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Taylor & Francis Ltd Criminal Psychology
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Taylor & Francis The Essential Weber
Book SynopsisWeber is increasingly being recognised as the theorist of modernity. Avoiding the mistakes of other classical thinkers, his sociological analysis has an increasing validity and relevance. Selected by one of the world's leading Weber scholars, this book introduces the work of this key thinker to a new generation of readers. Central themes highlighted in the collection are:* the developmental logic of world religions* the rise of modern capitalism* the multi-dimensionality of power in societies* the dilemmas of modernity * the theory of social action* ideal types and the objectivity of knowledge.The majority of the readings have been specially translated for this collection both to improve accuracy and to make Weber speak anew in the idiom of the twenty-first century. Each part opens with a short introduction explaining the sequence of readings, the flow of ideas and their intellectual context, and concludes with a guide to further reading.Table of ContentsIntroduction to Max Weber Part 1: Comparing Civilizations and the Origins of Modernity Introduction to Part 1 1. Puritanism and the Spirit of Capitalism 2. Confucianism and Puritanism Compared 3. Introduction to the Economic Ethics of World Religions 4. Religions of Civilization and their Attitude to the World 5. Prefatory Remarks to the Collected Essays in the Sociology of Religion Further reading Part 2: Structures of Power and Stratification Introduction to Part 2 6. Politics and the State 7. The Three Pure Types of Legitimate Rule 8. The Nation 9. The Belief in Common Ethnicity 10. The Household Community 11. Capitalism in Antiquity 12. The Conditions of Maximum Formal Rationality of Capital Accounting 13. Status Groups and Classes 14. The Distribution of Power in Society: Classes, status groups and parties 15. Parties Further Reading Part 3: The Dilemmas of Modernity Introduction to Part 3 16. Intermediate Reflection on the Economic Ethics of World Religions 17. Bureaucracy: Characteristics of modern bureaucracy; the technical superiority of bureaucratic organization over administration by notables 18. Formal and Substantive Rationalization: The general conditions of legal formalism 19. The Vocation of Politics 20. The Vocation of Science Further reading Part 4: Methodology of the Social Sciences Introduction to Part 4 21. Basic Sociological Concepts 22. The 'Objectivity' of Knowledge in the Social and Policy Sciences Further Reading
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Taylor & Francis Family and Social Network Roles Norms and External Relationships in Ordinary Urban Families International Behavioural and Social Sciences Classics from the Tavistock Press
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Motherhood and Personality Psychosomatic aspects of childbirth
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Family Influences and Psychosomatic Illness
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Family Ill Health An investigation in general practice International Behavioural and Social Sciences Classics from the Tavistock Press
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Neurosis in the Ordinary Family A psychiatric survey
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Child and the Family First relationships
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Taylor & Francis Ltd An Introduction to Medical Sociology
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Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales) In Search of Pedagogy Volume I The Selected Works
Book SynopsisA selection of Bruner's most important writings about education from 1957 to 1978.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Going Beyond the Information Given (1957) 2. Learning and Thinking (1959) 3. The Functions of Teaching (1960) 4. The Importance of Structure (1960) 5. Readiness for Learning (1960) 6. The Act of Discovery (1961) 7. The Course of Cognitive Growth (1964) 8. Man: A Course of Study (1965) 9. The Perectibility of Intellect (1966) 10. The Will to Learn (1966) 11. The Growth of Mind (1971) 12. The Nature and Uses of Immaturity (1972) 13. Child's Play (1974) 14. Patterns of Growth (1974) 15. Poverty and Childhood (1974) 16. The Role of Tutoring in Problem Solving (1976) 17. Learning How to Do Things with Words (1977) 18. Symbols and Texts as Tools of Intellect (1978)
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Flag Nation and Symbolism in Europe and America
Book SynopsisAlthough the symbolic and political importance of flags has often been mentioned by scholars of nationalism, there are few in-depth studies of the significance of flags for national identities. This multi-disciplinary collection offers case studies and comparisons of flag history, uses and controversies. This book brings together a dozen scholars, from varying national and disciplinary backgrounds, to offers a cluster of close readings of flags in their social contexts, mostly contemporary, but also historical. Case studies from Denmark, England, Northern Ireland, Norway, Sweden, and the United States explore ways in which flags are contested, stir up powerful emotions, can be commercialised in some contexts but not in others, serve as quasi-religious symbols, and as physical boundary markers; how the same flag can be solemn and formal in one setting, but stand for domestic bliss and informal cultural intimacy in another. Table of Contents1. Some Questions About Flags 2. The Origin of European National Flags 3. Rebel With(Out) a Cause?: The Contested Meanings of the Confederate Battle Flag in the American South 4. The Star-Spangled Banner and ‘Whiteness’ in American National Identity 5. Union Jacks and Union Jills 6. Pride and Possession, Display and Destruction 7. Between the National and the Civic: Flagging Peace In, or a Piece of, Northern Ireland? 8. Inarticulate Speech of the Heart: Nation, Flag and Emotion in Denmark 9. A Flag for all Occasions?: The Swedish Experience 10. Nationalism and Unionism in Nineteenth-Century Norwegian Flags 11. The Domestication of a National Symbol: The Private Use of Flags in Norway 12. Afterword
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Value in Social Theory
Book SynopsisThis is Volume XXI of twenty-two in a series on Social Theory and Methodology. First published in 1958, this is a selection of essays on practical methodology when trying to answer the question of what are the new presuppositions of social thought which can do justice to the changes in social organisation. Mydral attempts to illustrate his repeated attempts to explore the logical, political and moral foundations of social thought and action, as he pursued diverse academic and political activities.Table of ContentsPart 1; Chapter 1 International Integration 1 Appendix from An International Economy, Problems and Prospects, pp. 336–340, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1956; Chapter 2 The Relation Between Social Theory and Social Policy 1 Opening Address at the Conference of the British sociological Association, 1953. Reprinted from The British Journal of Sociology, September, 1953, pp. 210–242; Part 2; Chapter 3 Introduction to the Study the Negro Problem 1 From the Introduction to An American Dilemma ; Chapter 4 American Ideals and the American Conscience; Chapter 5 Valuations and Beliefs 1 Appendix I in An American Dilemma; Chapter 6 Encountering the Negro Problem 1 From An American Dilemma, Chapter 2; Chapter 7 Facts and Valuations 1 Appendix 2 in An American Dilemma ; Chapter 8 Facets of the Negro Problem 1 The following Chapter is a combination of summaries of sections of Chapter 3 of An American Dilemma and direct quotations from the same Chapter. It also incorporates summaries of some discussions from other Parts of the book; Chapter 9 The Principle of Cumulation 1 An American Dilemma, Appendix 3, pp. 1065–1070; Part 3; Chapter 10 Ends and Means in Political Economy 1 From Zeitsckrift für Nationalokonomie, vol. IV, number 3, 1933, translated from the German by the editor; Chapter 11 The Logical Crux of All Science 1 From Economic Theory and Under-developed Regions, 1957, Chapter 12;
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Taylor & Francis The Philosophy of Money
Book SynopsisWith a new foreword by Charles Lemert'Its greatness...lies in ceaseless and varied use of the money form to unearth and conceptually reveal incommensurabilities of all kinds, in social reality fully as much as in thought itself.' - Fredric JamesonIn The Philosophy of Money, Georg Simmel puts money on the couch. He provides us with a classic analysis of the social, psychological and philosophical aspects of the money economy, full of brilliant insights into the forms that social relationships take. He analyzes the relationships of money to exchange, human personality, the position of women, and individual freedom. Simmel also offers us prophetic insights into the consequences of the modern money economy and the division of labour, in particular the processes of alienation and reification in work and urban life. An immense and profound piece of work it demands to be read today and for years to come as a stunning account of the meaning, use and culture of money.Georg Simmel (1858-1918) was born in Berlin, the youngest of seven children. He studied philosophy and history at the University of Berlin and was one of the first generation of great German sociologists that included Max Weber. Trade Review `We should all be grateful for this translation. It must have been extremely hard work, but it shows no trace of it. Indeed, it positively sparkles.' - Alan Ryan, The Guardian 'Its greatness...lies in ceaseless and varied use of the money form to unearth and conceptually reveal incommensurabilities of all kinds, in social reality fully as much as in thought itself.' - Fredric JamesonTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Foreword to The Routledge Classics Edition Preface to the Third Edition Introduction to the Translation Analytical Part 1. Value and Money 2. The Value of Money as Substance 3. Money in the Sequence of Purposes Synthetic Part 4. Individual Freedom 5. The Money Equivalent of Personal Values 6. the Style of Life Appendix: The Constitution of the Text
