Social and cultural history Books
Princeton University Press Decolonization
Book SynopsisTrade Review“For those looking for a compact and lucid account of why decolonization occurred, and what it meant, this is the place to start.”—Krishan Kumar, Times Literary Supplement“A remarkably useful book. . . . The authors modestly describe it as a historical essay which is designed to be an introductory survey. That does not do justice to its strikingly thoughtful approach and the wealth of ideas that are compressed into its pages.”—John M. MacKenzie, Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History“First-rate.”—Nicolas van de Walle, Foreign Affairs“A succinct, highly accessible survey.”—Choice“Impressive. Jansen and Osterhammel adroitly navigate both the individual stories of different countries and empires and the broader scholarly debates that encompass those stories. . . . A quintessential introduction to the end of empire.”—Jessica Lynne Pearson, H-France Review“A rich synthesis.”—Michael Collins, EuropeNow
£17.09
Princeton University Press The Crisis of Multiculturalism in Europe
Book SynopsisTrade Review“Chin analyzes the current debates in Europe over immigration and Western values to create a vivid picture of a continent consumed by social tensions. The questions [she] poses have never seemed more urgent.”—Radhika Jones, New York Times Book Review“Lucidly written and resourcefully argued, [this book] is a superb example of a scholarly intervention in a public debate dominated by unexamined prejudice.”—Pankaj Mishra, New York Times Book Review“Chin has produced a well-researched and readable study of policies toward immigrant communities in Great Britain, France, and, to a lesser extent, Germany, from immediately after WWII to the present.”—Publishers Weekly“A lucid and erudite overview of the debate.”—Malise Ruthven, Financial Times
£19.00
Princeton University Press Status in Classical Athens
Book SynopsisIn the first comprehensive account of status in ancient democratic Athens, Kamen illuminates the complexity of Athenian social structure, uncovers tensions between democratic ideology and practice, and contributes to larger questions about the relationship between citizenship and democracy.Trade Review"Kamen offers a brief, sensible, inexpensive, and generally persuasive survey of the spectrum of status in Athens. . . . [K]amen's well-annotated, sensible survey is an excellent place for scholars and advanced students to start research on any of these groups." * Choice *"[T]his is a stimulating and important book. It will prove indispensable reading for anyone interested in ancient Athenian society and an essential item in reading lists for academic courses. Kamen takes a fresh look at the texture of Athenian society, and given the breadth of material covered she does an excellent job in demonstrating its multifarious nature in a clear and accessible style."---Rachel Zelnick-Abramovitz, Scripta Classica Israelica
£25.20
Princeton University Press Indian Sex Life
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Honorable Mention for the J. Willard Hurst Book Prize, Law and Society Association""Winner of the Bernard S. Cohn Book Prize, Association for Asian Studies""A powerful critique of how the present-day study of society is entangled with histories of colonial, caste supremacist, and communalist knowledge production. Indian Sex Life is sure to become a classic in the fields of gender and sexuality studies and South Asian history."---Jessica Hinchy, Journal of the History of Sexuality"A great step in the proper understanding and decoding of colonial knowledge structures and as to how and why women’s perceived sexual deviancy functioned as a primary engine for change."---Samuel Bell, The Middle Ground Journal
£89.25
Princeton University Press Indian Sex Life
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Honorable Mention for the J. Willard Hurst Book Prize, Law and Society Association""Winner of the Bernard S. Cohn Book Prize, Association for Asian Studies""A powerful critique of how the present-day study of society is entangled with histories of colonial, caste supremacist, and communalist knowledge production. Indian Sex Life is sure to become a classic in the fields of gender and sexuality studies and South Asian history."---Jessica Hinchy, Journal of the History of Sexuality"A great step in the proper understanding and decoding of colonial knowledge structures and as to how and why women’s perceived sexual deviancy functioned as a primary engine for change."---Samuel Bell, The Middle Ground Journal
£27.00
Princeton University Press The Closet
