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Book SynopsisUrbanization and urban development are the focus of this account which introduces readers to the changes now taking place in Chinese cities. Its approach links the visible changes in urban life to changes in the larger political economy of China.Trade Review"A valuable and timely addition to the expanding Chinese city studies." Kam Wing Chan, University of Washington "During the past two decades urban China has undergone a remarkable transformation as the old system of central planning has given way to domestic and international market forces. A once-distinctive model of urbanism is being replaced by something entirely new. Logan and his collaborators provide a highly disciplined, coherent, state of the art examination of these changes through detailed studies of migration, housing reform, community change and other vital topics." Andrew Walder, Stanford University "This book is a timely and valuable contribution to our understanding of changing China and the urban developmental process." Yehua Dennis Wei, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Table of ContentsList of Figures. List of Tables. List of Contributors. Preface. Part I: Introduction to the New Chinese City:. 1. Three Challenges for the Chinese City: Globalization, Migration and Market Reform: John R Logan (University of Albany). 2. The Present Situation and Prospective Development of the Shanghai Urban Community: Duo Wu (East China Normal University) and Taibin Li (Shanghai Young Administrative Cadres College). 3. The Development of the Chinese Metropolis in the Period of Transition: Xiaopei Yan (Zhongshan University), Li Jia (Zhongshan University), Jianping Li (Zhongshan University) and Jizhuan Weng (Zhongshan University). Part II: Globalization and Urban Development:. 4. The Prospect of International Cities in China: Yixing Zhou (Peking University). 5. An Entrepreneurial City in Action: Emerging Strategies for (Inter-) Urban Competition in Hong Kong: Ngai-Ling Sum (University of Lancaster). 6. The Hong Kong/Pearl River Delta Urban Region: An Emerging Transnational Mode of Regulation or Just Muddling Through?: Alan Smart (University of Calgary). 7. The State, Capital, and Urban Restructuring in Post-Reform Shanghai: Zhengji Fu (King's College London). 8. The Transformation of Suzhou: The Case of the Collaboration between the China and Singapore Governments and Transnational Corporations (1992-1999): Alexius Pereira (National University of Singapore). Part III: Market Reform and the New Processes fo Urban Development:. 9. Market Transition and the Commodification of Housing in Urban China: Min Zhou (University of California at Los Angeles) and John R Logan (University of Albany). 10. Real Estate Development and the Transformation of Urban Space in Chinese Transitional Economy: With Special Reference to Shanghai: Fulong Wu (University of Southampton). 11. Social Research and the Localization of Chinese Urban Planning Practice: Some Ideas from Quanzhou, Fujian: Daniel B Abramson (University of British Colombia), Michael Leaf (University of British Colombia) and Tan Ying (formerly Tsinghua University). Part IV: Urban Impacts of Migration:. 12. Migrant Enclaves in Chinese Large Cities: Fan Jie (Chinese Academy of Sciences and Peking Normal University) and Wolfgang Taubmann (University of Bremen). 13. Social Polarization and Segregation in Beijing: Chaolin Gu (Nanjing University) and Haiyong Liu (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill). 14. Temporary Migrants in Shanghai: Housing and Settlement Patterns: Weiping Wu (Virginia Commonwealth University). Part V: Urbanization of the Countryside:. 15. Return Migrant Entrepreneurs and Economic Diversification in Two Counties in South Jiangxi, China: Rachel Murphy (University of Cambridge). 16. Region-Based Urbanization in Post-Reform China: Spatial Restructuring in the Pearl River Delta: George C S Lin (The University of Hong Kong). Bibliography. Index.

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Book SynopsisPaley presents a moving personal account of her experiences teaching kindergarten in an integrated school within a predominantly white, middle-class neighborhood. In a new preface, she reflects on the way that even simple terminology can convey unintended meanings and show a speaker's blind spots.Trade ReviewA wonderful, useful book--short, warm, and to the point. Using entertaining, well-chosen incidents from her own teaching experience, Vivian Paley examines a question that concerns teachers on all levels: How do I use my own behavior as a teacher to help my students learn to deal constructively with racial and social differences? It would be hard for anyone to read this book without growing a little and smiling a lot. -- Kate Long * Phi Delta Kappan *This timely new edition of Vivian Gussin Paley's White Teacher is like a breath of fresh air. Originally published in 1979, it's a book that has important things to say about how teachers perceive and deal with race. In its rather anecdotal, unanalytical way, it sheds light on how all teachers, including those early-years education, negotiate their way through the complexities of living in a pluralistic society. -- Reva Klein * Times Higher Education Supplement *Inspirational and motivating...It is a book commendable to teachers, parents, and anyone else who wishes to understand him/herself better and is willing to continue to grow. * Educational Studies *In this humane and beautifully written account, Paley describes her progress in learning to deal more openly with her pupils'--and her own--perceptions of race. The reader, following Paley's progress with a succession of bright, charming, and sometimes exasperating children, sees how she became a better and more mature teacher. * San Francisco Examiner *White Teacher is really a nonfictional bildungsroman, a chronicle of both Paley's educational progress and that of the kindergartners under her charge...The stories, beyond even the lessons she draws from them, are very fine...White Teacher documents an admirable dedication...[It is an] eloquent little book. -- Julia M. Klein * New Republic *White Teacher, black children: Paley approaches this largely unexplored minefield with candor and incisiveness...The wit and sureness of her observations are compelling...Repeatedly, Paley uses anecdotes to convey judgmental errors, tentative adjustments, barriers overcome, as well as a feel of the classroom--a quiet accumulation of insights which both beginning and veteran teachers will value. * Kirkus Reviews *Paley's mistakes and blind spots are as vivid as the life-sized children in this portrayal of a journey toward valuing and talking about differences, and helping children to do the same. While this account does not boast of arrival...it should be of interest to anyone committed to nurturing children or to understanding human development in a pluralistic society. * Harvard Educational Review *

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Book SynopsisLamont takes us into the world inhabited by working-class men—the world as they understand it. Interviewing French and American working-class men who, because they are not college graduates, have limited access to high-paying jobs and other social benefits, she constructs a revealing portrait of how they see themselves and the rest of society.Trade ReviewThe Dignity of Working Men is an outstanding example of comparative ethnography. Through a series of careful and thoughtful interviews, Michèle Lamont reveals the moral standards ordinary workers use in evaluating their fellow citizens. In this engaging book, Lamont also provides an interesting comparison between workers in the United States and France on the criteria used to draw class and racial boundaries. -- William Julius Wilson, Harvard University and author of When Work DisappearsLamont's book is a classic in the making. It breaks new ground as a major in-depth study of comparative racism. It will also broaden the horizons of social class studies. The Dignity of Working Men opens up a wider perspective, so that by looking at French racial conflict, American racial conflict looks less fixed, less inevitable. There are alternative patterns, revealing that societies do have room to maneuver. -- Randall Collins, University of Pennsylvania and author of The Sociology of Philosophies (Harvard)Lamont's richly-textured comparison does more than hold up for view the moral perspectives of working-class men across the racial divide in the United States and France. It poses fresh and rich challenges to research, demonstrates the difference systematic qualitative analysis can make, and points the way to a politics of sensibility and possibility. -- Ira I. Katznelson, Columbia UniversityThe Dignity of Working Men is a wonderful book. What is most striking is the richness of the interviews. Lamont's questions seem really to have touched working men where they live, to have encouraged them to talk about their sense of self, their pride in themselves as workers, their sense of moral order, their aspirations and (occasional) political passions, their families, their beliefs in equality and inequality, their racial attitudes, and much more. By asking black workers what they think of whites as well as what whites think of blacks, and by comparing racial and ethnic cleavages in France and the United States, The Dignity of Working Men adds a vital new dimension to studies of class and race. -- Ann Swidler, University of California, BerkeleyMany interpreters of current society have posited that class is no longer a useful concept as a basis for identity. This book, based on hundreds of interviews with American and French workers, rejects that analysis...It is fascinating reading, an important contribution to a reexamination of class. -- J. Wishnia * Choice *Was there actually a set of values that could be considered distinctly "working class" in character, that represented a distinctly working-class worldview? One of the most sophisticated recent attempts to answer this question appeared in the recent study The Dignity of Working Men...[Lamont] recognized that asking workers to choose their most important values from a prepared list would essentially force their replies into a predetermined mold that had little to do with their real-world thoughts and feelings. Lamont used instead open-ended and non-directive questions. She interviewed 150 blue-collar workers, black and white, in the United States and in France, and compared them with middle-class people in both countries. Her questions asked workers to describe people who were similar to them and people who were different, people they liked and disliked, and those to whom they felt superior or inferior. Follow-up questions probed why they felt as they did, spontaneously eliciting a complex pattern of moral judgements and values. Both work and family did indeed emerge among the blue-collar workers' core values. But the real significance lay in how those were perceived. -- Andrew Levinson * The Nation *It is hard to imagine a comparative research design as well conceived as the one that frames Michèle Lamont's book…. The book is a model of cross cultural comparative analysis and deserves high praise. -- Rick Fantasia, Contemporary SociologyThe Dignity of Working Men is an important entry into examinations of the intersection of class, race, and immigration. (Lamont) gives us new leverage on both some viable antiracist threads of thinking among the white working class and on the complexity and humanism animating how African Americans engage the great divides of race and class. We shall all be discussing this meticulously researched, cogently argued, and provocative book for some years to come. -- Lawrence Bobo, Contemporary SociologyMichele Lamont's study of working-class men in the USA and France is...the most interesting contribution to this field for quite some time, and should serve as a benchmark for future scholarly debate...This is a really innovative and challenging book and it needs to be read as widely as possible...The Dignity of Working Men has all the potential to become a classic. -- John Solomos * Ethnic and Racial Studies *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Making Sense of Their Worlds The Questions The People The Research I. American Workers 1. The World in Moral Order "Disciplined Selves": Survival, Work Ethic, and Responsibility Providing for and Protecting the Family Straightforwardness and Personal Integrity Salvation from Pollution: Religion and Traditional Morality Caring Selves: Black Conceptions of Solidarity and Altruism The Policing of Moral Boundaries 2. Euphemized Racism: Moral qua Racial Boundaries How Morality Defines Racism Whites on Blacks Blacks on Whites Immigration The Policing of Racial Boundaries 3. Assessing"People Above" and"People Below" Morality and Class Relations "People Above" "People Below" The Policing of Class Boundaries II. The United States Compared 4. Workers Compared Profile of French Workers Profile of North African Immigrants Working Class Morality The Policing of Moral Boundaries Compared 5. Racism Compared French Workers on Muslims French Workers' Antiracism: Egalitarianism and Solidarity North African Responses The Policing of Racial Boundaries Compared 6. Class Boundaries Compared Class Boundaries in a Dying Class Struggle Workers on"People Above" Solidarity a la francaise: Against"Exclusion" The Policing of Class Boundaries Compared Conclusion: Toward a New Agenda Appendix A: Methods and Analysis Appendix B: The Context of the Interview: Economic Insecurity, Globalization, and Places Appendix C: Interviewees Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisStigmatized throughout Japanese history as outcastes, the burakumin are contemporary Japan’s largest minority. In this study of youths from two different communities, Christopher Bondy explores how individuals navigate their social world, demonstrating the ways in which people make conscious decisions about disclosing a stigmatized identity.

