This article outlines a conceptual framework to analyse the norms and values influencing the
behaviour of soldiers in the past. It will argue that military culture is a specific form of …

Though Jesuits assumed a variety of roles as missionaries in late imperial China, their most
memorable guise was that of scientific expert, whose maps, clocks, astrolabes, and …

A new history of English trade and empire—revealing how a tightly woven community of
merchants was the true origin of globalized Britain In the century following Elizabeth I's rise …

Using a wide range sources, this book explores the ways in which the Russians governed
their empire in Siberia from 1598 to 1725. Paying particular attention to the role of the …

Cultural history, like its neighbour discipline cultural studies, has never been so popular, in
academic circles and perhaps beyond them as well. 1 Since the year 2000 at least nineteen …

This book offers an insight into the social relationships and topographies that fashioned both
city life and landscape and serves as a useful counterpoise in a field that has largely …

RESUMEN La Historia Cultural nunca ha sido tan popular como hoy en los círculos
académicos y quizá más allá de ellos también. La que se ha llamado “Nueva Historia …

This essay offers a social history of the labor relations established by the English East India
Company at its Blackwall Dockyard in East London from 1615–45. It uses all of the relevant …

This chapter starts by revisiting the three main sets of overarching questions that guided the
Macao International Forum out of which grew this book. The second part,“Individual Cultures …

Seventeenth-century chartered corporations, such as the East India Company (EIC), were
designed and operated with specific social responsibilities in mind. They were expected to …