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Taylor & Francis Pareto and Political Theory
Book SynopsisPareto and Political Theory is the first book-length study of the philosopher's importance in terms of the most fundamental issues of political discourse: individualism vs. holism, science vs. hermeneutics, laissez-faire vs. social engineering, and value relativism vs. moral absolutism. Joseph V. Femia shows that although Pareto is considered a founding father' of both sociology and mathematical economics, his contribution to political theory is neither fully recognised nor properly explored. This is also the only book to examine Pareto's critique of Kantianism and natural law and also includes the first comparison of Pareto's thought with postmodernism and a detailed refutation of the familiar charge that Pareto was a defender of fascism.This critical, but sympathetic analysis refutes the familiar charge that Pareto was some sort of proto-fascist and instead locates him in the Machiavellian tradition of sceptical liberalism', which scornsTable of Contents1. Introduction and Preview 2. Metaphysics vs. the Logico-experimental Method 3. The Science of Politics 4. The Deconstruction of Political Philosophy 5. The Critique of ‘Demagogic Plutocracy’ 6. The Sceptical Liberal
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Taylor & Francis India Migration Report 2011
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Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales) The Afterlives of Monuments
Book SynopsisSouth Asia is famous for its monuments, past and present. Monuments have been created, destroyed and rescued by competing communities and incoming empires in the making and re-making of history, identity and memory. This collection brings together an international cohort of senior scholars and younger researchers to examine the vast diversity of monuments (and conceptions of monuments) in South Asia from the 1850s to the present. The chapters investigate what constitutes a monument, and interrogate the conditions for its survival, demise or recycling. To explore the afterlives of monuments is to investigate how, where, when, and why monuments have been remodelled, re-sited, destroyed, defaced, or abandoned. It is to investigate the theories of memory, history and community, as well as new forms of artistic practice and global media. As different South-Asian communities claim a stake in the making of national, religious, cultural and local identities and histories, the status of monuments and debates about cultural memory have become increasingly urgent.This book was published as a special issue of South Asian Studies.Trade ReviewThis essay highlights the encounter between the coloniser and colonised through the archeological efforts to render the temples as secular heritage and temple committees’ efforts to guard the sacred realm.Table of Contents1. Introduction: The Afterlives of Monuments 2. Configuring Sacred Spaces: Archaeology, Temples, and Monument-Making in Colonial Orissa 3. The Lives and Afterlives of Charlotte, Lady Canning (1817–1861): Gender, Commemoration, and Narratives of Loss 4. Mosque as Monument: The Afterlives of Jama Masjid and the Political Memories of a Royal Muslim Past 5. The Potala Palace: Remembering to Forget in Contemporary Tibet 6. The Production and Reproduction of a Monument: The Many Lives of the Sanchi Stupa 7. The Afterlives of Images: The Contested Legacies of Gandhi in Art and Popular Culture 8. The Many Lives of Nuclear Monuments in India 9. Permanent Transiency, Tele-visual Spectacle, and the Slum as Postcolonial Monument 10. Monuments and Memory for Our Times
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Revolution in the Making of the Modern World
Book SynopsisThis volume questions whether ideas of revolution are still relevant in the postmodern and globalized world of the twenty-first century. Featuring contributions from some of the world''s leading sociological and political thinkers on revolution, it combines theoretical concerns with a variety of detailed case studies of individual revolutions. Subjects covered include: democracy and revolution from 1789 to 1989 twentieth century revolutions and theories of revolution, including Marxism, modernization and structuralist theories revolution in the Third World and the variable geometry of the paths to modernity Islamic revolutions and modernity the 1989 revolutions as democratic revolutions or elite-led transitions globalization, the nation-state and revolution empire and democratic revolution network society and revolution Islamic fundamentalism, international terrorism and revolution Trade Review'The distinguished scholars in this volume offer a vital updating of our understanding of 'revolution' for the next century. Tackling critical topics from democracy to Islamic revolution to terrorism, these insightful essays show how revolutionary traditions and patterns of revolutionary conflict have been transformed by today's global struggles for freedom and power.' - Jack A. Goldstone, Hazel Professor of Public Policy, George Mason University, USA Table of ContentsPreface John Barber. Foreword: Roads to Modernity: Revolutionary and Other Göran Therborn 1. Revolution in the Making of the Modern World John Foran, David Lane and Andreja Zivkovic Part 1: From 1789 to 1989: Revolutions in Europe 2. Understanding Revolution John Dunn 3. Revolution and Democracy: The European Experience Harald Wydra 4. "Transformation" of State Socialism or Class Revolution? David Lane Part 2: Social Identities, Modernity, and New Modes of Struggle 5. Revolutionary Internationalism and its Perils Fred Halliday 6. Durable Inequality: The Legacies of China’s Revolutions and the Pitfalls of Reform Ching Kwan Lee and Mark Selden 7. Is There a Future for Islamist Revolutions? Religion, Revolt, and Middle Eastern Modernity Asef Bayat 8. Revolution, Nationalism, and Global Justice: Towards Social Transformation with Women Valentine M. Moghadam 9. Stories of Revolution in the Periphery Eric Selbin Part 3: Globalization and the Possible Futures of Revolution 10. What Does Revolution Mean in the Twenty-First Century? Alex Callinicos 11. Revolution and Empire Robin Blackburn 12. Virtual Revolution? Information Communication Technologies, Networks, and Social Transformation Andreja Zivkovic and John Hogan 13. Explaining Revolutionary Terrorism Jeff Goodwin 14. The Future of Revolution: Imitation or Innovation? Krishan Kumar 15. New Political Cultures of Opposition: What Future for Revolutions? John Foran. Afterword: On the Concept of Revolution Antonio Negri
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Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales) Class Theory and History Capitalism and Communism
Book SynopsisClass Theory and History takes an ambitious and ground-breaking look at the entire history of the Soviet Union and presents a new kind of analysis of the history of the USSR: examining its birth, evolution, and death in class terms. Utilizing the class analytics they have developed over the last three decades, resnick and Wolff formulate the most fully developed economic theory of communism now available, and use that theory to answer the question: did communism ever exist in the USSR and if so, where, why and for how long? Their initial, and controversial, conclusion: Soviet industry never established a communist class structure. This conclusion then leads to the hypothesis that the USSR and provate capitalism in the United States to discuss the future of private capitalism, state capitalism and communism.Trade Review"A very ambitious and interesting book on a very important topic." -- Howard Sherman, author of Reinventing Marxism"Using a version of Marx's theory of class to explain the rise and fall of the Soviet Union, and the Soviet Union as evidence for the validity of this theory, Resnick and Wolff succeed in providing us with an original and fascinating account of both. Whether one agrees or disagrees with their results, no future work on either of these important subjects will be able to ignore the sheer creative verve and intellectual rigor with which they lay out their arguments. Very highly recommended." -- Bertell Ollman, editor of Market Socialism: The DebateAmong Socialists"A stunning achievement! Resnick and Wolff have extended their path breaking work in Knowledge and Class to a full-fledged class analysis of the rise and fall of the Soviet Union. Building on the clearest analysis of class in the Marxian tradition, Resnick and Wolff provide a comprehensive analysis of the core contradictions in pre-Soviet Russia and the Soviet Union. This is a work that all those concerned with the Soviet experience, the nature of class, and the possibilities of fundamental social change will have to contend with." -- Victor D. Lippit, editor of Radical Political Economy: Explorationsin Alternative Economic Analysis"Class Theory and History both follows in the best Marxian tradition's footsteps and develops new important insights. Building upon a notion of class whose pivot is the production and distribution of surplus, the authors offer a stimulating and original interpretation of the USSR's birth, development, and fall. This is class analysis at its best, a work which deserves the widest circulation." -- Guglielmo Carchedi author of For AnotherEurope: A Class Analysis of European Economic Integration"Stephen Resnick and Richard Wolff, both economics professors, approach Soviet history on a highly theoretical level, analyzing the productive relations in Soviet society with sometimes mathematical (or, perhaps, pseudomathematical) precision...[A] strikingly original argument." -- Humanities and Social Sciences OnlineTable of ContentsIntroduction Part I. Communism 1.A General Class Theory 2.The Many Forms of Communism Part II.State Capitalism 3.A Class Theory of State Capitalism 4. Debates over State Capitalism Part III. The Rise and Fall of the USSR 5.Class Structures and Tensions Before 1917 6.Revolution, War Communism, and the Aftermath 7. revolution, Class, and the Soviet Household 8. The New Economic Policies of the 1920s 9.The Transformations of the 1930s 10.Class Contradictions and the Collapse References
