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Cambridge University Press The Archaeology of Rank
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Cambridge University Press The Moral Significance of Class Secondary Course
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Cambridge University Press The Politics of the Urban Poor in Early TwentiethCentury India 8 Cambridge Studies in Indian History and Society Series Number 8
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Cambridge University Press Workers and Peasants in the Modern Middle East 2 The Contemporary Middle East Series Number 2
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Cambridge University Press Workers and Peasants in the Modern Middle East 2 The Contemporary Middle East Series Number 2
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Cambridge University Press Emerging Class in Papua New Guinea
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Cambridge University Press Defiled Trades and Social Outcasts
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Cambridge University Press The Road to Poverty
Book SynopsisThis book makes an important contribution to basic research on inequality - pointing to the shortcomings of treating symptomatic problems of low income, while failing to address systemic ones - at a time when American policymakers are struggling to design and implement effective programs to move people from welfare to work.Trade Review'Billings and Blee support their often fascinating and at times incredible report with a wealth of archival and contemporary data, grounded in a theoretically comprehensive and thoughtful analysis. Their book is a real eye opener for anyone who has ever wondered why Appalachia is, and has long been, so poor.' Herbert Gans, Columbia University'Through an in-depth study of a rural community in one of the poorest regions of the United States, this study provides extraordinary insight into how poverty is created and sustained over time. By examining the historical interaction of capitalist markets, the local state and cultural forces, the authors show why and how dominant market-driven approaches to development have failed. Using this historical understanding, they call upon policy makers for a new approach to poverty alleviation - one that takes a long term view, that supports cultural strategies, and that recognizes the importance of the local state. The lessons and insights from this book will be of interest and relevance to those concerned with poverty, inequality and development, not only in rural America, but across the globe.' John Gaventa, Institute of Development Studies'The Road to Poverty is a carefully researched and thoughtful analysis of social relations in Clay County, Kentucky over the past century. The result is a clear and convincing revelation of how 'capitalist markets, state coercion and cultural strategies' combined to set and keep central Appalachia on a road to persistent poverty. The book delivers a powerful message. Persistent poverty of a region is rooted in the history of its social (especially economic and political) institutions. Efforts to reduce poverty by focusing on individuals and families without attending to the social origins of persistent poverty are doomed to failure.' Gene F. Summers, University of Wisconsin-Madison'Inquiry into Appalachian poverty has too long been held captive to cultural stereotypes and untested assumptions. In their illuminating study, Billings and Blee dispell many of these falsehoods and document how Appalachia's tragic past continues to haunt its tortured present. Poverty is not a natural condition either of individuals or regions, and by situating the early history of Appalachian in the dynamics of global capitalism, Billings and Blee demonstrate how Appalachia was made poor. This is an important book for social scientists and historians and essential for all students of Appalachia and regional development more generally.' Larry Griffin, Vanderbilt University'It is a book built on patient research and observation, which will reward the patient reading of scholars and activists elsewhere trying to build community alternatives to clientelism.' Journal of the Royal Anthropological InstituteTable of ContentsList of illustrations; List of tables; Preface and acknowledgments; Part I. Public Policy and Historical Sociology: 1. Introduction; Part II. Antebellum Capitalist Markets: 2. Fronier Kentucky in the capitalist world system; 3. Industry, commerce, and slaveholding; Part III. Antebellum State Coercion: 4. State making and the origins of elite conflict; Part IV. Cultural Strategies: 5. The patriarchal moral economy of agriculture; 6. Racial dynamics and the creation of poverty; Part V. Postbellum Capitalist Markets and the Local State: 7. From marginality to integration; 8. Feud violence; 9. Epilogue; Appendix; Notes; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Emerging Class in Papua New Guinea
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Cambridge University Press A Phenomenology of WorkingClass Experience
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Cambridge University Press Class Counts Student Edition Studies in Marxism and Social Theory
Book SynopsisThis textbook provides students with a lively and penetrating exploration of the concept of class and its relevance for understanding a wide range of issues in contemporary society. Erik Olin Wright treats class as a common explanatory factor and examines three broad themes: class structure, class and gender, and class consciousness. Specific empirical studies include such diverse topics as class variations in the gender division of labour in housework; friendship networks across class boundaries; the American class structure since 1960; and cross-national variations in class consciousness. The author evaluates these studies in the light of expectations within the Marxist tradition of class analysis. This Student Edition of Class Counts thus combines Wright's sophisticated account of central and enduring questions in social theory with practical analyses of detailed social problems.Table of Contents1. Class analysis; Part I. Structural Analyses of Class: 2. Class structure; 3. The transformation of the American class structure, 1960–1990; 4. The fall and rise of the petty bourgeoisie; 5. The permeability of class boundaries; Part II. Class and Gender: 6. Conceptualizing the interaction of class and gender; 7. Individuals, families and class analysis; 8. The non-effects of class on the gendered division of labor in housework; 9. The gender gap in workplace authority; Part III. Class Structure and Class Consciousness: 10. A general model of class consciousness and class formation; 11. Class consciousness and class formation in Sweden, the USA and Japan; Part IV. Conclusion: 12. Confirmations, surprises and theoretical reconstructions.