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Book SynopsisWorld Inequality Report 2022 is the most authoritative and comprehensive account of global trends in inequality, providing cutting-edge information about income and wealth inequality and also pioneering data about the history of inequality, gender inequality, environmental inequalities, and trends in international tax reform and redistribution.Trade ReviewThe 2022 World Inequality Report, a huge undertaking coordinated by economic and inequality experts Lucas Chancel, Thomas Piketty, Emmanuel Saez, and Gabriel Zucman, was the product of four years of research and produced an unprecedented data set on just how wealth is distributed…The data serves as a complete rebuke of the trickle-down economic theory. * Business Insider *The World Inequality Report said that 2020 saw the steepest increase in billionaires’ wealth on record. Meanwhile, 100 million people sank into extreme poverty…To help redress the imbalance, the economists call for a ‘modest progressive wealth tax on global multi-millionaires’ in order to redistribute wealth. They also call for tougher action on tax evasion. * BBC News *[The World Inequality Report] finds that the fortunes of the super-rich have grown exponentially in recent years thanks to financial assets…In 2021, 10% of the richest people in the world held more than 52% of the world’s income while the poor held only 8.5%…The observations are clear: the biggest fortunes have been enriched since the coronavirus pandemic. * Vanity Fair, France *The study’s findings add to a debate about worsening inequality during a public health crisis that’s hurt developing economies—which are short of vaccines as well as financial resources to cushion the blow—even more than advanced ones. Within the rich world too, financial and real-estate markets have soared since the depths of the slump last year, widening domestic gaps. * Bloomberg *

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Book SynopsisDespite their importance during the French Revolution, the Paris middle classes are little known. This book focuses on the family organization and the political role of the Paris commercial middle classes, using as a case study the Faubourg St. Marcel and particularly the parish of St. MÃdard.Trade ReviewDavid Garrioch’s new book boasts a veritably mouth-watering title. Those who know Dr. Garrioch’s earlier work on neighbourhood and community in eighteenth-century Paris will not be disappointed by the quality of his research and the extent of the archival sources on which his work is based—there has been page-turning and carton-wielding of heroic proportions behind this study. Very unusual for a work of this type, moreover, is the character of those sources: Dr. Garrioch draws extremely copiously on the archives of local self-government in Paris—parishional, ecclesiastical and police archives, plus the riches of the Minutier Central—to delineate a middle class captured essentially in terms of its engagement in local politics… This is a book which reads extremely well and which offers a thought-provoking new angle on a number of major problems of contemporary historiographical concern… Dr. Garrioch’s brave study highlights the importance of the development of the bourgeoisie in eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century France, and underlines the need for an even more inclusive recounting of their history. -- Colin Jones * Journal of French History [UK] *This is a very significant contribution to French history of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. This account, which does not neglect economic change, offers a whole series of interesting new takes on the subject of the bourgeoisie. -- Sarah Maza, author of Private Lives and Public Affairs: The Causes Célèbres of Prerevolutionary FranceTable of ContentsPart I The Jansenist years: the work of Satan; the elect; the ruling families; power and local politics. Part II The changing of the guard: the decline of lineage; the new families and the new politics. Part III Revolution: the revolution in local politics. Part IV Paris of the notables, 1795-1830: interregnum; commerce, science, administration; the tutelage of the State.

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Book SynopsisThe realignment of the social order that occurred over the course of the Sung dynasty set the pattern for Chinese society over most of the later imperial era. Bossler examines that realignment from the perspective of specific families, using data on Sung elitesgrand councilors who led the bureaucracy and locally prominent gentlemen in Wu-chou.Trade ReviewBeverly J. Bossler’s study of the marriage and kinship practices of grand councilors and the Wu-chou local elite falls within the scope of the social history of China in the seventh to thirteenth centuries. Largely relying on privately commissioned funerary inscriptions of mostly men and some women, Bossler marshals ample documentary evidence to confirm an important theme in current scholarship: the transformation and expansion of the educated class from aristocratic pedigree to the political elite, whose survival depended on success in the civil service examinations, local economic clout, property base, and marriage alliances...The author’s contribution lies in providing informative marriage data from screening the large number of funerary inscriptions, the data confirms that marriage was ‘an integrating force in society’ and that public office has a close connection to social and financial status. -- Jennifer W. Jay * American Historical Review *The title here is telling: ‘relations’ is mostly about relatives—the bonds of kinship and marriage among the upper classes of the Sung dynasty and its implications for our understanding of society and polity. An impressive level of industriousness is reflected in the canvassing of widely scattered and difficult to read primary sources, but the author’s astute analysis of those sources is even more impressive, as she steers her own course through some difficult academic terrain. -- Richard L. Davis * Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies [UK] *Documenting the interaction among kinship, social status, and bureaucratic position in both Northern and Southern Sung China, Beverly Bossler’s book, a revision of her 1991 dissertation, makes an important contribution to continuing debate on the nature of the Sung elite. This debate has ramifications well beyond the boundaries of Sung studies since, as Bossler states, the social order established during the Sung ‘set the pattern for Chinese society throughout much of the later imperial period.’ By carefully examining biographical data on two groups—men who held high-ranking offices at the Sung court and men who were locally prominent but had little or no involvement in the bureaucracy—Bossler sets out to test and refine a reigning paradigm of Sung social history...The picture that comes into sharper focus with Bossler’s study is one in which the rise of a family—even within a single generation—could be due to the actions of one or two individuals. In this enterprise especially, she succeeds in conveying the ’very human stories’ she seeks to tell. -- Linda Walton * Journal of Asian Studies *Bossler’s study of Sung social history is based on an analysis of the funerary inscriptions of northern Sung families that produced men who, as grand councilors, reached the pinnacle of political success, and on locally prominent people, mostly southern Sung, from Wu-chou (in modern Chekiang)...Meticulously documented and extensively annotated, this book deeply engages current scholarship and illuminates issues also of significance to students of later periods. -- C. Schirokauer * Choice *

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Book SynopsisThe Mongol conquest of north China inflicted terrible destruction, wiping out more than one-third of the population and dismantling the existing social order. Jinping Wang recounts the riveting story of how northern Chinese people adapted to these trying circumstances and interacted with their conquerors to create a drastically new social order.Trade ReviewIn this new social history, Jinping Wang challenges the tired old clichés of ‘Sinicization,’ guided by a supposedly dominant ‘Confucian literati’ class. -- Christopher AtwoodA large body of important work has been produced on the social history and local history of middle-period China over the last thirty years, but virtually all of it has focused only on south China. Now the emergence of inscriptional sources, some newly available and some simply overlooked, has become the basis for a new wave of rich social-historical work on north China that is transforming our understanding of the middle period. Jinping Wang is a leader in this new wave of northern social history, and her book is a landmark in the field. -- Robert HymesThe whole book, as well as its remarkable quality of translations, are a model of sinological work. It improves our knowledge and understanding of society during the Mongol period and the Yuan dynasty, and from now on any sociological study in this vast field of research will have to refer to it. -- Pierre MarsoneThis study of Han Chinese turning to a school of popular Daoism through a turbulent period of history is remarkable, especially because of the way Wang Jinping utilized epigraphic materials to demonstrate how this social phenomenon emerged. The resilience of Quanzhen institutions in the face of the challenges of Mongol-favoured Buddhism and then imperial Ming Neo-Confucianism has never before been so well described and explained. It is an admirable work of fine scholarship. -- Wang Gungwu

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Book SynopsisAs one of the most prestigious high schools in the nation, St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire, has long been the exclusive domain of America's wealthiest sons. But times have changed. Today, a new elite of boys and girls is being molded at St. Paul's, one that reflects the hope of openness but also the persistence of inequality. InTrade ReviewWinner of the 2011 C. Wright Mills Award, Society for the Study of Social Problems Honorable Mention for the 2012 Distinguished Book Award of the Race, Gender and Class Section of the American Sociological Association "[E]thnographic research into the very heart of privilege... [Khan] steps down from his pedestal and lets himself get closer to these future masters of the universe."--Robin D. Schatz, Bloomberg News "[T]his book is beautifully written and filled with important insights into processes of socialization among the elite. I recommend this book for all scholars interested in the reproduction of inequality in U.S. society."--Wendy Leo Moore, American Journal of Sociology "[T]he elites in Britain and in America have changed. They now appear more open. More worldly. More meritocratic. For a description of how that process works, look at [Privilege]."--Aditya Chakrabortty, Guardian "Khan's many perspectives--as a minority student in a rich WASP school, as a teacher interacting with his students, and as a researcher observing his subjects--gave him unique access to understanding the American elite... Khan's objectivity turns to pessimism as he describes the result of greater diversity, which he finds 'does not mean mobility and it certainly does not mean equality.'"--Barbara Fisher, Boston Globe "Privilege sets out to understand 'the new elite' and its place in the larger story of American education."--Josh Rothman, Boston Globe, Brainiac "Shamus Rahman Khan has his part in loosening the knot of privilege, by analyzing America's dreams and telling us why some of them remain thwarted... Privilege is an exceptional cultural study of inequality that concentrates on elites. It is a brave piece of work, guaranteed to raise the hackles of more than a few private school trustees, administrators, faculty and parents."--Michael D. Langan, Buffalo News "[Privilege] fills in the crucial missing piece. It's a well grounded description of the people who are the 'input' into the elite higher education system. It's a view of elite life from the 'training camp,' right before they are unleashed into American society. Highly recommended to anyone interested in stratification and education."--Fabio Rojas, OrgTheory.net "If you want a peek inside an elite New England prep school, here it is... But while nosiness about St. Paul's is a perfectly good reason to read the book, Khan's purpose is higher. This is a book about the promise of America and how well the nation is fulfilling it. It is a book that suggests how money still trumps ideals and how a myth fostered at St. Paul's and other such schools serves a new elite class. Most usefully, the book explores why racial and ethnic diversity--a challenge that St. Paul's is meeting admirably--is not synonymous with mobility and equality... Full of valuable insights."--Mike Pride, Concord Monitor "While the empirical meat of Privilege is from the United States, Canadian scholars of inequality and education will find this book useful. The ethnographic material is worth reading for its empirical contribution alone; but more importantly it also illustrates how the relative steepness of the U.S. postsecondary system contributes to enduring social inequalities."--Janice Aurini, Canadian Journal of Sociology "Returning to his alma mater as faculty member and ethnographer, Khan offers an incisive study of the formation of a new, meritocratic elite... Of utility and wide appeal to a range of academics, Khan's study is consistently engaging and of potentially enduring value."--Choice "Essential reading for understanding today's elite. Not since Christopher Lasch's Revolt of the Elites has the meritocracy been so effectively skewered."--Austin Bramwell, American Conservative "There are few ethnographic accounts of life in exclusive American boarding schools and Khan's book is far and away the most sophisticated among them. But the contribution of Privilege goes beyond this narrow field. Those interested in the sociology of culture, stratification, everyday life, education, race, and gender will find much to appreciate... Khan is a versatile and earnest ethnographer with a sharp eye for gesture and a keen ear for dialogue."--Victoria Bonnell, Contemporary Sociology "Privilege is a welcome addition to the sociological literature on elite prep schools... This readable book provides a vivid, often elucidating, and not always pretty look at life at St. Paul's as of the 2004-05 school year."--Richard L. Zweigenhaft, Social Forces "[Shamus Rahman Khan's] book [is an] excellent, engaging, well written, and carefully researched study of the ways culture works in and through schools."--Lisa M. Stulberg, Contexts "Privilege is a welcome addition to the sociological literature on elite prep schools... [Khan] is the narrator of this ethnography, and he is often a participant in the events he observes and analyzes. We get to know him, and he is an enjoyable and informative companion, one who is honest about the challenges he has faced."--Richard L. Zweigenhaft, Oxford JournalsTable of ContentsIntroduction: Democratic Inequality 1 Chapter 1. The New Elite 18 Chapter 2. Finding One's Place 41 Chapter 3. The Ease of Privilege 77 Chapter 4. Gender and the Performance of Privilege 114 Chapter 5. Learning Beowulf and Jaws 151 Conclusion 193 Methodological and Theoretical Reflections 201 Acknowledgments 207 Notes 211 Works Cited 223 Index 229

