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Focusing primarily on the politics of jute workers in Bengal, this study explores the interaction between workers' politics, nationalist movements, and the colonial state at various levels in the period between 1890 and 1937.

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In this ground breaking study, Swapna M. Banerjee examines the construction of national identity in colonial Bengal, through the lens of employer-servant relationships. Drawing on a wide range of literary and official sources, Banerjee reveals tha...

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This book is about the intellect in nineteenth century Bengal. It analyses why from the second half of the nineteenth century the Hindu bhadralok in Bengal developed a specific rhetoric of culture that has continued to inform their identity to the...

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This book is a high quality ethnographic study in the classical sense. The fundamental question that Brara asks in her book is whether there are other ways of thinking about the village than in terms of its distinctions of caste, vertical ties cre...

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The volume analyses the origins of the concept of ethnicity, explores its relation to idenitfy information and social discourse on it through the exhaustive study of an Indian city. The main contention of the study is to suggest a departure from t...

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This volume in the OIRSSA series is the second one after to look at the issue of caste and is organized around Indian responses to the path breaking work of Louis Dumont. It will feed into courses on Indian sociology across universities.

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Property is often seen as fundamentally inegalitarian, leading many to believe that a world without property would be a more equal one. Property Law in the Society of Equals challenges this view, demonstrating instead that property is essential fo...

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In Elite Networks, Vuk Vukovic offers a different perspective on the long-run origins of inequality by introducing the concept of elite networks and examining their impact on the distribution of power and incomes. Calling upon historical arguments...

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In Political Voice, Aidan McGarry examines the agency of marginalised people, emphasizing the processes through which different communities around the world articulate their political voices. McGarry develops an innovative concept of political voi...

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This is a study of the Black Country in the nineteenth-century, when the area was at the forefront of Britain's industrial development. The strength of this provincial industrial lite suggests the need to re-examine the influential view that Victo...

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This book examines the social and legal foundations of the British ruling class, the great landlords and the gentry. From the late seventeenth century, when it freed itself from many of the constraints of royal power, to the present century, when ...

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Ross McKibbin investigates the ways in which `class culture' characterized English society and intruded into every aspect of life, during the period from 1918 to the mid-1950s. He shows how this division into separate social classes manifested its...

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This is a study of gender and power in Victorian Britain. It is the first book to examine the contribution made by women to the public culture of the British aristocracy in the nineteenth century. Based on a wide range of archival sources, it expl...

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The Bourgeois Citizen in Nineteenth-Century France analyses the process by which class society developed in post-revolutionary France. Focusing on bourgeois men and on their voluntary associations, Carol E. Harrison addresses the construction of c...

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This is a social and political history of the Argentine landowners, Latin America's most affluent propertied class. Roy Hora explores the making and evolution of a new landowning class in the period c.1860-1945, and examines the peculiarities of t...

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Based on private papers of aristocratic families, this book presents a new interpretation of the long-term social changes leading up to the English Revolution.

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This is a study of the social character of the British working class in the period from the 1880s to the early 1950s, when about seventy-five per cent of the population were manual workers, or their dependents. It has three central themes: the nat...

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This book examines the creation of a new middle class responsible for the gentrification of inner city districts in six large Canadian cities within the international contexts of post-industrial postmodern society. It discusses the crucial role of...

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The land reform in Mexico that followed the Revolution of 1910-17 helped to reconstitute peasant communities in the lowland areas of Oaxaca, one of the poorest of the states, as a complement to the peasantries which had persisted from early coloni...

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A group of leading sociologists present a new and compelling analysis of social mobility, one of the central topics in contemporary sociology.

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What is the relation between social class and social justice? This is currently a matter of public as well as academic interest. In this compelling new study the authors bring together recent developments in normative thinking about social justice...

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This volume addresses the origin and effects of advantage and disadvantage from a global and UK perspective, and provides an overview of a variety of conceptual frameworks and a spectrum of social inequalities, processes, and divisions.

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The British working class has become politically disenfranchised, this book explains how and why. This book explores the politics of class in Britain over the last 70 years. It shows how changing class sizes have set in train a process that has le...

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The stigmatization as 'bastards' of children born outside of wedlock is commonly thought to have emerged early in Medieval European history, but Sara McDougall demonstrates that until well into the late twelfth century a child's prospects depended...

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The challenge of how to ensure that working families see their living standards improve rather than stagnate over time is central in rich countries. This book investigates the economic "squeeze" on middle-income families, and the forces that under...

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In late twentieth-century England, inequality was rocketing, yet some have suggested that the politics of class was declining in significance. This book addresses this claim, showing that class remained important to 'ordinary' people's narratives ...

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Alcohol use has a long and ubiquitous history. This fascinating multi-disciplinary volume examines the broad use of alcohol in the human lineage and its wider relationship to social contexts such as feasting, sacred rituals, and social bonding.

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This volume brings together an international group of scholars to explore the experiences of subordinates and the nature of their subordination in ancient Greece. The work focusses on improving techniques for witnessing the lives of such groups, u...

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The Oxford Handbook of Caste brings together a wide range of essays encompassing various academic disciplines to lay the foundations for a new understanding of caste, capturing emerging research trends, imaginations, and the lived realities of caste.

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This book documents the patterns of income mobility and poverty dynamics in Britain and how they have changed over the last two decades. It draws attention to the relationships between changes in income and in other aspects of people's lives - not...

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