Book SynopsisA literary and cultural history of the intimate space of the eighteenth-century closet-and how it fired the imaginations of Pepys, Sterne, Swift, and so many other writers Long before it was a hidden storage space or a metaphor for queer and trans shame, the closet was one of the most charged settings in English architecture. This private roomTrade Review"Finalist for the Mavis Gallant Award for Non-Fiction, Quebec Writers’ Federation""The Closet is a major accomplishment that promises to be the definitive word on its subject."---Beth Kowaleski Wallace, Eighteenth-Century Studies"Bobker’s study succeeds in illuminating a fascinating topic with a wealth of detail pulled from various disciplines. . . it also shows the way monographs may go beyond a reconstruction of the past to include examining what this version of the past means for the present."---Rachel Ramsey, Eighteenth-Century Fiction"Providing a careful look at 18th-century historical and fictional texts, Bobker expands contemporary and commonplace ideas of the closet, its early use, and how it was initially developed. . . . Recommended." * Choice Reviews *"[This book] is a kind of cabinet of curiosities in itself, a curated collection to delight, educate and intrigue the reader and including in its wide scope both architectural and social history, queer theory and classic English literature."---Sue Nicholson, pepysdiary.com"Smart, enjoyable, and ground-breaking."---Mary Peace, ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640-1830
£42.50
Princeton University Press An Infinite History
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Shortlisted for the American Library in Paris Book Award""Shortlisted for the Cundill History Prize, McGill University""Winner of the PROSE Award in European History, Association of American Publishers""Winner of the Leo Gershoy Award, American Historical Association""Rothschild rightly rejects what she describes as an ‘ideological’ division of the dead by historians between ‘important’—the people with substantial records—and ‘the unimportant . . . who can be counted, but cannot be understood.' Rather, as this book demonstrates, a focus on the ‘ordinary’ can offer new perspectives on periods of extraordinary change."---Laura O’Brien, Times Literary Supplement "[An Infinite History] is a family history unlike any other because of the way Rothschild tells it. . . . By starting with the names and tracing them over space and especially time, Rothschild not only upends the usual methods of study but also compels a rethinking of many prevailing views about the politics, economy, and society of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century France."---Lynn Hunt, New York Review of Books"Captivating. . . . One of the most successful attempts to put Ginzburg and Poni’s ‘science of the lived’ into action."---David A. Bell, The Nation"[A] remarkable inquiry into the town of Angoulême, in southwestern France, beginning with the story of 'an inquisitive, illiterate woman, Marie Aymard,' and five generations of her extended family in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries: the sort of history that has been exceedingly hard to tell, and therefore not often told." * Harvard Magazine *"Emma Rothschild leaves no stone unturned in her quest to trace one family through centuries and five generations... this is an inspiring and enjoyable demonstration of what can be achieved by skill, perseverance and a bit of luck." * Family Tree Magazine *"This innovative study of ordinary people in a French provincial town is a remarkable achievement of both painstaking research and historical imagination . . . . the result is a fascinating exercise in history from below, a history of chance encounters and social networks, of ambition and opportunity."---Alan Forrest, Family and Community History"This is a tremendously engaging book which reads, paradoxically, like a capacious nineteenth-century novel. And not least because of its elusive dénouements and the absence of an authorial omniscience straining our suspension of disbelief, it is enriched by the certainty, validated by scholarship of the highest quality, that none of it is invented."---Robert Lethbridge, Journal of European Studies
£27.00
Princeton University Press The Folds of Olympus
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Longlisted for the Runciman Award, Anglo-Hellenic League""Shortlisted for the London Hellenic Prize, London Hellenic Society""A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year""[An] enchanting love letter, a sonorous ode to nature. . . .This thorough, meticulous, and excellently written book informs the reader on basically every aspect of Greek and Roman imagination and experience of mountains."---Andrej Petrovic, Greece and Rome"One need look no further than König’s The Folds of Olympus for what is surely the most readable, comprehensive account of mountains in ancient Greek and Roman culture. Based on firsthand experience, wide-ranging research, and profound insights, the book takes readers on a journey up slopes, atop summits, and across vistas of mountain geographies around the Mediterranean and beyond." * Choice *"[W]onderfully rich and stimulating."---John Taylor, Classics for All"The Folds of Olympus shows König’s mastery of material vast enough to be the subjects and substance of countless seminars in Classical studies. This grasp of ancient history and culture is matched by König’s knowledge and love of the physical side of his subject."---Gerald Lalonde, The Past