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Book SynopsisTaking readers into the homes of middle-class families to reveal the hidden consequences of student debt and the ways that financing college has transformed family life, the author describes the profound moral conflicts for parents take on enormous debts and gamble on an investment that might not pay off.Trade Review"A Forbes' Pick for The Year's Best Books About Higher Education, 2019""A great new book . . . . It has come to be the case that . . . . literally the definition of being middle class is sending your kid to college when you can't afford to . . . . Think about the psychic toll that this fundamental paradox is taking on the nation, the effects it has, both on folks who don't go to college, who are missing the cut-off of the middle class, folks who are in the middle class, and then, as the college scandal shows, all the way to the very top. It's insanity cascading up and down the system. That's the status quo we have. And that's exactly what Caitlin Zaloom explains so well."---Chris Hayes, Why Is This Happening podcast"Indebted ends up being a story about modern families—about how we understand our responsibilities toward one another in a time of diminishing prospects. There’s a distinctly modern paradox in Zaloom’s version of middle-class life, with parents preparing their children for adulthood while also protecting them from it. [Indebted] takes much of what we have come to accept and renders it alien and a bit absurd . . . . At times, Indebted reads like an ethnography of a dwindling way of life, an elegy for families who still abide by the fantasy that thrift and hard work will be enough to secure the American Dream."---Hua Hsu, The New Yorker"A compelling new book."---Gillian Tett, Financial Times"The story of the rising cost of college in America is often told through numbers, with references to runaway tuition sticker prices and the ever-growing pile of outstanding student debt. The personal toll these trends have taken is hard to convey, but the anthropologist Caitlin Zaloom does so in her new book Indebted: How Families Make College Work at Any Cost, which documents how the price of a college education has forced many middle-class families to rearrange their priorities, finances, and lives."---Joe Pinsker, The Atlantic"Paying for college is a total nightmare for anyone who is not a total bazillionaire, but it’s really hard to talk about that, because it’s a sensitive subject . . . . All these families really get into the nitty gritty of what they went through. Zaloom got them to really open up . . . . It’s a very eye-opening book. It’s super interesting. So my recommendation . . . check out Indebted by Caitlin Zaloom."---Dan Kois, Slate"Zaloom’s book has become a sensation because so many people instinctively know that something is deeply out of whack in the way we pay for university education."---Sasha Abramsky, The Nation"Important new book . . . . Zaloom demonstrates that the moral logic of financing college is unique to the United States."---Robin Kaiser-Schatzlein, The Baffler"Zaloom’s comprehensive exposé of the college-financing industry argues that middle-class Americans are in an unresolvable bind: culturally mandated to ensure 'open futures' for their children, but unable to afford to do so without help, they become ensnared in risky, speculative debt. . . . The facts described here will be familiar to anyone who’s heard of the student-debt crisis; the analysis, with its emphasis on the moral dilemma facing middle-class families, will resonate with parents confronting it." * Publishers Weekly *"Zaloom provides a clear-sighted and timely analysis." * Library Journal *"An excellent introduction to the student finance complex for students, parents, and present and future policy makers." * Choice *"Zaloom has produced a book that is accessible to those without a prior understanding of economics . . . . [Indebted] is a timely book and may be of interest to all parents and students preparing for entry to HE."---Chloe Reid, LSE

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"A sociologist walks in a bar ... and discovers the soul of a new economy ... Mr. Ocejo has a good eye and ear. He has talked to a lot of people. And his book is full of acutely heard and closely observed details."--William L. Hamilton, Wall Street Journal "Why are upscale versions of traditional manufacturing and service jobs considered hip, desirable, and cool? Ocejo, a sociology professor, examines the 'urban village model' that has revitalized urban areas. He looks at four elements of gentrification--craft breweries, barber shops, whole-animal butcher shops, and cocktail bars... Using his own field experiences and interviews with business owners and workers, the author identifies transformations in the U.S. cultural elite that have led to this new service economy, one that is strikingly male-dominated. He uses Chelsea Market in Manhattan as an example of how the reappearance of businesses formerly considered essential, but not prestigious, in exclusive and expensive form mirrors the gentrification of the neighborhoods that once supported them in their previous incarnations. The book reads well... Sociologists and others with a serious interest in hipster culture will learn much from it."--Publishers Weekly "[Ocejo] engagingly portrays several workers, tracing their motivations for choosing a job, their satisfactions and challenges, and plans for their futures. A close-up and often entertaining look at new service jobs in an urban economy."--Kirkus "A fascinating book, full of valuable observations and insights. Particularly impressive is the way it captures the distinctive atmospheres of these jobs."--William Skidelsky, Financial Times "I definitely recommend this book to anyone interested in the evolution of labor markets, how America will respond to ongoing automation, the production of status, and the role of men in an increasingly feminized society."--Tyler Cowen, Marginal RevolutionTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Preface. The Daily Grind xi Introduction. A Stroll through the Market 1 Part I 23 1 The Cocktail Renaissance 25 2 Distilling Authenticity 50 3 Working on Men 76 4 Show the Animal 101 Part II 127 5 How Middle-Class Kids Want Working-Class Jobs 129 6 The Science and the Art 159 7 Service Teaching 190 8 Getting the Job 225 Epilogue. Outcomes, Implications, and Concluding Thoughts 250 Methodological Appendix 267 Notes 285 References 323 Index 339

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Can College Level the Playing Field? is a clear and focused analysis of the role of higher education in contributing to inequality in the United States – and what can be done about it. . . . A redemptive argument for a just and fair system of higher education."---Christopher Martin, Theory and Research in Education

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Gable’s suggestions are well written and thoughtfully conveyed; university administrators and others interested in higher education will find much to consider."---Jacqueline Snider, Library Journal"Based on her findings, Gable offers policy suggestions to college administrators for effective outreach to these groups. . . . [The] author also lets the students tell their stories, including lengthy intact quotes from many of her interviews. Therefore, it’s fairly easy to follow the students' narratives in the text while leaving the 'scholarly conversation' in the footnotes for background. Many of the study’s conclusions are eye-opening."" * Kirkus Reviews *

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Honorable Mention for the Scholarly Achievement Award, North Central Sociological Association""Winner of the William J. Goode Book Award, Family Section of the American Sociological Association""Damaske powerfully demonstrates how gender and class intersect and produce widely divergent experiences among the unemployed. In a vivid and insightful analysis of recently unemployed working- and middle-class women and men, Damaske reveals novel mechanisms through which unemployment both exacerbates existing inequalities and creates new inequalities. The study offers unparalleled insight into the trajectories of the unemployed and makes poignant contributions to our understanding of economic inequality and gender. . . . An extremely captivating, compelling, and careful analysis of various gendered and classed mechanisms reproducing and creating inequalities among the unemployed."---Pilar Gonalons-Pons, Social Forces"Damaske makes a compelling case that unemployment, like the pathways leading up to and following it, touches people in vastly different ways. . . . She argues we can do better. Let’s hope we can and do. The Tolls of Uncertainty points to narratives and policies that could undermine rather than reinforce existing inequalities."---Naomi Gerstel, Contemporary Sociology"[A] fascinating new book. . . . The Tolls of Uncertainty reveals that middle-class white men are vastly overrepresented among the beneficiaries who fully recover from unemployment, while other groups tread water or end up worse off."---Christine L. Williams, Gender & Society"There's a way to change the system and the way is to read [The Tolls of Uncertainty]. People need to understand that the unemployment experience is not these odd, ugly stereotypes."---Mark Price, Evidence-to-Impact podcast"[The Tolls of Uncertainty] offers enduring lessons about unemployment and the family."---Naomi R. Cahn, Jotwell

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"An astoundingly thorough deep dive, which the reader is eased into with the help of easily digestible surveys, charts and graphs, interview excerpts and a very comprehensive reference section. . . . An extremely well thought-out, -researched, and -structured look into the lives of people who have had to endure caste-inspired stigma throughout their lives." * Library Journal *"This book has challenged us to take a more nuanced approach to diversity within the Black community and beyond."---Rebecca C. Franklin, Ethnic and Racial Studies

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"An astoundingly thorough deep dive, which the reader is eased into with the help of easily digestible surveys, charts and graphs, interview excerpts and a very comprehensive reference section. . . . An extremely well thought-out, -researched, and -structured look into the lives of people who have had to endure caste-inspired stigma throughout their lives." * Library Journal *"This book has challenged us to take a more nuanced approach to diversity within the Black community and beyond."---Rebecca C. Franklin, Ethnic and Racial Studies

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Honorable Mention for the Scholarly Achievement Award, North Central Sociological Association""Winner of the William J. Goode Book Award, Family Section of the American Sociological Association""Damaske powerfully demonstrates how gender and class intersect and produce widely divergent experiences among the unemployed. In a vivid and insightful analysis of recently unemployed working- and middle-class women and men, Damaske reveals novel mechanisms through which unemployment both exacerbates existing inequalities and creates new inequalities. The study offers unparalleled insight into the trajectories of the unemployed and makes poignant contributions to our understanding of economic inequality and gender. . . . An extremely captivating, compelling, and careful analysis of various gendered and classed mechanisms reproducing and creating inequalities among the unemployed."---Pilar Gonalons-Pons, Social Forces"Damaske makes a compelling case that unemployment, like the pathways leading up to and following it, touches people in vastly different ways. . . . She argues we can do better. Let’s hope we can and do. The Tolls of Uncertainty points to narratives and policies that could undermine rather than reinforce existing inequalities."---Naomi Gerstel, Contemporary Sociology"[A] fascinating new book. . . . The Tolls of Uncertainty reveals that middle-class white men are vastly overrepresented among the beneficiaries who fully recover from unemployment, while other groups tread water or end up worse off."---Christine L. Williams, Gender & Society"There's a way to change the system and the way is to read [The Tolls of Uncertainty]. People need to understand that the unemployment experience is not these odd, ugly stereotypes."---Mark Price, Evidence-to-Impact podcast"[The Tolls of Uncertainty] offers enduring lessons about unemployment and the family."---Naomi R. Cahn, Jotwell

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Book SynopsisAn intervention into the historical debate over the transition from feudalism to capitalismTrade Review'Sets a new standard in the study of the transition from feudalism to capitalism. A must for anybody interested in the transition debates' -- Michael Perelman, author of The Invention of Capitalism: Classical Political Economy and the Secret History of Primitive Accumulation'A comprehensive, critical but balanced account from a classical Marxist perspective of the entire debate and its various controversies' -- Neil Davidson'While many fantasise about an 'Empire' unified on a planetarylevel, this is a brilliant analysis of the role of national states inthe forming and functioning of capitalism' -- Domenico Losurdo, University of Urbino, author of Liberalism: A Counter-HistoryTable of ContentsPreface and acknowledgements Introduction: problems and methods 1. The Decline of feudalism 2. Experiments in capitalism: Italy, Germany, France 3. English capitalism 4. Bourgeois revolution 5. Political capitalism 6. The Industrial Revolution: Marxist perspectives 7. Capitalism and world history Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisA Marxist analysis revealing the class domination inherent within the computerisation of our society.Trade Review'Tracks the eddies and flows of the perfect storm that is contemporary capitalism. This panoramic work reveals the relentless force of material destruction and brutal violence concealed by the sleek surfaces of digital culture' -- Benjamin Noys, Professor of Critical Theory, University of Chichester, and author of Malign Velocities'Teases out the tensions between new communisation and autonomist Marxist theories to portray the struggles of workers along the entire global capitalist commodity chain' -- Dorothy Kidd, Professor and Chair, Department of Media Studies, University of San Francisco'A follow up to the classic Cyber-Marx with a synoptic view of the relationship between the poles of the contemporary global proletariat ... written with Dyer-Witherford's well-known eloquence and passion' -- George Caffentzis, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, University of Southern Maine'This accessible, well-written book makes for fascinating reading ... High recommended' -- Choice'Accessible ... engrossing ... very much worth a read' -- Marx & Philosophy Review of BooksTable of ContentsSeries Preface Acknowledgements 1. Proletariat 2. Vortex 3. Cybernetic 4. Silicon 5. Circulation 6. Mobile 7. Globe 8. Cascade 9. Aftermath 10. Front Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisA book on the nature of the new, precarious industrial worker in the Global South - highlighting experimentation, solidarity and struggle.Trade Review'The first book to theorise and examine the present and future shape of global class struggles. Analytically brilliant and empirically sound ... a superb portrait of the trajectory of the independent workers' struggle' -- Sushovan Dhar, New Trade Union Initiative, India.'Offers insights on global labour struggles in an era when familiar unions seem exhausted, or at least too weak to make a concerted effort - with concrete examples of workers forming independent unions in the Global South' -- Paul Buhle, historian and author'Essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the present form of militant unionism in the Global South' -- Gregory Wilpert, director of TeleSUR English'Seminal and distinctive' -- Arup Kumar Sen, Associate Professor, Serampore College, West Bengal, India.'Richly reports a qualitatively different practice evolving in India, China, and South Africa. It is horizontal rather than vertical. At this living moment all over our globe, workers are reaching out hands, first to their workmates, then to other workers everywhere' -- Staughton Lynd, historian, author, activist'Provides the most crucial case studies of alternative worker organising in the major centres of industrial production in China, India, and South Africa - where workers recognise their power and act to end exploitation' -- May Wong, Globalization Monitor, Hong Kong'Tells us how democratic forms of worker organisation can overcome the limitations of conventional labour unions and challenge global capitalist exploitation' -- Lee Chun Wing, Hong Kong Polytechnic University'Illuminates the most important questions of our time: can the democratic and transformative currents which inspired the movements of the past re-emerge today?' -- Frances Fox Piven, City University of New York Graduate Center'Provides dramatic case studies of worker resistance to corporate exploitation and state violence, through the formation of militant organisations in factories and within their communities' -- Bill Fletcher, Jr., Author of Solidarity Divided and syndicated columnist'This book will throw challenges to the conventional economics of collective bargaining' -- Debdas Banerjee, Author: Labour, Globalization and the State, Professor, Centre for Development Studies, Central University of BiharTable of ContentsList of Maps, Figures and Tables Preface and Acknowledgements 1. Introduction: The New International Working Class Part I: Capitalism and Imperialism 2. The Industrial Proletariat of the Global South 3. Migration and the Reserve Army of Labor Part II: Case Studies 4. India: Neoliberal Industrialization, Class Formation and Mobilization 5. China: State Capitalism, Foreign Investment and Worker Insurgency 6. South Africa: Post-Apartheid Labor Militancy in the Mining Sector Conclusion Notes Index

