A global history of couple dancing in commercial venues in the era of the two world wars.

By the 1920s, much of the world was ‘dance mad,’ as dancers from Buenos Aires to Tokyo, from Manchester to Johannesburg and from Chelyabinsk to Auckland, en

"It was thanks to its cabarets that Old Shanghai was called the `Paris of the Orient.' No one has studied the rise and fall of those cabarets more extensively t

This book is both a handbook for defining and completing a research project, and an astute introduction to the neglected history and changeable philosophy of mo