£34.20
Princeton University Press Pirates and Publishers A Social History of
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Winner of the Peter Gonville Stein Book Award, American Society for Legal History""Runner-Up Commendation for the DeLong Book History Book Prize, Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing""Wang’s book . . . is [an] equally fundamental (soon to be called seminal, I believe) piece of literature as Alford’s title. Wang’s monograph dug into extreme depth."---Péter Mezei, Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice"Wang’s book adds substantially both to long-standing and more recent general historical scholarship on modern China. . . . Wang uses her archival and published sources to make original, insightful, even brilliant arguments that, while clearly located within recognizable lineages of empirical social, cultural, and legal historiography, also extend that historiography in innovative and important ways. Wang writes vigorous yet nuanced jargon-free narrative and analytical prose. She knows how to tell a story. Her writing in this book will undoubtedly appeal to both scholars and laymen."---Christopher A. Reed, Journal of Chinese History"[A] meticulously researched and highly readable new book. . . . There is a widespread general perception, even among specialists, that copyright and related intellectual property rights have always been an awkward alien import in China and enjoy no genuine social recognition or support. Pirates and Publishers makes a strong and convincing case for revising the latter notion."---Michel Hockx, Journal of Asian Studies"What Wang does offer, through both standard resources and a unique cross-referencing of Booksellers Guild records with the Shanghai Municipal Archives, is forgotten slice of China’s economic and cultural history, largely presented here—at least by the standards of copyright law—as a rollicking read."---Ken Smith, Asian Review of Books"Ambitious and insightful."---Nicolai Volland, East Asian Publishing and Society"Ultimately, Wang’s book is a fine work of scholarship that persuasively demonstrates that, beyond the narrow confines of the formal law, there was a vast and socioeconomically significant dimension of institutional agency in early twentieth-century Chinese copyright practices. The book introduces much social complexity and nuance to a topic that has all too often lacked both."---Shyamkrishna Balganesh & Taisu Zhang, Harvard Law Review
£23.75
Princeton University Press The Transatlantic Indian 17761930
Book SynopsisTrade Review"This extraordinarily capacious, academically sound study broadens the field of Victorian studies." * Choice *"It is in any case no surprise to report that Flint's readings of her sources are always searching and nuanced. The book is also very light on jargon; it is too intellectually confident for that. This will be a major text in the burgeoning field of transantlantic studies. It offers a distinctive portrait of Victorian culture that we have not seen before."---Rohan McWilliam, 19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century"Kate Flint's scholarly work is a fascinating and ground-breaking study of the Indian as both imagined in literature and visible in transatlantic encounters and exchanges. . . . Her extensive knowledge of both Victorian society and culture and tribal histories and cultures is evident throughout the work. . . . Flint's work establishes fruitful links with recent scholarship and debates which have successfully placed the Indian in a transatlantic perspective."---Mandy Cooper, Journal of Transatlantic Studies"The Transatlantic Indian succeeds admirably in surveying the transatlantic exchanges between Native Americans and British readers and writers during the long nineteenth century."---Siohban Carroll, English Literature in Transition"This beautifully researched project contributes a sweeping synthesis, but its virtues go much farther. . . . Flint pulls off the tricky combination of a tight argument with an exploratory format. Delicate readings of slippery texts will impress literary scholars, while historians will appreciate the book's temporal and cultural scope and its broad range of prosaic and canonical sources. . . . [T]his is a book to relish, ruminate over, and revisit."---Rebecca R. Noel, Literature and History"The claims of The Transatlantic Indian are superbly documented by extensive notes and bibliographical data; it is nicely illustrated by materials Flint actually analyses; and the book, as an artifact, is presented with the high production values characteristic of Princeton University Press."---Mick Gidley, Review of English Studies"[I]ts pages, sentences, and images demands fullest attention, appealing at once to our senses, emotions and minds."