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Book SynopsisCut Out speaks to people whose support from the state – for whatever reason – is now being withdrawn, rendering their lives unsustainable.Trade Review'For half a century, in one delicately textured study after another, Seabrook has established himself as perhaps Britain's finest anatomist of class, deindustrialisation, migration and the spiritual consequences of neoliberalism' -- Sukhdev Sandhu, Guardian'Giving a voice to the many people who have become increasingly isolated and unsupported in their struggle to survive, this is a useful resource for activists campaigning for social justice and against the government's cuts' -- Peace NewsTable of ContentsSeries Preface Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Welfare Cuts: The Wider Context 2. Being There: A Sense of Place 3. The Fall of Industrial Male Labour 4. Benefit Fraud 5. A Fate Foretold 6. Sheltered Accommodation 7. Zubeida 8. Azma 9. Kareema 10. Born at the Wrong Time 11. Abigail 12. Adele and Clifford 13. Graham Chinnery: Zero Hours 14. Andrea 15. Carl Hendricks 16. Arif Hossein 17. The Idea of Reform 18. People with Disability 10. Amanda 20. Belfort: Survival 21. Lorraine: In the Benefits Labyrinth 22. Jayne Durham 23. Paula 24. Violence against Women 25. Faraji 26. ‘Doing the Right Thing’ 27. Grace and Richard 28. ‘It Can Happen to Anyone’ 29. Andrew 30. Lazy Categories 31. The Secret World of ‘Welfare’ 32. Self-Employment as a Refuge 33. Joshua Ademola 34. Dayanne: The Right Thing and the Wrong Result 35. The Roots of Alienation 36. Imran Noorzai 37. Farida: The Duty of Young Women 38. Welfare and Mental Health 39. Alison: The Loneliness of Being on Benefit 40. Kenneth Lennox 41. Marie Fullerton 42. Gus: A Heroic Life 43. Stolen Identities: Epitaph for a Working Class Conclusion Further Reading

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Book SynopsisA diverse and impactful collection of essays on the postcapital futureTrade Review'These valuable essays on the contemporary crisis of capitalism explore numerous theoretical approaches to challenging the dominance of capital, opening the door to further explorations of what a postcapitalist society can actually consist of' -- Peter Hudis, author of 'Marx’s Concept of the Alternative to Capitalism' (Haymarket, 2016)Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Endings Of Capitalism Beyond Crisis and Hope - Adam Fishwick and Nicholas Kiersey (De Montfort University & University of Texas Rio Grande Valley) 1. Critical IPE and the End of History - Owen Worth (University of Limerick) 2. Dialectical Ends and Beginnings: Why Barbarism at the End of Capitalism Means Barbarism Beyond Capitalism - Bryant William Sculos (Worcester State University) 3. A New Wheel to Keep Capitalism Moving?: The Artificial Womb in Feminist Futures and the Capitalist Present - Catia Gregoratti and Laura Horn (Lund University & Roskilde University) 4. Development Alternatives: Old Challenges and New Hybridities in China and Latin America - Paul Bowles and Henry Veltmeyer (University of Northern British Columbia & Universidad Autonoma de Zacatecas) 5. 'Property Belongs to Allah; Capital, Get Out!' Turkey's Anti-Capitalist Muslims and the Concept of Alternatives to Capitalism - Gorkem Altinors (Bilecik University) 6. Belaboured Markets: Imagining a More Democratic Global Economic Order - Jonathon W. Moses (Norwegian University of Science & Technology) 7. Belaboured Markets: Imagining a More Democratic Global Economic Order - Jonathon W. Moses 8. Post-capitalism and Associated Reactions: Mapping Alternative Routes and Transcending Strategic Certainty - David J. Bailey (University of Birmingham) 9. Mapping Postcapitalist Futures in Dark Times - Adam Fishwick (De Montfort University) 10. The Distance Between Two Dreams: Post Neoliberalism and the Politics of Awakening - Japhy Wilson (University of Manchester) 11. Socialist Governmentality and the Problem of the Capital Strike: A Defence of Fully Automated Luxury Communism - Nicholas Kiersey (University of Texas Rio Grande Valley) Afterword: Living in the Catastrophe - Adam Fishwick and Nicholas Kiersey (De Montfort University & University of Texas Rio Grande Valley) Notes on Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisA history of Italian workerist theory, taking in Antonio Negri, Mario Tronti and Sergio BolognaTrade Review'The best account in English of the developments of autonomous politics in Italy in the 1960s and '70s' -- Michael Hardt, co-author with Antonio Negri of Empire'As the most wide-ranging, historically nuanced and theoretically incisive treatment of the contested tradition of operaismo, Wright's book is an indispensable contribution to the study, critique or revitalisation of Italy's foremost contribution to Marxian heterodoxy' -- Alberto Toscano Goldsmiths, University of London'A vital, lucid contribution to understanding how the red threads of Marxism are being rewoven into the fabric of twenty-first century radicalism' -- Nick Dyer-Witheford, author of Cyber-Proletariat and Cyber-MarxTable of ContentsForeword by Harry Cleaver Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Weathering the 1950s 2. Quaderni Rossi and the Workers' Enquiry 3. Classe Operaia 4. New Subjects 5. The Creeping May 6. Potere Operaio 7. Toni Negri and the Operaio Sociale 8. The Historiography of the Mass Worker 9. The Collapse of Workerism 10. Conclusion Postscript: Once More, With Feeling: A Bibliographic Essay Afterword to the Italian Edition by Riccardo Bellofiore & Massimiliano Tomba Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisA history of Italian workerist theory, taking in Antonio Negri, Mario Tronti and Sergio BolognaTrade Review'The best account in English of the developments of autonomous politics in Italy in the 1960s and '70s' -- Michael Hardt, co-author with Antonio Negri of Empire'As the most wide-ranging, historically nuanced and theoretically incisive treatment of the contested tradition of operaismo, Wright's book is an indispensable contribution to the study, critique or revitalisation of Italy's foremost contribution to Marxian heterodoxy' -- Alberto Toscano Goldsmiths, University of London'A vital, lucid contribution to understanding how the red threads of Marxism are being rewoven into the fabric of twenty-first century radicalism' -- Nick Dyer-Witheford, author of Cyber-Proletariat and Cyber-MarxTable of ContentsForeword by Harry Cleaver Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Weathering the 1950s 2. Quaderni Rossi and the Workers' Enquiry 3. Classe Operaia 4. New Subjects 5. The Creeping May 6. Potere Operaio 7. Toni Negri and the Operaio Sociale 8. The Historiography of the Mass Worker 9. The Collapse of Workerism 10. Conclusion Postscript: Once More, With Feeling: A Bibliographic Essay Afterword to the Italian Edition by Riccardo Bellofiore & Massimiliano Tomba Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis volume presents a systematic discussion of the leading theoretical approaches to social stratification. It is both an accessible overview and a distinctive contribution to the analysis of class, status and power. John Scott argues that Max Weber''s conceptual framework - reconstructed and enlarged - provides the basis for integrating what have been considered up to now as divergent approaches to stratification studies. Marxist theories of class and economic division, normative functionalist theories of status and cultural division, and elitist theories of command and authoritarian division all find their place in the proposed framework. Each theoretical approach is illustrated through empirical investigations undertaken by writers associated with them. Recent work by Dahrendorf, Wright and Goldthorpe is also examined, and it is shown how their arguments contribute to a theoretical synthesis in the analysis of stratification. Stratification and Power will be much aTrade Review"John Scott offers a challenging agenda for comprehensive and comparative analysis of social stratification." John Westergaard, University of Sheffield "A comprehensive and critical appraisal of classical and modern theories of social stratification, and an important contribution to the subject in its own right." David Lockwood, University of Essex "John Scott ... brings impressive credentials to his aim with this book to put social stratification firmly back into the mainstream of sociological concerns ... Scott presents it with admirable lucidity and adds distinctively significant underlinings ... This book should appeal as a central teaching text, for its wide-ranging review of classical and modern literature in the field, including a finely tuned final chapter on research and debate about the 'working class'. But its strength goes well beyond this, to offer a challenging agenda for work on a subject whose continuing sociological salience Scott persuasively demonstrates." Times Higher Education Supplement "Those who read this book will come away with the distinct impression that the question of social stratification is very much alive as we approach the new millennium." Work, Employment and Society "I would strongly recommend this book to anybody interested in the history and conceptualization of social stratification. It is written with insight and clarity, and will be an invaluable resource for students - and their teachers - working in this field." Political StudiesTable of ContentsList of Figures. Preface. 1. Images of Stratification. 2. From Max Weber: a Framework. 3. Class, Property and Market. 4. Status, Community and Prestige. 5. Command, Authority and Elites. 6. Property, Authority and Class Relations. 7. Structures of Social Stratification. 8. The Question of the Working Class. Notes. References. Index.