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Cambridge University Press Marriage Choices and Class Boundaries Social Endogamy In History Volume 13 International Review of Social History Supplements Series Number 13
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Cambridge University Press Master and Servant Love and Labour in the English Industrial Age 10 Cambridge Social and Cultural Histories Series Number 10
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Cambridge University Press Labours Lost Domestic Service and the Making of Modern England
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Cambridge University Press The Modern American House
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Cambridge University Press Relative Deprivation
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Cambridge University Press The Origins of the English Gentry
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Cambridge University Press Nobles and Nation in Central Europe
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Cambridge University Press Men Women and Property in England 17801870
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Cambridge University Press The Archaeology of Class in Urban America
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Cambridge University Press Master and Servant Love and Labour in the English Industrial Age 10 Cambridge Social and Cultural Histories Series Number 10
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Cambridge University Press Society and the Professions in Italy 1860 1914
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Cambridge University Press Gentlemen Bourgeois and Revolutionaries
Book SynopsisThis volume revises the model that is most often used to describe and explain the history of nineteenth-century Spain: the interpretation of political changes between 1812 and 1868 as different stages of an integrated process of bourgeois revolution.Trade Review"Jesus Cruz offers convincing evidence with regard to the political and economic elite of Madrid, who largely dominated early liberal politics....This is an unusually stimulating and original dissertation-book, based on extensive prosopographical research, that makes a distinctive contribution to the social history of Spain. It merits broad attention and should provoke extensive new discussion and research on modern elites in other parts of the country as well." Stanley G. Payne, Journal of Social History"This solidly researched monograph challenges conventional interpretations about the social and economic background of Spanish liberals....Through detailed analysis of family histories, Cruz has shown that the liberal revolution was accomplished by already well-established individuals who moved easily to dominate the institutions and economy of the liberal state....This study offers an original and well-researched interpretation of a complex question....It makes a positive contribution to the history of Spanish liberalism in its formative period." William J. Callahan, Canadian Journal of History"...the volume demands and deserves careful attention to appreciate its data and the arguments constructed thereon." Gary W. McDonogh, American Historical ReviewThe work of Jesus Cruz constitutes a magnificent example of the analytical tensions produced in European historiography by the failure of the classic theory...of the bourgeois revolution." Isabel Burdiel, Journal of Modern HistoryTable of ContentsPart I. Careers, Business and Fortunes: 1. Introduction; 2. Merchants; 3. Bankers; 4. Bureaucrats and professionals; 5. Politicians; Part II. The Museum of Families: Strategies of Reproduction: 6. Habitus, solidarity and authority; 7. Kinship, friendship and patronage; 8. Conclusion: rethinking the Spanish Revolution.
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Cambridge University Press Land Promise and Peril
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Cambridge University Press Imperial Heartland
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Cambridge University Press Power and Privilege in Roman Society
Book SynopsisWere high appointments in the Roman Empire based on merit or on social standing? Some strong social biases emerge from this innovative study which uses a specially compiled database. There was considerable aristocratic preference in both army and civilian commands, and the higher equestrian posts suggest similar patterns.Table of ContentsPart I. Social Status and Senatorial Success: 1. Introduction: the senator; 2. Social standing and its impact on careers; 3. The career ladder at Rome; 4. Service overseas; 5. Defenders of the empire; 6. Influx from the provinces; 7. The chronology of the senatorial evidence; 8. Career inscriptions and what they leave out; Part II. Equestrian Perspectives: 9. Defining the equites; 10. The public employment of equites; 11. The economic involvements of equites; 12. The devaluation of equestrian rank; Part III. The Unprivileged: 13. Slavery: the background; 14. Slavery as a career; Appendixes: Appendix 1. Scoring systems for senators; Appendix 2. Non-vigintiviri and additional senators; Appendix 3. The duration of army posts; Appendix 4. Details of vigintiviri; Appendix 5. Some senatorial careers; Appendix 6. Early and late priesthoods; Appendix 7. Inventory of senators in the database.
