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From accepting multi-million pound tips from Russian oligarchs, to the offshore tax havens, meet Butler Britain...  In his Sunday Times-bestselling expose, Oliver Bullough reveals how the UK took up its position at the elbow of the worst people on Earth: the oligarchs, kleptocrats and gangsters. Though the UK prides itself on values of fair play and the rule of law, few countries do more to frustrate global anti-corruption efforts. From the murky origins of tax havens and gambling centres in the British Virgin Islands and Gibraltar to the influence of oligarchs in the British establishment, Butler to the World is the story of how we became a nation of Jeeveses - and how it doesn't have to be this way.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022 * The Times *\u003cbr\u003eBrilliant -- Marina Hyde * Guardian *\u003cbr\u003eA really engrossing and enraging read -- Ian Rankin\u003cbr\u003eBullough's angry, fascinating study of corruption and power in modern-day geopolitics has the pace of an airport thriller and the righteous zeal of a prosecuting barrister * Observer *\u003cbr\u003eA very, very good book -- Ian Hislop\u003cbr\u003eTerrific ... pulled by a current of Tory indolence, Britain flounders in a sea of dirty money -- Nick Cohen * Observer *\u003cbr\u003eRazor-sharp * FT *\u003cbr\u003eCould a book ever be more timely? ... Highly readable * The Times *\u003cbr\u003eBullough's highly readable account of the UK's role in facilitating global financial wrongdoing is a call to action * Daily Mail *\u003cbr\u003eUnmissable -- Tim Adams * Guardian *\u003cbr\u003eA terrifyingly good book -- Alastair Campbell\u003cbr\u003eShockingly timely ... excellent * Mail on Sunday *\u003cbr\u003eGrimly fascinating ... remarkable -- Dominic Sandbrook * Sunday Times *\u003cbr\u003eBullough is cynical, and his findings make depressing reading... but he's right that the whole system is built to facilitate the crooks, and takes the rest of us for mugs * Spectator *\u003cbr\u003eUncommonly timely * Herald *\u003cbr\u003eWhat's most apt about Bullough's butler analogy is the appearance of gray-flannel propriety, and the ways it can impart an aura of respectability to even the most disreputable fortune. -- 'Best Books of 2022: Nonfiction' * New Yorker *\u003cbr\u003e[A] Phenomenal book -- Liam Byrne MP\u003cbr\u003eBullough charts in jaw-dropping detail how our deregulated financial sector helps dodgy plutocrats squirrel away their fortunes * Daily Express *\u003cbr\u003eHighly readable... deserve[s] praise for going beyond moralising and pointing out how an industry geared to enabling the corrupt is not just unsavoury but can hurt a country's real economic prospects' -- Martin Sandbu * FT *\u003cbr\u003eIt is hard to imagine a more timely book ... Butler to the World is both a brilliant and depressing blast at decades of malign financial cosiness and the politicians who let it happen ... It takes guts to write and publish a book like this ... Bullough doesn't sit back and drily condemn all this financial skulduggery, he goes to meet the people who helped create the conditions that allowed it to happen -- Robert Verkaik * Guardian *\u003cbr\u003eAn urgent account of Britain's history of welcoming corrupt capital ... Mr Bullough argues compellingly that though more anti-corruption funds and tougher enforcement are welcome, what is really needed is a change of philosophy: for principles to take precedence over the profits of a few * The Economist *\u003cbr\u003eButler to the World's main message - that Britain needs to clean up its act not just for its own good but for that of the world - rings all the louder because of current geopolitics ... it's a damning judgement, but one that Bullough ... is well-positioned to give -- Rory Sullivan * Independent *\u003cbr\u003eUrgent and deeply reported * New Statesman 'Best Books of 2022 so far' *\u003cbr\u003eJaw-dropping ... Bullough has a gift for making complex financial information comprehensible and strives to leaven this depressing story with jokes and deft character sketches ... timely -- Charlotte Heathcote * Daily Mirror *\u003cbr\u003eBullough does a great line in deft sketches of personalities -- Eric Rauchway, Distinguished Professor of History at the University of California * TLS *\u003cbr\u003eAn essential exposé ... the pages reek of dirty money linked to Britain that Bullough has a nose for sniffing out ... impressive, pacy journalism that will leave you flabbergasted * Irish Sunday Independent *\u003cbr\u003eThe term 'timely' is used all too often in the media, but there really isn't a more timely book than Oliver Bullough's Butler to the World ... If you like books where you learn a lot - which we certainly do - then we commend it to you wholeheartedly. * The Fence *\u003cbr\u003eButler to the World helpfully freeze-frames ... an embarrassing state of affairs, with few signs of Britain's unprincipled eagerness diminishing ... why is the county's politico-financial elite, so convinced of Britain's brand values of honesty and trustworthiness, so open to helping find comfortable