---Cyana Leahy-Dios, European Legacy"The historical scholarship on white attitudes toward Native Americans is prolific, but with The Transatlantic Indian, Kate Flint refreshes this familiar genre with a transnational approach to Anglo-Indian relations."---David A. Gerber, Journal of American Ethnic History"This is a very informed volume that uses an impressive range of literary texts in order to chart a history of representation and interaction. The crucial intervention of Flint's project is in how it implicates Britain in narratives and discourses regarding Native Americans, in a move that demonstrates the long and intimate links that become forged between an empire and its colony."---Hum, Ethnicity and Race in a Changing World"[A]s is characteristic of the best scholarly surveys, Flint's book marks out the territory that future scholars will need to subject to ever finer scrutiny."---Joshua David Bellin, Modern Philology
£36.00
Princeton University Press The Outsiders
Book SynopsisTher provides needed perspective on today's "refugee crisis," demonstrating how Europe has taken in far greater numbers of refugees in earlier periods of its history, in wartime as well as peacetime. His sweeping narrative crosses the Mediterranean and the Atlantic, taking readers from the Middle East to the shores of America.Trade Review"A wide-ranging and detailed history . . . . This stimulating volume is perhaps the most complete history of population movements in Europe’s modern era and will find a place on the shelves of everyone who would understand the world in which we live now."---Derek Hawes, Journal of Contemporary European Studies"Ther is careful to bring the people involved and the societies that receive them into the equation. The numbers are eye-watering and the time period involved staggering. . . . Essential reading." * Survival: Global Politics and Strategy *"An eye-opening and comprehensive account of population movements over the last 500 years." * Paradigm Explorer *
£999.99
Princeton University Press Digital Cash
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Winner of the Bronze Medal in Business Technology, Axiom Business Book Awards"
£14.24
Princeton University Press Olympia
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Longlisted for the Runciman Award, Anglo-Hellenic League""Despite the site’s significance, the sheer quantity of material from and about Olympia means that producing an overview is a daunting prospect, and there has been a longstanding need for a detailed, up-to-date, English-language overview of the history of Olympia. Barringer’s book admirably fills that need, and will immediately become an essential point of reference"---Paul Christesen, Current World Archaeology"Barringer has done a superb job of sifting through the modern literature and adding her own insights so as to produce a fresh and comprehensive account of the site-history of Olympia, with modern controversies and debates highlighted and summarized. There is much here that will be new to others who, like me, thought they had a general familiarity with the site."---Tony Spawforth, Mediterranean Historical Review"Barringer’s work is both a monument to those who once achieved the extraordinary Olympic honour of being allowed to erect semi-godlike imagery of themselves within the Altis and may well be worthy of such kleos itself."---Dr. John A. Martino, The Journal of Classics Teaching
£29.75
Princeton University Press Strange Vernaculars
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Show[s] how discourses on the English language both reflected and galvanized the forces of cultural and political hegemony in Britain, and those of expansion, empire and slavery on a global scale."---John Gallagher, Times Literary Supplement"Sorensen shows how a wide range of authors represented and classified the real or imagined speech of lower status groups, refashioning it as 'strange vernaculars'. . . . She is especially strong on the hidden role of race. . . . Her final section on sailors' talk includes some fine points on Jane Austen, and on the allure of naval speech as both foreign and familiar, an allure that lies at the heart of the book."---Elspeth Jajdelska, Times Higher Education"Sorensen brings together sociolinguistics and literary history in an innovative and subtle exploration of the social cachet that heteroglossia had for writers in the 18th century. . . . This sensitive work is both a contribution to 18th- century studies and a model of how heteroglossia in literature might be investigated in other eras." * Choice *"For readers interested in the evolution of English, this is a fascinating look at the role strangeness and otherness played in the development of a national language and identity."---James Holloway, Fortean Times"I learned much from Strange Vernaculars, a dense, demanding, and thoroughly rewarding book."---Jack Lynch, Oxford Journal
£25.20
