Oxford University Press

Is shame social? Is it superficial? Is it a morally problematic emotion?        Researchers in disciplines as different as psychology, philosophy, and anthropology        have thought so. But what is the nature of shame and why are claims regarding its        social nature and moral standing interesting and important? Do they tell us...

1800-1945The fourth of five volumes in a series that explores representations of the past from the beginning of writing to the present day, and from all over the world, this volume offers essays by leading scholars on the writing of history globally from 1800 to 1945....

The winner of the 2002 OAH Rawley Prize for the best book on American race relations,    Reimagining Indians investigates an important group of Anglo-American writers whose books about Native Americans helped reshape Americans' understandings and appreciations of Indian peoples at the turn of the twentieth century. As they celebrated their Indian...

What did it mean to call someone 'eccentric' in 19th-century Paris? Drawing on etiquette manuals, fashion magazines, newspapers, novels, and psychiatric treatises, this interdisciplinary study illuminates figures of Parisian modernity, from the courtesan and Bohemian to the female dandy and circus freak....

A detailed biographical study of the members of the army medical service during the Revolution and Napoleonic wars that charts their background and life both in and outside the army. It demonstrates how a group of medical practitioners from relatively humble backgrounds could use social contacts and experience forged in the army to become an...

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