homes for the tainted wealth of oligarch, gangster and kleptocrat? * Strong Words *\u003cbr\u003eA horribly brilliant account of just how much historical integrity Britain has sacrificed at the altar of dirty money. Bullough is a compelling and expert guide to the newly-dug sewers flowing through the heart of our political, legal and financial establishment -- James O'Brien, author * How Not to be Wrong *\u003cbr\u003eThis is an absolute must-read for everyone who wants to understand Britain's crucial role in the global dirty money crisis. British institutions, our laws, our people and our failure to police effectively means - as Bullough demonstrates - that we are the servants to kleptocrats, money launderers and serious criminals. With the brilliant concept of Britain as the butler, Bullough lifts the lid and explains in a very clear and intelligible way why and how Britain is facilitating illicit finance across the world. The narrative is gripping, the analysis original and powerful and the detailed examples terrifying. This book will provide a powerful contribution to the important debate on the UK and dirty money -- Margaret Hodge, MP and chair of the Public Accounts Committee\u003cbr\u003eOliver Bullough unsparingly reveals the devastating facts behind Britain's dirty financial secrets and moral guilt while directly challenging the UK to clean up its act. 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Working-class voters have flexed their political muscles and helped to change the direction of the country, but in doing so they have been met with disdain and even abuse from elites in politics, culture and business. They have been derided as uneducated, bigoted turkeys voting for Christmas, as Empire apologists patriotic to the point of delusion.  At election time, we hear a lot about 'levelling up the Red Wall'. But when the votes have been counted, what can actually be done to meet the very real concerns of the 'left behind' in the UK's post-industrial towns? In these once vibrant hubs of progress, working-class voters now face the prospect of being minimised or ridiculed in cultural life, economically marginalised and abandoned educationally.  In this rousing polemic, David Skelton explores the roots and reality of this new snobbery, calling for an end to the divisive culture war and the creation of a new politics of the common good, empowering workers, remaking the economy and placing communities centre stage. Above all, he argues that we now have a once-in-a-century opportunity to bring about permanent change.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"David Skelton is, once again, excellent. 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From his signature study of \u003ci\u003eThe Wages of Whiteness\u003c\/i\u003e, to the analysis of links between settler colonial dispossession, gendered social reproduction, plantation management, and immigrant labor in the making of modern racial capitalism - Roediger's bold commitments to demonstrating the historical and ongoing imbrications of race and class in the United States are timely, and more necessary than ever. -- Lisa Lowe, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Intimacies of Four Continents\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOn \u003ci\u003eWages of Whiteness:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Celestine Prophecy of whiteness studies. * SPIN *\u003cbr\u003eOn \u003ci\u003eWages of Whiteness:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn extremely important and insightful book. * The Nation *\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eOn Seizing Freedom:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSeizing Freedom\u003c\/i\u003e persuasively documents theself-emancipation of the enslaved Black folk of the American South. 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This rousing, thought-provoking history illuminates the enveloping 400-year-old history of race in America, and the issues [Roediger] raises are as relevant as ever. * Publishers Weekly *\u003cbr\u003eExcellent * Counterpunch *\u003cbr\u003eA wealth of interesting historical insights and a breath of fresh air for anyone who feels there is a space to be found between the caricatures that \"Tumblr social justice warriors\" and \"old white men of the left\" paint of each other. -- Nathan Akehurst * Morning Star *\u003cbr\u003eDavid Roediger wades into the fray with refreshing nuance and generosity. * In These Times *\u003cbr\u003eRoediger's book couldn't have appeared at a more timely moment. * Brooklyn Rail *\u003cbr\u003eA scintillating compilation...Roediger's book explains exactly why even the most sickening atavisms of racism are fully compatible with the capitalist order, with ramifications into the 21st century. -- Alan Wald * Against the Current *\u003cbr\u003eRoediger addresses the challenges that class and race continue to present for U.S. radicals ... should be required reading for anyone trying to understand the era of Trumpian politics. 