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Memories of Class (Routledge Revivals)
Taylor and Francis 2009; US$ 41.95First published in 1982, Professor Bauman?s discussion of the mechanism of class formation and institutionalisation of class conflict argues that our understanding of changes in social and political structure has been hindered by the freezing of concepts of class in the ice-age of industrial society. He investigates the impact of historical memory... more...
The Anthropological Study of Class and Consciousness
University Press of Colorado 2011; US$ 60.00Presenting prehistoric, historic, and ethnographic data from Mongolia, China, Iceland, Mexico, Brazil, and the United States, The Anthropological Study of Class and Consciousness offers a first step toward examining class as a central issue within anthropology. Contributors to this volume use the methods of historical materialism, cultural ecology,... more...
Thorstein Veblen on Culture and Society
SAGE Publications 2003; US$ 60.00This inspired selection conveys the full zest and penetrating insights of Veblen's writings. It includes Veblen's thoughts on topics such as: sabotage; patriotism; and the credit culture. more...
Ageism
Springer Publishing Company 1999; US$ 60.00In this updated edition, Palmore provides a comprehensive review of many different forms of ageism-including the interesting notion of positive ageism, which projects onto the elderly as a group traditional virtues like wisdom and thrift. He discusses both the individual and social influences on attitudes toward the aged; analyzes institutional patterns... more...
Class
Taylor and Francis 2002; US$ 24.95This book traces the phenomenon of class from the medieval to the postmodern period, uniquely examining its relevance to literary and cultural analysis. Drawing on historical, sociological and literary writings, Gary Day: * gives an account of class at different historical moments * shows the role of class in literary constructions of the social *... more...
Feudal Society
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 39.95Feudal Society is the masterpiece of one of the greatest historians of the century. Marc Bloch's supreme achievement was to recreate the vivid and complex world of Western Europe from the ninth to the thirteenth centuries. For Bloch history was a living organism, and to write of it was an endless process of creative evolution and of growing understanding.... more...
Feudal Society
Taylor and Francis 2002; US$ 39.95Feudal Society discusses the social and economic conditions in which feudalism developed providing a deep understanding of the processes at work in medieval Europe. more...
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