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Radical Ecology
Book SynopsisThis is a new edition of the classic examination of major philosophical, ethical, scientific and economic roots of environmental problems which examines the ways that radical ecologists can transform science and society in order to sustain life on this planet. It features a new Introduction from the author, a thorough updating of chapters, and two entirely new chapters on recent Global Movements and Globalization and the Environment.Trade Review"Carolyn Merchant's work reflects the generosity of spirit necessary for the realization of the broad-based ecology movement she envisions. Radical Ecology is crucial reading for anyone concerned with the liberation of human beings and the earth and the relationships between these projects." -- Ynestra King, New School for Social Research"In a period when environmental problems are being dealt with through technological and financial fixes, Carolyn Merchant's Radical Ecology is a much-needed reminder of the deeper ethical perspective needed for responding to the ecological crisis." -- Dr. Vandana Shiva, author of Staying Alive: Women, Ecology and Development"Radical Ecology is crucial reading for anyone concerned with the liberation of human beings and the earth and the relationships between these projects." - Ynestra King, New School for Social Research'Radical Ecology provides an excellent overview of ideas and practices aimed at finding solutions to very pressing issues facing the world today.' - Human Ecology (2007) Frank R Thomas Table of ContentsIntroduction: What is Radical Ecology?; Part 1 Problems; Chapter 1 The Global Ecological Crisis; Chapter 2 Science and Worldviews; Chapter 3 Environmental Ethics and Political Conflict; Part 2 Thought; Chapter 4 Deep Ecology; Chapter 5 Spiritual Ecology; Chapter 6 Social Ecology; Part 3 Movements; Chapter 7 Green Politics; Chapter 8 Ecofeminism; Chapter 9 Anti-Globalization and Sustainability; conclusion Conclusion: The Radical Ecology Movement;
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Ethnobiology
Book SynopsisThe single comprehensive treatment of the field, from the leading members of the Society of Ethnobiology The field of ethnobiology the study of relationships between particular ethnic groups and their native plants and animals has grown very rapidly in recent years, spawning numerous subfields.Trade Review"In general, in spite of some overlapping information among the chapters, this volume is well presented and provides the essential background and the research base that reveals the advancement of ethnobiology and its future as a multidisciplinary science and is a highly recommended guide for coursework." (ASBS Newsletter, 1 March 2012) "The text is clearly and concisely written and supported by numerous photographs and illustrations." (Book News, 1 October 2011) "Featured are clear, distinctive treatments of areas such as ethnozoology, linguistic ethnobiology, traditional education, ethnoecology, and indigenous perspectives." (Environment Guru, 29 September 2011) “It is a book well worth reading, and it may be one of several options in undergraduate courses in the relevant fields.” (Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 6 August 2012) Table of ContentsList of Contributors vii Acknowledgments ix 1. Ethnobiology: Overview of a Growing Field 1 2. History of Ethnobiology 15 3. Ethics in Ethnobiology: History, International Law and Policy, and Contemporary Issues 27 4. From Researcher to Partner: Ethical Challenges and Issues Facing the Ethnobiological Researcher 51 5. The World According to Is’a: Combining Empiricism and Spiritual Understanding in Indigenous Ways of Knowing 65 6. Ethnozoology 83 7. Ethnobiology, Historical Ecology, the Archaeofaunal Record, and Interpreting Human Landscapes 97 8. Ethnobiology as a Bridge between Science and Ethics: An Applied Paleozoological Perspective 115 9. Ethnobotany: The Study of People–Plant Relationships 133 10. Reconstructing Past Life-Ways with Plants I: Subsistence and Other Daily Needs 149 11. Reconstructing Past Life-Ways with Plants II: Human– Environment and Human– Human Interactions 173 12. History and Current Trends of Ethnobiological Research in Europe 189 13. Ethnomycology: Fungi and Mushrooms in Cultural Entanglements 213 14. Ethnoecological Approaches to Integrating Theory and Method in Ethnomedical Research 231 15. Assessments of Indigenous Peoples’ Traditional Food and Nutrition Systems 249 16. Ethnoecology and Landscapes 267 17. Traditional Resource and Environmental Management 285 18. Ethnobiology and Agroecology 305 19. Linguistic Ethnobiology 319 20. Cognitive Studies in Ethnobiology: What Can We Learn About the Mind as Well as Human Environmental Interaction? 335 21. The Symbolic Uses of Plants 351 22. Learning Ethnobiology: Creating Knowledge and Skills about the Living World 371 Index 389
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The University of Michigan Press Being Human during COVID
Book SynopsisDocuments the first year of the pandemic in real time, bringing together humanities scholars from the University of Michigan to address what it feels like to be human during the COVID-19 crisis.Table of Contents Acknowledgments Kristin Hass, Introduction: Living with the Virus that Knows How We See Each Other Part I: Naming Christopher Matthews, This Virus Has No Eyes: Telling Stories in the Land of Monsters Sara Blair, Facing our Pandemic Patrick Bates, Alexandra Friedman, Adam Kouraimi, Ashley Lucas, Sriram Papolu, and Cozine, Living on Loss of Privileges: What We Learned in Prison Michelle McClellan and Aprille McKay, Not Even Past: Archiving 2020 in Real Time Part II: Waiting David Caron, Waiting = Death: COVID-19, the Struggle for Racial Justice, and the AIDS Pandemic Donald S. Lopez, Buddhism, the Pandemic, and the Demise of the Future Tense Jim Cogswell, COVID Diary: Hands, Nets, and Other Devices Amal Hassan Fadlalla, Social Distances in Between: Excerpts from my COVID-19 Diaries Part III: Grieving Suzanne L. Davis, Grief and the Importance of Real Things during COVID-19 Sara Forsdyke, Looking Backwards In Order to Look Forwards: Lessons about Humanity and the Humanities from the Plague at Athens William A. Calvo-QuirÓs, Protests, Prayers, and Protections: Three Visitations during COVID-19 Melanie Tanielian, Soliloquous Solipsism: An Attempt to Put Words to a Loss of Words Part IV: More Waiting/Sheltering Frances Kai-Hwa Wang, Finding Home Between the Vincent Chin Case and COVID-19 Daniel Herbert, Caged with the Tiger King: The Media Business and the Pandemic Nick Tobier, Prosthetics for Right Now Part V: Resisting Abigail J. Stewart, COVID-19’s Attack on Women and Feminists’ Response: The Pandemic, Inequality, and Activism Eimeel Castillo, The Virus that Kills Twice: COVID-19 and Domestic Violence under Governmental Impunity in Nicaragua Sueann Caulfield, “Our Steps Come from Long Ago”: Living Histories of Feminisms and the Fight Against COVID in Brazil Abigail A. Dumes, Making Sense of Sex and Gender Differences in Biomedical Research on COVID-19 Marisol Fila, Digital Encounters from an Intersectional Perspective: Black Women in Argentina Verena Klein, The Media Discourse on Women-Led Countries in the COVID-19 Pandemic: Using Germany as an Example Jayati Lal, Coronavirus Capitalism and the Patriarchal Pandemic in India: Why We Need A “Feminism for the 99%” that Focuses on Social Reproduction. Özge Savas, Whose Challenge is #ChallengeAccepted? Performative Online Activism During the COVID-19 Pandemic and its Erasures Abiola Akiyode-Afolabiand and Ronke Olawale, COVID-19: Nigerian Women and the Fight for Holistic Policy Part VI: Not Waiting Roland Hwang, COVID-19 through an Asian American Lens: Scapegoating, Harassment, and the Limits of the Asian American Response David Patterson, The High Stakes of Blame: Medieval Parallels to a Modern Crisis Nicholas Henriksen and Matthew Neubacher, Un-Muting Voices in a Pandemic: Linguistic Profiling in a Moment of Crisis Anita Gonzalez, Acting Out: Performance and Political Mobilization in the Pandemic
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University of California Press Images and Empires Visuality in Colonial and
Book SynopsisConsiders the meaning and power of images in African history and culture. This title assembles a range of collection of essays dealing with specific visual forms, including monuments, cinema, cartoons, domestic and professional photography, body art, world fairs, and museum exhibits.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments Introduction: An Amazing Distance: Pictures and People in Africa Paul Landau 1. "Our Mosquitoes Are Not So Big": Images and Modernity in Zimbabwe Timothy Burke 2. The Sleep of the Brave: Graves as Sites and Signs in the Colonial Eastern Cape David Bunn 3. Tintin and the Interruptions of Congolese Comics Nancy Rose Hunt 4. Cartooning Nigerian Anticolonial Nationalism Tejumola Olaniyan 5. Empires of the Visual: Photography and Colonial Administration in Africa Paul Landau 6. Portraits of Modernity: Fashioning Selves in Dakarois Popular Photography Hudita Nura Mustafa 7. Mami Wata and Santa Marta: Imag(in)ing Selves and Others in Africa and the Americas Henry John Drewal 8. "Captured on Film": Bushmen and the Claptrap of Performative Primitives Robert Gordon 9. Decentering the Gaze at French Colonial Exhibitions Catherine Hodeir 10. The Politics of Bushman Representations Pippa Skotnes 11. Omada Art at the Crossroads of Colonialisms Paula Ben-Amos Girshick 12. Bad Copies: The Colonial Aesthetic and the Manjaco-Portuguese Encounter Eric Gable Conclusion: Signifying Power in Africa Deborah D. Kaspin Bibliography List of Contributors Index