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James Award\u003cbr\u003e\"Studying, understanding, struggling against, and ultimately replacing this centuries-old, foundational, and deep societal reality remains essential, as Roediger, a consistently pathbreaking historian, makes clear in these insightful essays.\" -- Monthly Review\u003cbr\u003e\"Amid the cacophony of competing perspectives, David Roediger's Class, Race and Marxismnot only expertly evaluates the historical, theoretical, and political stakes of contemporary debates on race and class, but also significantly contributes to scholarship that \"refus[es] to place race outside of the logic of capital\".\" -- The Black Scholar Journal","brand":"Verso Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48741460607319,"sku":"9781786631244","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}]},{"product_id":"race-and-the-undeserving-poor-from-abolition-to-brexit-9781788210386","title":"Race and the Undeserving Poor: From Abolition to","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eOver recent years, tabloid readers have become familiar with the concept of the \"white working class\", those thought to have been \"left behind\" by globalization, including immigration. Such sentiments were weaponized by politicians on all sides to fuel the anti-immigrant rhetoric of the Brexit campaign. And this racialized narrative has emerged repeatedly in mature democracies – in the political campaigns of Trump, Le Pen and others – and continues to gain traction in the guise of economic nationalism and populism. The need to understand the putative emergence of the white working class has become both intellectually significant and politically urgent.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eRace and the Undeserving Poor\u003c\/i\u003e, Robbie Shilliam does just this. He charts the development over the past 200 years of a shifting postcolonial settlement that has produced a racialized distinction between the \"deserving\" and \"undeserving\" poor, the latest incarnation of which is a distinction between a deserving, neglected white working class and \"others\" who are undeserving, not indigenous, and not white. Shilliam's analysis shows that the white working class are not an indigenous constituency, but a product of the struggles to consolidate and defend imperial order that have shaped British society since the abolition of slavery.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePolitically uncertain times require rigorous and judicious scholarship and, with this superbly argued book, Robbie Shilliam provides just that. The UK’s vote to leave the European Union has prompted a reconsideration of ideas of (national) belonging and of class. Shilliam eviscerates standard accounts that seek to locate the emergence of the ‘white working class’ in national terms and presents a brilliantly compelling account of why this emergence is better understood in terms of the postcolonial genealogy of British Empire. A vital, necessary book to make sense of our present. -- Gurminder K. Bhambra, Professor of Postcolonial and Decolonial Studies, University of Sussex\u003cbr\u003eA milestone in political science and cultural studies ... Shilliam’s account of the racialisation of the ‘undeserving poor’ offers a systemic critique of how whiteness excuses politics from the difficult task of anti-capitalist internationalism ... accessibly introduces concepts that shed light on how whiteness is made by blackening. Each of these concepts packs an intricate but straightforward story about the internationalisation of British capital. -- Elio Di Muccio, Capital \u0026amp; Class\u003cbr\u003e... a detailed and sharp analysis of the racialization of those deemed 'undeserving' in British society. It places the emergence of the 'white working class', which was such a dominant category in debates around Brexit, within the broader historical context of the British Empire ... this 'white working class' imaginary persists in spite of the fact that the British working class are not homogenously white, and notably, that those who su?er most under austerity are Black and minority ethnic communities ... provides an important analytical framework for us to begin to understand contemporary debates around nationalism and belonging. -- Katy Harsant, Ethnic and Racial Studies\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eForeword by Matthew Watson1. Introduction2. English poor laws and Caribbean slavery3 Anglo-Saxon empire and the residuum4. National welfare and colonial development5. Commonwealth labour and the white working class6. Social conservatism and the white underclass7. Brexit and the return of the white working class8. 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Do they continue to identify as working class or has their social positioning and\/or identities shifted?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIona Burnell Reilly presents a collection of autoethnographies, written by working class academics in higher education – how they got there, what their journeys were like, what their experiences were, if they faced any struggles, conflicts, prejudice and discrimination, and if they had to, or still do, negotiate their identities. Told in their own words the academics chart their journeys and explore their experiences of becoming an academic while also coming from a working class background.