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Our Kind of People
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc HighRisers
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Sea State
Book SynopsisA Recommended Read from: Vogue * USA Today * The Los Angeles Times * Publishers Weekly * The Week * Alma * Lit HubA stunning and brutally honest memoir that shines a light on what happens when female desire conflicts with a culture of masculinity in crisisIn her midthirties and newly free from a terrible relationship, Tabitha Lasley quit her job at a London magazine, packed her bags, and poured her savings into a six-month lease on an apartment in Aberdeen, Scotland. She decided to make good on a long-deferred idea for a book about oil rigs and the men who work on them. Why oil rigs? She wanted to see what men were like with no women around.In Aberdeen, Tabitha became deeply entrenched in the world of roughnecks, a teeming subculture rich with brawls, hard labor, and competition. The longer she stayed, the more she found her presence had a destabilizing effect on the men—and her.Sea State is on the one hand a portrait of an overlooked industry: “offshore” is a way of life for generations of primarily working-class men and also a potent metaphor for those parts of life we keep at bay—class, masculinity, the transactions of desire, and the awful slipperiness of a ladder that could, if we tried hard enough, lead us to security.Sea State is on the other hand the story of a journalist whose professional distance from her subject becomes perilously thin. In Aberdeen, Tabitha gets high and dances with abandon, reliving her youth, when the music was good and the boys were bad. Twenty years on, there is Caden: a married rig worker who spends three weeks on and three weeks off. Alone and in an increasingly precarious state, Tabitha dives into their growing attraction. The relationship, reckless and explosive, will lay them both bare.
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Penguin Publishing Group The Condition of the Working Class in England
Book SynopsisWritten when Engels was only twenty-four, and inspired in particular by his time living among the poor in Manchester, this forceful polemic explores the staggering human cost of the Industrial Revolution in Victorian England. Engels paints an unforgettable picture of daily life in the new industrial towns, and for miners and agricultural workers—depicting overcrowded housing, abject poverty, child labour, sexual exploitation, dirt and drunkenness—in a savage indictment of the greed of the bourgeoisie. His fascinating later preface, written for the first English edition of 1892 and included here, brought the story up to date in the light of forty years’ further reflection. A masterpiece of committed reporting and an impassioned call to arms, this is one of the great pioneering works of social history. Based on the original translation by Florence Wischnewetzky, this volume is edited by Victor Kiernan, whose foreword considers Engels’s friendship with Marx, and the book’s position as a seminal work of socialism. Also included are notes, a detailed index, new chronology and further reading and a revised forward.