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University of California Press Vulnerable Witness The Politics of Grief in the Field
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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Tyranny of the Gene
Book SynopsisA revelatory account of how power, politics, and greed have placed the unfulfilled promise of personalized medicine at the center of American medicineThe United States is embarking on a medical revolution. Supporters of personalized, or precision, medicine—the tailoring of health care to our genomes—have promised to usher in a new era of miracle cures. Advocates of this gene-guided health-care practice foresee a future where skyrocketing costs can be curbed by customization and unjust disparities are vanquished by biomedical breakthroughs. Progress, however, has come slowly, and with a price too high for the average citizen.In Tyranny of the Gene, James Tabery exposes the origin story of personalized medicine—essentially a marketing idea dreamed up by pharmaceutical executives—and traces its path from the Human Genome Project to the present, revealing how politicians, influential federal scientists, biotech companies, and drug giant
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Random House Publishing Group The Myth of Making It
Book SynopsisWe can bury the girlboss, but what comes next? The former executive editor of Teen Vogue tells the story of her personal workplace reckoning and argues for collective responsibility to reimagine work as we know it.“One of the smartest voices we have on gender, power, capitalist exploitation, and the entrenched inequities of the workplace.”—Rebecca Traister, author of Good and Mad“As I sat in the front row that day, I was 80 percent faking it with a 100-percent-real Gucci bag.” Samhita Mukhopadhyay had finally made it: she had her dream job, dream clothes—dream life. But time and time again, she found herself sacrificing time with family and friends, paying too much for lattes, and limping home after working twelve hours a day. Success didn’t come without costs, right? Or so she kept telling herself. And Mukhopadhyay wasn’t alone: Far too many of us are taught that we need to work ourselves to th
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Random House USA Inc Defund
Book SynopsisA fiercely-argued, deeply-informed examination of whydefunding the police is the only way to support a model of security and protection that increases public safety overallTime and again history has watched as police respond to minor calls with escalation, wrongful arrests, and even murder. Reform programs are often poorly implemented and their impacts short-lived. Calls to defund the police have rung out across the nation, yet the actual meaning of the phrase remains unclear to many. In Defund, longtime activist and founder of Black Lives Matter Canada Sandy Hudson elucidates what it actually means to defund the police and why it matters, by exploring today''s criminal landscape, and the patterns and structures that result in safer, well-resourced communities.Hudson explores the origins of commonly held ideas about police and safety to show how police-related social policies are based more on a sensationalized idea of safety, than on outcomes and data. Through interviews and sociological research, she demonstrates, for instance, that law enforcement solve only a small number of the crimes that they are tasked to investigate, and even the process of assigning cases depends more on optics than large-scale crime reduction. Conversely, safe neighborhoods, rather than featuring an increased police presence, are rich in resources and social programs.After laying out the history and data behind our broken policing system, Hudson paves a clear path forward by exploring how communities can save both money and lives by investing in themselves rather than in policing. She shows how simple changes to educational resources, community centers, and civic engagement can not only make communities safer, but also better able to provide for their citizens in countless ways. Clear-eyed and hopeful yet pragmatic, Defund is the key to understanding why a future without police is not only entirely possible, but necessary.
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iUniverse On Human Survival By Means of Reason and Common
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Qualitative Research Methods
Book SynopsisA collection of readings for students undertaking any kind of social science inquiry. Editor Darin Weinberg has selected articles first and foremost for their conceptual accessibility and provides editorial introductions for students being introduced to research methods for the first time.Trade Review"Serious students of qualitative methods will have this book in their libraries. It brings together some of the best representations of our qualitative traditions, and links them to current movements in the field. Weinberg's introductory essay alone is worth the price of the book." Gale Miller, Marquette University "Weinberg's theoretical framework is sophisticated and will encourage conversation and deliberation about qualitative methodology. Those interested in issues of methodological epistemology will find much food for thought in this collection." Donileen R. Loseke, University of South Florida " a must for people studying or using qualitative research methods" Davina Banner. "This volume provides an overview of the theoretical controversies that characterize a variety of qualitative methods and would make a valuable contribution to graduate students' and scholars' collections."Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Qualitative Research Methods: An Overview Darin Weinberg 1 Part I The Legacy of Qualitative Research Methods 23 Introduction to Part I 25 1 The Stranger Georg Simmel 30 2 Paradigmatic Traditions in the History of Anthropology George W. Stocking, Jr. 35 3 Everett C. Hughes and the Development of Fieldwork in Sociology Jean-Michel Chapoulie 49 Part II Qualitative Interviewing, Life History, and Narrative Analysis 73 Introduction to Part II 75 4 The Life History and the Scientific Mosaic Howard S. Becker 79 5 Talking and Listening from Women's Standpoint: Feminist Strategies for Interviewing and Analysis Marjorie L. DeVault 88 6 Active Interviewing James A. Holstein and Jaber F. Gubrium 112 7 Narrative Authenticity Elinor Ochs and Lisa Capps 127 Part III Observational Fieldwork 133 Introduction to Part III 135 8 The Place of Field Work in Social Science Everett C. Hughes 139 9 On Fieldwork Erving Goffman 148 10 Difference and Dialogue: Members' Readings of Ethnographic Texts Robert M. Emerson and Melvin Pollner 154 11 In Search of Horatio Alger: Culture and Ideology in the Crack Economy Phillipe Bourgois 171 Part IV Conversation and Discourse Analysis 187 Introduction to Part IV 189 12 Activity Types and Language Stephen C. Levinson 193 13 Reflections on Talk and Social Structure Emanuel A. Schegloff 221 14 Refusing Invited Applause: Preliminary Observations from a Case Study of Charismatic Oratory J. Maxwell Atkinson 244 Part V Research Using Artifacts as Primary Sources 261 Introduction to Part V 263 15 The Interpretation of Documents and Material Culture Ian Hodder 266 16 Professional Vision Charles Goodwin 281 17 Artwork: Collection and Contemporary Culture Chandra Mukerji 313 Index 329
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Dimensions of Moral Theory
Book SynopsisExamines presuppositions and philosophical commitments that support and shape moral theories. This book discusses topics belonging to 'metaethics', the study of moral concepts, language, and thought rather than a study of moral issues themselves. It brings to light various philosophical problems raised by moral theorizing.Trade Review"Dimensions of Moral Theory is clear, concise, and in close touch with major texts in the history of ethics. It is remarkably comprehensive for a short book, and it is outstanding for its integration of the presentation of basic positions in ethical theory and the analysis of major issues in moral psychology." Robert Audi, University of Nebraska "This book provides a lucid and engaging introduction to the major issues of moral theory which gives a fine sense of the complexities of the subject while remaining thoroughly accessible. What particularly impressed me is the way that Jacobs shows the relevance of the thought of classical authors, such as Aristotle, Hume, and Kant, to contemporary debate. There is a real sense of engaging in a continuing dialogue that spans the history of the subject. The book also contains a helpful glossary and study aids for the student." David McNaughton, Keele UniversityTable of ContentsPreface. Acknowledgments. 1. Objectivity and Subjectivity. Interpretations of Objectivity. Monism and Pluralism. This Way to Subjectivism. Subjectivity and Sentiment. Subjectivism and Skepticism. Relativism. Where Now?. Questions for Discussion and Reflection. Thinkers and Their Works and Further Reading. Notes. 2. Moral Theory and Moral Psychology. Moral Motivation. Virtue and Motivation. Self-interest and Morality. What about Luck?. Are Moral Considerations Overriding?. Where Now?. Questions for Discussion and Reflection. Thinkers and Their Works and Further Reading. Notes. 3. Forms of Moral Theory. Consequentialism. Kantian Non-consequentialism. Intuitionist Non-consequentialism. The Virtue-centered Approach. Contractarianism. Theories, Duties, and Metaethics. Where Now?. Questions for Discussion and Reflection. Thinkers and Their Works and Further Reading. Notes. 4. Naturalism and Non-naturalism. Naturalism. The Modern Debate about Naturalism. Reconstructed Naturalism. Non-cognitivist Alternatives. Hume and Naturalism. Reconnecting Facts and Values. Aristotle and Naturalism. Moral Facts and Explanation. What About God?. Where Now?. Questions for Discussion and Reflection. Thinkers and Their Works and Further Reading. Notes. Conclusion. Glossary. Bibliography. Index.