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAlthough a working class heritage under-pins the autoethnography of each of the writers, the interlocking sections between class, race, gender and sexuality will also be relevant.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis compelling anthology of stories from academics who identify as having a working-class background offers new insights into our understanding of the relationship between academia and class.\u003cbr\u003e Offering a substantial contribution to the body of research that uses autoethnography, the volume opens a platform for academic authors to reflect on their own lived experience through critical study of oneself and one’s own socio-cultural context. 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Many academics recognize the imposter syndrome and feelings of not-belonging in a certain arena, with notions of class, race, gender, sexuality, and identity firmly ingrained into the culture. However, the contributors to this book have demonstrated a tenacity and attitude towards learning that has led them to where they are now, warriors and champions of widening participation.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis book will be useful to academics to reflect upon their own journeys but mainly to all who think that higher education and the world of academia is ‘not for them’, based upon their views and experiences of class, etc. Being the first in one’s family to attend higher education and then pursue a career in it may feel challenging and daunting and could be accompanied by a sense of loss (of identity) and betrayal (of background). 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Building to quite a polemical finish, Todd makes much of her own working-class background, which helps her sift nuggets of truth from myth, nostalgia and received wisdom * Herald *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhat an excellent book this is\u003c\/b\u003e . . . The final chapters are its best, providing an analysis of what we have all lived through. Ms Todd's great ability as an academic is to avoid writing like one, so her book is accessible and entertaining. Even for those not engrossed by politics, the tales of the ordinary lives are compelling * Alistair Dawber, Independent *\u003cbr\u003eWhat differentiates Selina Todd's book from existing literature on this subject is the way her narrative actually documents the voices of working-class people. 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The scope and range of Todd's study is \u003cb\u003eimpressive\u003c\/b\u003e * Scotsman *\u003cbr\u003eTodd is \u003cb\u003eexcellent\u003c\/b\u003e in describing the effects that the Great War had on society and her use of servants as barometers of social change brings \u003cb\u003ea fresh voice\u003c\/b\u003e to this history * Alan Johnson, The Spectator *\u003cbr\u003eSelina Todd does not lack in \u003cb\u003ecourage and ambition\u003c\/b\u003e. Her book, based on more than 10 years' research, is wide-ranging in its scope and packed with detail. Through her own extensive interviews in Coventry and Liverpool she provides new insights into the lives of working-class families, while she puts particular emphasis on the role of women, a theme often neglected in previous studies. She is good at contradicting some of the conventional wisdom about this period * Daily Express *\u003cbr\u003eThe timing is apt for Selina Todd's examination of what she calls 'the rise and fall' of the working class . . . \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe People \u003c\/i\u003eis a book we badly need\u003c\/b\u003e . . . [It] offers a clear, \u003cb\u003ecompelling\u003c\/b\u003e, broadly persuasive narrative of a century of British history as seen through working-class eyes and from a working-class perspective. Todd avoids hectoring, but by the end one is left suitably angry: the people have been screwed . . . She is \u003cb\u003ea subtle as well as powerful historian\u003c\/b\u003e. Retrospective oral testimony can be a problematic type of source, but she uses it with a dexterity and intelligence comparable to Orlando Figes in his masterly \u003ci\u003eThe Whisperers\u003c\/i\u003e; weaving through her account the rollercoaster life story of the celebrated pools-winner Vivian Nicholson works beautifully; above all, she has an enviably assured grasp of the realities at any one time of working-class life . . \u003cb\u003e. The underlying truth of the story - ultimately a tragic as well as a shocking story - that Todd tells remains essentially valid. And she tells it in a way that is, as Henry James might have said, the real thing\u003c\/b\u003e * David Kynaston, Observer *\u003cbr\u003eTodd is insightful on servants . . . The bitterness of women forced back into domestic service is also captured well . . . [\u003ci\u003eThe People\u003c\/i\u003e] is at its best when destabilising cliched narratives. Todd is strong on