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Penguin Putnam Inc Black Diamonds
Book SynopsisFrom the New York Times-bestselling author of The Secret Rooms, the extraordinary true story of the downfall of one of England’s wealthiest familiesFans of Downton Abbey now have a go-to resource for fascinating, real-life stories of the spectacular lives led by England’s aristocrats. With the novelistic flair and knack for historical detail Catherine Bailey displayed in her New York Times bestseller The Secret Rooms, Black Diamonds provides a page-turning chronicle of the Fitzwilliam coal-mining dynasty and their breathtaking Wentworth estate, the largest private home in England.When the sixth Earl Fitzwilliam died in 1902, he left behind the second largest estate in twentieth-century England, valued at more than £3 billion of today’s money—a lifeline to the tens of thousands of people who worked either in the family’s coal mines or on their expansive estate. The earl also left behind f
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Penguin Putnam Inc The Broken Ladder
Book SynopsisA persuasive and highly readable account. —President Barack Obama“Brilliant. . . . an important, fascinating read arguing that inequality creates a public health crisis in America.” —Nicholas Kristof, New York Times“The Broken Ladder is an important, timely, and beautifully written account of how inequality affects us all.” —Adam Alter, New York Times bestselling author of Irresistible and Drunk Tank PinkA timely examination by a leading scientist of the physical, psychological, and moral effects of inequality. The levels of inequality in the world today are on a scale that have not been seen in our lifetimes, yet the disparity between rich and poor has ramifications that extend far beyond mere financial means. In The Broken Ladder psychologist Keith Payne examines how inequality divides us not just economically; it also has profound consequences for how we think, how we respond to stress, how our immune systems function, and even how we view moral concepts such as justice and fairness.Research in psychology, neuroscience, and behavioral economics has not only revealed important new insights into how inequality changes people in predictable ways but also provided a corrective to the flawed view of poverty as being the result of individual character failings. Among modern developed societies, inequality is not primarily a matter of the actual amount of money people have. It is, rather, people's sense of where they stand in relation to others. Feeling poor matters—not just being poor. Regardless of their average incomes, countries or states with greater levels of income inequality have much higher rates of all the social maladies we associate with poverty, including lower than average life expectancies, serious health problems, mental illness, and crime. The Broken Ladder explores such issues as why women in poor societies often have more children, and why they have them at a younger age; why there is little trust among the working class in the prudence of investing for the future; why people's perception of their social status affects their political beliefs and leads to greater political divisions; how poverty raises stress levels as effectively as actual physical threats; how inequality in the workplace affects performance; and why unequal societies tend to become more religious. Understanding how inequality shapes our world can help us better understand what drives ideological divides, why high inequality makes the middle class feel left behind, and how to disconnect from the endless treadmill of social comparison.
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The University of Chicago Press Code of the Suburb Inside the World of Young
Book SynopsisWhen we think about young people dealing drugs, we tend to picture it happening on urban streets, in disadvantaged, crime - ridden neighborhoods. The authors offer an ethnography of the culture of suburban drug dealers. It will be of interest to scholars and policy makers alike.Trade Review"Code of the Suburb takes us into the world of young white suburban drug dealing and in doing so, provides a fascinating and powerful counterpoint to the devastation of the drug war in poor, minority communities. To readers familiar with that context, the absence of police and prisons-indeed, of virtually any negative consequences for selling and using drugs-is quite striking." (Alice Goffman, author of On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City)
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The University of Chicago Press Exit Zero Family and Class in Postindustrial
Book SynopsisIn 1980, the author's world was turned upside down when the steel mill in Southeast Chicago where her father worked abruptly closed. In the ensuing years, ninety thousand other area residents would also lose their jobs in the mills. In this book, she examines the fate of her family and that of blue-collar America at large.
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MIT Press Ltd Inequality
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Penguin Putnam Inc Hand to Mouth
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LUP - University of Michigan Press How the Workers Became Muslims
Book SynopsisTrade Review“[A] remarkable study on the ways racism has taken in Western Europe, in particular in relations between Muslim immigrants and Western European states. Yilmaz has made a first-rate intervention on the discussion concerning national, popular, and ethnic identities in the contemporary world. His contribution to contemporary scholarship is outstanding.”—Ernesto Laclau, author of On Populist Reason“Yilmaz’s important book charts the rise of culture as the dominant framework through which we now understand the politics of migration in Europe. He gives a theoretically sophisticated account of the production of the ‘Muslim immigrant,’ the rise of right-wing populism, and the way ‘progressive’ values—including those of feminism and gay rights—have come to serve racist and exclusionary ends.”—Ben Pitcher, University of Westminster“Guided by an original reformulation of hegemony theory that highlights the transformative effects of media-driven moral panics, this book offers a deep dive into contemporary anti-immigration discourse in Europe. With great insight, Yilmaz unveils the relations of power undergirding the seemingly benign ‘common sense’ definitions of the immigration ‘problem.’”