Social Classes

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...

A wry, affectionate and amusing take on English class and customs from an outsider's perspective. For years German lawyer and author Detlev Piltz ...

'Hough's conversational prose reads like the voice of a blues singer, taking breaks between songs to narrate her heartbreak in verse, cajoling her ...

A wonderful portrait of British upper-class life in the Season of 1939 - the last before the Second World War.The Season of 1939 brought all those ...

From the bottom to the top of our economy, capitalism is too blunt an instrument to tackle Britain's epidemic of inequality. Soaring rents, unfair...

'A triumphant family memoir' Hallie Rubenhold'Powerfully told...an impressive work' The Times'Gives a voice to the voiceless' Australian Book Revie...

How can teachers bridge the gap between their commitments to social justice and their day to day practice? This is the question author Adam Howard ...

Carolyn Heilbrun, in Writing a Womans Life, states that books about the real lives of women arent written often enough. Women of Privilege is an at...

The loans ordinary Americans take out to purchase homes and attend college often leave them in a sea of debt. As Devin Fergus explains in Land of t...