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Harvard University Press The Time Divide Work Family and Gender
Book SynopsisThe authors explain why and how time pressures have emerged and what we can do to alleviate them. In contrast to conventional wisdom that all Americans are overworked, they show that time has become a form of social inequality that is dividing Americans in new ways—between overworked and underemployed, women and men, parents and non-parents.Trade ReviewJacobs and Gerson present the most fine-grained analysis yet offered of working time and its impacts on families. They successfully combine sophisticated analyses of quantitative data with breakthroughs in the conceptualization of work time. Their focus on household work time and their incorporation of subjective aspects of work–family conflict are welcome additions to the study of work time. As a result of their nuanced treatment, they avoid making simplistic generalizations that have marked many previous treatments of this topic. -- Rosalind Chait Barnett, Brandeis University, co-author of Same Difference: How Myths About Gender Differences Are Hurting Our Relationships, Our Children, and Our JobsThis is an outstanding book. It offers powerful arguments in the debates over work–family conflict going on in academia and society. The data the authors bring to bear on the subject offer new insights that support their analysis and policy recommendations. Scholars of the workplace and of contemporary American society as well as public policy advocates must read this book! -- Cynthia Fuchs Epstein, City University of New York, co-author of The Part-time Paradox: Time Norms, Professional Life, Family and GenderThe Time Divide makes a substantial contribution to the work–family literature and will be cited often by those with an interest in women's employment, children's well-being, family functioning, and work in America. Its appeal will be broad and capture the attention of policy makers along with academics in a number of disciplines including sociology, family studies, and public policy. The book is engagingly written and the logic of the analysis is sound. -- Suzanne Bianchi, University of Maryland, co-author of Continuity and Change in the American FamilyThe main thesis is original and important: that Americans are not, in general, overworked; rather, they can be divided into both the overworked and the underworked. The former are usually found in the upper half of the occupational distribution, the latter in the lower half. The overworked wish they could work less, and the underworked wish they could work more. Overall, The Time Divide significantly advances our understanding of just where the time divide lies. And that's an important contribution. -- Andrew J. Cherlin, Johns Hopkins University, author of Public and Private Families[A] major contribution to the sociological scholarship on work and family, in which Jerry Jacobs and Kathleen Gerson provide a critical review of the vast literature on time use, as well as their own detailed data analysis. They adjudicate between competing accounts of this subject, some of which argue that Americans are overworked (indeed, average working hours are longer in the US than in other advanced capitalist societies), and others that suggest that leisure time is more abundant today than it was a few decades ago… Jacobs and Gerson's careful, definitive analysis will be an indispensable reference in this field for many years to come. -- Ruth Milkman * Women's Review of Books *The Time Divide [is an] indispensable reference on working time. [It] makes clear the need for revisions of U.S. social policy. Childcare is at the top of the list. Americans work much longer hours, on more 'nonstandard' schedules, than Europeans, but the United States provides far less in the way of childcare—whether day care or afterschool care. The United States fares no better in comparisons of paid family leaves, overtime laws, or part-time work. Besides demonstrating the pressing need to rethink outdated U.S. policies about time, [it] remind[s] readers that the proposed policy fixes are not utopian visions but mandates that already exist in most of Western Europe. -- Naomi Gerstel * Science *What is missing from the literature and for that matter, from policy discussions, is a wider, more comprehensive picture and deeper understanding of work–family conflicts experienced by the millions of less privileged Americans who want to work more but cannot. Jacobs and Gerson address this lacuna, examining five overlapping time divides based on large-scale quantitative data sets and cross-national comparisons of American workers and workplaces with their counterparts in America and Europe. While the intersections of time, work, family, and gender have been articulated by a number of sociologists, Jacobs and Gerson fill an important void in work–family conflict scholarship, both methodologically and substantively… Refraining from indulgent idealisms of total system overhauls, the authors present material solutions that are both feasible and promising… This book presents an original thesis supported with extensive quantitative research, cross-national data, and an incisive analysis of the key debates and issues surrounding work–family conflict in the academic and policy arenas Jacobs and Gerson have produced a useful piece of scholarship that will inform scholars in the fields of family, gender, and work, as well as public policy analysts. This is a thoughtful, coherent, and accessible book that is required reading for those interested in the balances of work and family; they should make time for The Time Divide. -- Kristin Blakely and Lauren Langman * Contemporary Sociology *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Part I: Trends in Work, Family, and Leisure Time 1. Overworked Americans or the Growth of Leisure? 2. Working Time from the Perspective of Families Part II: Integrating Work and Family Life 3. Do Americans Feel Overworked? 4. How Work Spills Over into Life 5. The Structure and Culture of Work Part III: Work, Family, and Social Policy 6. American Workers in Cross-National Perspective with Janet C. Gornick 7. Bridging the Time Divide 8. Where Do We Go from Here? Appendix: Supplementary Tables Notes References Index
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Harvard University Press Hot and Bothered Women Medicine and Menopause in
Book SynopsisBy examining the history of menopause over the course of the twentieth century, Houck shows how the experience and representation of menopause has been profoundly influenced by biomedical developments and by changing roles for women and the changing definition of womanhood.Trade ReviewHouck…has researched menopausal sentiments expressed by doctors, the popular press and women themselves, from the late-19th century to the present… Much of the information she’s unearthed is both horrifying and fascinating. -- Michele Kort * Ms. *All in all, Hot and Bothered is more than an historical narration of culturally driven gender representation. If it receives the readership it deserves it will help women become—more genuinely—themselves. -- Jill MacKay Scot * PsycCRITIQUES *Houck takes white, middle-class women’s experiences and the complexity of medicine seriously. Activists will find her historical analysis provocative and scholars will be particularly interested in the sources she has identified and examined. Houck’s view of menopause certainly complicates both medical and feminist history, proof that this story from the past can still generate heat. -- Susan E. Bell * Women’s Review of Books *[Hot and Bothered] examines how, within each epoch, new meanings of menopause emerged when biotechnological developments intersected with changes in the social and cultural landscapes of women’s lives. Houck mines the medical, academic, popular, and self-help literature of each era to support an argument that aging women and menopause have figured prominently in society’s angst about the nature of womanhood, the roles of women, and the practice of medicine. This examination of how feminism, women’s agency, social constructionism, and medicalization intersect in menopause is a helpful addition to the women’s health scholarship. -- P. Lefler * Choice *Judith Houck has produced a highly nuanced account of the social construction of menopause and the politics of the doctor–patient relationship. Carefully tracing the transformation of menopause from an emblem of womanhood’s frailty to a symbol of women’s increasing power in the medical marketplace, she shows that no single explanatory model—neither medicalization, fears of the aging process, nor pharmaceutical victimization—alone explains American women’s current dilemma over the appropriateness of hormone replacement therapy. -- Ellen S. More, author of Restoring the Balance: Women Physicians and the Profession of Medicine, 1850–1995A fascinating book. Judith Houck tracks the representations of menopause—from liberation to castration—and shows how the bodies of aging women have been used for a variety of projects across the political spectrum. At the same time, she shows that women’s self-perceptions differed from what advisers and advertisers taught. Students of the pharmaceutical industry, bodies, sexualities, family, and medicine will all want to read Houck’s excellent book. -- Leslie J. Reagan, Professor of History, University of Illinois, Urbana-ChampaignDrawing on medical literature, the popular press, and women’s accounts from the 1890s to the 1980s, this beautifully written book examines menopause as both cultural construct and physiological transition. Judith Houck provides a nuanced discussion of menopause in relation to medical theory, clinical practice, women’s demands, and husbands’ responses. She shows that women were not victims of the medical profession but acted in ways they thought to be in their interests. In turn, women’s own sense of their menopausal experience mattered in doctors’ responses, shaping medical diagnosis and treatment. Hot and Bothered makes an important contribution to women’s history, medical history, the history of the body, and the history of aging. -- Susan L. Smith, Associate Professor of History, University of Alberta, and author of Japanese American Midwives: Culture, Community, and Health Politics, 1880–1950Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. "Hold Oneself Well in Hand": Medicine, Menopause, and the New Woman 2. "Endocrine Perverts" and "Derailed Menopausics": Gender Transgressions and Mental Disorders, 1897-1937 3. "Consider the Patent as a Woman and Not a Groups of Gland": Women, Menopause, and the Medical Encounter, 1938-1962 4. Domesticity and Liberation: Menopause in the Popular Literature, 1938-1962 5. "Casting an Evil Spell over Her Once Happy Home": Menopause as a Family Disease, 1938-1962 6. "Why All the Fuss?" Middle-Class Women and the Denial of the Menopausal Body, 1938-1962 7. Feminine Forever: Robert A. Wilson and the Hormonal Revolution, 1963-1980 8. "At the Will and Whim of My Hormones": Women, Menopause, and the Hormonal Imperative 9. "What Do These Women Want?" Feminist Responses to Feminine Forever Epilogue. Aging Supermodels and Inner Crones: Menopause at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century Notes Index
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Harvard University Press Being There Learning to Live CrossCulturally
Book SynopsisAs they immerse themselves in foreign cultures, trained anthropologists find that accepting difference is one thing, experiencing it is quite another. In tales that entertain and illuminate, these writers show how the moral and intellectual challenges of living cross-culturally revealed to them the limits of their perception and understanding.Trade ReviewAll preparing for extended stays in a culture foreign to them, whether for research or other purposes, can read the collection with profit. -- R. Berleant-Schiller * Choice *
