, USA This Cultural History presents historians, as well as students and scholars of related fields, with the first comprehensive and interdisciplinary overview of the cultural history of ideas from ancient times to the present day. It examines 2,800 years of ideas from a wide range of perspectives, including philosophy, religion, politics and art. Themes (and chapter titles) are: Knowledge; The Human Self; Ethics and Social Relations; Politics and Economies; Nature; Religion and the Divine; Language, Poetry and Rhetoric; The Arts; History.

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UK April 2022 • US April 2022 • 6 vols • c.1,728 pages HB Pack 9781350007550 • £440.00 / $610.00 240 bw illus Series: The Cultural Histories • Bloomsbury Academic

A Cultural History of Democracy

6-Volume Set

Edited by Eugenio Biagini, Sidney Sussex College, University of Cambridge, UK How has the concept of democracy been understood, manifested, reimagined and represented through the ages? This set of six volumes spans 2,500 years of democracy in its physical, social and cultural context. Each volume discusses the same themes in its ten chapters: Sovereignty; Liberty; The ‘common good’; Economic and social democracy; Religion and the principles of political obligation; Gender and citizenship; Ethnicity, race and nationalism; Democratic processes, revolutions and civil resistance; International relations; and Expanding the polis, transforming sovereignty.

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UK May 2021 • US May 2021 • 6 vols • c. 1,824 pages HB Pack 9781350042933 • £440.00 / $610.00 250 bw illus Series: The Cultural Histories • Bloomsbury Academic

6-Volume Set

Edited by Margaret Cohen, Stanford University, USA Throughout history, how has the sea served as a site for cross-cultural exchange, trade and migration? As historians, how do the fields of naval history, maritime history and oceanic history intersect? 56 experts, 48 chapters and over 1,700 pages explore how representation and understanding of the sea has developed over 2,500 years of cultural and natural history.

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UK April 2021 • US April 2021 • 6 vols • c. 1,792 pages HB Pack 9781474299107 • £440.00 / $610.00 287 bw illus Series: The Cultural Histories • Bloomsbury Academic

A Cultural History of Shopping

6-Volume Set

Edited by Jon Stobart, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK Traces how the activity of shopping has changed over the centuries and what it tells us about the lives and interests of people living within different cultures. Volume 1: A Cultural History of Shopping in Antiquity Edited by Mary Harlow, University of Leicester, UK and Ray Laurence, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia Volume 2: A Cultural History of Shopping in the Middle Ages Edited by James Davis, Queen's University, Belfast, UK Volume 3: A Cultural History of Shopping in the Early Modern Age Edited by Tim Reinke-Williams, University of Northampton, UK Volume 4: A Cultural History of Shopping in the Age of Enlightenment Edited by Ilja Van Damme, University of Antwerp, Belgium Volume 5: A Cultural History of Shopping in the Age of Revolution and Empire Edited by Erika Rappaport, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA Volume 6: A Cultural History of Shopping in the Modern Age Edited by Vicki Howard, Hartwick College, USA

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UK March 2022 • US March 2022 • 6 vols • c.1,536 pages HB Pack 9781350027060 • £440.00 / $610.00 300 bw illus Series: The Cultural Histories • Bloomsbury Academic

A Cultural History of Fairy Tales

6-Volume Set

Edited by Anne E. Duggan, Wayne State University, USA How have the fairy tales of different cultures changed over the centuries? What do they tell us about our fears and hopes? In a work that spans 2,500 years and six volumes, these ambitious questions are addressed by 50+ experts, each contributing their overview of a theme applied to a period in history from antiquity to the modern age. Themes: Forms of the Marvellous; Adaptation; Gender and Sexuality; Humans and Non-humans; Monsters and the Monstrous; Spaces; Socialization; Power. Essential for history, literary studies and cultural studies collections.

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UK July 2021 • US July 2021 • 6 vols • c.2,048 pages HB Pack 9781350095731 • £440 / $610 300 bw illus Series: The Cultural Histories • Bloomsbury Academic

6-Volume Set

Edited by Annette Giesecke, University of Delaware, USA and David Mabberley, University of Oxford, UK and Macquarie University, Australia A global exploration of how plants have shaped human culture. Covering the last 12,000 years, it is the definitive history of how we have cultivated, traded, classified, and altered plants and how, in turn, plants have influenced our ideas of luxury and wealth, health and well-being, art and architecture. Over 50 scholars and chapters and c.1,744 pages deepen our understanding of the relationship between plants and society from prehistory to today. For students and scholars of social and cultural history, history and philosophy of science, history of medicine, botany, food studies, anthropology, art history, architecture, and museum studies.

