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Gender and Power in Affluent Asia
Routledge 1998; US$ 68.95Gender and Power in Affluent Asia is the first major study to analyse the relationships between gender and power which have accompanied the rise of Asian affluence. more...
Women and Social Class
Taylor and Francis 2004; US$ 61.95This volume presents debates on class within an international context. Its particular focus is on women's theorized experience of social class from a variety of feminist perspectives, contextualized in relation to the countries and regions in which they live. Using personal experience as a basis, contributors cover Australia, Bangladesh, Botswana,... more...
Rise of Professional Society
Routledge 2002; US$ 36.95A stimulating and controversial framework for the study of British society, challenging accepted paradigms based on class analysis. Perkins argues that the non-capitalist "professional class" represents a new principle of social organization. more...
Elite Cultures
Routledge 2002; US$ 44.95What makes an elite? This authoritative new volume examines elite groups in power across Europe, North America, Mexico, Peru, Indonesia and Africa to answer this question fully at a time of their increasing dominance. more...
Political Elites and the New Russia
Taylor and Francis 2003; US$ 185.00Political Elite and the New Russia convincingly argues that although reforms in Russia have been initiated by those close to the President, in fact local and national elites have been the crucial strategic actors in reshaping Russia's economy, democratising its political system and decentralising its administration. This book analyses the role of... more...
Bond Men Made Free
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 34.95Rodney Hilton's account of the Peasant's Revolt of 1381 remains the classic authoritative text on the 'English Rising'. Hilton views the revolt in the context of a general European pattern of class conflict. He demonstrates that the peasant movements that disturbed the Middle Ages were not mere unrelated outbreaks of violence but had their roots in... more...
Men, Women and Property in England, 1780-1870
Cambridge University Press 2005; US$ 50.00This is an innovative study of middle class behaviour and property relations in Georgian and Victorian England. Through the lens of wills, family papers, deeds, account books and letters, it offers a new reading of the ways in which middle class families surmounted the economic difficulties of early industrial society. more...
Emerging Class in Papua New Guinea
Cambridge University Press 1999; US$ 26.00Class has become a feature of life in Papua New Guinea, evident in both 'traditional' and 'modern' settings. This book examines the emergence of class differences and its social and cultural ramifications in Wewak, capital of the East Sepik Province, and movingly conveys the injuries of class inequalities. more...
Ethnicity, Social Mobility, and Public Policy
Cambridge University Press 2005; US$ 62.00The causes and consequences of social mobility are a central area of study within social sciences, and the differing levels of economic development between ethnic groups is an issue of concern for policy-makers. This book provides a comparative analysis of these and related issues within the US and the UK. more...
Culture and Privilege in Capitalist Asia
Taylor and Francis 1999; US$ 68.95The Asian financial crisis has distracted attention from the realities of a growing affluent class in Asia. this latest volume in the New Rich in Asia series the authors examine the cultural reconfiguration, consumer behaviour, economic success and cultural status of the new rich. Case studies from Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, the Philippines,... more...









