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  • Fortune, Fame, and Desire
    Sharon Hartman Strom
    In the middle decades of the nineteenth century, a widening set of opportunities in the public sphere opened up for ambitious men and women in the loosely structured stratum of 'the middle class.' Much of the attention to the marketplace between 1820 and 1910 has described entrepreneurship and the beginnings of a more sophisticated economy, but not much has been paid to the com...
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    127,65 €

  • Depression Folk
    Ronald D. Cohen / Ronald DCohen
    While music lovers and music historians alike understand that folk music played an increasingly pivotal role in American labor and politics during the economic and social tumult of the Great Depression, how did this relationship come to be? Ronald D. Cohen sheds new light on the complex cultural history of folk music in America, detailing the musicians, government agencies, and...
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    41,64 €

  • Power and Privilege in Roman Society
    Richard Duncan-Jones
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    141,26 €

  • Beauty, Virtue, Power, and Success in Venezuela 1850-2015
    Elizabeth Gackstetter Nichols
    Beauty, Virtue, Power, and Success in Venezuela 1850-2015 examines the societal duty of Venezuelan women to display and perform their inner virtue and worth through careful management of their outer physical appearance in four historical moments: 1850-1890, 1910-1950, 1960-1990, and 2000-2015. Since the early 1800’s, Venezuelan women-and more specifically, their bodies-have ser...
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    120,86 €

  • The Right People
    Stephen Birmingham
    The Right People is an engrossing and illuminating journey through the customs and habits of the phenomenally wealthy, from the San Francisco elite to the upper crust of New York’s Westchester County. ...
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    14,84 €

  • Real Lace
    Stephen Birmingham
    Here, in this engrossing and often hilarious book, Stephen Birmingham explores how the Irish elite emerged in America—frequently in less than a generation’s time—out of poverty into positions of both social and business prominence. ...
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    15,01 €

  • The Grandees
    Stephen Birmingham
    Stephen Birmingham tells the rich and varied history of the Sephardic elite--an insular group of bewilderingly interrelated families, spiced with gossip and the gentle rattling of family skeletons. ...
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    14,75 €

  • The Golden Dream
    Stephen Birmingham
    In this chatty, anecdotal, and often ironic inquiry, Stephen Birmingham investigates the nesting habits, enjoyments, and frustrations of American suburban life in the Seventies. ...
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    15,55 €

  • America’s Secret Aristocracy
    Stephen Birmingham
    America’s Secret Aristocracy offers an inside look at the estates, marriages and financial empires of America’s most selective club and a gallery of vivid portrait of its members. ...
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    14,97 €

  • The Right Places
    Stephen Birmingham
    In The Right Places Stephen Birmingham uses his witty, penetrating style to uncover those exclusive locations where the privileged live and play. Birmingham unveils the secret enclaves of the rich for his readers, giving us a glimpse into their lives and abodes beyond what is seen in paparazzi photos. ...
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    15,27 €

  • California Rich
    Stephen Birmingham
    Stephen Birmingham explores here the fascinating social history of California, showing how the ruling class of California was born from rough hewn mining communities, and how it evolved a lifestyle that continues to fascinate the world. ...
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    15,09 €

  • The Grandes Dames
    Stephen Birmingham
    The Grandes Dames of America knew just what they wanted and precisely how to get it, and when faced with criticism, malice or jealousy, they would rise above their detractors and usually persevere. Preeminent social historian Stephen Birmingham takes us into the drawing rooms of these powerful women, providing keen insights into aspects of an American Society that no longer exi...
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    15,18 €

  • The Astructural Bias Charge
    This collection of outstanding essays addresses the concern of an astructural bias. Contemporary interactionists and their critics, social theorists, and students of sociology who are interested in assessing the ability of SI to fully address the social circumstances and social problems of an increasingly precarious world should read this book. ...
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    205,09 €

  • La daŭrigata revolucio
    Leo Trocko / Vilhelmo Lutermano
    'La teorio de la socialismo en unu lando estis unue formulita en la aŭtuno de 1924 de Stalino, en kompleta kontraŭ­eco ne nur al la tradicioj de la marksismo kaj de la skolo de Lenino, sed ankaŭ al tio, kion Stalino ankoraŭ en la printempo de la sama jaro 1924 estis skribinta. La profundo de la forlaso de la marksismo, kiun la stalina „skolo” faras en la demandoj de la socialis...
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    21,24 €

  • Human, All Too (Post)Human
    The contemporary has marked itself off from modernity by questioning its humanism that centers the world around the human as the moral subject of free will and self-determination, the bearer of universal essence that is the basis of human rights. Modernism normalizes humanism through language as referential, a set of interrelated signs that correspond to the empirical reality o...
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    135,99 €

  • The Stories Clothes Tell
    Tatsuichi Horikiri / Rieko Wagoner
    This compelling social history tells the stories of ordinary people in modern Japan. Tatsuichi Horikiri spent a lifetime searching out old items of clothing and oral accounts to shed light on those who used these items. He illuminates not only the often desperate lives of these people but also their hopes, aspirations, and human values. ...
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    126,37 €