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Book SynopsisThe telegraph, telephone, and television, not to mention the Internet and mobile telephony, are all forms of communication that move information faster than the speed at which objects move. Both labor and capital and armies and commodities once moved at the same speed as the information organizing them.Trade Review“From Sydney to New York, the real to the virtual, the theoretical to the practical and back again, McKenzie Wark charts the vectors of a new space that is neither here nor there and yet is transforming society and the economy in unprecedented ways. By exposing what is hiding in plain sight, Telesthesia challenges us to fashion a new politics of creative disruption. This book is provocative, insightful and timely.” Mark C. Taylor, Columbia University “Telesthesia continues McKenzie Wark’s sharp observations on recent media life. Well-informed on both cultural-political theory and media practices, Wark’s studies are highly recommended for students of all levels. And he writes with incredible grace.” Mark Poster, University of California, IrvineTable of ContentsHow to Occupy an AbstractionFresh Maimed BabiesNeither Here Nor ThereSpeaking TrajectoriesCruising Virilio's Overexposed CityArchitectronics of the MultitudeWeird Global Media Event and Vectoral UnconsciousSecuring SecurityGame and Play in Everyday LifeThe Gift Shop at the End of HistoryFrom Intellectual Persona to Hacker InterfaceDisco Marxism vs Techno MarxismThe Vectoral Class and its AntipodesFrom Disco Marxism to Praxis (Object Oriented)Considerations on A Hacker ManifestoAfter Politics: To the Vector the SpoilsThe Little Sisters Are Watching YouShit is Fucked Up and BullshitLast Words and Key WordsAcknowledgementsNotes

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Book SynopsisThere were eighty of them. They were young, clever and cultivated; they were barely in their thirties when Adolf Hitler came to power. Their university studies in law, economics, linguistics, philosophy and history marked them out for brilliant careers. They chose to join the repressive bodies of the Third Reich, especially the Security Service (SD) and the Nazi Party's elite protection unit, the SS. They theorized and planned the extermination of twenty million individuals of allegedly inferior' races. Most of them became members of the paramilitary death squads known as Einsatzgruppen and participated in the slaughter of over a million people. Based on extensive archival research, Christian Ingrao tells the gripping story of these children of the Great War, focusing on the networks of fellow activists, academics and friends in which they moved, studying the way in which they envisaged war and the world of enemies' which, in their view, threatened them. The mechanisms ofTrade Review"a thoughtful, well researched, and well written addition to the field of perpetrator studies—a work that illustrates convincingly the role of Germany’s “best and brightest” in the prosecution of genocide." Holocaust and Genocide Studies "A chilling collective portrait of a generation blinded by the fervor of their ideology and oblivious to the suffering of others." Wall Street Journal "Packed with useful information on this important Nazi cadre." Standpoint "Presents gripping accounts of particular spectacles of violence and their role in imposing order." Los Angeles Review of Books "With this quest for understanding in mind, Ingrao has undertaken what is clearly a mammoth historical task, and ultimately written an astonishingly profound and in-depth book on a subject that ought never be forgotten." David Marx Book Reviews "This is an important and original study of ideology and experience rather than yet another catalogue of crime, and it therefore offers a different and powerful explanation for how educated men became perpetrators of mass murder." Richard Evans, University of Cambridge "How did highly educated German intellectuals of a certain generation make themselves into believing Nazis, career-minded ideologues, and practitioners of terror? In compelling detail and in a manner consistent with the best accomplishments of recent scholarship, Christian Ingrao guides us astutely and assuredly through this shockingly normalized interior world." Geoffrey Eley, University of MichiganTable of ContentsForeword Acknowledgments Glossary PART ONE: The young men of Germany Chapter 1: A 'world of enemies' (I) The outbreak of war The silence of the Akademiker The 'time of troubles': an experience of war? Chapter 2: Constructing networks Places to study Places of association Networks of solidarity Chapter 3: Activist intellectuals The construction of academic knowledge Knowledge and activism (1919-1933) 'Combative science' and SS intellectuals in the Third Reich The shadow of the Great War PART TWO: Joining the Nazis: a commitment Chapter 4: Being a Nazi The foundations of the doctrine The origins of Nazi fervour: planning a sociobiological re-establishment The appropriation of a system of beliefs Chapter 5: Entering the SD Whether to enter the Party or not? Towards the SD: Nazi careers Recruitment: a social mechanism of enlistenment Chapter 6: From struggle to control From the 'Security Department of the SS' (SD) to the 'Reich Security Main Office' (RSHA) A 'world of enemies' (II) Control PART THREE : Nazism and violence: the culmination 1939-1945 Chapter 7: Thinking the east, between utopia and anxiety The curse of Germanic isolation The Nazi project for a sociobiological re-establishment Redevelop and settle: forms of Nazi fervour Chapter 8: Arguing for war: Nazi rhetoric From the reparative war to the 'Great Racial War' From the discourse of security to the discourse of genocide Expressing violence: defensive rhetorics, utopian rhetorics Chapter 9: Violence in action The experience of violence Demonstrative violence, violence of eradication A transgressive violence Violence as rite of initiation Chapter 10: SS intellectuals confronting defeat Defeat rendered unreal Finis Germaniae. The return of the old anxiety The denouement Chapter 11: SS intellectuals on trial Strategies of negation Strategies of evasion Strategies of justification: the Ohlendorf case Conclusion: Memory of war, activism and genocide Notes Sources and bibliography A piece of research and its context A specific conceptual framework List of archival collections consulted Printed sources Bibliography

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Book SynopsisIn this important new book, the leading philosopher Francois Laruelle examines the role of intellectuals in our societies today, specifically with regards to criminal justice.Table of ContentsTranslator?s Preface Interviewer?s Preface Prologue The Name-of-Man or the Identity of the Real Portrait of the Dominant Intellectual The Victim and the Understanding of Crime The Practice of the Determined Intellectual Criminal History and the Demand for Justice

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Book SynopsisAt a time when significant social status, economic resources, and political opportunities seem to become ever more unequally distributed and only available to a few, this book represents the first systematic effort in recent years to develop a sociological model of elites and non-elites. In outlining a new typology of economic, political, and cultural elites, as well as drawing attention to the important role of non-elites, this accessibly written book provides novel insights into the structure of historical and contemporary societies. Milner identifies the sources and structures of economic, political, and cultural power, and investigates patterns of cooperation and conflict between and within elite groups. Analyzing politicians and propagandists, landowners and capitalists, national heroes and celebrities, ordinary folks and outcasts, the book applies its model to three distinctly different societies ancient India, Classical Athens, and the contemporary United States highTrade Review"Elites deserves wide attention. Writing with exceptional clarity, Milner balances the simplicity of deep conceptual structures with an empirical complexity spanning three sharply contrasting civilizations. He emphasizes, against purely economic and political approaches, that elite status can be powerfully based on distinctive cultural competences, which in contemporary societies involve increasing visibility. This is the first really new theory of elites in many decades." Jeffrey C. Alexander, Yale University "Professor Milner provides a powerful set of social science tools for those keen to understand many of the pressing issues we face today. These include those concerned with the rise of the 1% and the decline of the rest; legalized corruption that deeply distorts our political process; and the influence of the military industrial complex." Amitai Etzioni, The George Washington University"In such historical circumstances, [… Elites: A General Model…] is not only timely and relevant, but also exciting. […] It is a refreshing contribution to the growing volume of elite-focused analyses of power and politics."Jan Pakulski, Books and Ideas"A first-class piece of scholarship and a lasting contribution to elite studies and political sociology more generally." John Higley, University of Texas“Bringing together insights from Marx, Pareto, Weber, and Bourdieu in a simple but versatile framework, […] Elites is an important book with interesting theses. […Milner’s] description of the American politician as a hybrid of the celebrity and the fundraiser indicates why Trump succeeded while Sanders failed. Added to these new features of the American political life, there is the near-universal strategy of all political elites according to Milner, used expertly by the Trump campaign: relentless scapegoating of ethnic and religious minori¬ties to mobilize nonelite whites.”Bogazici Journal: Review of Social, Economic and Administrative StudiesTable of ContentsPrefaceChapter 1. IntroductionChapter 2. The General ModelChapter 3. Traditional India: the Varna SchemeChapter 4. Athens in the Classical PeriodChapter 5. The U.S. 1980-2008: Economics and PoliticsChapter 6. The U.S. 1980-2008: Other ActorsChapter 7. The 2007-2009 Financial CrisisChapter 8. ConclusionsAppendix: Some Implications and Elaborations of the ModelReferences

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Book SynopsisWinner, 2003-2004 Harold Adams Innis Prize for Best English-Language Book in the Social Sciences, Canadian Federation for Humanities and Social SciencesIn the early 1990s, lawyer Beth Symes brought an equality challenge against the Canadian Income Tax Act, arguing that her childcare costs were a business expense. The case ignited public controversy. Was Symes disadvantaged on the basis of gender, or unfairly privileged on the basis of class?This book seeks answers to those questions through close attention to the Symes case, where class and gender interests clashed over the tax treatment of childcare. It looks at the history of legislative and litigative struggles, the dynamics of courtroom discourse, and the influence of broad social debates about children and the public/private divide. It reveals how frequently the rhetoric of choice, responsibility, and selfishness is invoked in response to women''s attempts to place issues of childcare on the public agenda.TTrade Review"This book makes a huge contribution to the field of socio-legal studies. The scholarship is first rate, and the author has applied complex theories in a manner that is extremely accessible. It is a "great read," it tells a fascinating story, and should interest anyone attentive to issues of fairness, justice, and how these issues play out in the courts." - Claire Young, Faculty of Law, University of British Columbia, and author of Women, Tax and Social ProgramsTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Intersection of Power and WoundPart 1: Prelude1 Theoretical Foundations2 Childcare Politics in Canada3 Legal Manoeuvring and the Development of Litigation StrategiesPart 2: "The Play's the Thing"4 Strategy and Practice: The Play's the Thing PartPart 3: Sorting Out the Aftermath5 The Limits of Judicial Power: The Court as Constrained6 Power, Constraint, and the Rhetoric of Choice7 Multiple Solitudes: Intersectionality in the Nonexpert Public Response8 Class and Gender on the Terrain of Need: Intersectionality in Expert Public Response9 Lessons to Be Learned and a Case to Be RemadeAppendicesA Selected Statutory ProvisionsB Selections from the Dissent in Symes v. CanadaNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisRising Up shows how living wage movements have transformed, or are campaigning to transform, labour policy in Canada and stimulated broader public debate about income and social inequality.Trade ReviewThis is an older, more classical, and well-informed political economy analysis. -- T. M. Bateman, St. Thomas University * CHOICE Connect *Table of Contents1 Resisting Low-Wage Work: The Struggle for Living Wages / Bryan Evans, Carlo Fanelli, and Tom McDowellPart 1: The "Standard" Employment Relationship: Low-Wage Work2 The Comparative Political Economy of Low Wages / Stephen McBride, Sorin Mitrea, and Mohammad Ferdosi3 Labour Justice: Assessing the Politics of the American Labor Movement / Biko Koenig and Deva Woodly4 Media (Mis)Representations and the Living Wage Movement / Carlo Fanelli and A.J. WilsonPart 2: The Fight for Living Wages in Canada5 The Emergence of the Living Wage Movement in Canada’s Northern Territories / Kendall Hammond6 Getting By but Dreaming of Normal: Low-Wage Employment, Living in Toronto, and the Crisis of Social Reproduction / Meg Luxton and Patricia McDermott7 The Living Wage and the Extremely Precarious: The Case of "Illegalized" Migrant Workers / Charity-Ann Hannan, John Shields, and Harald Bauder8 Working for a Living, Not Living for Work: Living Wages in the Maritimes / Mary-Dan Johnston and Christine Saulnier 9 The BC Living Wage for Families Campaign: A Decade of Building / Catherine Ludgate 10 Challenging the Small Business Ideology in Saskatchewan’s Living Wage Debate / Andrew StevensPart 3: Resistance and Alternatives11 The Living Wage Campaign in Hamilton: Assessing the Voluntary Approach / David Goutor12 Why Business-Led Living Wage Campaigns Fail: The Case of Calgary, Alberta 1999–2009 / Carol-Anne Hudson13 The Low-Wage Economy in the Age of Neoliberalism: What Can be Done? / Tom McDowell, Sune Sandbeck, and Bryan EvansList of Contributors; Index

