Social Classes

Political theatre thrives on turbulence. By turning the political issues of the day into a potent, dramatic art form, its practitioners hold up a m...

New Orleans has long been a city fixated on its own history and culture. Founded in 1718 by the French, transferred to the Spanish in the 1763 Trea...

A stunning and devastating indictment of a society scarred and defined by inequality, by one of the most charismatic and compelling voices in polit...

A new appraisal of the military careers and activities of soldiers from elite medieval families. In 1277 the recently crowned king of England, Edw...

Economic corridorsambitious infrastructural development projects that newly liberalizing countries in Asia and Africa are undertakingare dramatical...

'A latter-day Canterbury Tales ... Serious Money has a serious mission' The Times'Eye-opening ... part guide, part indictment of a yawning wealth g...

A cruise along the streets of Chennai - or Silicon Valley - filled with professional young Indian men and women, reveals the new face of India. In ...

A denunciation of the credentialed elite class that serves capitalism while insisting on its own progressive heroism Professional Managerial Class ...

The story of the Stuart dynasty is a breathless soap opera played out in just a hundred years in an array of buildings that span Europe from Scotla...

Building upon extensive research into modern British society, this book traces out trends in social mobility and their relation to educational ineq...

During the 1970s and early 1980s, Egypt experienced swift economic growth resulting from a regional oil boom. Oddly, this economic growth hardly re...

Most Americans consider themselves middle class. This raises the question, what does it mean to be middle class? Income levels alone do not define ...

classic Winlow and Hall bleak, brilliant and unmatched in the art of rethinking crucial social issues. Enlightening, and rather scary. - Professo...

A proudly partisan history of the British aristocracy - which scores some shrewd hits against the upper class themselves, and the nostalgia of the ...

How far have we really progressed toward gender equality in the United States? The answer is, not far enough. This engaging and accessible work, ai...

LONGLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE Eye-opening and persuasive SUNDAY TIMES ...