Europe was formed in the Middle Ages. The merging of the traditions of Roman-Mediterranean societies with the customs of Northern Europe created new p…
Winner of the 2020 PROSE Award for Multivolume Reference/Humanities Work was central to medieval life. Religious and secular authorities generally …
The nineteenth-century West saw extraordinary economic growth and cultural change. This volume explores and explains the birth of the modern world thr…
In the modern age (1920-2000), vast technological innovation spurred greater concentration, standardization, and globalization of the food supply. As …
During the medieval period, people invested heavily in looking good. The finest fashions demanded careful chemistry and compounds imported from great…
The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries form a very distinctive period in European food history. This was a time when enduring feudal constraints in …
In the modern age (1920-2000), vast technological innovation spurred greater concentration, standardization, and globalization of the food supply. As …
The nineteenth-century West saw extraordinary economic growth and cultural change. This volume explores and explains the birth of the modern world thr…
Food and attitudes toward it were transformed in Renaissance Europe. The period between 1300 and 1600 saw the discovery of the New World and the culti…
From Archaic Greece until the Late Roman Empire (c. 800 BCE to c. 500 CE), food was more than a physical necessity; it was a critical factor in politi…
Europe was formed in the Middle Ages. The merging of the traditions of Roman-Mediterranean societies with the customs of Northern Europe created new p…
As much as the nineteenth and early twentieth century gardens and their designs were a product and representation of industrialisation and urbanisatio…
Landscape architecture and garden-making have witnessed huge changes during the twentieth-century, and the impact of these will continue to be discuss…
Sexual cultures have changed enormously in the 20th century. We have greater sexual equality than ever before and homosexuality has shifted from bei…
The history of gardens in antiquity is characterized by a rich mix of cultures interacting throughout Europe, Africa and Asia. This period - from the …