the 50s * Guardian *\u003cbr\u003eWhy has revolution never broken out in Britain, because God knows there has been enough provocation. My feelings, after reading \u003cb\u003eSelina Todd's great book\u003c\/b\u003e, is that a little salutary use of the guillotine wouldn't go amiss . . . A brief century ago, if you weren't a toff, you lived in overcrowded slums, with neither drains nor electricity, 'grim rooms and surly faces', to use Todd's \u003cb\u003eevocative\u003c\/b\u003e phrase. Livelihoods were in constant peril. Welfare provision was scant. This book - \u003cb\u003eall the more powerful for being written in a cool, seemingly neutral and factual fashion\u003c\/b\u003e: Todd is a history don at the University of Oxford - recounts the hard and heroic slog, as ordinary men and women sought basic protection and regulation, decent homes, adequate remuneration, and compensation for horrifying injuries in factories . . . 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Michalowski * Northern Arizona University *\u003cbr\u003eThis book is a major contribution to the field and sensitizes us to the importance of moving beyond mainstream, narrow conceptions of justice. -- Walter S. DeKeseredy * Professor of Criminology, Justice and Policy Studies, University of Ontario *\u003cbr\u003eThis book is as provocative as it is path-breaking on a topic that richly deserves to be center stage in the drama of everyday life. Capeheart and Milovanovic set the new standard for understanding the theories, issues and struggles that represent the call for social justice at home and abroad, in our institutions and communities, and throughout our very existences. -- Bruce A. Arrigo * coauthor of Theory, Justice, and Social Change *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents\u003cbr\u003e Preface                                                           \u003cbr\u003e 1. Introduction                                                                                                           \u003cbr\u003e Part I  Explorations in Social Justice                         \u003cbr\u003e 2. Conceptions of Justice:  Philosophical, Sociological, and Criminological             \u003cbr\u003e 3. Distributive Justice                                                                                    \u003cbr\u003e 4. Retributive Justice                                                                                     \u003cbr\u003e 5. Toward Transformative Justice                                                                  \u003cbr\u003e Part II Issues in Social Justice                                               \u003cbr\u003e 6. Multiculturalism and Globalism: Challenges and Opportunities for Developing Forms of Justice                                               \u003cbr\u003e 7. Environmental, Ecological, And Species Justice                                                   \u003cbr\u003e 8. Indigenous, Postcolonial, and Counter-colonial Forms of Justice                                     \u003cbr\u003e 9. Postmodern, Post Postmodern, and Posthumanist Forms of Justice                                 \u003cbr\u003e Part III Struggles for Social Justice                           \u003cbr\u003e 10. Legal Struggles and Social Justice                                                           \u003cbr\u003e 11. Justice and Grassroots Struggles                                                             \u003cbr\u003e 12. Emerging Conceptions of Justice in a Global Arena                               \u003cbr\u003e 13. Conclusion                                                                                                           \u003cbr\u003e References                                                                                                     \u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e  ","brand":"Rutgers University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48742980780375,"sku":"9781978806856","price":32.3,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781978806856.jpg?v=1720063602"},{"product_id":"class-after-industry-a-complex-realist-approach-9783030026431","title":"Class After Industry: A Complex Realist Approach","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe transition to twenty-first century post-industrial capitalism from the ‘welfare’ industrial capitalism of the twentieth century, has affected the ways in which class is lived in terms of relational inequality and the factors that structure identity. \u003ci\u003eClass After Industry \u003c\/i\u003etakes a complex realist approach to the dynamics of individual lives, places, the social structure and analyses their significance in terms of class. 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Clifton Hood shows elites' part in the larger story of the city through class conflict and their role in New York's cultural and economic foundations.