Drawing on the international literature on migration and immigrant associations, mainly in
the context of North and South America, but also including several other global immigration …

This article contends that class politics has receded in advanced capitalist societies during
the last century, while cultural politics has increased, and it focuses on social and political …

The Oxford Handbook of the History of Medicine celebrates the richness and variety of
medical history around the world. In recent decades, the history of medicine has emerged as …

Assessing risk and evaluating crises—be they financial, social, political or environmental—
have come increasingly to preoccupy the interests and concerns of analysts around the …

This ethnographic study reveals how financial self-help groups (burial societies and credit
groups) are islands of hope for Xhosa migrants living in the townships and squatter camps of …

Among the greatest challenges facing humanity in the twenty-first century is that of
sustaining a healthy civil society, which depends upon managing the tension between …

Introduction (by the editors of SEHR, Alfred Reckendrees and Jacob Weisdorf) On 25 May
2012, the Scandinavian Society of Economic and Social History celebrated the 60th …

In Early Modern times fires in populated areas represented one of the most catastrophic
events that could occur. Fires destroyed all belongings, burned cities down to their …

We, the workers of the fully industrialized,“civilized” countries of the West, can no longer
“isolate” ourselves from the remainder of the world. Our movements are no longer (and our …

In many political debates, the welfare state appears as perhaps the last bulwark of the nation-
state. One cannot help but notice however that, in 'real life', the attention paid to border …