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The mexican heartland
A major new history of capitalism from the perspective of the indigenous peoples of Mexico, who sustained and resisted it for centuriesThe Mexican Heartland provides a new history of capitalism from the perspective of the landed communities surrounding Mexico City. In a sweeping analytical narrat...
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The mexican revolution
Why did the Mexican Revolution happen? What makes it distinctive? Was it even a revolution at all?
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The next new left
The Next New Left explores the challenge of activist renewal in the age of austerity. Over the past few decades, state policy-makers and employers have engaged in a massive process of neoliberal restructuring that has undermined the basis for social and labour movements. In this book, Alan Sears ...
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The october revolution in prospect and retrospect
Using Robert Brenner's analysis of capitalism's origins as a framework, Marot examines Soviet attempts at building a post-capitalist society.
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The origins of collective decision making
With invaluable insight and poignant analysis, Blunden traces the hidden origins of three paradigms of decision-making: Counsel, Majority, and Consensus.
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The outsiders
The history of Europe as a continent of refugeesEuropean history has been permeated with refugees. The Outsiders chronicles every major refugee movement since 1492, when the Catholic rulers of Spain set in motion the first mass flight and expulsion in modern European history. Philipp Ther provide...
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The palladio method
This book reflects on Palladio's method(s) beyond historism and style, and thus provide insights into design and building in our time.
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The people’s justice
A major new interpretation of the French Revolution that brings to life the criminal tribunals at the heart of the Republic’s political culture In The People’s Justice, Carla Hesse offers a sweeping reappraisal of political violence in the French Revolution. From Charles Dickens to Hannah Arendt,...
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The perils of interpreting
A fascinating history of China’s relations with the West—told through the lives of two eighteenth-century translatorsThe 1793 British embassy to China, which led to Lord George Macartney’s fraught encounter with the Qianlong emperor, has often been viewed as a clash of cultures fueled by the East...
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The persistence of technology
Telling the stories of, among others, China’s power grid, Colombian roads, American telephones, German automobiles, and India’s ship breaking business, the contributions in this volume stress the long lives of technologies and show that maintenance and repair are not obsolete in modern industries...
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The perspective of historical sociology
This book provides a comprehensive overview of the themes that make up the field of Historical Sociology. At its centre is the human individual as related to social and historical development. The key question it raises is who or what is responsible for the process of human history: society or t...
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The petrograd workers in the russian revolution
Two definitive works on the early days of the Russian Revolution, now collected in one captivating volume.
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The philadelphia negro
In 1897 the promising young sociologist William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (1868–1963) was given a temporary post as Assistant in Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania in order to conduct a systematic investigation of social conditions in the seventh ward of Philadelphia. The product of those...
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The plebeian experience
How do people excluded from political life achieve political agency? Through a series of historical events that have been mostly overlooked by political theorists, Martin Breaugh identifies fleeting yet decisive instances of emancipation in which people took it upon themselves to become political...
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The politics of names
This book explores the politics of naming across American history, revealing the surprising ways parents’ choices shed light on public opinion past and present.
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The politics of the precariat
An innovative reading of the social history of Brazil using the "politics of the precariat" as an analytical vector.
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The poor side of town
This book combines a critique of more than a century of housing reform policies, including public and other subsidized housing as well as exclusionary zoning, with the idea that simple low-cost housing—a poor side of town—helps those of modest means build financial assets and join in the local de...
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The poverty of work
This study takes readers inside the world of temping to discover a type of work dreadfully insecure yet growing rapidly.
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The power of persuasion
The merchant Nicolaus Gottlieb Luetkens, who lived in eighteenth-century Hamburg, traveled France between 1743 and 1745, becoming a successful wholesaler. Based on the complete archive of his mercantile letters, this microhistorical study examines the practices of early modern merchants.
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The raging erie
Mark S. Ferrara tells the stories of the ordinary people who lived, worked, and died along the banks of the Erie Canal, emphasizing the forgotten role of the poor and working class in this epochal transformation.
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The recovery revolution
Phenomena of Power delves into the sociohistorical manifestations of power and breaks through to its general structures. Popitz distinguishes the forms of the enforcement of power as well as of its stabilization and institutionalization, clearly articulating how the mechanisms of power work and h...
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The red international of labour unions (rilu) 1920 - 1937
The first major scholarly account of one of the international communist movement’s most important organizations.
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The right thing to do
The first novel to center on the father-daughter relationship in an Italian American family.
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The rise and fall of the religious left
L. Benjamin Rolsky examines the ways in which American liberalism has helped shape cultural conflict since the 1970s through the story of how television writer and producer Norman Lear galvanized the religious left. He foregrounds the roles played by popular culture, television, and media in Amer...
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The rituals of dinner
“One of the most important books ever written about food.”—Bee WilsonA New York Times Notable Book from one of our sharpest, most irresistibly witty writers, Margaret Visser’s feast of fact The Rituals of Dinner is the definitive history of one of our most primal rituals: the mealThe cult classic...
