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This volume brings together some twenty contributions reflecting many of the research themes of Prof. Jean-Claude Béal, to whom these studies are offered. They are mainly centred on Roman Gaul, and more generally on the western Roman provinces, reflecting the geographical areas in which he works.

Rome (Italy) --- Social life and customs.

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"This book tells the story of the history of popular culture in Europe since 1800, providing a framework which challenges traditional associations that have formulated popular culture firmly in relation to the post-1945 period and the economic power of the USA. Focusing on key themes associated with modernity - secularization, industrialization, social cohesion and control, globalization and technological change - this synthesis of research across a very wide field fills a gap that has long been felt by students and educators working in the field of popular culture. While it is organized as a history of cultural forms, it can also be used across a wide range of social science and humanities programmes, including media and cultural studies, literary studies, sociology and European studies. Covering the subject with a broad number of themes, this book discusses popular culture through visual culture and performance, games, music, film, television, and video games. Popular Culture in Europe since 1800 will be of interest to anyone looking for an engaged but concise overview of how book production and reading practices, visual cultures, music, performance and sports and games developed across Europe in the modern period"--

Popular culture --- History --- Europe --- Social life and customs. --- Civilization.

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This is the first book to explore the meaning and significance of leisure in Chinese society, as well as the relationship between leisure and work that reveals so much about a society's cultural values.

Technological innovations --- Work --- Philosophy. --- China --- Social life and customs.

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"Slaves of the Emperor rethinks how state-making and empire-building were conducted in early modern Eurasia through a revisionist and comparative history of the Eight Banner military system of Qing China (1644-1912). The Qing dynasty, like many ruling families of its time, was faced with a challenge as its power grew: how to create an effective bureaucracy capable of increasing the administrative capacity of the state and governing an ever-expanding territory, while retaining the loyalty of its most important supporters. Its answer, like those of the shoguns of Tokugawa Japan, the tsars of imperial Russia, and the sultans of the Ottoman Empire, was to develop a "service elite" that institutionalized an exchange of hereditary service for hereditary privilege. The people of the Eight Banners, in their role as the Qing service elite, provided the dynasty with a loyal and diverse group of soldiers, administrators, and technocrats who helped turn a small and simple tribal polity into a large, multicultural, and complex empire. In uncovering the mechanisms through which the Qing rulers developed a system of meritocratic recruitment and specialized bureaucratic function out of a group of people officially conceptualized as slaves of the emperor, this book provides a framework for studying the structure and function of elites that existed elsewhere in Eurasia at the same time as the Qing banners"--

Banner system --- China --- History, Military --- Social life and customs

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Rural cemeteries--named for their expansive, picturesque landscape design rather than location--were established during the middle decades of the nineteenth century in the United States. An instant cultural phenomenon, Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts, was the nation's first such burial ground to combine the functions of the public park and the cemetery, becoming a popular place to picnic and go for strolls even for people who didn't have graves to visit. It sparked a nationwide movement in which communities sought to establish their own cities of the dead. Pleasure Grounds of Death considers the history of the rural cemetery in the United States throughout the duration of the nineteenth century as not only a critical cultural institution embedded in the formation of community and national identities, but also as major sites of contest over matters of burial reform, taste and respectability, and public behavior; issues concerning race, class, and gender; conflicts over the burial of the Civil War dead and formation of postwar memory; and what constituted the most appropriate ways to structure the landscape of the dead in a modern and progressive society. As cultural landscapes that served the needs of the living as well as the dead, rural cemeteries offer a mirror for the transformations and conflicts taking place throughout the nineteenth century in American society.

Cemeteries --- Sociology, Rural --- History --- United States --- Social life and customs