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Harvard University Press Interpretation and Social Criticism
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Princeton University Press Refashioning Futures Criticism after
Book SynopsisHow can we best forge a theoretical practice that directly addresses the struggles of once-colonized countries, many of which face the collapse of both state and society in today's era of economic reform? This book examines the ways in which modernity inserted itself into and altered the lives of the colonized.Trade Review"This is an ambitious and exciting book by a gifted young anthropologist. David Scott takes two ex-colonial countries which he personally knows well, Sri Lanka and Jamaica, and subjects aspects of their constructed representation to probing criticism. He does much more than simply apply familiar principles of constructivist critique to new ethnographic material. Scott's purpose is to encourage the rethinking of political options for the future, and in so doing to extend the meaning of postcolonial critique."—Talal Asad, CUNY Graduate Center"In this powerfully argued and theoretically sophisticated book, David Scott interrogates the conditions of possibility for a post- 'third world' politics that is both critical and strategic. . . . A major work which marks a new departure in the field."—Stuart HallTable of ContentsIntroduction: Criticism after Postcoloniality3Pt. 1Rationalities21Ch. 1Colonial Governmentality23Ch. 2Religion in Colonial Civil Society53Ch. 3The Government of Freedom70Pt. 2Histories91Ch. 4Dehistoricizing History93Ch. 5"An Obscure Miracle of Connection"106Pt. 3Futures129Ch. 6The Aftermaths of Sovereignty131Ch. 7Community, Number and the Ethos of Democracy158Ch. 8Fanonian Futures?190Coda: After Bandung: From the Politics of Colonial Representation to a Theory of Postcolonial Politics221Acknowledgements225Index227
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Princeton University Press Negotiating Peace War Termination as a Bargaining Process
Book SynopsisThis work draws on insights from the experimental and theoretical literature on bargaining to provide a much-needed comprehensive treatment of the neglected subject of how wars end. In a study of how states simultaneously wage war and negotiate peace settlements, Paul R. Pillar argues that war termination is best understood as a bargaining process.Table of Contents*FrontMatter, pg. i*CONTENTS, pg. vii*TABLES AND FIGURES, pg. xi*ACKNOWLEDGMENTS, pg. xiii*INTRODUCTION, pg. 1*CHAPTER ONE. Patterns of War Termination, pg. 11*CHAPTER TWO. The Opening of Negotiations, pg. 44*CHAPTER THREE. The Dynamics of Concession, pg. 90*CHAPTER FOUR. The Military Instrument, pg. 144*CHAPTER FIVE. The Diplomatic Response to Military Activity, pg. 196*CHAPTER SIX. The Manipulation of Multiple Issues, pg. 221*CHAPTER SEVEN. War Termination in Theory and Practice, pg. 236*APPENDICES, pg. 245*BIBLIOGRAPHY, pg. 259*INDEX, pg. 277
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Hachette Australia What Makes Us Tick Making sense of who we are and
Book SynopsisEver wondered what 'human nature' really means?This new edition of What Makes Us Tick takes us beneath the often overwhelming surface noise of politics, economics, new technology and social change to explore something that hasn't changed: the ten desires that drive us all and, now in a new prologue, the seven characteristics that define us as a species. From our desire to be taken seriously, to be useful and to be loved, to the desire for more, the desire for control and the desire for something to believe in, these universal human motivations powerfully influence our behaviour towards each other. Hugh Mackay goes to the heart of what it means to be human. This is a book that explains us to ourselves and, in the process, helps us understand each other a little better. It also encourages us to lead more generous, compassionate lives.Trade Review‘Hugh Mackay is one of this country’s most perceptive social commentators.’ * Sydney Morning Herald *‘Illuminator of other people’s views ... a reporter of voices. Mackay ... is something of a national treasure.’ * Canberra Times *
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Polity Press The Consequences of Modernity
Book SynopsisIn this major theoretical statement, the author offers a new and provocative interpretation of the institutional transformations associated with modernity. We do not as yet, he argues, live in a post--modern world.Table of ContentsPart I:. Introduction. The Discontinuities of Modernity. Security and Danger, Trust and Risk. Sociology and Modernity. Modernity, Time and Space. Disembedding. Trust. The Reflexivity of Modernity. Modernity and Post- Modernity?. Summary. Part II:. The Institutional Dimensions of Modernity. The Globalizing of Modernity. Two Theoretical Perspectives. Dimensions of Globalization. Part III:. Trust and Modernity. Trust in Abstract Systems. Trust and Expertise. Trust and Ontological Security. The Pre-Modern and Modern. Part IV:. Abstract Systems and the Transformation of Intimacy. Trust and Personal Relations. Trust and Personal Identity. Risk and Danger in the Modern World. Risk and Ontological Security. Adaptive Reactions. A Phenomonology of Modernity. Deskilling and Reskilling in Everyday Life. Objections to Post-Modernity. Part V:. Riding the Juggernaut. Utopian Realism. Future Orientations. The Role of Social Movements. Post-Modernity. Part VI: . Is Modernity and Western Project?. Concluding Observations. Notes.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Modernity and the Holocaust
Book SynopsisNew in paperback, this book, is likely to be adopted on many courses covering the Holocaust. A unique but disturbing book - winner of the 1989 European Amalfi Prize for Sociology and Social Sciences. The hardback received enormous acclaim. Zygmunt Bauman is one of the world's leading social theorists.Trade Review'Modernity and the Holocaust is a very fine book. Broad in scope and penetrating in analysis, it is disturbing as its subject matter demands, yet never fails to preserve the crucial element of reflective distance out of which new or more acute knowledge is able to emerge.' Times Higher Education Supplement 'Such is the concentrated brilliance of this study that it is sure to find an appreciative audience in every field of research which touches on the Holocaust.' Times Literary Supplement 'This is a profound book, brilliant in its insights ... It demands wide readership.' Political Studies 'The book should be widely read by students of the social sciences, since it is, apart from a provocative analysis of explanations of genocide, a critique of sociology, which Bauman claims has neglected the ethical dilemmas posed by the destruction of the Jews.' SociologyTable of ContentsForeword. 1. Introduction: Sociology after the Holocaust. 2. Modernity, Racism, Extermination - I. 3. Modernity, Racism, Extermination - II. 4. On the Uniqueness and Normality of the Holocaust. 5. Soliciting Cooperation of the Victims. 6. The Ethics of Obedience (reading Milgram). 7. Towards a Sociological Theory of Morality Rationality and Shame. Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Reflexive Modernization Politics Tradition and
Book Synopsisaeo Concerns debates now at the core of social and political theory -- particularly the debate about the nature of modernity. aeo Provides an accessible introduction to the basic ideas of the theory of reflexive modernization. aeo Each of the three contributors is very well--known at an international level.Trade Review"Reflexive Modernization is stimulating and imaginative ... all the authors raise important issues. Giddens provides a much-needed sociological discussion of the nature of tradition, which should provoke debate. Lash's contribution is in some ways the most helpful, given his direct engagement with his co-authors and his relation of theory to a variety of evidence." Radical Philosophy "This is an attractive an original collection with much to commend ... the Giddens essay ... is elegant, smoothly written and carries lightly a vast amount of insight ... this is Giddens at his most mature and very best and explains his dominance in contemporary socialogical theory." British Journal of SociologyTable of ContentsPreface. 1. The Reinvention of Politics: . Towards a Theory of Reflexive Modernization: Ulrich Beck. 2. Living in a Post-Traditional Society: . Anthony Giddens. 3. Reflexivity and its Doubles:. Structure, Aesthetics, Community: Scott Lash. 4. Replies and Critiques:. Ulrich Beck, Anthony Giddens, Scott Lash. Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Beyond Left and Right
Book SynopsisHow should one understand the nature and possibilities of political radicalism today? The political radical is normally thought of as someone who stands on the left, opposing backward-looking conservatism. In the present day, however, the left has turned defensive, while the right has become radical, advocating the free play of market forces no matter what obstacles of tradition or custom stand in their way. What explains such a curious twist of perspective? In answering this question Giddens develops a new framework for radical politics, drawing freely on what he calls philosophic conservatism, but applying this outlook in the service of values normally associated with the Left. The ecological crisis is at the core of this analysis, but is understood by Giddens in an unconventional way - as a response to a world in which modernity has run up against its limits as a social and moral order. The end of nature, as an entity existing independently of human intervention, and the eTrade Review"It is difficult to imagine social-scientific thought and practice in Britain and much of Continental Europe without the distinctive contribution of Anthony Giddens. His prolific work has the unique merit of tying together the rich tradition of modern social thought with the challenges of whatever is new and unprecedented in what he has called the "late modern" or "post-traditional" world." Times Literary Supplement "At a time when the pundits are already picking through the ruins of a rapidly disintegrating Conservative Government, anticipating the all-but-inevitable triumph of Tony Blair's seductive socialism, Beyond Left and Right offers a timely critique of it all." Times Higher Education Supplement "Giddens's discussion usefully joins seemingly disparate issues and political perspectives ... This work outlines a promising path for more detailed research." Ethics "I would recommend this book. It has given me some new insights into old problems and made me realise again the importance of dialogue in interpersonal relations. That in itself is a very small step towards a better world." New Times "The texture and range of Giddens's argument is as important as his conclusions. His frequent asides are often insightful and contribute to the sense that one is reading both a major work of scholarship and the crystallisation of many years of thought." Renewal "It is impossible to locate this excellent text in any one area of interest: few could fail to gain anything from it." Aslib Book Guide "The author seeks to analyse the far-reaching social changes now taking place with the help of a number of new, thought-provoking concepts." Labour Research "Anthony Giddens, in Beyond Left and Right, spoke perspicuously of the conditions of 'manufactured uncertainty' in postmodern societies." Contemporary ReviewTable of ContentsPreface. Introduction. 1. Conservatism: Radicalism Embraced. 2. Socialism: The Retreat from Radicalism. 3. The Social Revolutions of Our Time. 4. Two Theories of Democratization. 5. Contradictions of the Welfare State. 6. Generative Politics and Positive Welfare. 7. Positive Welfare, Poverty and Life Values. 8. Modernity under a Negative Sign: Ecological Issues and Life Politics. 9. Political Theory and the Problem of Violence. 10. Questions of Agency and Values. Notes. Index.