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Book SynopsisBecoming Bourgeois traces the fortunes of three French families in the municipality of Vannes, in Brittany—Galles, Jollivet, and Le Ridant—who rose to prominence in publishing, law, the military, public administration, and intellectual pursuits over the course of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.Trade ReviewJohnson's latest book, in my opinion, represents his supreme intellectual achievement. Since the turn of the century, his method of studying economic history—culling data, facts, and testimony from archives; synthesizing and interpreting them by means of theories of development and crisis—has been overtaken by studies of the writings on political economy. -- Stephen Miller * H-France Review *The book chips away at our assumptions about a period and a class thatseem to epitomize 'separate spheres.' It convincingly demonstrates the importance of studying the inner life of a family—its taken-for-granteds, its habitus, and within the grid of kinship that provides the bedrock of class solidarity. It is also a delight to read. -- Denise Z. Davidson * Journal of Interdisciplinary History *Following an interconnected set of families in the western French city of Vannes from the end of the seventeenth to the middle of the nineteenth centuries, Christopher H. Johnson argues that kinship—especially marital strategies and the cultivation of intense familial affection—made the modern bourgeoisie.... Becoming Bourgeois is a model for combining social and cultural history. Johnson knows the traditional materials of social history—tax rolls, property transactions, and voter lists—inside and out. He is also fully in command of the état-civil and the details of the marriages, births, and deaths on the Jollivet-Galles family trees. His sympathetic and meticulous readings of the family correspondence make the archive of social and demographic history come to life. -- Carol E. Harrison, University of South Carolina * Journal of Modern History *Becoming Bourgeois joins the vibrant scholarship on the history of emotions, particularly on love and family in the modern era. It is as engaging as it is significant for the history of modern France and of the European bourgeoisie by a preeminent scholar of the history of social class formation. * American Historical Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction Correspondence and Its Limits Kinship, Class, Sociability, and the Interior History of the Bourgeoisie Love, Interest, and the Sibling Archipelago GenderPART I. THE ASCENT (1670–1800)CHAPTER 1. The Way of Print Talent and Marriage Cultural Capital Printers, IntellectualsCHAPTER 2. Bourgeois de Vannes, Bourgeois de Paris Kinsmen (and Women) to the Rescue: The Saga of Jean-Nicolas Galles Kin and Connection in the Book Trade Love and Agony in ParisCHAPTER 3. The Revolutions of the Galles Economic Establishment: Veuve Galles and the Articulation of Power Expanding Horizons Cultural Leadership and Bourgeois Ascent Political Establishment: Three Families Merge Surviving the French Revolution (If Not Childbed Fever)PART II. BOURGEOIS CULTURE (1800–1880)CHAPTER 4. The Sibling Archipelago Talented Royalists Accommodate Bonaparte A New Generation and a Renewed Polity A Sibling Courtship Cousin Marriage and the Political Integration of Vannes's BourgeoisieCHAPTER 5. "Mon Adèle" Fulfillment and the Firstborn Establishment: A Joint Venture Public ServiceCHAPTER 6. Notre Adèle Settling In The Great Crisis Affairs Military and Domestic Living ClassCHAPTER 7. GuadeloupeCHAPTER 8. The Chosen: Educating René Pont Sal Exile and Redemption: A Mother’s Will Family MattersCHAPTER 9. Into the World La vie d’un polytechnicien breton Aunt Marie: Power and Betrayal The Kinship Elite Career and Guidance Weathering Revolution, Again: Adèle, femme politique Fulfillment: René WedCHAPTER 10. The Legacy: Bourgeois Nation Building and Civic Leadership Nation Building by Kinship Civic Leadership The National Stage: Combating le BretonismeBibliographical Notes Index

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Book SynopsisIn the popular imagination, opposition to the Vietnam War was driven largely by college students and elite intellectuals, while supposedly reactionary blue-collar workers largely supported the war effort. In Hardhats, Hippies, and Hawks, Penny Lewis challenges this collective memory of class polarization. Through close readings of archival documents, popular culture, and media accounts at the time, she offers a more accurate counter-memory of a diverse, cross-class opposition to the war in Southeast Asia that included the labor movement, working-class students, soldiers and veterans, and Black Power, civil rights, and Chicano activists. Lewis investigates why the image of antiwar class division gained such traction at the time and has maintained such a hold on popular memory since. Identifying the primarily middle-class culture of the early antiwar movement, she traces how the class interests of its first organizers were reflected in its subsequent forms. The founding Trade ReviewAs Penny Lewis argues and persuasively demonstrates in this theoretically and methodologically innovative book, 'working-class opposition to the war was significantly more widespread than is remembered, and parts of the movement found roots in working-class communities and politics.' She therefore sets out to revise the distorted history of the anti-war movement and then to explain theoretically why this belief has persisted for such a long time. -- David Ryan * International Affairs *On rare occasions, something enters one's mental universe so radiant that it lights up the whole mind, burning away what now seem like intellectual preoccupations of vastly less import. Such was my experience consumed by Hardhats, Hippies, and Hawks, a book worthy of regard as an instant classic on literature on the American experience of the Vietnam War and for an audience far beyond academia. * The Sixties: A Journal of History, Politics, and Culture *This book offers a powerfully argued response to a thesis about working-class conservatism and the Vietnam War that posits that members of the working class were so alienated by hippie protestors' appearance, tactics, and lack of patriotism that they rallied around the U.S. flag and supported the war more than their middle-class fellow citizens did. Penny Lewis demonstrates that 'working-class opposition to the war was significantly more widespread than is remembered' and that 'the greatest support for the war came from the privileged elite, despite the visible dissent' of some of its members.... Methodologically responsible and exhaustively researched, Hardhats, Hippies, and Hawks is an indispensable contribution to scholarship about the domestic debates surrounding the Vietnam War. * Journal of American History *Table of ContentsIntroduction1. Collective Memory of Vietnam Antiwar Sentiment and ProtestPart I. The Antiwar Movement: A Liberal Elite?2. Middle Class Cultures and the Movement's Early Years3. Countercurrents in the Movement: Complicating the Class Base4. Countermemory I: "A Rich Man's War and a Poor Man’s Fight"5. Countermemory II: GIs and Veterans Join the MovementPart II. Hardhat Hawks?: Working-Class Conservatism6. Anticipation of the Class Divide7. Hardhats versus Elite Doves: Consolidation of the ImageConclusionNotes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisHow do class, ethnicity, gender, and politics interact? In what ways do they constitute everyday life among ethnic minorities? In "Getting By," Donald M. Nonini draws on three decades of research in the region of Penang state in northern West Malaysia, mainly in the city of Bukit Mertajam, to provide an ethnographic and historical account of...Trade ReviewIn 'Getting By,' Donald M. Nonini draws on three decades of research in the region of Penang state in northern West Malaysia, mainly in the city of Bukit Mertajam, to provide an ethnographic and historical account of the cultural politics of class conflict and state formation among Malaysians of Chinese descent. -- D.W. Haines * Choice *'Getting By' offers a countervailingperspective by foregrounding a critical historicalnarrative of the processes of class and state formation ofthe Chinese in Malaysia.... The outcome is a masterful historical ethnography of how disparate formative processes and everyday practices intersect and overlap with one another over time to produce diasporic Chinese citizenship in Malaysia. Nonini's ethnography is especially compelling, rich, and nuanced given his deep lodes of data extracted from fieldwork begun in the late 1970s and supplemented with periodic returnvisits to his fieldwork site up to the late 2000s... 'Getting By' is an exemplary piece of engaged scholarship. It balances judiciously between theoretical sophistication and lucid prose and deserves to be read widely. -- Seng-Guan Yeoh * American Anthropologist *In this wide-ranging book, which covers some 30 years of research, anthropologist Nonini (Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) simultaneously presents some finely detailed ethnographic and historical reflections on the Chinese in Malaysia... The overall result is a book that is a very worthy addition to the comparative study of the lives of working-class men, to the analysis of the full social implications of Malaysian governmental structure and development strategies, and to the many meanings, realities, and contingencies of being in some way 'Chinese' but outside China. Essential for reference collections on globalization, East and Southeast Asia, and the meaning of 'Chinese' as an ethnic and national label. -- D.W. Haines * Choice *The book is full of deep insights and fascinating detail of the decades from 1978 to 2007 in this Chinese urban population.... The span of fieldwork on which he bases his study provides a rich reflection on his own evolving ethnographic approach and his growing understanding of the ethnic and class politics and cultural styles performed over these years. It is a significant contribution to our understanding of post-Independence Malaysia society. -- Patrick Guinness, Australian National University * Asia Pacific Journal of Anthopology *The book as a whole is an excellent and innovative ethnographic study of the male Chinese population of Bukit Mertajam. Its strength lies in the integration of detailed ethnographic field data into the wider framework of Chinese society. This is a book worth reading for students of Malaysian society, modern history and economic development. -- Hans-Dieter Evers * SOJOURN: Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia *Nonini's excellent and ethnographically grounded analysis speaks in important ways to anthropological and other social science literature on class struggle, formation and dialectics, the state and governmentality, and the essentialization of Chinese and other ethnoracial diaspora communities.... Finally, 'Getting By' is highly recommended to a general anthropological audience as a very readable ethnography, highlighting the best of ethnographic theory-building, tacking between (and critical of ) poles of overly linguistically oriented discursive post-structural analysis at one end and overly positivist structural analysis at the other. -- Eric C. Thompson, National University of Singapore * American Ethnologist *Table of ContentsIntroduction: A Historical Ethnography of Class and State FormationChapter 1. Counterinsurgency, Silences, Forgetting, 1946–69Part I. Development (1969–85)Preface: Colonial Residues and "Development"Chapter 2. "Boom Town in the Making," 1978–80Chapter 3. "Getting By": The Arts of Deception and the "Typical Chinese"Chapter 4. Banalities of the Urban: Hegemony or State Predation?Chapter 5. Class Dismissed!Chapter 6. Men in Motion: The Dialectics of "Disputatiousness" and "Rice-Eating Money"Chapter 7. Chinese Society as "A Sheet of Loose Sand": Elite Arguments and Class Discipline in a Postcolonial EraPart II. Globalization (1985–97)Preface: Going GlobalChapter 8. Subsumption and Encompassment: Class, State Formation, and Production of Urban Space, 1980–97Chapter 9. Covert Global: Exit, Alternative Sovereignties, and Being StuckChapter 10. "Walking On Two Roads" and "Jumping Airplanes"Epilogue: 1997–2007Appendix: A Profile of Economic "Domination"? Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisThis volume offers the most comprehensive and incisive exploration of American consumer history to date, spanning the four centuries from the colonial era to the present.Trade ReviewThe anthology presents a highly engaging sample of divergent viewpoints.... The strengths of the anthology are in the analytical breadth of its essays.. * History: Reviews of New Books *The book mixes the agenda-setting works of established historians and cultural critics... with case studies provided by younger scholars... and historians not usually associated with works on consumption... as well as statements made on the nature of consumerism by journalists and activists.... Glickman has provided a group of essays potentially more representative of future explorations into consumer society.... His book will be an extremely useful introduction to the current research on consumer history. * Business History *This thoughtful and solidly documented collection looks at consumption with an eye both to the past and to the world... Comprising 24 excellently chosen selections... the book enables the reader to see both how consumption changed over time, and how the analysis of consumption has changed over time. * Labor History *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Born to Shop? Consumer History and American History - LAWRENCE B. GLICKMANPart I. Frameworks and Definitions 1. Consumer - RAYMOND WILLIAMS 2. Consuming Goods and the Good of Consuming - COLIN CAMPBELL 3. Consumer Society - JEAN BAUDRILLARD 4. What Is an Economy For? - JAMES FALLOWS 5. An Environmentalist's Perspective on Consumer Society - ALAN DURNINGPart II. Roots of American Consumer Society 6. The First Consumer Revolution - JAMES AXTELL 7. Narrative of Commercial Life: Consumption, Ideology, and Community on the Eve of the American Revolution - T. H. BREEN 8. Consumption in Early Modern Social Thought - JOYCE APPLEBYPart III. Class, Gender, and Modernity, 1880-1940 9. Encountering Mass Culture at the Grassroots: The Experience of Chicago Workers in the 1920s - LIZABETH COHEN 10. Familiar Sounds of Change: Music and the Growth of Mass Culture - GEORGE SANCHEZ 11. From Scarcity to Abundance: The Immigrant as Consumer - ANDREW HEINZE 12. Consuming Brotherhood: Men's Culture, Style and Recreation as Consumer Culture, 1880-1930 - MARK A. SWIENCICKI 13. "Don't Buy Where You Can't Work" - CHERYL GREENBERGPart IV. Consumerism Since World War II 14. The 'Work' Ethic and 'Leisure' Activity: The Hot Rod in Post-War America - H. F. MOORHOUSE 15. The Commodity Gap: Consumerism and the Modern Home - ELAINE TYLER MAY 16. The Revolution Will be Marketed: American Corporations and Black Consumers During the 1960s - ROBERT E. WEEMS, JR. 17. All Work and No Play. It Doesn't Pay - JULIET B. SCHOR 18. When High Wage Jobs Are Gone, Who Will Buy What We Make? - KIM MOODY 19. The Green Consumer - JOHN ELKINGTON, JULIA HAILES, AND JOEL MAKOWERPart V. Critiques and Celebrations 20. Delectable Materialism: Second Thoughts on Consumer Culture - MICHAEL SCHUDSON 21. The Tyranny of Choice - STEVEN WALDMAN 22. The Pleasures of Eating - WENDELL BERRY Coming Up for Air: Consumer Culture in Historical Perspective - JEAN-CHRISTOPHE AGNEWBibliographic Essay - LAWRENCE B. GLICKMAN Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisOver the years, Edward Fowler, an American academic, became a familiar presence in San''ya, a run-down neighborhood in northeastern Tokyo. The city''s largest day-labor market, notorious for its population of casual laborers, drunks, gamblers, and vagrants, has been home for more than half a century to anywhere from five to fifteen thousand men who cluster in the mornings at a crossroads called Namidabashi (Bridge of Tears) in hopes of getting work. The day-labor market, along with gambling and prostitution, is run by Japan''s organized crime syndicates, the yakuza. Working as a day laborer himself, Fowler kept a diary of his experiences. He also talked with day laborers and local merchants, union leaders and bureaucrats, gangsters and missionaries. The resulting oral histories, juxtaposed with Fowler''s narrative and diary entries, bring to life a community on the margins of contemporary Japan.Located near a former outcaste neighborhood, on what was once a public execution gTrade ReviewA fascinating glossary.... Haunting photographs.... All readers must agree that San'ya Blues does indeed give a sense of the 'price paid by a great many' for Japan's economic success, as the author intends, and does so with a respect for historic and social differences.... What this highly personalized fieldwork offers us is crucial glimpses into the relationships incorporating the labor of unwanted men into the nationalized political economy of post high economic growth Japan. -- Miriam Silverberg * Journal of Asian Studies *A fascinating book.... Fowler has brought San'ya to life by describing the men he met not as titillating images of despair, but as individual human beings, each with a personal story to tell. -- Ian Buruma * New York Review of Books *A remarkable insight into... Japan.... Fowler's highly descriptive account is vividly personal and a fascinating read. -- Meir Ronnen * The Jerusalem Post Magazine *Accepted by the day-laborers, Fowler was able to gain a confidence that... allows him to present life-stories in ways both informative and surprising.... Fowler's unabashedly personal approach guarantees not only that the book's subject come refreshingly alive, but that its author does as well. * Times Literary Supplement *Anyone who believes that Japanese society is a homogeneous, well-oiled machine—a stereotype often sounded in American media—would do well to read this gritty, firsthand account of life for day-laborers in Tokyo's shunned ghetto district, San'ya.... Fowler's descriptive powers and cultural understanding offer a vivid context for the oral accounts of San'ya inhabitants describing their personal histories and daily lives.... A vivid, if depressing, account of an urban Japanese underclass that bears a surprising resemblance to America's own inner-city population. * Publishers Weekly *This book offers a vivid personal tour of the San'ya district and its denizens, culled from many repeated visits by Fowler which culminated in a six-week stint as a day laborer.... He came to realize that... 'San'ya's inhabitants collectively give the lie to so much of what is being said and written about Japan.' * Japan Quarterly *