Princeton University Press The Jewish World of Alexander Hamilton
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Winner of the Silver Medal in Biography, Independent Publisher Book Awards""Winner of the Book-of-the-Year Award, Journal of the American Revolution""Finalist in History, ForeWord Reviews’ INDIES Book of the Year Awards""Readers will find an engaging book that provides a unique look at Hamilton’s life as well as the history of Jews in the Revolution and early national period. . . . [An] innovative study that illuminates previously obscured details of Alexander Hamilton’s childhood." * Journal of the American Revolution *"Ingenious. . . . Porwancher impressively draws on primary sources in half a dozen languages."---Stephen Whitfield, Jewish Book Council"Remarkable, informative, and thorough."---Mike Fink, Providence Journal"Radical. . . . Porwancher’s prose is extraordinarily bright."---Adam Jortner, Reviews in American History"Innovative. . . . An invaluable contribution."---Nan Goodman, American Nineteenth Century History"Very well-written."---Alexander J. Groth, Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs
£19.80
Princeton University Press Rough Draft of History
Book SynopsisTrade Review"A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year"
£25.20
Princeton University Press Rough Draft of History A Century of US Social
Book SynopsisTrade Review"A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year"
£74.80
Princeton University Press The Struggle for the Peoples King
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Yazdiha shows how the corrupted memory of the Civil Rights Movement now allows it to be used against itself, inviting broader reflection about the place of collective memory in democratic politics. The book also makes a strong case forteaching history comprehensively and unflinchingly. . . . In the political cautions that story makes, [The] Struggle for the People's King is a book that will be revealing to students and useful to activists." * Choice *"Yazdiha demonstrates how the United States’ collective future is at stake in the stories Americans tell themselves to rationalize, legitimize, or justify their political claims. Based on assiduous research with sophisticated mixed theories laid out in a methodological appendix." * Library Journal *"The Struggle for the People’s King offers a new set of tools for examining meaning construction processes in efforts to bring about or resist social change. . . . Yazdiha’s ideas extend far beyond a focus on collective memory related to a specific historical figure. Her work opens the door to analyses that give close attention to how culture and structured inequalities constrain and enable social change and efforts to remedy injustice and inequality."---Rory McVeigh, Social Forces
£64.00
Princeton University Press The Struggle for the Peoples King
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Yazdiha shows how the corrupted memory of the Civil Rights Movement now allows it to be used against itself, inviting broader reflection about the place of collective memory in democratic politics. The book also makes a strong case forteaching history comprehensively and unflinchingly. . . . In the political cautions that story makes, [The] Struggle for the People's King is a book that will be revealing to students and useful to activists." * Choice *"Yazdiha demonstrates how the United States’ collective future is at stake in the stories Americans tell themselves to rationalize, legitimize, or justify their political claims. Based on assiduous research with sophisticated mixed theories laid out in a methodological appendix." * Library Journal *"The Struggle for the People’s King offers a new set of tools for examining meaning construction processes in efforts to bring about or resist social change. . . . Yazdiha’s ideas extend far beyond a focus on collective memory related to a specific historical figure. Her work opens the door to analyses that give close attention to how culture and structured inequalities constrain and enable social change and efforts to remedy injustice and inequality."---Rory McVeigh, Social Forces
£22.50
Princeton University Press The Anthropology of White Supremacy
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£67.20
Princeton University Press The Jewish Alchemists A History and Source Book
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£999.99
Princeton University Press Peasant Classes The Bureaucratization of
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£999.99
Princeton University Press Racial Inequality A PoliticalEconomic Analysis
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£999.99
Princeton University Press DHolbachs Coterie
