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Beyond Communities of Practice
Cambridge University Press 2005; US$ 26.00This book consists of a set of studies exploring the concept of 'communities of practice'. more...
Key Concepts in Community Studies
SAGE Publications 2009; US$ 48.00Concise yet critical, this is a student friendly introduction to the multi-disciplinary field of community studies. more...
Social Disorder in Britain 1750-1850
I.B.Tauris 2011; US$ 104.00In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries revolutionary dissent, political upheaval and social protest spread throughout Europe - and Wales was no exception. In this unique examination of British social history, J. E. Thomas focuses upon the power of the local gentry in Wales, and their relationship with the poor and potentially revolutionary population.... more...
The Role of Ruling Class Adaptability in the British Transition from Ancien Regime to Modern State
The Edwin Mellen Press 2010; US$ 169.95This work examines how the landed elite openly absorbed a regular flow of new members to the ruling class. It examines the transition of Britain from aristocratic rule to democracy through a study of the Whig Party. more...
Fitting into Place?
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2012; US$ 99.95Class, race and gender (dis)advantages are situated in relation to urban-rural contrasts, where 'future selves' are reconfigured in and through 'local' and 'global' sites: people inhabit shifting times and places, from industrial landscapes of the 'past', to a current present and (imagined) 'cosmopolitan' 'regenerated'... more...
Researching Amongst Elites
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2012; US$ 104.95Presenting the latest empirical case studies from Canada, the USA and Australia, this volume explores the challenges and difficulties involved in conducting research amongst the rich and elite, whilst shedding light on the manner in which power is harnessed, protected and controlled to manage and manipulate resources. A demonstration of the importance... more...
Class
SAGE Publications 1999; US$ 54.00This concise and accessible textbook overviews the place and continuing centrality of the concept of class in cultural studies and sociology. The book offers readers a critical introduction to the Marxist and Weberian accounts of class and relates the significance of class in the new social movements. more...
Noble Power in Scotland from the Reformation to the Revolution
Edinburgh University Press 2011; US$ 120.00Why do the wicked live on, growing old and increasing in power?'This quotation from Job begins Keith Brown's study of how Scotland's nobility rallied under the pressure of the Reformation and the Covenanting Revolution - a tumultuous period which has generated much historical debate on issues of political authority and power. In this volume... more...
Realizing Community
Routledge 2002; US$ 41.95Contributes various new analyses and approaches to the issue of community - such as destabilization in the global context, cultural absoluteness, separation of community and culture, compartmentalized communities. more...
The Aristocratic Temper of Greek Civilization
Oxford University Press 1992; US$ 17.99This work is both a defence of the importance of aristocrats in Greek society and a reassessment of their social, cultural and political roles. more...









