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Classed Intersections
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2010; US$ 114.95Classed Intersections examines the salience, transformation and tension of class analysis at a crucial juncture when class investigation is returning to and reinventing sociological agendas. The contributors, including both established and emerging academics, examine class as produced through combined social, cultural and economic practices. They are... more...
Understanding Processes of Ethnic Concentration and Dispersal
Amsterdam University Press 2009; US$ 49.00A study of South Asian settlement patterns and residential preferences exploring the motivations underlying these, paying particular attention to processes of ethnic concentration and suburbanisation. more...
Common Purse, Uncommon Future
ABC-CLIO 2010; US$ 45.00Arcosanti. Christiania. Earthaven. Findhorn. For the uninitiated, the names of modern-day intentional communities may conjure images of science fiction fantasy worlds. In reality, these modern interpretations of communal living are increasingly appealing and practical for a growing number of individuals who are seeking a different way of life. more...
Adventurers And Exiles
Profile 2004; US$ 15.98The Scots have always been a restless people', says leading Scottish historian Marjory Harper 'but in the nineteenth century their restlessness exploded into a sustained surge of emigration that carried Scotland almost to the top of a European league table of emigrant exporting countries.' This is the first book to provide a comprehensive... more...
World Before Domesday
Continuum International Publishing 2008; US$ 120.00Ann Williams' important new book discusses the dynamics of English aristocratic society in a way that has not been explored before. She investigates the rewards and obligations of status including birth, wealth, the importance of public and royal service and the need to participate in local affairs, especially legal and administrative business.... more...
Aristocrats
St. Martin's Press 2010; US$ 19.99Aristocracy means ?rule by the best.? For nine hundred years, the British aristocracy considered itself ideally qualified to rule others, make laws, and guide the nation. Its virtues lay in its collective wisdom, its attachment to chivalric codes, and its sense of public duty. It evolved from a medieval warrior caste into a self-assured and sophisticated... more...
Aristocratic Century
Cambridge University Press 1984; US$ 30.00Since the work of Butterfield and Namier in the 1930s, it has commonly been said that eighteenth-century England appears atomised, left with no overall interpretation. Subsequent work on religious differences and on party strife served to reinforce the image of a divided society, and in the last ten years historians of the poor and unprivileged have... more...
Contested Spaces of Nobility in Early Modern Europe
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2011; US$ 124.95European nobility faced a number of religious, political and military challenges. Many sought to increase their status, or maintain their privileges, by negotiating with various political and religious authorities, and exploiting opportunities in this era of upheaval. In examining the protective strategies nobles adopted in an age of state-building,... more...
The Splendour and Squalor
Atlantic Books Ltd 2009; US$ 13.11They kept monkeys in West End hotels, and rent-boys in Deauville and Kensington; they used firearms with convincing disregard for their own and others' safety, and drove their Rollses and Bentleys with seemingly suicidal intent. They acquired yachts and helicopters as they shipped the family silver to California and disposed of Old Masters at auction;... more...
Geographies of Privilege
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 49.95How are social inequalities experienced, reproduced and challenged in local, global and transnational spaces? What role does the control of space play in distribution of crucial resources and forms of capital (housing, education, pleasure, leisure, social relationships)? The case studies in Geographies of Privilege demonstrate how power operates... more...