Book SynopsisStudents of the Enlightenment have long assumed that the major movement towards atheism in the Ancien Regime was centered in the circle of intellectuals who met at the home of Baron d'Holbach during the last half of the eighteenth century. This major critical study shows, contrary to the accepted views, that in fact, atheism was not the common bondTable of Contents*Frontmatter, pg. i*Contents, pg. vii*Preface, pg. ix*Introduction, pg. 1*PART I. The Coterie Holbachique and the Enlightenment, pg. 7*PART II. The Members of the Coterie Holbachique and the Society of the Ancien Regime, pg. 147*PART III. The Members of the Coterie Holbachique and the French Revolution, pg. 259*Bibliography, pg. 331*Index, pg. 347
£42.50
Princeton University Press The Decline of Fertility in Germany 18711939
Book SynopsisThis is the second in a series of monographs on the historic decline of European fertility to be issued by the Office of Population Research at Princeton University. It is a detailed statistical description and analysis of the transition from high to low birth rates which took place in Germany between Unification and the beginning of World War II.Table of Contents*Frontmatter, pg. i*Foreword, pg. vii*Preface, pg. ix*Contents, pg. xi*List of Tables, pg. xiii*List of Maps and Figures, pg. xix*CHAPTER 1: Introduction, pg. 1*CHAPTER 2: Trends in German Fertility and Nuptiality, pg. 38*CHAPTER 3: Social Differentials in the German Fertility Decline, pg. 88*CHAPTER 4: Demographic Change and Fertility Decline: Infant Mortality, pg. 148*CHAPTER 5: Demographic Change and Fertility Decline: Emigration, Migration, and Urbanization, pg. 188*CHAPTER 6: The Social Context of the German Fertility Decline, pg. 223*CHAPTER 7: Summary of Findings, pg. 246*APPENDIX 1A. The Choice of a Regional Classification for Germany, pg. 263*APPENDIX 1B Comparison of the Demographic Indices with Conventional Measures Based on the German Experience 1800-1925, pg. 266*APPENDIX 2A: Democraphic Indices for Germany - If, Ig, Ih, Im, and Im*, - for Each Administrative Area and for Each Province or State Consisting of More than One Administrative Area, pg. 270*APPENDIX 2B: Notes on Data Adjustments Involved in the Computation of the Basic Demographic Indices in Appendix Table 2.1, pg. 276*APPENDIX 3: Rural-Urban Marital Fertility for Selected German States and Administrative Areas, pg. 279*APPENDIX 4 (Tables 4.1, 4.2, & 4.3), pg. 288*Official Statistical Sources, pg. 292*Other References, pg. 294*Index, pg. 301
£40.80
Princeton University Press Jewish Nationality and Soviet Politics The
Book SynopsisIn order to "Bolshevize" the Jewish population, the Soviets created within the Party a number of special Jewish Sections. Charged with the task of integrating the largely hostile or indifferent Jews into the new state the Sections' programs are, in effect, a case study of the modernization and secularization of an ethnic and religious minority. ZviTable of Contents*Frontmatter, pg. i*Preface, pg. vii*Contents, pg. xi*List of Tables, pg. xiii*Illustrations, pg. xiv*I. The Politics of the Jewish Question in Tsarist 17 Russia, pg. 1*II. 1917: Parties, Politics, and the Planning of 69 Freedom, pg. 67*III. The Establishment of the Jewish Commissariats 105 and Jewish Sections, pg. 103*IV. Disappearing Alternatives: The End of the 151 Jewish Socialist Parties, pg. 149*V. "Revolution on the Jewish Street", pg. 231*VI. The Constructive Years, pg. 319*VII. The Evsektsiia and the Modernization of Soviet 379 Jewry, pg. 377*VIII. Deviations, Dissension, Dissolution, pg. 441*IX. Conclusion, pg. 483*Epilogue: The Tragedy of the Evsektsiia Activists, pg. 511*Bibliography, pg. 525*Index, pg. 559
£74.80
Princeton University Press Aspects of Social Change in Modern Japan
Book SynopsisThis is an examination of the consequences of Japan's rapid industrialization upon interpersonal relations. Based upon current theories of Western experiences with modernization, these studies show that the Eastern changes do not conform to Western patterns. Originally published in 1967. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demanTable of Contents*Frontmatter, pg. i*Foreword, pg. v*Contents, pg. ix*Introduction, pg. 1*I. Preconditions of Development: A Comparison of Japan and Germany, pg. 27*II. "Merit" as Ideology in the Tokugawa Period, pg. 71*III. Kinship Structure, Migration to the City, and Modernization, pg. 91*IV. Mobility, Equality, and Individuation in Modern Japan, pg. 113*V. Status Changes in Hamlet Structure Accompanying Modernization, pg. 153*VI. Associations and Democracy in Japan, pg. 185*VII. Collective Bargaining and Works Councils as Innovations in Industrial Relations in Japan during the i92o's, pg. 203*VIII. Postwar Trade Unionism, Collective Bargaining, and Japanese Social Structure, pg. 245*IX. Organization and Social Function of Japanese Gangs: Historical Development and Modern Parallels, pg. 289*X. Giri-Ninjo: An Interpretation, pg. 327*XI. Individual Mobility and Group Membership: The Case of the Burakumin-, pg. 337*XII. The Outcast Tradition in Modern Japan: A Problem in Social Self-Identity, pg. 373*XIII. Japanese Economic Growth: Background for Social Change, pg. 411*List of Contributors, pg. 455*Index, pg. 459
£59.50
