Social Classes

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...