—Rodney Benson, author of Shaping Immigration News“In this beautifully written and brilliantly argued book, Ferruh Yilmaz shows how moral panics and political mobilizations against Muslim ‘difference’ function in western nations to obscure pervasive oppressions of race and class. Drawing deftly on advanced currents in studies of communication and cultural studies, How the Workers Became Muslims demonstrates the dynamism of discourse as a social force. Yilmaz reveals how the prevailing categories and classifications that are deployed in political discourse deliberately direct attention toward conflicts over cultural norms and values in order to deflect attention away from material and political conflicts over resources and rights. This book shows how anti-Muslim mobilizations are not merely manifestations of cultural racism and Islamophobia, but rather key tools for the perpetuation of class dominance and the occlusion of class conflicts.”—George Lipsitz, author of How Racism Takes Place“Dr. Yilmaz’s book is a highly original and sophisticated study of public discourse on immigration in Denmark. The argument he puts forward here is significant for its understanding of the social and political changes in Europe in the last two decades. Yilmaz’s work sheds important new light on the politics of immigration and is particularly effective in showing how immigration politics has restructured the basic ways in which social and political interests are conceived in Europe. Beyond the issue of immigration, Yilmaz makes important interventions in theoretical and methodological discussions about political discourse and ‘ideological hegemony.’ This important book will make a real impact and will be widely read, both as a statement about contemporary European politics and as a statement about how to study discourse and political power.”—Daniel C. Hallin, University of California–San Diego
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The University of Michigan Press The Wages of Conquest
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The University of Michigan Press Middle Class Union
Book SynopsisCombining social history with interdisciplinary approaches to the study of consumption and symbolic space, Middle Class Union illustrates how acts of consumption, representations of the middle class in literary and artistic discourses, and ground-level organising combined to enable white-collar activists to establish themselves as both the middle class and the backbone of America.Trade ReviewAn important intervention into a historiography that has all too often limited its consideration of consumption to the realm of culture. Robbins reminds us that not only is consumption a political act, but it is an act that can encourage consumers to think of themselves as political actors."" - Marina Moskowitz, University of Glasgow
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Random House USA Inc The Velvet Rope Economy
Book SynopsisFrom New York Times business reporter Nelson D. Schwartz comes a bold and urgent investigation of division between the wealthy and the middle class n every arena of American life.In nearly every realm of daily life--from health care to education, highways to home security--there is an invisible velvet rope that divides how Americans live. On one side of the rope, for a price, red tape is cut, lines are jumped, appointments are secured, and doors are opened. On the other side, middle- and working-class Americans fight to find an empty seat on the plane, a place in line with their kids at the amusement park, a college acceptance, or a hospital bed. We are all aware of the gap between the rich and everyone else, but when we weren''t looking, business innovators stepped in to exploit it, shifting services away from the masses and finding new ways to profit by serving the privileged. And as decision-makers and corporate leaders increasingly
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Harper Homeplace A Southern Town a Country Legend and
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Random House USA Inc The Unusual Suspect
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Penguin Books Canada The Next Age of Uncertainty
Book SynopsisSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 SHAUGHNESSY COHEN PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING • SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 DONNER PRIZE “The Next Age of Uncertainty combines invaluable historical insights with provocative reflections on the economy of the future—a must read.” —Thomas d’Aquino C.M., LL.D., founding CEO of the Business Council of Canada, and author of Private Power Public Purpose From the former Governor of the Bank of Canada, a far-seeing guide to the powerful economic forces that will shape the decades ahead.The economic ground is shifting beneath our feet. The world is becoming more volatile, and people are understandably worried about their financial futures. In this urgent and accessible guide to the crises and opportunities that lie ahead, economist and former Governor of the Bank of Canada Stephen Poloz maps out the powerful tectonic forces that are shaping our future and the ideas that will allow us to master them.These forces include an aging workforce, mounting debt, and rising income inequality. Technological advances, too, are adding to the pressure, putting people out of work, and climate change is forcing a transition to a lower-carbon economy. It is no surprise that people are feeling uncertain. The implications of these tectonic tensions will cascade throughout every dimension of our lives—the job market, the housing market, the investment climate, as well as government and central bank policy, and the role of the corporation within society. The pandemic has added momentum to many of them. Poloz skillfully argues that past crises, from the Victorian Depression in the late 1800s to the more recent downturn in 2008, give a hint of what is in store for us in the decades ahead. Unlike the purely destructive power of earthquakes, the upheaval that is sure to come in the decades ahead will offer unexpected opportunities for renewal and growth.Filled with takeaways for employers, investors, and policymakers, as well as families discussing jobs and mortgage renewals around the kitchen table, The Next Age of Uncertainty is an indispensable guide for those navigating the fault lines of the risky world ahead.
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Schiffer Publishing Ltd Victorian Fashions for Women and Children
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Johns Hopkins University Press BlueCollar Hollywood
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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Johns Hopkins University Press Standard of Living
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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