Princeton University Press Racial Inequality A PoliticalEconomic Analysis
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£110.50
Princeton University Press Between Friends
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£49.30
Princeton University Press Slave Life in Rio de Janeiro 18081850
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£61.20
Project Row Houses Collective Creative Actions
Book SynopsisLocated in Houston''s Third Ward—a historic African-American neighborhood—Project Row Houses (PRH) is a community platform that enriches lives through art with an emphasis on cultural identity and its impact on the urban landscape. Since its inception in 1993, PRH has fostered a positive, creative environment in the community by infusing it with art and creativity and creating sustainable opportunities for artists, mothers, entrepreneurs, and residents. Today the PRH site encompasses five city blocks and houses thirty-nine structures that serve as home base to a variety of community-enriching initiatives, art programs, and neighborhood development activities.Collective Creative Actions: Project Row Houses at 25 highlights the history of the Third Ward neighborhood, PRH''s role in its development over the past quarter-century, and the idea of social art practice from the perspective of PRH''s five pillars: art and creativity; education; social safety
£21.59
MP-KAN Uni Press of Kansas Faded Dreams More Ghost Towns of Kansas
Book SynopsisThis work takes the reader on a journey round the state of Kansas, visiting 106 towns, such as Palermo, Fostoria, and Old Clear Water, and examining why they have declined or been abandoned.
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MP-KAN Uni Press of Kansas Steeltown U.S.A. Work and Memory in Youngstown
Book SynopsisExploring conflicting representations of Youngstown across a century of growth, struggle and heartbreaking decline, this study looks at the roles of work and memory. It acts as a cautionary tale about corporate responsibility in an era of globalization.Trade Review“Compelling. . . . An intriguing history of the deindustrialization experience in Youngstown. . . . Linkon and Russo have succeeded in illustrating the importance and use of historical memory in shaping the future discourse of public policy issues involving deindustrialization.”—Journal of American History“The authors compellingly examine Youngstown’s struggle for re-definition and recovery by studying its contradictory representations of itself, before and after the steel mills. . . . Rewarding reading for any Ohioan—or any American—interested in the psychological effects of deindustrialization on Rust Belt communities. This book proves that, in the authors’ words, ‘Youngstown’s story is America’s story.’”—Ohioana Quarterly
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MP-KAN Uni Press of Kansas The ShoshoneBannocks Culture and Commerce at
Book SynopsisTells how the Shoshone-Bannocks made a meaningful choice between productive commerce and a more typical reliance on subsistence and wage labor. This case study challenges the view that Indians were ill suited to market-based pursuits and enhances our understanding of cultural persistence within the broader sweep of historical change.
£44.06
University Press of Kansas Cradle of America A History of Virginia
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MP-KAN Uni Press of Kansas The American Elsewhere Adventure and Manliness
Book SynopsisA study of US expansionism from 1815-1848, The American Elsewhere delves into the ""adventurelogues"" of the era to reveal the emotional world of men who sought escape from the anonymity of the urban East and pressures of the Market Revolution. As volunteers, trappers, traders, or curiosity seekers, they stepped into ""elsewheres,"" distant and dangerous.Trade ReviewAmerican Elsewhere guides us through the tortuous and often baleful mental landscapes of American adventurers in the time of Jackson. In chasing the chimera of genuine experience, Bryan’s subjects create both a brotherhood of sentiment and geography of racial difference. Bryan’s grasp of emotional topographies is masterful. Saddle up and follow his lead."" - Daniel Herman, author of Hell on the Range: A Story of Honor, Conscience, and the American West""This book is a compelling investigation of how stories of Western adventurers (explorers, patriot warriors, and men of enterprise) from the end of the War of 1812 to the end of the U.S.-Mexican War romantically redefined the staid conventions of American manhood and thereby promoted a national ethos of manifest destiny. A unique, pivotal study in the cultural history of American exceptionalism and expansionism, it is well researched and plentifully documented, argued with judicious balance and critical discernment, and quite readable."" - Michael L. Johnson, author of Hunger for the Wild: America’s Obsession with the Untamed West
£41.36
University Press of Kansas Magic Bean The Rise of Soy in America