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Polity Press Surveillance After September 11
Book SynopsisProminent among the quests for post--9/11 security are developments in surveillance, especially at national borders. These developments are not new, but many of them have been extended and intensified.Trade Review"Since September 11, surveillance has been stepped up throughout most of the world. Governments and businesses monitor personal behavior and analyze a host of data that individuals are often unaware they generate. But both privacy and open political participation are under challenge. In this context, David Lyon offers a welcome overview and a wise sense of the many issues that intersect in new forms and intensity of surveillance. He neither exaggerates nor underestimates the major issues before us now.” Craig Calhoun, Social Science Research Council, New York “David Lyon provides a chilling and comprehensive account of the surveillance response to 9/11 by nation-states and corporations. His writing is exceptionally clear and graceful, his scholarship is impeccable, and his judgment is fair and wise.”Mark Poster, University of California “A devastating critique on the attempt to engineer security through ever-increasing surveillance capabilities. Lyon brilliantly shows us how these begin to function as a clandestine power that erodes democracy in the name of our wellbeing.” Saskia Sassen, author of Globalization and its Discontents "Surveillance After September 11 provides the reader with a very useful analysis of past and current security trends, along with predictions of possible future devlopments, in the context of global social change. Lyon's book provides us with a useful, relevant, clear-minded starting-point." International Journal of Contemporary SociologyTable of ContentsPreface. Introduction. Chapter 1: Understanding Surveillance. Chapter 2: Intensifying Surveillance. Chapter 3: Automating Surveillance. Chapter 4: Integrating Surveillance. Chapter 5: Globalizing Surveillance. Chapter 6: Resisting Surveillance. Notes. Index
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Sex Money and Power
Book SynopsisIntimacy, choice, movement these are the elements which make up the desirable lifestyle in the mainstream of affluent societies. They also undermine traditional forms of power and control. And they create a web of connections between individuals all over the world, which promises to be more flexible and less restrictive than any which have existed before. Bill Jordan sets out to explain the particular attractions of this vision of freedom, equality and harmony. He traces its appeal to a formula for human institutions which emerged with the birth of the social sciences. Sex, money and political authority glued together these changing accounts of the collective world. We are still seduced by the idea that personal autonomy and the moral sovereignty of individuals can make up a well-functioning social order. But, he argues, our present global institutions shut out the majority of the world's population, who are left to rely on quite dTrade Review"Written in an accessible style, the book weaves personal narrative about the author's 'gypsy scholar' life with social theorizing. It produces an interesting account of shifting social bonds and tensions between private and public experiences and events. The book draws on a wide range of resources, including sociological research, political and economic events and theories, and popular cultural materials, including film, television and novels." Sociology; Lisa Smyth, Queens University Belfast "Sex Money and Power is a wonderfully written reflection on the meaning of our individual lives and their relation to a wider social context. In an unconvential but poignant way, it uses autobiography, social theory and historical narrative to confront the great gods of our time, and the processes that bind us to them. A humorous, quirky subtle, insightful and provocative look at questions that should be taxing us all, this work connects the personal and the social in a flowing and compelling analysis." Saladin Meckled-Garcia, University College LondonTable of ContentsAcknowledgements. Introduction. Chapter One: Inside the Web. Chapter Two: Intimate Connections. Chapter Three: Sex and Self-Improvement. Chapter Four: The Nature of Change. Chapter Five: One the Move: Mobility as the Basis for Freedom. Chapter Six: Keep Out: Organizations, Boundaries and Exclusions. Chapter Seven: Organizations and Power. Chapter Eight: Power and World Poverty. Chapter Nine: Power, Passion and Loyalty. Chapter Ten: Connections and Conclusions. Notes. Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Political Economy of the European Union
Book SynopsisThe core business of the European Union is the creation of an integrated European market. The scale of this project is enormous, covering a wide variety of national models' of capitalism, many of which are marked by a heavy reliance on non-market institutions to govern and co-ordinate economic activity.Trade Review"A highly valuable introduction to European studies and EU political economy." Journal of Common Market Studies "An impressive analysis of the varieties of national capitalist models within the European Union." Central European Journal of International and Security Studies "A wise, knowledgeable and eminently readable account of the development of EU capitalism. Dermot McCann's study of the impact of EU-driven market liberalization upon national models of capitalism and of the limits and limitations of neo-liberalism is fascinating. The sections on work and welfare and on social Europe and industrial relations are worth the admission price alone. McCann's study of EU capitalism makes an invaluable contribution to comparative political economy." Richard Dunphy, University of Dundee "Dermot McCann has succeeded in producing a superb book on the political economy of the European Union. This rigorous and extremely readable account makes a major contribution to our understanding of the tension between economic governance at the European level and national patterns of governance that often challenge the EU's liberal ambitions." Alasdair Blair, De Montfort UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsList of Tables and BoxesIntroduction 1.Economic Governance, National Models of Capitalism and the Challenge of European Integration2. The European Union and the Evolution of Liberal Europe 3. National Capitalisms and EU Competition Policy4. Finance, Corporate Ownership and Governance in an Integrating Europe 5. Finance, Corporate Ownership and Governance: National System Change 6. Work and Welfare: National Capitalism and Social Europe 7. Social Europe and Industrial Relations Conclusion NotesReferences
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd On the State
Book SynopsisTrade Review''The state is this institution that has the extraordinary power of producing a socially ordered world without necessarily giving orders, without exerting a constant coercion there isn’t a policeman behind every car, as people often say. This kind of quasi- magical effect deserves explanation. All other effects military coercion, economic coercion by way of taxation are in my view secondary in relation to this. I believe that the initial accumulation, contrary to what is maintained by a certain materialist tradition (materialist in the impoverished sense of the term), is an accumulation of symbolic capital: the whole of my work is intended to produce a materialist theory of the symbolic, which is traditionally opposed to the material.'' Pierre Bourdieu
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Networks of Outrage and Hope
Book SynopsisNetworks of Outrage and Hope is an exploration of the new forms of social movements and protests that are erupting in the world today, from the Arab uprisings to the indignadas movement in Spain, from the Occupy Wall Street movement to the social protests in Turkey, Brazil and elsewhere.Trade Review�A thousand words are too few to cover the riches of this incredibly timely account of contemporary movements.� American Journal of Sociology�A must for those who are interested in how social movements communicate in the network society to realize changes of value in society.�International Journal of Public Opinion Research"This is a well-argued and lively book that will be of great interest to anyone looking for an introduction to either post-2010 social movements or Castells' work."Political Studies Review Table of ContentsPreface 2015 ix Acknowledgments 2012 xiv Opening: Networking Minds, Creating Meaning, Contesting Power 1 Prelude to Revolution: Where it All Started 20 Tunisia: “The Revolution of Liberty and Dignity” 22 Iceland’s Kitchenware Revolution: From financial collapse to crowdsourcing a new (failed) constitution 31 Southern wind, northern wind: Cross-cultural levers of social change 45 The Egyptian Revolution 54 Space of flows and space of places in the Egyptian Revolution 57 State’s response to an Internet-facilitated revolution: The great disconnection 62 Who were the protesters, and what was the protest? 67 Women in revolution 71 The Islamic question 74 “The revolution will continue” 77 Understanding the Egyptian Revolution 79 Dignity, Violence, Geopolitics: The Arab Uprising and Its Demise 95 Violence and the state 99 A digital revolution? 105 Post-Scriptum 2014 109 A Rhizomatic Revolution: Indignadas in Spain 113 A self-mediated movement 119 What did/do the indignadas want? 125 The discourse of the movement 128 Reinventing democracy in practice: An assemblyled, leaderless movement 131 From deliberation to action: The question of violence 136 A political movement against the political system 139 A rhizomatic revolution 143 Occupy Wall Street: Harvesting the Salt of the Earth 159 The outrage, the thunder, the spark 159 The prairie on fire 165 A networked movement 174 Direct democracy in practice 181 A non-demand movement: “The process is the message” 187 Violence against a non-violent movement 191 What did the movement achieve? 194 The salt of the Earth 200 Networked Social Movements: A Global Trend? 220 Overview 220 The clash between old and new Turkey, Gezi Park, June 2013 227 Challenging the development model, denouncing political corruption: Brazil, 2013–14 230 Beyond neoliberalism: Student movement in Chile, 2011–13 237 Undoing the media-state complex: Mexico’s #YoSoy132 239 Networked social movements and social protests 242 Changing the World in the Network Society 246 Networked social movements: An emerging pattern 249 Internet and the culture of autonomy 256 Networked social movements and reform politics: An impossible love? 262 Networked Social Movements and Political Change 272 Overview 272 Crisis of legitimacy and political change: A global perspective 274 Challenging the failure of Italian parliamentary democracy from the inside: Beppe Grillo and hisFive Stars Movement 277 The effects of networked social movements on the political system 284 Occupying minds, not the state: Post-Occupy blues in the US 284 The streets, the Presidenta, and the would-be Presidenta: Popular protests and presidentialelections in Brazil 286 The political schizophrenia of Turkish society: Secular movements and Islamist politics 294 Reinventing politics, upsetting bipartisan hegemony: Podemos in Spain 296 Levers of political change? 308 Beyond Outrage, Hope: The Life and Death of Networked Social Movements 314 Appendix to Changing the World in the Network Society 317 Public opinion in selected countries toward Occupy and similar movements 317 Attitudes of citizens toward governments, political and financial institutions in the United States,European Union, and the world at large 318 Preface 2015