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UK February 2022 • US February 2022 • 6 vols • c.1,744 pages HB Pack 9781474273596 • £440.00 / $610.00 343 bw illus Series: The Cultural Histories • Bloomsbury Academic

A Cultural History of Color

6-Volume Set

Edited by Carole P. Biggam, University of Glasgow, UK and Kirsten Wolf, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA A history of 5000 years of colour in western culture. The first systematic and comprehensive history, the work examines how colour has been perceived, developed, produced and traded, and how it has been used in all aspects of performance – from the political to the religious to the artistic – and how it shapes all we see, from food and nature to interiors and architecture, to objects and art, to fashion and adornment, to the colour of the naked human body, and to the way our minds work and our languages are created.

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UK February 2021 • US February 2021 • 6 vols • c. 1,760 pages HB Pack 9781474273732 • £440.00 / $610.00 185 bw & 181 colour illus Series: The Cultural Histories • Bloomsbury Academic

A Cultural History of Furniture

6-Volume Set

Edited by Christina M. Anderson, University College London, UK 70 experts, 60 chapters and c. 1,824 pages in six volumes add to our understanding of the contribution of furniture to society from antiquity to the present day. Themes and chapter titles are: Design and Motifs; Makers, Making, and Materials; Types and Uses; The Domestic Setting; The Public Setting; Exhibition and Display; Furniture and Architecture; Visual Representations; and Verbal Representations.

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UK September 2021 • US September 2021 • 6 vols • c. 1,824 pages HB Pack 9781472577894 • £440.00 / $610.00 180 colour & 180 bw illus Series: The Cultural Histories • Bloomsbury Academic

6-Volume Set

Edited by Christina M. Anderson, University College London, UK From prehistoric metal extraction to medieval alchemy to modern industry, chemistry has been central to our understanding and use of the physical world as well as to trade, warfare and medicine. In its turn, chemistry has been shaped by changing technologies, institutions and cultural beliefs. A Cultural History of Chemistry presents the first detailed and authoritative survey from antiquity to today, focusing on the West but integrating key developments in Egypt, Mesopotamia, and the Arabic-Islamic and Byzantine empires. The six volumes cover: 1 – Antiquity (3,000 BCE to 600 CE); 2 – Medieval Age (600 to 1500); September 3 – Early Modern (1500 to 1700); 4 – Eighteenth Century (1700 to 1815); September 5 – Nineteenth Century (1815 to 1914); 6 – Modern Age (1914 to the Present).

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UK December 2021 • US December 2021 • 6 vols • c. 1,728 pages HB Pack 9781474294928 • £440.00 / $610.00 220 bw illus Series: The Cultural Histories • Bloomsbury Academic

A Cultural History of Medicine

6-Volume Set

Edited by Roger Cooter How has our understanding of medicine evolved over the past 2,500 years? A Cultural History of Medicine, as the first comprehensive and interdisciplinary overview of the cultural history of medicine from ancient times to modernity, discusses this. With six highly illustrated volumes covering 2500 years of human history, this is the definitive reference work on the subject.

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UK April 2021 • US April 2021 • 6 vols • c. 1,744 pages HB Pack 9781472569875 • £440.00 / $610.00 254 bw illus Series: The Cultural Histories • Bloomsbury Academic

A Cultural History of Sport

6-Volume Set

Edited by Wray Vamplew, University of Stirling, UK, John McClelland, University of Toronto, Canada and Mark Dyreson, Penn State, USA Over 50 scholars, in c. 1,776 pages, deepen our understanding of the role of sport in society from the birth of the Olympic Games to today. This set covers all forms and aspects of sport in the last 2,800 years: from technological developments to nationalism, from issues of race and gender to violence and eroticism. Themes and chapter titles are: The Purpose of Sport; Sporting Time and Sporting Space; Products, Training and Technology; Rules and Order; Conflict and Accommodation; Inclusion, Exclusion and Segregation; Minds, Bodies and Identities; Representation.

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UK January 2021 • US January 2021 • 6 vols • c. 1,744 pages HB Pack 9781350024106 • £440.00 / $610.00 269 bw illus Series: The Cultural Histories • Bloomsbury Academic