Book SynopsisAt the turn of the twentieth century, soybeans grew on so little of America's land that nobody bothered to track the total. By the year 2000, they covered upward of 70 million acres. How this little-known Chinese transplant turned into a ubiquitous component of American farming, culture, and cuisine is the story Matthew Roth tells in Magic Bean: The Rise of Soy in America.Trade ReviewMagic Bean is compelling, comprehensive, and timely. Matthew Roth has provided a well-examined study of soy's place within a long century of changing agriculture, food, diet, and culture. In the process, he offers an original and admirably wide-ranging account of soy for our time."" - Benjamin R. Cohen, author of Notes from the Ground: Science, Soil, & Society in the American Countryside""A diverse cast of women and men promoted the soybean as devotedly as John Chapman did the apple, but their efforts have gone as unnoticed as soy lecithin in a chocolate bar. Matthew Roth’s Magic Bean tells their stories and explains how a food often billed as a meat substitute became a linchpin of animal agriculture."" - Kendra Smith-Howard, author of Pure and Modern Milk: An Environmental History Since 1900
£26.96
MP-KAN Uni Press of Kansas Slave Women in the New World
Book SynopsisIn this innovative study, Marietta Morrissey reframes the debate over slavery in the New World by focusing on the experiences of slave women. Rich in detail and rigorously comparative, her work illuminates the exploitation, achievements, and resilience of slave women in the British, Dutch, French, Spanish, and Danish colonies in the Caribbean.
£999.99
MP-KAN Uni Press of Kansas African American Environmental Thought
Book SynopsisIn this first single authored book to link African American and environmental studies, Kimberly Smith uncovers a rich tradition stretching from the abolition movement through the Harlem Renaissance, demonstrating that black Americans have been far from indifferent to environmental concerns.Trade ReviewThoroughly researched and wellinformed, this extraordinarily rich and wellwritten study reveals hitherto neglected aspects of Black American life and thought." - Wilson J. Moses, author of Alexander Crummell: A Study of Civilization and Discontent"A terrific book that fills an important gap in political theory and offers fresh interpretations of such figures as Douglass, Du Bois, and Locke." - Lawrie Balfour, author of Evidence of Things Not Said: James Baldwin and the Promise of American Democracy"An arresting, insightful, and compelling look at environmental thought through the eyes of African Americans." - Carolyn Merchant, author of The Columbia Guide to American Environmental History
£22.46
MP-KAN Uni Press of Kansas The Rise and Fall of Indian Country 18251855
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsMapsPreface1. Looking Backward2. Reconnaissance3. Preparing the Way4. Promise5. Presence6. Proscription7. Compression8. Intrusion9. IllusionNotesSourcesIndex
£21.21
Dawson Publishing The Victoria History of the County of Nottingham
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£67.50
Dawson Publishing The Victoria History of the County of Nottingham
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£67.50
Dawson Publishing The Victoria History of the County of Oxford
Book SynopsisEcclesiastical History, Religious Houses, Social and Economic History, Table of Population, Industries, Agriculture, Forestry, Ancient Earthworks, Sport.
£67.50
Dawson Publishing A History of the County of Oxford
Book SynopsisBullingdon Hundred, including Cowley, Cuddesdon, Headington, Iffley, Nuneham, Courtney.
£67.50
Dawson Publishing A History of the County of Leicester
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£67.50
Dawson Publishing The Victoria History of the County of Lincoln
Book SynopsisThe volume was published more than eighty years ago, and its reissue makes available what is virtually an antiquarian book; it is nevertheless a work of reference that in many respects has not been replaced. Half the volume is devoted to Ecclesiastical History and separate histories of the religious houses of the county, numbering no less than 125 and including Lincoln cathedral and Crowland abbey; several of those histories were written by Rose Graham andthe accounts of the seventeen friaries by A. G. Little. The second half of the volume contains chapters on Political History (by C. H. Vellacott), Social and Economic History (including a table of population summarizing the firsteleven national censuses), Industries, Agriculture, Forestry, Endowed Schools, and Sport.
£67.50
Dawson Publishing The Victoria History of the County of Lancaster
Book SynopsisTopography: West Derby hundred (part including Prescot).
£67.50
Dawson Publishing The Victoria History of the County of Lancaster
Book SynopsisTopography: West Derby hundred (cont., including Liverpool, Wigan), Salford hundred.(part, including Manchester)
£67.50