  • Neighborhood Organization and Interest-Group Processes
    David J. O’Brien / David JO'Brien / David JO’Brien
    Since the end of the civil rights era in the sixties it has become increasingly clear that social and political conflicts cannot be resolved entirely at the national level. Struggles between residents of poor neighborhoods and local interest groups or public authorities present some of our most explosive domestic political problems today. This study seeks insight into these pro...
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    163,38 €

  • Leisure and cultural conflict in twentieth-century Britain
    Brett Bebber
    A collection of articles addressing research trends in the history of British leisure while also presenting a wide range of articles on cultural conflict and leisure in the twentieth century. It includes innovative research on a number of topics, including television, cinema, the circus, women’s leisure, dance, football and drug culture. ...
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    24,76 €

  • La saga jurídica de los Sisternes
    Laura Gómez Orts
    Los Sisternes fueron una extensa familia de juristas valencianos. A lo largo de diversas generaciones algunos de sus miembros desempeñaron cargos al servicio de la monarquía en las Reales Audiencias de Valencia, Cerdeña, Palma de Mallorca y en el propio Consejo Supremo de Aragón. Otros representantes de esta familia no llegaron a ocupar ningún puesto de relevancia, pero mantuvi...
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    9,50 €

  • The Stories Clothes Tell
    Tatsuichi Horikiri / Rieko Wagoner
    This compelling social history tells the stories of ordinary people in modern Japan. Tatsuichi Horikiri spent a lifetime searching out old items of clothing and oral accounts to shed light on those who used these items. He illuminates not only the often desperate lives of these people but also their hopes, aspirations, and human values. ...
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    47,49 €

  • La seducción de la clase obrera: trabajadores, raza y la formación del estado peruano
    Paulo Drinot
    [La seducción de la clase obrera es un] importante avance en la construcción de una imagen histórica más realista del complejo proceso de modernización peruano. Un destacado aporte, asimismo, al delineamiento de un paradigma post-oligárquico del Estado peruano. Que continúa, por cierto, el análisis de la república práctica del primer civilismo ofrecido por Carmen McEvoy. Así, s...
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    36,40 €

  • Solidarity Forever?
    Jake Alimahomed-Wilson
    The International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) remains one of the best examples of a labor union that traces its origins to radical anti-racist principles. Today, very few mainstream unions remain that were founded on militant, radical, and 'anti-racist' principles. The ILWU remains the strongest port union in the United States, and its members are among the highest pai...
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    126,46 €

  • The Communist Manifesto (Chiron Academic Press - The Original Authoritative Edition)
    Friedrich Engels / Karl Marx
    THE COMMUNIST MANIFESTO (originally Manifesto of the Communist Party) is an 1848 political pamphlet by German philosophers Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Commissioned by the Communist League and originally published in London (in the German language as Manifest der kommunistischen Partei) just as the revolutions of 1848 began to erupt, the Manifesto was later recognised as one...
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    5,60 €

  • We shall not be moved
    Brian Marren
    This critique explores six case studies which will illustrate how elements of a highly politicised local working-class fought against the rapid rise in forced redundancies and industrial closures. ...
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    157,28 €

  • Challenging Social Exclusion
    In Challenging Social Exclusion: Multi-sectoral Approaches to Realising Social Justice in East Africa contributing authors interrogate the question of social justice in East Africa, unravelling how people who live on the margins of society are cheated of their livelihoods. The work delves into thorny issues in social justice and recommends ways of addressing them. Based on rece...
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    64,02 €

  • Affective Labour
    James M. Thomas / James MThomas / Jennifer G. Correa / Jennifer GCorrea
    Affective Labour explores four distinct landscapes in order to demonstrate how collective feelings are organized by social actors in order to both reproduce and contest hegemony. Utilizing a variety of methods, including participant observation, in-depth interviews across field sites, and content analysis of mass media, Correa and Thomas demonstrate the centrality of affective ...
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    187,24 €

  • Affective Labour
    James M. Thomas / James MThomas / Jennifer G. Correa / Jennifer GCorrea
    Affective Labour explores four distinct landscapes in order to demonstrate how collective feelings are organized by social actors in order to both reproduce and contest hegemony. Utilizing a variety of methods, including participant observation, in-depth interviews across field sites, and content analysis of mass media, Correa and Thomas demonstrate the centrality of affective ...
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    61,33 €

  • A Homeless Panic
    James Lough
    A Homeless Panic: The Homeless Experience in AmericaA gripping and powerful story about survival on the streets.This is a true account, in descriptive and sometimes graphic detail, of what it was like to survive homelessness. It is the story of one person’s struggle to come to terms with what can only be described as a real-life disaster.More than just a good read, A Homeless P...
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    21,72 €

  • Broken Promises of Globalization
    Shahidur Rahman
    Broken Promises of Globalization: The Case of the Bangladesh Garment Industry analyzes the consequences of the latest wave of globalization within the context of the Bangladesh garment industry’s integration into world markets and production chains. Shahidur Rahman has found that although globalization has created opportunities, the process of globalization has also triggered a...
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    79,54 €

  • Rural Young Women, Education, and Socio-Spatial Mobility
    Wendy Geller
    Much of the literature on globalization has centered on the large, macro-level forces that influence the ways ideas, people, and various forms of capital move around the world. From this vantage point, discussions about the progressive feminization of migration, in particular the feminization of out-migration from rural areas, indicate an intriguing trend. Simultaneously, the l...
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    157,93 €


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