Social Classes

Outrageously handsome, witty and clever, Harry Cust was reputed to be one of the great womanisers of the late Victorian era. In 1893, while a Membe...

Long before the American Revolution and the Declaration of the Rights of Man, a motely crew of sailors, slaves, pirates, labourers, market women, a...

What's the appeal of a pedigree retriever so hobbled by hip dysplasia that it can't even play fetch? Why would anybody want a dog with a snout so d...

This much revised and reorganized edition of Intellectuals and Society is more than half again larger than the first edition. Four new chapters h...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'There was nothing extraordinary about my childhood or background. And yet I looked in vain for any aspect of my family'...

The largely untold stories of innumerable, rather humble, lives spent ''in service'' are lying just below the surface of many great houses; the phy...

African Social Studies: A Radical Reader, is an essential and wide-ranging collection of essays by some of the world''s finest social scientists, k...

'Thoroughly researched and written with such calm authority, yet makes you want to scream with righteous indignation' John O'Farrell We can expect...

In Privilege and Anxiety, Hagen Koo examines what has happened to the Korean middle class in the era of neoliberal globalization and demonstrates t...

'This book is a record of the British upper classes - and a few others - at their best (sometimes their worst), displaying a sort of unhinged blith...

A new revolution in homeownership and living has been sweeping the booming cities of China. This time the main actors on the social stage are not p...

Fords overlap of past and present, narrative and commentary is masterful, and makes this volume all the more valuable to those readers wise enough ...

A Times Book of the Year 2019''You should not deny yourself the pleasure of reading it'' Sunday Times''A remarkable work and an important addition ...

Since the 1960s, the West has moved ever-leftwards. ''Equality'' and ''feelings'' are central to the New Religion that rejects all traditional valu...

Philanthropy plays a huge role in supporting the provision of many public goods in contemporary societies. As a result, decisions that affect publi...

'A deeply intelligent and searching book, one that makes you re-consider the narrative of your own life and reframe the story you tell yourself' Hi...

This stimulating and comprehensive study of the period between the establishment of the new Tudor administrative framework and the outbreak of the ...

How do you solve a problem like understanding Iraq? For Hanna Batatu, the solution to this conundrum lay in generating alternative possibilities th...

What makes a person liberal or conservative? Why does the Democratic Party scare off so many possible supporters? When does our injustice trigger g...

Love it or hate it, celebrity is one of the dominant features of modern life--and one of the least understood. Fred Inglis sets out to correct this...

A history that extends from the 1750s to the present, In Pursuit of Privilege recounts upper-class New Yorkers'' struggle to create a distinct worl...

A surprising and revealing look at how todays elite view their wealth and place in societyFrom TVs real housewives to The Wolf of Wall Street, our ...

In this landmark work of photo-journalism, activist and photographer David Bacon documents the experiences of some of the hardest-working and most ...

Work on the miners' Lock-Out of 1926 tends to focus on the perspective of the National Union of Mineworkers, while nothing has been written which a...