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd How Social Movements Sometimes Matter
Book SynopsisPeople protest to try to change the world, because they think they can help change the world, and sometimes they do. But not by themselves, and generally not just how and when they want. This incisive book explains how groups of ordinary individuals can affect the world, what makes it possible when it works, and why it sometimes doesn't go to plan. Digging into previous scholarship on social movements, David S. Meyer looks at the origins of social movements, how they contrast with revolutionary campaigns, and assesses the periodic influence of activists on politics, policy, culture, and the way people live their lives. He concludes by stressing the narratives about political change that activists construct and the power that lies in these stories. With sharp insight and a wealth of intriguing cases, this book offers a fuller understanding of the politics and potential payoffs of protest politics.?Trade Review“With characteristic eloquence and humor, realism and optimism, David Meyer has given us a new book about the success (sometimes) of social movements, both in America and abroad. Readers will appreciate Meyer’s talent for synthesis, presenting complex arguments with clarity, and unearthing the deeper meanings behind familiar tropes. In a world that has become ever more protest-prone, Meyer’s book will take its place alongside classics like Tilly’s From Mobilization to Revolution and Gamson’s Strategy of Social Protest.”Sidney Tarrow, author of Power in Movement “David Meyer draws on expertise accumulated through a career studying and analyzing social movements to take the reader through the lifecycle of a social movement to understand how social movements sometimes lead to protest in the streets, revolution, political change, and all sorts of social and cultural outcomes.”Dana R. Fisher, University of MarylandTable of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1. Why Movements Emerge and How They Work Chapter 2. Protest, Revolution, and Regime Change Chapter 3. Protest and Policy Chapter 4. Protest, Organizations, and Institutionalization Chapter 5. Protest Movements, Culture, and Participants Chapter 6. Claiming Credit References
£15.19
Taylor & Francis Ltd Crime Drugs and Social Theory
Book SynopsisDo criminal cultures generate drug use? Crime, Drugs and Social Theory critiques conventional academic and policy thinking concerning the relationship between urban deprivation, crime and drug use. Chris Allen outlines an innovative constructionist phenomenological perspective to explore these relationships in a new light. He discusses how people living in deprived urban areas develop ânatural attitudesâ towards activities, such as crime and drug use, that are prevalent in the social worlds they inhabit, and shows that this produces forms of articulation such as âI donât know why I take drugsâ, âI just take themâ and âdrugs come naturally to meâ. He then draws on his constructionist phenomenology to help understand the ânatural attitudeâ towards crime and drugs that emerge from conditions of urban deprivation, as well as the non-reasoned forms of articulation that emerge from this attitude. The book argues that understanding the conditions in which drug users deviate from their ânatural attitudeâ can help effective intervention in the lives of drug users.Trade Review’This is a fine book, which demonstrably contests the main theses of the key players in the "drugs debate. The dominant policy and academic theses, whilst different, are both, according to the author, misplaced, as they fail to appreciate the habitus of the user themselves. In particular, the author’s critique of the academic community research into this area as being located within the discipline rather than the everyday lives of the users themselves is powerful.’ Dave Cowan, University of Bristol, UK ’This is a very important and extremely well constructed study. Chris Allen utilises a thorough investigation of the field and in-depth interviews with some of the UK’s most vulnerable citizens to identify the complex and nuanced factors influencing drug use and crime in the UK. In giving a voice to subjects often silenced or assumed in contemporary debates, this book presents a powerful indictment of both current policy and academic investigation, and provides an epistemology that offers a more constructive way forward in addressing the causal factors and manifestations of social exclusion.’ John Flint, CRESR, Sheffield Hallam University, UK ’Crime, Drugs and Social Theory is a challenging and thought-provoking addition to the literature...[Allen’s] analysis of the different relationship that people have with recreational and problematic drug use is particularly interesting, as is his focus on the role that disturbing episodes and encounters play in the genesis of problematic drug and violent acquisitive crime.’ British Journal of Criminology ’This is a delightful attempt to dramatically extend the frame of reference of the drugs/crime debate by providing a holistic perspective to problematic drug use and recreational crime.’ Drugs and Alcohol Today 'I would see this text as a general and challenging starting point for understanding drug use. For those already working in the field, it would be a useful resource on the sociology behind druTable of ContentsContents: Introduction: on the question of being and crime; Crime, drugs and social research; Crime, drugs and social theory; Being and crime (and drugs); 'Natural attitudes' towards recreational crime and drugs; Becoming a problematic drug user; Criminological consequences of 'becoming' a problematic drug user; Confrontations with the 'soiled self'; Conclusions; Bibliography; Index.
£125.00
Taylor & Francis Monuments and Memory in Early Modern England
Book SynopsisFuneral monuments are fascinating and diverse cultural relics that continue to captivate visitors to English churches, yet we still know relatively little about the messages they attempt to convey across the centuries. This book is a study of the material culture of memory in sixteenth and seventeenth-century England. By interpreting the images and inscriptions on monuments to the dead, it explores how early modern people wanted to be remembered - their social vision, cultural ideals, religious beliefs and political values. Arguing that early modern English monuments were not simply formulaic statements about death and memory, Dr Sherlock instead reveals them to be deliberately crafted messages to future generations. Through careful reading of monuments he shows that much can be learned about how men and women conceived of the world around them and shifting concepts of gender, social order and the place of humans within the universe. In post-Reformation England, the dead became superiTrade Review’... provides a valuable and wide-ranging contribution to the understanding of early modern memorializing practices...’ Renaissance Quarterly ’This excellent book is essential reading for anyone interested in the monuments of Early Modern England; indeed its Introduction is highly recommended to anyone interested in monuments... Peter Sherlock has written a humane, learned and illuminating book which will be fundamental to the study of church monuments.’ Church Monuments ’This is a groundbreaking study... The text is copiously illustrated... English tombs have had their interpreters but this text offers many fresh ideas mostly owing to the religious import which Sherlock reads into these post-Reformation statements to their present and future.’ Parergon ’Coupled with a thoughtful critical discussion underpinned by sound, sophisticated research, an elegant, lucid style in which explications are ordered and easy to follow, and forty fascinating illustrations, all subject to insightful commentary, Sherlock’s love of the subject makes the book a joy to read.’ Clio ’... Sherlock provides a well-argued and thoroughly researched account of some of the effects of religious and cultural change on portrayals of the dead.’ Huntington Library Quarterly ’... what we have here is essentially a broad discourse on funerary monuments, remarkably wide-ranging, rich in detailed information, and engagingly presented. ... It is a book to be recommended to anyone wishing to know why monuments contribute so much to our understanding of early modern England.’ Literature & History ’... an extremely valuable new addition to the work on early modern monuments in England, one which convincingly rediscovers their spiritual dimension.’ Ecclesiastical History ’Sherlock’s book is a wide-ranging study, encompassing broad conceptualization and a long time-frame. It is meticulously researched and attractively presented with a set of photographs of funeral monTable of ContentsContents: Introduction; Family fictions; Monumental bodies; Life and death; Reformation; Renaissance; Law and order; Word and image; Memory; Bibliography; Index.
£145.00