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Book SynopsisIs there a "great divide" between highbrow and mass cultures? Are modernist novels for, by, and about snobs? What might Lord Peter Wimsey, Mrs. Dalloway, and Stephen Dedalus have to say to one another? Sean Latham's appealingly written book Am I a...Trade ReviewThe book is extremely readable, and its subject matter is so that undergraduates as well as the most informed modernist scholars will find it offers original and helpful insights. Latham uses the question Virginia Woolf posed in the title of a paper she delivered privately to her Bloomsbury friends—Am I a snob?—which invites one to become an integral part of the meaning-making process at the same time it instructs, informs, and promotes collaboration between reader and author. Latham's book is therefore a valuable pedagogical tool and an important critical contribution to Woolf and modernist studies. -- Shannon Forbes * Woolf Studies Annual *Because Latham addresses the important question of elitism inherent in modernism and, in particular interest to us readers of this periodical, the elitist aura of intellectual snobbery in the marketing and reading of Joyce's works. Joyce is both an ideal test case for Latham's analysis of the elitist and the marketplace and the best proof of his argument. Latham succeeds in his claims, to his credit and to our discomfort.... In this convincing and perceptive book, Latham demonstrates that the readers of this journal are snobs. -- Roy Gottfried * James Joyce Literary Supplement *In this concise work on the relationship between snobbery and modernism, Latham traces the transformation of the word snob, which once meant a lower-class person trying to copy his superiors and now means a person aware of artistic values.... Although some of Latham's observations are highly debatable, they are always intriguing and thought-provoking. Recommended for literature collections at academic and larger public libraries. * Library Journal *Table of ContentsThe logic of the pose - Thackeray and the invention of snobbery; The importance of being a snob - Oscar Wilde's modern pretensions; Elegy for the snob - Virginia Woolf and the Victorians; "An aristocrat in writing" - Virginia Woolf and the invention of the modern snob; A portrait of the snob - James Joyce and the anxieties of cultural capital; Deadly pretensions - Dorothy L. Sayers and the ends of culture; The problem of snobbery.

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Book SynopsisThis book brings together historians, economists, geographers, sociologists, and scholars of literature and cultural studies to explore the emerging discipline of working-class studies and identify its key themes and issues.Trade ReviewThese readings on the history and experience of the working class make compelling reading. Recommended for all libraries. * Library Journal *This extremely valuable collection explores the development of new working-class studies in academe. The essays highlight these studies at the intersection of different academic fields; within disciplinary perspectives on the working class; among representations of the working class in poetry, literature, film, and music; and as reflected in the relationship between social class, politics, and education. Highly recommended. * Choice *

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Book SynopsisA pioneering treatise that aroused great controversy when it was first published in 1725, Vico's "New Science" is acknowledged today to be one of the few works of authentic genius in the history of social theory.Trade ReviewThis new edition of the famous Bergin and Fisch translation of Vico's Scienza nuova, originally published in 1948 and reissued in a revised edition in 1968, includes a translation of a piece of Vico’s work called the Practica.... It is a great advantage to have [the "Practic of the New Science"] reprinted with the text of the New Science as it offers some of Vico’s views on the application of his science.... Cornell University Press is to be congratulated for... this new full edition. * Review of Metaphysics *Table of ContentsPrefaceBibliographic NoteAbbreviations and SignsIntroduction by Max Harold FischIDEA OF THE WORKBOOK ONE: ESTABLISHMENT OF PRINCIPLESBOOK TWO: POETIC WISDOMBOOK THREE: DISCOVERY OF THE TRUE HOMERBOOK FOUR: THE COURSE NATIONS RUNBOOK FIVE: THE RECOURSE OF HUMAN INSTITUTIONS WHICH THE NATIONS TAKE WHEN THEY RISE AGAINCONCLUSION OF THE WORKAppendix: "Practic of the New Science"Index of Names

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Book SynopsisInstead, these movies were infused with the same current of liberalism and popular notion of democracy that flow through the American imagination.Trade ReviewYou cannot but be seduced and even sometimes bedazzled by Bodnar's clear, well-informed and impartial analysis. -- Nicolas Magenham Cercles An uncommonly well balanced account of the political biases of American movies... A fine read for the generalist yet a scholarly achievement. Choice 2003 Bodnar provides a useful provocation. He asks us to think imaginatively about the subtle and complex ways movies communicate ideas and attitudes. -- Robert Brent Toplin Journal of American History 2004 Open minded and even handed, he appreciates the nuances and mixed messages of Hollywood cinema. American Historical Review 2005 Timely, necessary, well-written, and accessible. -- Tony Fonseca Screening the Past 2007 A worthwhile acquisition for an academic library. -- Toma Pospi il Amerikastudien / American Studies 2006Table of ContentsContents:List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Mass Culture and American Political Traditions ONE: Political Cross-dressing in the Thirties TWO: The People's War THREE: War and Peace at HomeFOUR: Beyond Containment in the Fifties FIVE: The People in TurmoilLiberalism at the Movies: A ConclusionNotes Sources Index Films Mentioned in Blue-Collar HollywoodAdventure (1945) Air Force (1943) Alamo Bay (1985) Alice Adams (1935) Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1975) All My Sons (1948) All the Right Moves (1983) America, America (1963) American Madness (1932) An American Romance (1944) Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) Anna Lucasta (1949) Baby Face (1933) Bataan (1943) Battle Cry (1955) The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) Black Fury (1935) Black Legion (1937) The Blackboard Jungle (1955) Blue Collar (1978) The Blue Dahlia (1946) Body and Soul (1947) Bonnie and Clyde (1967) Born on the Fourth of July (1989) The Boston Strangler (1968) Boyz N the Hood (1991) Breaking Away (1997) Cabin in the Cotton (1932) Casablanca (1942) The Catered Affair (1956) The Champ (1931) Champion (1949) City Across the River (1949) City for Conquest (1940) Clash By Night (1952) Coal Miner's Daughter (1980) Coming Home (1987) Cool Hand Luke (1967) Crooklyn (1994) Crossfire (1947) Cry of the City (1948) Dead End (1937) Dead Reckoning (1947) Death of a Salesman (1951) Death Wish (1974) The Deer Hunter (1978) Desperate (1947) Dirty Harry (1971) Do the Right Thing (1988) Double Indemnity (1944) Dr. Strangelove (1963) Duck Soup (1933) Duffy's Tavern (1954) Edge of the City (1957) F.I.S.T. (1978) A Face in the Crowd (1957) Fallen Angel (1945) Falling Down (1993) The Farmer's Daughter (1947) The Fighting Sullivans (1944) Five Easy Pieces (1970) Force of Evil (1948) From Here to Eternity (1953) From This Day Forward (1946) Fury (1936) Gabriel Over the White House (1933) The Garment Jungle (1957) Gentlemen's Agreement (1947) The Godfather (1972) The Godfather Part II (1974) Going My Way (1944) Gold Diggers (1933) Golden Boy (1993) The Grapes of Wrath (1940) Guadalcanal Diary (1943) Hail the Conquering Hero (1944) Hangin' with the Homeboys (1991) Happy Land (1943) The Harder They Fall (1965) Heroes for Sale (1933) Home of the Brave (1949) Hoosier Schoolboy (1937) How Green Was My Valley (1941) Human Desire (1954) I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932) I Married a Communist (1950) I Remember Mama (1948) I'm No Angel (1938) In the Heat of the Night (1967) Inside Detroit (1955) It Happened One Night (1934) It's a Wonderful Life (1946) Jailhouse Rock (1957) The Jazz Singer (1927) Joe (1970) Joe Smith, American (1942) Johnny Dark (1954) The Jolson Story (1946) Judge Priest (1934) Juke Girl (1942) Jungle Fever (1991) Kid Galahad (1937) The Killers (1946) King's Row (1942) Knock on Any Door (1949) Knute Rockne, All American (1940) The Last American Hero (1973) The Last Exit to Brooklyn (1990) The Last Picture Show (1971) Lifeboat (1944) Little Caesar (1931) Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1977) M*A*S*H (1970) Mannequin (1937) Marked Woman (1937) Marty (1955) Matewan (1987) Mean Streets (1973) Meet John Doe (1941) The Men (1950) Metropolis (1926) Midnight Cowboy (1969) Mildred Pierce (1945) Modern Times (1936) The Molly Maguires (1970) Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936) Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) The Naked City (1948) Nashville (1975) Native Land (1942) The Negro Soldier (1944) No Down Payment (1957) No Way Out (1950) Norma Rae (1979) On the Waterfront (1954) Our Daily Bread (1934) Our Town (1940) Our Vines Have Tender Grapes (1945) Paris Blues (1961) The Pawnbroker (1965) Peyton Place (1957) Pin Up Girl (1944) Pinky (1949) Pittsburgh (1942) A Place in the Sun (1951) Places in the Heart (1984) Platoon (1986) The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946) The Power and the Glory (1933) Pride of the Marines (1945) The Prowler (1951) The Public Enemy (1931) Raging Bull (1980) A Raisin in the Sun (1961) Rambo: First Blood Part Two (1985) Rebel Without a Cause (1955) Riff Raff (1963) The River (1984) Rocky (1976) The Rose Tattoo (1955) Rosie the Riveter (1944) Ruggles of Red Gap (1935) Saboteur (1942) Salt of the Earth (1954) The Sands of Iwo Jima (1949) Saturday Night Fever (1977) Saturday's Hero (1951) Scarface (1932) Sergeant York (1941) Shaft (1971) Silkwood (1983) Since You Went Away (1944) So Proudly We Hail (1943) Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956) Sounder (1972) The Southerner (1945) Stagecoach (1939) Stanley and Iris (1989) The State of the Union (1948) Steel Against the Sky (1941) Stella Dallas (1937) Street Scene (1931) A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) Sullivan's Travels (1941) Sunset Boulevard (1950) Superfly (1972) Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (1971) Talk of the Town (1942) Taxi Driver (1976) Tender Comrade (1943) Tender Mercies (1982) They Drive by Night (1940) They Were Expendable (1945) Three on a Match (1932) Thunder Road (1958) Till the End of Time (1946) The Time of Your Life (1948) To Hell and Back (1958) To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) Tobacco Road (1941) Tortilla Flat (1942) A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945) Two Seconds (1932) Valley of Decision (1945) A View from the Bridge (1961) Wake Island (1942) West Side Story (1961) The Whistle at Eaton Falls (1951) White Heat (1949) Who's That Knocking at My Door (1968) Wild Boy's on the Road (1933) Wings of the Eagle (1942) A Woman Under the Influence (1974) You Can't Take It With You (1938) Young Mr. Lincoln (1939)

