During the 19th century the home, as both a cultural construct and a set of lived practices, became more powerful in the Western world than ever before. The Wes

A Cultural History of Education in the Age of Empire presents essays that examine the following key themes of the period: church, religion and morality; knowled

During the age of empires (1800–1900), marriage was a key transition in the life course worldwide, a rite of passage everywhere with major cultural significan

The 19th century in Western culture was a time of both confidence and turbulence. Industrial developments resulted in a number of benefits from a growing middle

This volume traces a path across the metamorphoses of tragedy and the tragic in Western cultures during the bourgeois age of nations, revolutions, and empires,