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is the history of a small but hugely consequential group of Americans, whose access to economic resources provided them with unprecedented social, cultural, and political power. Clifton Hood's lively excursion into their world of social clubs and museums, dinners and finishing schools covers more than 250 years and shows persuasively how the upper class made New York and how New York constantly changed its upper class. -- Sven Beckert, author of \u003ci\u003eEmpire of Cotton: A Global History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEvery city has a social and economic elite. But as Hood shows, the New York elite has always been larger, wealthier, more fluid, and more powerful than in other places, enabling it to simultaneously perpetuate class inequality and create cultural institutions that are world-class in every field. Groundbreaking and comprehensive, \u003ci\u003eThe Pursuit of Privilege\u003c\/i\u003e illuminates three centuries of the New York City elite's power and influence on city building. Bravo to Hood. -- Kenneth T. Jackson, editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Encyclopedia of New York City\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHood's comprehensive, three-centuries-long survey of the experiences of New York City's upper class reveals both the dynamism and the tensions inherent in that ever-evolving group. His study extends from wealthy colonists in the 1750s through nineteenth-century entrepreneurs and nouveaux riches to those he dubs the contemporary 'antielitist elite,' mixing insightful general observations with telling portraits of particular men, women, or families who succeeded or failed to join the upper class. This book will interest anyone who wants to understand the origins of New York City's unique combination of economic, social, and cultural institutions. -- Mary Beth Norton, author of \u003ci\u003eIn the Devil's Snare: The Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1692\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHood's revealing book provides us with a suggestive portrait of a powerful and self-conscious elite that for over two centuries has maintained its position through its control over a constellation of exclusive organizations. He explores not only the self-conception of this elite but also its shifting relationship with its environs. No comparable study exists, making In Pursuit of Privilege a welcome contribution to historical writing on one of the world's great cities. -- Richard John, author of \u003ci\u003eNetwork Nation: Inventing American Telecommunications\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eIn Pursuit of Privilege\u003c\/i\u003e is an impressive, detailed study of the upper class in New York over a period of more than two centuries. Written engagingly, the book distinguishes itself in the literature with its long-term view of New York's elite class, covering many of the major events in New York's history from the Revolutionary War to the Civil War draft riots to the rise of corporate America. An important contribution to the literature on the history of New York and elite society in the United States. -- Susie Pak, author of\u003ci\u003e Gentlemen Bankers: The World of J. P. Morgan\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eIn Pursuit of Privilege\u003c\/i\u003e, appropriately, is a wealth of information. And its primary-source materials—diaries, letters, memoirs, minutes, period fictions—are a true pleasure.... \u003ci\u003eIn Pursuit of Privilege\u003c\/i\u003e is at its best as metropolitan history, assiduously researched, reminding us not only of New York's astonishing accomplishments but also of its inglorious past. -- William L. Hamilton * Wall Street Journal *\u003cbr\u003e[\u003ci\u003eIn Pursuit of Privilege\u003c\/i\u003e] explores the blue blood that has coursed through the city's veins since before the American Revolution.... [Hood] earnestly places the well-traversed late 19th century in a broader historical perspective and identifies what distinguished New York's elites from the upper crusts of other cities. -- Sam Roberts * The New York Times *\u003cbr\u003eA nuanced and substantial historical survey of the city's upper class.... 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Wealth: The 1820s and Beyond\u003cbr\u003e4. All for the Union: The 1860s\u003cbr\u003e5. A Dynamic Businessman's Aristocracy: The 1890s\u003cbr\u003e6. The Ways of Millionaireville: The 1890s\u003cbr\u003e7. Making Spaces of Their Own: The 1940s\u003cbr\u003e8. The Antielitist Elite: The 1970s and Beyond\u003cbr\u003eConclusion: The Limits of Antielitism\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eAbbreviations for Selected Manuscript Sources\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eIndex","brand":"Columbia University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48864255639895,"sku":"9780231172172","price":22.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780231172172.jpg?v=1722271096"},{"product_id":"the-credential-society-9780231192354","title":"The Credential Society","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Credential Society\u003c\/i\u003e by Randall Collins is a classic on higher education and its role in American society. 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