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Book SynopsisConcluding with a look at zoning and urban planning as a means of fostering and protecting the standard of living for whole communities, this book offers important evidence of and fresh insights into the history of the American middle class.Trade ReviewA thoughtful contribution to understanding the forces that ushered in modern US culture, with all of its opportunities, limitations, and peculiarities. Choice 2005 Moskowitz offers important insights into the development of American middle-class ideals of material comfort, and of an emerging shared national culture. History 2005 An ambitious and far-reaching study with implications for material history, business history, and the study of the middle class in America. Enterprise and Society 2006 Well-researched, well-written, and convincing... Will certainly influence future discussion of the expansion of the middle class and the consumer culture of the early twentieth century. Journal of Social History 2005 The strength of Marina Moskowtiz's welcome addition to this body of work lies in the author's choice of particular case studies, through which the book seeks to discover the role of material culture in defining the American middle class at the beginning of the last century. Journal of American Studies 2006 Moskowitz has creatively connected the rise of national culture and middle-class America to the emergence of a generally accepted standard of living. Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 2005 Imaginative, insightful, and lively... required reading for anyone interested in understanding how the United States became the quintessential middle-class nation. Michigan Historical Review 2006 In this well-researched monograph, Marina Moskowitz traces the evolution of the American concept of the standard of living from 1870 to the 1920s through fascinating case studies on silverplate flatware, bathroom fixtures, mail-order homes, and zoning plans. American Historical Review 2007 Moskowitz's well-written and extensively researched book investigates how the concept of the 'standard of living' became the measure of middle-class well-being and the material expression of middle-class identity during the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. Technology and Culture 2006 Refusing to recognize boundaries between social science and the novel, this innovative history rejects divisions between cultural and business history. Marina Moskowitz probes the 'standard of living' as a liminal aspiration between production and consumption that defined the American 'middle class' through the objects and spaces of the home in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Journal of American History 2006 At first glance, a study that offers in-depth case studies of such items as flatware and zoning plans might not sound like an energizing pageturner. However, Marina Moskowitz's book is both of these things and more. Moskowitz uses the stories of everyday items to craft a persuasive case for the emergence of a new, national standard of living in late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century America. Business History Review 2005 A compelling argument for the complexity and pervasiveness of a shared fascination with a standard of living. Journal of Interdisciplinary History 2007Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: The Standard of Living: Definitions, or Lack ThereofChapter 1. The Standard of Etiquette: Silverplate FlatwareChapter 2. The Standard of Health and Decency: Bathroom Fixtures Chapter 3. The Standard of Investment: Mail-Order HomesChapter 4. The Standard of Management: Zoning PlansConclusion: The Standard of Living, Revisited: Facts and FictionsNotesEssay on SourcesIndexIllustrations appear on page 105–128

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Book SynopsisThe history of the family is a relatively new, yet rapidly developing area of academic study. With this book, Cynthia Comacchio presents the first historical overview of domestic life in Canada.According to Comacchio, the social anxiety resulting from an ongoing perception of the family as being ''in crisis'' has had a significant influence on evolving social policy. Comacchio shows how families have both changed and remained the same, through transitions brought about by urbanization, industrialization, and war. Her many stories of individual families highlight both historical trends and the more intimate issues related to race, gender, class, region, and age.This is the only synthesis to date of the historical literature on Canadian families. Designed for students at graduate and undergraduate levels, it not only introduces the key concepts and approaches of a developing field of study, but also summarizes the major issues and trends that affected Canadian families f

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Book SynopsisWith this book, Cynthia Comacchio presents the first historical overview of domestic life in Canada, showing how families have both changed and remained the same, through transitions brought about by urbanization, industrialization, and war.

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Book SynopsisIn the fall of 2005 the streets of France were rocked by civil disturbances on a scale unseen for decades. This title documents the socioeconomic inequalities, ethnic discrimination, and political neglect that have bred a volatile generation of minority ethnic youths deeply distrustful of a society they believe has failed them.Trade Review“Azouz Begag offers a compelling analysis of the unrest in the urban banlieues of the past thirty years and calls for changes in the failed ‘French model of integration.’ Alec Hargreaves's seamless translation and incisive introduction frame Begag's groundbreaking study and blueprint for ethnic harmony.”—Christopher P. Pinet, editor in chief of the French Review“A witty, humorous and at the same time profound and moving analysis of the current situation in crisis-ridden areas of French cities which not only presents facts but also proposes sound and reasonable solutions.”—Professor Dina Sherzer, Department of French and Italian, University of Texas at Austin“This book should be required reading for anyone interested in the challenges posed by living in an increasingly globalized world in which the accompanying cultural, religious, social, and political transformations force us to rethink our own identity.”—Dominic Thomas, author of Black France: Colonialism, Immigration, and Transnationalism“The political and ideological challenges of reconciling republicanism with the demands of diversity are well illustrated by Azouz Begag’s fine study, Ethnicity and Equality: France in the Balance.”—Richard Wolin, The Nation"Ethnicity and Equality is a powerful book which should be read by all those that are interested in issues of race, racism and multiracialism to understand its constraints and bottlenecks to a fully integrated society."—Mwelwa C. Musambachime, International Journal of World Peace"Anyone with an interest in post-colonial cultures and ethnic relations will find Begag's writings both stimulating and perceptive."—Mathilde von Bulow, Oxford Journal“The text is often autobiographical and anecdotal in nature. . . . Instead of lessening the text’s value, the honesty and forthrightness with which it is written is refreshing. . . . It is, to a large degree this kind of intermingling of the personal and historical that makes Ethnicity and Equality such a pleasure to read.”—Gretchen Head, Arab Studies Journal

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Book SynopsisIn Japan as in the United States, family farming is on the wane, increasingly rejected by the younger generation in favor of more promising economic pursuits and more sophisticated comforts. Yet for centuries past, the village and the family farm have constituted the world of the vast majority of Japanese women, as of Japanese men. The dramatic economic and demographic developments of the past two decades have orced extensive changes in the lives of Japanese farm women, many of hwom have been left virtually in charge of their family farms.This book is a study of Japanese farm women's lives in the present era: its central figure is 42-year-old Haruko, a complex, vibrant woman who both exemplifies and makes a mockery of the stereotype of Japanese women. Through Haruko we learn the work routine, family relationships, and social life of the women who are the mainstay of Japanese agriculture. Other women from Haruko's village also figure in the story, and the author's observationsTrade Review'Absolutely fascinating and a delight to read.' Edwin O. Reischauer 'Drawing a portrait of contemporary rural Japanese women by studying family life from the inside is Gail Bernstein's objective in this book. She has succeeded marvelously ... Bernstein presents an account that vividly portrays her subject and illuminates many issues pertinent to women's lives, the Japanese family, and Japanese rural life today ... This excellent volume deserves wide readership.' Laurel L. Cornell, Journal of Asian Studies 'A joy to read ... I will recommend Haruko's World to all who want to know how the Japanese really feel.' Ezra F. Vogel 'This is a deeply human story, told with sensitivity and discernment. A memorable portrait emerges ... The book gives an excellent analysis of Japanese society not often available to Western scholars.' Miriam R. Miller, Agricultural History 'Rch and nuanced description that, like a good novel, leaves the reader amused, edified, and sorry that the final page has been reached.' Ann Waswo, Monumenta NipponicaTable of ContentsIntroduction; Part I. Scholar and Subject: 1. Arrival; 2. Haruko takes charge; 3. Entering the community; Part II. Farm Family: 4. Haruko and Sho-ichi; 5. Men, money, and machinery; 6. Haruko's work; 7. Conflict; 8. Home and school; Part III. Farm Community: 9. Fumiko, the genteel farm woman; 10. Social life and social organizations; 11. Sex and drinking; 12. Yesterday, today and tomorrow; 13. Departure; Bessho revisited; Epilogue.

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Book SynopsisColonialism and empire have rarely been seen from the perspectives and experiences of the colonized. Five Faces of Exile addresses this gap by exploring a wide range of perspectives on colonial, anti-colonial, and postcolonial developments. More specifically, it explores American empire in the Philippines and its ethnic and racial dimensions in the United States through a close reading of the texts and social practices of five pioneering, trans-Pacific Filipino American writers of the colonial era: the diplomat Carlos P. Romulo, the poet Jose Garcia Villa, fiction writers N. V. M. Gonzalez and Bienvenido N. Santos, and the celebrated Asian American worker-writer Carlos Bulosan.In this first transnational intellectual history of an Asian American group, Espiritu shows that an exploration of those at the margins of the nation, who feel at home neither in the Philippines nor in the United States, raises profound questions about citizenship and national belonging. This beaTrade Review"The book should be essential reading for scholars studying the intersection of Philippine history and the Asian American diaspora in the United States." * Jody Blanco American Historical Review *"[Five Faces of Exile] has much to interest and to provoke readers... present[ed] in refreshingly readable, dutifully documented prose. The book holds a mirror up to the complex situation of the transnational writer, and the faces it reveals are bathed in various shades of light and dark... Espiritu must be credited for making us look and learn." -- Philippine Studies"Thoroughly researched on both sides of the Pacific...Five Faces of Exile firmly grounds its subjects in a century of colonialism, war, independence, and dictatorship." -- Journal of American HistoryTable of ContentsContents Preface 000 Introduction 000 Chapter 1: "Expatriate Affirmation": Carlos P. Romulo 000 Chapter 2: Suffering and Passion: Carlos Bulosan 000 Chapter 3: The Artistic Vanguard: Jose Garcia Villa 000 Chapter 4: Nativism and Negation: N. V. M. Gonzalez 000 Chapter 5: Fidelity and Shame: Bienvenido Santos 000 Conclusion: Toward a Transnational Asian American Intellectual History 000 Notes Select Bibliography 000 Index

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