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*A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice* A landmark new history of the peasant experience, exploring a now neglected way of life that once encompassed most of humanity but is vanishing in our time.“What the skeleton is to anatomy, the peasant is to history, its essential hidden support.” For o... Read More about Remembering Peasants: A Personal History of a Vanished World

The twelve essays in this volume propose new directions in the analysis of class. John R. Hall argues that recent historical and intellectual developments require reworking basic assumptions about classes and their dynamics. The contributors effectively abandon the notion of a transcendent class str... Read More about Reworking Class: Romanticism, Gender, and the Ethics of Understanding

The twelve essays in this volume propose new directions in the analysis of class. John R. Hall argues that recent historical and intellectual developments require reworking basic assumptions about classes and their dynamics. The contributors effectively abandon the notion of a transcendent class str... Read More about Reworking Class

In this wide-ranging volume, leading scholars across several disciplines--history, literature, sociology, and cultural studies--investigate the nature of liberalism and modernity in imperial Britain since the eighteenth century. They show how Britain's liberal version of modernity (of capitalism, de... Read More about The Peculiarities of Liberal Modernity in Imperial Britain (Berkeley Series in British Studies #1)

Why did Black-Korean tensions result in violent clashes in Los Angeles but not in New York City? In a book based on fieldwork and on a nationwide database he constructed to track such conflicts, Patrick D. Joyce goes beyond sociological and cultural explanations. No Fire Next Time shows how politica... Read More about No Fire Next Time: Black-Korean Conflicts and the Future of America's Cities

What is the state? The State of Freedom offers an important new take on this classic question by exploring what exactly the state did and how it worked. Patrick Joyce asks us to re-examine the ordinary things of the British state from dusty government files and post offices to well-thumbed primers i... Read More about The State of Freedom: A Social History of the British State Since 1800