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The scaffolding of sovereignty
The Scaffolding of Sovereignty deploys a comparative and theoretically rich conception of sovereignty to reconsider the different schemes on which it has been based or renewed, the public stages on which it is erected or destroyed, and the images and ideas on which it rests.
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The secret financial life of food
One morning while reading Barron's, Kara Newman took note of a casual bit of advice offered by famed commodities trader Jim Rogers. "Buy breakfast," he told investors, referring to the increasing value of pork belly and frozen orange juice futures. The statement inspired Newman to take a closer l...
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The silenced majority
Goodman and Moynihan take an anti-establishment stance and get to the heart of today's critical news stories and political events.
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The silent partner
The Silent Partner (1871) and The Tenth of January” (1868) were among the earliest realistic portrayals of industrial lifeand social injusticein the United States. The novel focuses on Sip, a mill worker, and Miss Kelso, the silent partner in the mill after her father’s death. The lives of th...
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The sinking middle class
A fierce, historically informed polemic against the idea that the middle class is the key to US greatness, past and future.
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The slow moon climbs
A surprising look at the role of menopause in human history—and why we should change the ways we think about itAre the ways we look at menopause all wrong? Susan Mattern says yes and, in The Slow Moon Climbs, reveals just how wrong we have been. From the rainforests of Paraguay to the streets of ...
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The social basis of the female question
The first full-length English translation of the 1909 book from the revolutionary Russian Marxist feminist Alexandra Kollontai on the state of the contemporary bourgeois women’s movement and the role of working-class women in the struggle for women’s equality. In this classic text from 1909, Ale...
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The song dynasty
A definitive new history of China’s influential Song dynasty and its pivotal role in East Asia and beyond, by one of its leading historiansDespite constant pressure from the powerful steppe empires on its borders, the Song dynasty lasted for more than three centuries, from 960 to 1279, becoming o...
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The sounds of mandarin
This book traces the surprising social history of China’s spoken standard, from its creation as the national language of the early Republic in 1913 to its journey into postwar Taiwan to its reconfiguration as the common language of the People’s Republic after 1949.
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The soviet century
An encyclopedic and richly detailed history of everyday life in the Soviet UnionThe Soviet Union is gone, but its ghostly traces remain, not least in the material vestiges left behind in its turbulent wake. What was it really like to live in the USSR? What did it look, feel, smell, and sound like...
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The study
A uniquely personal account of the life and enduring legacy of the Renaissance libraryWith the advent of print in the fifteenth century, Europe’s cultural elite assembled personal libraries as refuges from persecutions and pandemics. Andrew Hui tells the remarkable story of the Renaissance studio...
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The turbulent years
The era of American labor's greatest struggles, vividly reconstructed by one of labor history's greatest historians.
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The vampire
Drawing on a wealth of heretofore neglected sources from multiple languages, this book gives a fascinating account of how vampires—whose various incarnations originally developed within the folk traditions of societies throughout the world—came to be inextricably tied to Eastern Europe in the p...
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The vatican to vegas
A guided tour through the nuanced politics of architectural illusion, »The Vatican to Vegas« takes the reader from lavish Baroque fantasies of the seventeenth century to the Electronic Baroque of today.
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The vernacularization of labour politics
The decline of trade unionism and the absence of labor unions in the public sphere in India as well as at the global level has generated much discussion. In the era of neoliberalism, trade unions are perceived as marginalized and ineffective, replaced by other institutions and alternative forms o...
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The war between and beyond the wars
This book explores a social biography of a London childhood growing up in a turbulent middle-class London household between World War I and World War II. Based on extensive interviews, the book weaves together how the world in which the child grew up was both created by and mirrors the social and...
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The wealthy, the brilliant, the few
Sophie Spieler explores scholarly and journalistic investigations, self-representational texts, and fictional narratives revolving around the Ivy League and its peers in order to understand elite education and its peculiar position in American cultural discourse.
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The wordhord
An entertaining and illuminating collection of weird, wonderful, and downright baffling words from the origins of English—and what they reveal about the lives of the earliest English speakersOld English is the language you think you know until you actually hear or see it. Unlike Shakespearean Eng...
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The writer’s room
A journey into the unique spaces where some of literature’s greatest writers created their most memorable worksVirginia Woolf famously wrote in A Room of One’s Own that “it is necessary to have five hundred a year and a room with a lock on the door if you are to write fiction or poetry.” Writers ...
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They call me george
A historical work that chronicles the little-known true stories of black railway porters – the so-called “Pullmen” of the rail lines.
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Time and space in video games
Video games are temporal artifacts: They change with time as players interact with them in accordance with rules. In this study, Federico Alvarez Igarzábal investigates the formal aspects of video games that determine how these changes are produced and sequenced.
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