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 ...